John Brakstad Brass Band

A warm, romantic 'pastorale', very suitable as calm interlude in your program. John Brastad, band master of the Bergen Salvation Army Band ( (Norway) made the arrangement for brass band.

Brooklet' is one of the movements from Grieg's Lyric Pieces for Solo Piano opus 62. Information for the conductor: «Brooklet' is an technically advanced work for solo piano. In this arrangement, techn...

Cobalt' was commisioned by Modum Janitsjar as own choice piece for the Norwegian Wind Band Championships, third section in 2009. The Royal Cobalt Works of Modum were established in 1773 to extract cob...

Prelude Festivo is intended to be performed both in concerts and in competitions and includes solo passages for most instrument groups. Duration 7,5 minutes. Form: Fast - slow - fast. The piece is bu...

The railway between Oslo and Bergen, 'Bergensbanen', was built in the years 1895 - 1909. This piece is dedicated to the railway labourers, the navvies, who did the hard work across the mountains. Most...

Conclusions' is inspired by three of the worlds greatest astronomers; their lifes, work and pioneering conclusions. 1: COPERNICUS. Nicolaus Copernicus lived in the 15th century. He introduced the id...

4th July in 1054 AD one of the most spectacular events was witnessed in the Cosmos. A massive star blew out; a supernova explosion. From the Earth it appeared as a new, bright star; the most brilliant...

Variations for Brass Band' consists of a chorale and 5 variations of brilliant, lyric and humorous character. The piece also contains several soloparts and elements of ensemble. Each variation has it'...

Interlude for Band is an arrangement based on the theme from "Affinity and Fellowship". "Affinity and Fellowship" was commissioned by Nord-Odal Concert Band, and published by Warner/Chappell Music Nor...

This march is written for the 70-year anniversary of the conclusion of the World War II in 1945.

A warm, romantic 'pastorale', very suitable as calm interlude in your program. John Brastad, band master of the Bergen Salvation Army Band ( (Norway) made the arrangement for brass band.

'At The Playground' is written over a musical sequence that is sung by children around the world (Europe, USA, Australia and Asia). This is spontaneous or formulaic song which children use to communic...

Edvard Grieg's small, charming melody certainly deserves to be used more often. Edvard Grieg's tune to an old Christmas song was published in his opus 61 in 1895.

Paraphrase on A Son Is Us Given arranged for Brass Band.

THE STAR OF CHRISTMAS is an old Danish/Norwegian Christmas carol. The song tells of the star that appeared to the three wise men, and led them to Bethlehem.