Natum 1834 is a very colourful piece with great melodies and surprising contrasts. The title is referring to the birth of the Banda Amizade in Aveiro Portugal.
After the successful compositions 'Cassiopeia' and 'The Transit of Venus', Carlos Marques has written another fine composition 'Mumadona Dias'. This piece boasts some theatrical characteristics: a sol...
Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of Joppa (now known as Jaffa, in Israel), and the mother of Andromeda. The queen was both beautiful and vain, and the story of how her vanity cau...
Artis Calambria was commissioned and premiered in August 2011 by the Band of Vale de Cambra (Portugal), conducted by Gil Magalhães, on the occasion of its centennial. The work took as its starting poi...
The Besana International Band Festival is a festival place every two years in Besana in Brianza, in Italy. Organized by the local band with the aim of bringing together musical groups united by the sp...
Tantum Ergo was commissioned in 2012 by the Muscia Viva Summer Wind Band, in Triuggio, Italy. The 13th century Gregorian text, Pange Lingua from Thomas Aquinas was taken as the start point to describe...
Next to 'Filos Musica' and 'Olé junqueira' by this Portuguese composer, we also publishThis fine medley of Portuguese melodies. These nice and very well orchestrated melodies make us dream of sunny ho...
