Jan de Haan

This entertaining new play-along book contains 12 solos in styles varying from baroque to blues. The book comes with a CD containing both backing tracks and full performances performed by real musicia...

A new era dawns-heralded by solemn brass fanfares. What does the future hold? In his work Overture to a New Age , Jan de Haan expresses on the one hand anticipation, on the other also an awareness tha...

In dieser kraftvollen und spektakulären Komposition werden alle Register des Blasorchesters gezogen, um das Publikum gleich zum Auftakt des Konzerts mit einem fulminanten Auftritt zu überraschen. So k...

The Geuzen Medal is an annual award given to people or organizations who have found unique ways to further democracy in the world and help eliminate dictatorships, racism, and discrimination. The orig...

The title of this piece gives a clue as to how it came about: Jan de Haan took the setting of psalm 149 from the Geneva Psalter of 1562 and created from this simple, beautiful melody a glorious, livel...

Every year a competition for wind orchestras and brass bands takes place in Wallberg, Switzerland. Apart from a hymn and a solo piece, all orchestras also have a compulsory piece to play. The commissi...

Die verblüffend leidenschaftlichen Melodien aus John Williams Musik zum Film Schindlers Liste flossen in dieses Arrangement ein, das Musiker und Publikum gefangen nehmen wird. Die herrlich einfachen M...

George Gershwin's only opera, Porgy and Bess, dealt with the socially sensitive issue of race. The composer even specified that it may only be performed by coloured actors. Summertime is easily the mo...

This entertaining new play-along book contains 12 solos in styles varying from baroque to blues. The book comes with a CD containing both backing tracks and full performances performed by real musicia...

Practically everybody knows the French folksong Sur le pont d'Avignon. Jan de Haan created four very easy variations on this evergreen folksong. They have been written for four-part variable wind esse...

Part 1: Fl Ob Kl B/Es S-Sax Trp Part 2: Fl Cor Ang Kl B Alt-Kl A-Sax Trp Hrn Part 3: B Kl Alt-Kl T-Sax Fg Pos Hrn Euph Part 4: B-Kl B-Sax Fg Pos B-Pos Euph Tuba Kb Opt. : Glockenspiel Perc.

Mit rhythmischem Fingerschnipsen beginnt dieses schwungvolle Medley aus den bekannten Gospel-Songs Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho und Go, Tell It on a Mountain.

Großer Gott, wir loben dich is a well-known German hymn, written by Ignaz Franz in the 18th century but based on the 4th century Te Deum laudamus. After a radiant introduction by the brass section, th...

Meditation is based on Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (1887) by the English composer and organist Frederick Charles Maker (1844 - 1927). This is a calm, introverted work that however has an intense e...

This work is based on the 13th Century Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) attributed to Thomas von Celano. Many famous composers have already employed this originally Gregorian chant in their works, including B...

The Torch of Liberty has been commissioned by the Band of the Royal Netherlands Military Police, on the occasion of their 200th anniversary. The music is based on a monument, a torch that is symbolica...

The Torch of Liberty has been commissioned by the Band of the Royal Netherlands Military Police, on the occasion of their 200th anniversary. The music is based on a monument, a torch that is symbolica...

After the introduction, in which the landscape of Groningen with its beautiful wide views is presented, follows five variations based on the 13th-century Gregorian theme Dies Irae that is attributed t...

After the introduction, in which the landscape of Groningen with its beautiful wide views is presented, follows five variations based on the 13th-century Gregorian theme Dies Irae that is attributed t...

This entertaining new play-along book contains 12 solos in styles varying from baroque to blues. The book comes with a CD containing both backing tracks and full performances performed by real musicia...

With The Young Amadeus, Jan de Haan gives new freshness and youthfulness to the second movement from the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major (K. 622), which Mozart composed in 1791 shortly...

Das Rondo aus dem Stück Abdelazer oder die Rache des Mohren ist eines der bekanntesten Stücke von Purcell - nicht zuletzt, weil Benjamin Britten es für seinen berühmten Young Person's Guide to the Orc...

ESSENTIAL CLASSICS is a collection of pieces ideally suited to introduce beginning bands, whether in or outside of school, to the classical repertoire. The easy arrangements make the most popular melo...