Mittelschwere Noten für Blasorchester

Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky composed his Marche Slave in five days in the fall of 1876, completing the score on October 7 (and beginning his Symphonic Fantasia Francesca da Rimini the same day).It's mayb...

The recitativo Crudele! Ah no mio bene! and the aria Non mi dir, bell' idol mio is sung by Donna Anna near the very end of the opera Don Giovanni.In a room of her house, Ottavio offers to make Donna A...

The recitativo Crudele! Ah no mio bene! and the aria Non mi dir, bell' idol mio is sung by Donna Anna near the very end of the opera Don Giovanni.In a room of her house, Ottavio offers to make Donna A...

Less well known, perhaps, but no less brilliant, is the overture to the one-act farce Il Signor Bruschino in wich Rossini apparently caused a near scandal by directing the violins to beat out rhytms w...

Less well known, perhaps, but no less brilliant, is the overture to the one-act farce Il Signor Bruschino in wich Rossini apparently caused a near scandal by directing the violins to beat out rhytms w...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Every year, Pomp and Circumstance (March no.1) is one of the encore's at the Last Night of the Proms in London: without any doubt, it's Edward Elgar's most populair work. (Concert Band)

A short instrumental section from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin with a principal part for the brass section.The transcription is made by Geert Mooren. (Concert Band)

A short instrumental section from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin with a principal part for the brass section.The transcription is made by Geert Mooren. (Concert Band)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed two concertpieces - Konzertstücke - opus 113 and 114 for clarinet, bassethorn and orchestra. These works were dedicated with much respect to the clarinettists Ba...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed two concertpieces - Konzertstücke - opus 113 and 114 for clarinet, bassethorn and orchestra. These works were dedicated with much respect to the clarinettists Ba...

George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

Li¨ sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is. (Soprano and Concert Band)

Li¨ sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is. (Soprano and Concert Band)

The Concerto for Bassoon in B flat, KV 191 is the earliest surviving wind concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It seems unadventurous and conventional, but we must remember Mozart was attempting to wr...

The Concerto for Bassoon in B flat, KV 191 is the earliest surviving wind concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It seems unadventurous and conventional, but we must remember Mozart was attempting to wr...

When Rossini's Opera Matilde di Shabran was premiered in Rome in 1821, it was billed as a 'melodrama giocoso', somewhere between an Opera Buffa and an Opera Seria in character.In 1822 it was given in...

When Rossini's Opera Matilde di Shabran was premiered in Rome in 1821, it was billed as a 'melodrama giocoso', somewhere between an Opera Buffa and an Opera Seria in character.In 1822 it was given in...

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...

Jago's Credo from Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Otello, is sung at the beginning of the second act: a venomous expression of evil and, so to speak, of negative belief. He sings his creed: 'I believe in a cru...

Jago's Credo from Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Otello, is sung at the beginning of the second act: a venomous expression of evil and, so to speak, of negative belief. He sings his creed: 'I believe in a cru...

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...