Instrumentalwerke für Blasorchester

This Tsar Boris was the same Boris Godunov who was celebrated by Pushkin and immortalized by Mussorgsky, and Kalinnikov's (1866-1901) resplendent piece is aptly endowed with Tsarist pomp and circumsta...

This Tsar Boris was the same Boris Godunov who was celebrated by Pushkin and immortalized by Mussorgsky, and Kalinnikov's (1866-1901) resplendent piece is aptly endowed with Tsarist pomp and circumsta...

La Boheme is perhaps Puccini`s most nearly perfect opera. It has long been one of the world's most beloved musical works - an instantly enchanting blend of charm, warmth, gaiety, and pathos, brought t...

La Boheme is perhaps Puccini`s most nearly perfect opera. It has long been one of the world's most beloved musical works - an instantly enchanting blend of charm, warmth, gaiety, and pathos, brought t...

The Helios Overture was composed in 1903 while Nielsen was on holiday in the Greek isles. The piece is said to depict the course of the sun through the sky from dawn to sunset. Even though the piece w...

The Helios Overture was composed in 1903 while Nielsen was on holiday in the Greek isles. The piece is said to depict the course of the sun through the sky from dawn to sunset. Even though the piece w...

(Choir and Concert Band)

(Choir and Concert Band)

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. Hect...

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. Hect...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) was one of the three great composers of the belcanto-era that dominated the Italian opera scene in the first half of the 19th century. The other masters of 'beautiful sing...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) was one of the three great composers of the belcanto-era that dominated the Italian opera scene in the first half of the 19th century. The other masters of 'beautiful sing...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera Il Trovatore lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the the 'Miserere' wich is placed in the fourth and final act. A chorus of monks begin...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera Il Trovatore lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the the 'Miserere' wich is placed in the fourth and final act. A chorus of monks begin...

The 1955 film of The Gadfly is no Soviet epic but rather a romantic history based on the novel by Ethel Voynich and set in fin de siecle Austria. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Tarantella from The G...

The 1955 film of The Gadfly is no Soviet epic but rather a romantic history based on the novel by Ethel Voynich and set in fin de siecle Austria. Dmitri Shostakovich composed the Tarantella from The G...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

After the performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's Concerto's for Oboe and Trombone and Military Band in 1876, the composer wrote: 'My third and last composition of this character is a Konzertstück for the C...

After the performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's Concerto's for Oboe and Trombone and Military Band in 1876, the composer wrote: 'My third and last composition of this character is a Konzertstück for the C...

The name 'Pathetique' for the last of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's six symphonies was suggested by the composer's brother the day after its premiere in 1893. And indeed the 'Finale' of this symphony is...

(Concert Band)

The Ouverture Carnevalesca was performed in Bologna on April 19th of the same year (1913) as part of a ten-city tour. The piece was written shortly before the Sinfonia drammatica (1914) and Ottorino R...

The Ouverture Carnevalesca was performed in Bologna on April 19th of the same year (1913) as part of a ten-city tour. The piece was written shortly before the Sinfonia drammatica (1914) and Ottorino R...

From its first performance, Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hänsel und Gretel was a phenomenal succes, produces at over fifty theaters in its first year alone. This evergreen opera, based pon the Grimm...