Baton Orchestral

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time was not very successful in writing music for the stage. He had no difficulty in writing a purely abstract overture, but once beyond this...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed several military marches: 'Polonaise' (WoO21), 'Ecossaise' (WoO 22), 'Yorckscher March' (WoO 18), 'Military March' (WoO 19) 'Military March in D Major' (WoO 24) and the '...

Franz Schubert's 'Symphony No. 8' in B minor, D 759, commonly known as the 'Unvollendete' ('Unfinished Symphony'), is a composition that Schubert started in 1822 but left with only two movements - tho...

In 1869 Johann Strauss composed the polka francaise 'Im Krapfenwald'l' ('In Krapfen's Woods'). It was originally titled 'Im Pawlowsk Walde' when first performed in Pavlovsk (Russia). Reportedly, sever...

Russian composer Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov is mainly known from the orchestral suite 'Caucasian Sketches' which includes the much-excerpted 'Procession of the Sardar'. 'Turkish Fragments' is an orchest...

Cavalleria Rusticana is a tempestuous drama of adultery and revenge set in a remote Italian village. Its earthy passions, bold confrontational scenes and richly melodic score set a fashion for so-call...

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...

When Puccini's opera Turandot was heard for the first time in April 1926, its composer had been dead for almost a year and a half. Turandot is considered as his best work: Puccini's mastery of orchest...

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...

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....

Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23...

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...

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...

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...

El sombrero de tres picos" ("Der dreieckige Hut") ist ein Ballett in zwei Akten, das von Léonide Massine zu Musik von Manuel de Falla choreografiert wurde. Das Ballett wurde 1919 in London im Alhambra...

Edvard Grieg komponierte die Schauspielmusik zu Ibsens Theaterstück'Peer Gynt' 1876 im Auftrag des Autors. Viele Stücke dieser Musik sind zusammengefasst als Orchestersuiten oder in Arrangements für K...

Italian composer Luigi Denza (1846-1922) is best remembered for 'Funiculì, Funiculà' (1880), a humorous Neapolitan song inspired by the inauguration of a funicular at the summit of the 'Vesuvius'. Bes...

Hans Christian Lumbye ist vor allem für seine Lichtkompositionen bekannt, von denen viele auf nicht-musikalische Quellen zurückgehen. Der "Champagner-Galopp" (BTM681) beispielsweise beginnt mit dem "K...

Hans Christian Lumbye is best known for his light compositions, many of which evoke non-musical sources. The 'Champagne Galop' (BTM681), for example, begins with the 'pop' of a champagne cork, and the...

In 1868 Johann Strauss jr. composed the polka 'Freikugeln' (Free-Shooter), opus 326 which commemorated the '3rd German Federal Shooting Contest', which attracted no less than ten thousand entrants fro...

Die Moldau ("Vltava") ist der zweite Satz aus Bedrich Smetanas sinfonischer Dichtung "Mein Heimatland" ("Ma Vlast"). Er beschreibt den Verlauf des Flusses von den beiden kleinen Quellen durch Wälder u...

Reinhold Glière, a Russian composer of Belgian descent. As a composer Glière followed the Russian romantic tradition, something that brought him official praise in 1948 when the music of Prokofiev and...

'The Planets' des englischen Komponisten Gustav Holst ist eine siebensätzige Orchestersuite, in der jeder Satz nach einem Planeten des Sonnensystems und seinem entsprechenden astrologischen Zeichen be...