Peter Kleine Schaars

The American pianist and composer Howard Hoagland 'Hoagy' Carmichael was considered the creator of the so-called 'white man's blues' which he mainly used as part of the music he wrote for a series of...

The once extremely popular American group 'The Village People' released its first album 'San Francisco' in 1977. The next year two more albums came, 'Macho Man' and 'YMCA', followed in 1979 by 'Go Wes...

This is the fourth movement of the five-part suite 'Nomenclatura' commissioned by the Dutch Customs Band 'Douane Harmonie Nederland'. This movement is a quiet ballad, that could be considered as a qui...

This rhapsody for solo quintet and band has been composed especially for bands of the honour's division boasting 2 oboes, one cor anglais and 2 bassoons. The classical dance forms played by the quinte...

This is the fifth and final movement of the colourful suite 'Nomenclatura' by Peter Kleine Schaars (1962). After subsequently a salsa, a ballad, a rumba and a funk melody, here is a capricious piece c...

This Rhapsody is composed by Peter kleine Schaars for the 4th international contest of light music in 2002 at St. Gallen.

Here is a blues theme that is being played by all instruments at least one time throughout the composition. Fine accompaniments and a thrilling drum solo complete this composition which is a most valu...

In Four Faces of Jazz / Vier Gesichter des Jazz zeigt Peter Kleine Schaars in ebenso vielen Sätzen vier verschiedene Facetten von Jazzmusik auf: Beginnend mit Im Feeling Blue, einem Blues wie ihn ursp...

Der einzigartige Sound der vom Jazzschlagzeuger Maurice White gegründeten Gruppe Earth, Wind & Fire machte die Band zu einer der einflussreichsten Soul- Gruppen der Siebziger. Dieses Medley von Peter...

Der einzigartige Sound der vom Jazzschlagzeuger Maurice White gegründeten Gruppe Earth, Wind & Fire machte die Band zu einer der einflussreichsten Soul- Gruppen der Siebziger. Dieses Medley von Peter...

The immortal French song 'Les Feuilles Mortes' (Autumn Leaves) was composed by Joseph Kosma on a text by Jacques Prévert. Kosma worked with Berthold Brecht, Kurt Weil and Hans Eisler in Berlin before...

On the 6th of April 1999, exactly 25 years after ABBA had won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo, the musical Mamma Mia! opened in London. The funny and appealing love story, based on...

On the 6th of April 1999, exactly 25 years after ABBA had won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo, the musical Mamma Mia! opened in London. The funny and appealing love story, based on...

In this great Disney musical a little girl, Lilo, adopts what she believes is a puppy but is what turns out to be an alien that has landed on earth by mistake. Their friendship is sealed by their mutu...

In this great Disney musical a little girl, Lilo, adopts what she believes is a puppy but is what turns out to be an alien that has landed on earth by mistake. Their friendship is sealed by their mutu...

Return to Neverland, die Fortsetzung des Filmklassikers Peter Pan, begeistert nicht zuletzt durch die charakteristischen Disney-Klänge. Der Arrangeur Peter Kleine Schaars wählte aus dem Film die für B...

Return to Neverland, die Fortsetzung des Filmklassikers Peter Pan, begeistert nicht zuletzt durch die charakteristischen Disney-Klänge. Der Arrangeur Peter Kleine Schaars wählte aus dem Film die für B...

In his capacity as staff arranger of the Royal Marine Band of the Dutch Navy this arrangement is one of the best loved by Peter Kleine Schaars' band. Elvis in Concert features the twelve greatest his...

The sisters Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from West Oakland in California learned how to sing in the sixties in church where their father was a minister. At the beginning of the 1970s they entered the...

The sisters Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from West Oakland in California learned how to sing in the sixties in church where their father was a minister. At the beginning of the 1970s they entered the...

Für die Theater-Show Die pet past ons allemaal (Dieser Hut passt uns allen!) arrangierte Peter Kleine Schaars im Auftrag des Holländischen Polizei-Orchesters ein Medley aus bekannten holländischen Kin...

Für die Theater-Show Die pet past ons allemaal (Dieser Hut passt uns allen!) arrangierte Peter Kleine Schaars im Auftrag des Holländischen Polizei-Orchesters ein Medley aus bekannten holländischen Kin...

This medley has been inspired by Peter Kleine Schaars' previous experience that every concert should end with a selection of unbeatable melodies. With this in mind Peter Kleine Schaars has chosen some...

Viele Jahre lang unterhielt Peter Kleine Schaars' Jazz-Quartett bei diversen Festlichkeiten und Gelegenheiten - je nach Wunsch mit Jazz oder auch mit Pop und lateinamerikanischer Musik. Dabei stellten...