Konzertwerke für Blasorchester

As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his operetta's made him clear that he had to gif his talents to the genre. Der Zarewitsch is one of tho...

Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. The Operetta...

Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. The Operetta...

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is different from many operas. It is intimate, devoid of spectacle, taking place completely within a house in Nagasaki. The Coro a bocca chiusa is the Summ Choir from the op...

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is different from many operas. It is intimate, devoid of spectacle, taking place completely within a house in Nagasaki. The Coro a bocca chiusa is the Summ Choir from the op...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The famous polka Donner und Blitz is till today often used as interval...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Geronimo Gimeniz is a Sevillan composer of many Zarzuela's. The short temperamental aria Zapatuedo is fro...

Frühlingsstimmen ("Voices of Spring") op. 410 is a waltz by Johann Strauss that was written in 1882. The work was intended as a waltz with a solo voice accompaniment (as opposed to a choral waltz) of...

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World' (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonin Dvorak in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

Trumpet and Concert Band. Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote...

Johannes Brahms composed the Alt-Rhapsodie in September of 1869 as a wedding gift to the daughter of his close friend and confidant, Clara Schumann. The Alt-Rhapsodie is set to several verses of a poe...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppé and Karl Millöcker were t...

Absolutely the most famous "Canzone Napoletana" is "O Sole Mio" composed by the Italian singer and songwriter Eduardo di Capua (1865-1917) in 1898. The lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro. Though...

Don Giovanni ist eine echte Arienoper, im Gegensatz zu "Le Nozze di Figaro", das als Ensemble-Oper bezeichnet wird. In dieser Oper drückt Mozart auf subtile Weise die Frustration über die erfolglosen...

Die Zauberflöte ist keine romantische Liebesgeschichte, sondern eine echte Parabel: ein Gleichnis über das höhere menschliche Streben nach Reinheit und Selbstvervollkommnung. Nicht die Liebe zwischen...

Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung) is a cycle of four epic operas by German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the...

Saint-Saëns leistete auch einen umfangreichen Beitrag zur konzertanten französischen Literatur. Er schrieb fünf Klavierkonzerte, drei Violinkonzerte, zwei Cellokonzerte und etwa zwanzig kleinere konze...

Saint-Saëns also contributed voluminously to the French concertante literature. He wrote five piano concertos, three violin concertos, two cello concertos, and about twenty smaller concertante works f...

Erleben Sie mit „Scaramouche“ ein mitreißendes Meisterwerk voller französischer Eleganz, Spielfreude und virtuosem Glanz! In dieser erstklassigen Ausgabe aus dem renommierten Verlag Baton Music rückt...

Ludwig August Lebrun (1752-1790) was a German oboist and composer. He started playing with the orchestra at the court of the Prince-Elector Carl Theodor in Mannheim at the age of 12 and became a full...

Carmen' ist eine der bekanntesten Opern des gesamten Opernrepertoires. Als erste relistisch-naturalistische Oper war sie ein wichtiger Vorreiter der Versimo-Bewegung in der italienischen Oper des spät...

Tauchen Sie ein in das pulsierende Pariser Lebensgefühl der Goldenen Zwanziger! George Gershwins weltberühmtes Meisterwerk „An American in Paris“ ist eine mitreißende, jazzbeeinflusste Tondichtung, di...

Ombra mai fù is the opening aria from the 1738 opera Serse by Georg Friederich Handel. The opera itself was a commercial failure, lasting only five performances in London after its premiere. In the 19...

Children's Corner ist eine sechssätzige Suite für Klavier solo von Claude Debussy, die 1908 veröffentlicht und später von Debussys Freund André Caplet orchestriert wurde. Das sechste und letzte Stück...