1. Emerald Isle, in this part, the musical spotlight focuses in on the green island of Ireland and its great wealth of traditional folk music. The piece opens with the air 'My Lodging Is on the Cold G...
Klassik für zwei ist eine Sammlung sechs einfacher Werke von Komponisten aus dem Barock, der klassischen Periode und der Romantik, die zu Duetten bearbeitet wurden. Eine einmalige Gelegenheit zu einer...
In dieser Suite für Klarinettenquartett arrangierte Wil van der Beek vier Melodien von Edvard Grieg.
The Last Rose of Summer is a popular Irish folksong. The original text was written by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) and the melody is a traditional air titled The Groves of Blarney. The German composer Fri...
Giulio Caccini (ca. 1550 - 1618), also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, singer, and lute player and is regarded as the founder of opera. Today, Caccini's music is receiving attention a...
Come, Sweet Death ("Komm, Süsser Tod") (BWV 478) is a spiritual song composed by German J.S. Bach, originally intended for solo singing and basso continuo ("figured bass"), but also frequently heard i...
Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...
In 1878, on a commission from his publisher, Anton n Dvorák wrote a series of eight Slavonic dances. Modelled on Johannes Brahms' famous Hungarian Dances, although in contrast to Brahms' work, Dvorák...
Russian composer Alexandre Glazunov composed this work in 1900 originally as a solo work for cello and piano but also for cello and orchestra. It is an occasional work for a fellow teacher (Alexandre...
Addio Napoli is a medley of well-known Neapolitan melodies, including Torna a Surriento by Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937), Neapolitan Dance by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - which he used in hi...
An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube Waltz) has had more success as a concert waltz than in the original choral version: since its victorious performance at the World Exhibition in Paris (1867...
When you say Scott Joplin, you say ragtime. The American pianist and composer Joplin (1868-1917) has written more than one hundred rags (including the famous 'Maple Leaf Rag' and 'The Entertainer') an...
This march, opus 470 in Johann Strauss the Younger's oeuvre, was dedicated to the k. u. k. (Royal) Infanterie-Regiment 'Hoch und Deutschmeister No. 4' on the occasion of its 200th anniversary. In 1896...
Paul Dukas (1865-1935) was a composer who had little self-confidence and was very self-critical. As a result of this he destroyed the manuscripts of all but seven large and five small works. Luckily k...
Organ player and composer Pietro Allessandro Yon (Turijn 1886-New York 1943) was of Italian origin. He studied in Milan, Turin and Rome. At first he worked as an organist in Rome; in 1907 he left for...
Zwei typisch spanische Tänze in einer Bearbeitung von Wil van der Beek. Diese Quartette eignen sich gut für mässig fortgeschrittene Spieler und können auch in Vorspielen oder Wettbewerben eingesetzt w...
