The Spanish composer Pedro Iturralde (*1929) has to be considered both as pioneer and nestor of Spanish jazz music. Pequena Czarda (little dance) is a virtuoso little solo piece for saxophone and pian...
As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif his...
Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...
During most of his career in Leipzig Bach composed about one cantata per month. About 200 of the total 300 cantatas he created have been preserved. 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' (Jesu, Joy of Man's Des...
The French composer Gabriel Faure (1845-1924) composed the Requiem in the years 1877-1900. The Pie Jesu from this mass is a delightful piece for solo soprano.In this transcription the solo part can al...
....Now I have a young King who really loves me ecstatically; you cannot conceive what that means. I remember a dream which I had in my youth: I dreamed that Shakespeare was living, and that I saw him...
Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera 'Il Trovatore' lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the aria 'D'amor sull'ali rosee'. It is sung by Leonora in the fourth act of the Opera: Manri...
Giacomo Puccini's opera 'Tosca' might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...
Along with the opera's 'Andrea Chénier' and 'Siberia', 'Fedora' is one of the most notable works of Italian composer Umberto Giordano. 'Fedora' is an opera in three acts to an Italian libretto by Artu...
Giacomo Puccini's 'Suor Angelica' (Sister Angelica) is one of the three one-act opera's which belong to the triptych 'Il Trittico' which is an example of the verismo-opera, a naturalistic movement in...
Puccini's Opera 'Manon Lescaut' is based on the 1731 novel 'L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut' by the Abbé Prévost. The aria 'In quelle trine morbide is sung in the 2nd act of the...
Sapho" is an opera by Charles Gounod to a libretto by Émile Augier which was premiered in 1851. The story of the opera is based on the legends of the Greek poet Sappho, her love for Phaon and her suic...
Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825 - 1889) was a cornet player, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the 'cornet à piston' or valved cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini's vi...
At the end of his life Offenbach composed his opera 'Les contes d'Hoffman', but unfortunately he was not able to finish it. The plot tells the story of the poet Hoffmann telling three of his amorous a...
Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. His popularity was overshadowed by that of hi...
The 'ballata' Questo o quella is sung by Il Duca de Mantua in the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Rigoletto. Among a group of guests he sings of his love-life: this one or that one, to me it's the...
The plot of Sullivan's Operetta The Mikado tells the story of Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan and the young girl Yum-yum. The song ' The sun, whose rays are all ablaze' is sung by Yum-yum at the...
The plot of Sullivan's Operetta The Mikado tells the story of Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan and the young girl Yum-yum. The Trio Three little maids from school is sung in the first act by Yum-...
Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), the greatest Italian opera-composer, composed his opera La Forza del Destino in 1862 and it was first performed in the St.Petersburg Operahouse.The story of 'the P...
Puccini's Madama Butterfly is different from many operas. It is intimate, devoid of spectacle, taking place completely within a house in Nagasaki. The aria Un bel di vedremo is sung by Butterfly in th...
Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The aria Mein Herr Marquis, ein Mann wie Sie is sung in the second ac...
The Danse Bohemienne from La jolie fille the Perth was used in the ballet for the Paris version for Carmen returning to the Paris opera only five years after it's disastrous premiere. Bizet had died a...
Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853), this opera belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middle period o...
La Traviata tells the story of the young and beautiful courtesan Violetta who falls in love with Alfredo, an ordinary and poor young man.She leaves her luxurious live for him and finally offers her lo...
One of the most influential of German romantic composers is Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). He is especially known because of his opera's but he composed some masses and a number of solo concerto's...
Ich lade gern mir Gäste ein' is sung by Prince Orlovsky in the second act of Die Fledermaus: he himself is permanently bored by his wealth, but he insists upon his guests enjoying themselves at his ma...
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja is sung by Papageno, the birdcatcher at the very beginning of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte: covered with feathers he introduces himself by singing a ditty in popular style...
The aria O Isis und Osiris is sung by Sarastro, the high priest of Isis and Osiris. Sarastro announces that prince Tamino, before marrying Pamina, must prove himself worthy to the temple.Sarastro pray...
The aria Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen is sung by Papageno near the very end of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte. He sighs for someone to love. (Baritone and Concert Band)
Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement.Not love between two people is in the centre but a more individ...
The trio 'so muss allein ich bleiben' from the operetta Die Fledermaus is sung in the first act: Gabriel von Eisenstein is due to leave for prison and his wife Rosalinde acts to be sad about it. Meanw...
Im Feuerstrom der Reben is the very final of the second act of the Operetta Die Fledermaus. (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Choir and Concert Band)
O Fledermaus, o Fledermaus' is the very final of the Operetta Die Fledermaus. (2 Sopanos, 2 Mezzo Sopranos, 2 Tenors, 2 Baritones, Choir and Concert Band)
The Marsch der Priester is played at the very beginning of the second act of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte: the priests enter to a solemn march. (Concert Band)
Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...
Brüderlein und Schwesterlein is the very final of the second act: at the end of Prince Orlofsky's party Dr. Falke proposes to sing a song of praise to the brotherhood of the assembled company. (2 Sopa...
Täubchen das entflattert ist is the very beginning of Die Fledermaus: At Eisenstein's house the singer Alfred, in love with Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde, is heard serenading Rosalinde. Adele, the maid,...
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...
As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his operetta's made him clear that he had to gif his talents to the genre. Der Zarewitsch is one of tho...
After the enormous success of La Traviata, Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed the operaI Vespri Siciliani. Despite the less succes of the opera the overture is still a populair work in many concertprogr...
The Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet, composed in the autumn of 1869, was Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's first orchestral masterpiece.He was only twent-nine years old and still much influenced by Mily Ba...
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. From 1893 til...
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...
The 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 those is the lulla...
Carmen' is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. Parle-moi de ma mere is sung by MicaÙla and Don Jose. (Soprano, Tenor...
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...
The first act of Puccini's Opera Tosca is set in a church where Cavaradossi, working on a Madonna, compares the mysterious harmony (recondita armonia) that excists between his dark-haired lover Tosca...
Dvorak composed the great Czech national opera, Rusalka in a single burst of inspiration between April 21 and November 27, 1901, to a text by Jaroslav Kvapil based on Hans Christian Andersen. Rusalka...
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...
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Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The polka-mazurka Stadt und Land, Opus 322 is a beautiful example of S...
Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Egyptischer Marsch Opus 335 is a beautiful...
Trumpet and Concert Band. Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote...
Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. When the industrial age dawned in the middle o...
Rudy Wiedoeft (1893-1940) was born in Detroit Michigan to a large family of musicians, with whom he began his musical studies, playing in the family orchestra which toured as a professional ensemble....
While Saverio Mercadante (1795-1870) may not have retained the international celebrity of Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as impressive a number of works as...
In 1904 Pleyel, the famous Parisian firm of instrument manufacturers, approached Debussy with a commission for a new test piece for chromatic harp, intended for use in the diploma examinations at the...
Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. This transcription follows the final of the 1st act with the terzett...
Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The terzett 'Ich stehe voll Zagen' is sung at the very end of the ope...
For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Choir and Symphonic Band Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is....
