Haakon Esplo Brass Band

Who does not know the big hit Last Christmas from the pop group Wham! The duo sold 25 million albums between 1982 until they dissolved in 1986. The front figure, vocalist George Michael and guitarist/...

The composer and musician Trygve Hoff was born and raised at Rognan in Nordland and gained a lot of inspiration for his texts from the North Norwegian culture. He is a composer and copywriter of many...

The beautiful and popular duet "Christmas is Here", written by Billy Butt and Sölve Rydell is now available in a beautiful, symphonic arrangement for brass band. Many people know the song from a reco...

This song was originally written for the 1965 TV special 'A Charlie Brown Christmas', Charlie Brown is known from the comic strip, 'Peanuts'. 'Christmas Time is Here' has been performed by a multitude...

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas is a song from 1951 composed by by Meredith Willson. The tune is one of the most popular American Christmas song. First recorded by Perry Como and Bing Cro...

This song is one of the most used and loved Christmas songs in Sweden during the 20th century. The lyrics describe Christmas as white and snowy, and describe the blessings of Christmas as well as the...

This is a piece of music is the title track from the Norwegian Broadcaster NRK's advent calendar TV-series 'Christmas at Svingen'. This is the main title from Norwegian advent calender TV-series for c...

'This Christmas Night' is taken from the Norwegian movie 'Julenatt i Blåfjell' who premiered in 2009. The movie is a follow-up to the very popular TV-series 'Jul i Blåfjell' og 'Jul på Månetoppen' 'Th...

Secret Garden and Rolf Loevland have for many years given us unforgettable music. This is the title track from their first Christmas released in 2020. It's a warm and beautiful piece with a typical fo...

Heaven on Earth was composed in 1995, and has since then become one of Norway’s favorite Christmas Carols. The lyrics are a homage to the charismatic preacher Aage Samuelsen. The arrangement needs to...

Some TV vignettes you remember better than others. Often they are short, catchy and rhythmic, and no matter what, we all have a relation to them. In this arrangement there are three well known pieces...

Planes' is the sequel of the 'Cars'-movies which have been great successes all over the world. This time, it's all about planes, and the success is about to be repeated … The planes are the heroes of...

The populare band Vamp has once again produced a hit that tops the music charts. 'Little Bird' (Liten Fuggel) is the title track of the ninth studio album which has received wonderful reviews. With th...

'How I love the name of Jesus' is a psalm of David Welander. He wrote it on the train home to Lorenskog in January 1923, and completed it out overnight. It was printed in the magazine 'Krigsropet' sho...

'De naere ting' ('The nearest thing)') is one of the most famous songs for 'sing-along' with lyrics by Arne Paasche Aasen and music by Kurt Foss and Reidar Boe. They also recorded the song in the 1950...

Many prominent persons have got marches dedicated to them. Generals and colonels, kings and crownprinsesses, professors and captains. Now, finally the common man (you and me) can proudly say we have o...

Emperor Suite containes three movements inspired by empires, cossacks and ancient mystique. In the first movement, Ancient Song one can hear a simple, almost hypnotic old tune. Slowly it floats away.

Take the 'A' Train is a jazz standard written by Billy Strayhorn for Duke Ellington and his Duke Ellington Orchestra. Today, it is known as the signature tune of the Ellington orchestra and arguably t...

The Bee Gees were a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but...

This song was released as single record by Swedish pop group ABBA in 1976. The lyrics is about two older veteran talking about the Mexican-American war. In this arrangement, the verse occurs in two di...

This Hymn is a very well known Swedish Advent hymn. The Melody is a Swedish variant of a german folk tune from the 17th century. Although the lyrics is about the coming of Jesu to Jerusalem during eas...

This Christmas psalm is famous all over the world and especially in Europe. It is likely that the melody is more than 600 years old./Many famous composers have written their own harmonics and versions...