Sheet Music for Concert Band

Evocative piece where the musical phrasing overlaps creating continuous changes of sound and atmosphere thanks to the skillful use of the counterpoint. A burst of vitality and joy for performers and l...

Piece characterized by a rich counterpoint where the sounds of the Orchestra come together and blend to create new sensations and musical images.

The composition is structured in four movements, four musical miniatures that the composer dedicated to the Banda Comunale of Rezzato and his friends Sergio Geraci and Maestro Umberto Antonelli. The m...

Lumie di Sicilia, inspired by the Novel written by Luigi Pirandello (an Italian dramatist, novelist, poet and short story writer 1867 - 1936), about a Sicilian love story.

The arrangements are designed to get warm and round sounds with any kind of Band formation. The sequence can be freely adapted to the needs of the moment.

Gratitude is one of Grieg's beautiful lyrical pieces, Op. 62 No. 2. Eva Knardahl made a beautiful recording that I well remember was used as background for a picture cavalcade by the Norwegian Broadca...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was in addition to Claude Debussy, the most important composer of French impressionism. The term impressionism can be translated as 'artistic impression', first used in paint...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) was in addition to Claude Debussy, the most important composer of French impressionism. The term impressionism can be translated as 'artistic impression', first used in paint...

This beautiful aria from Rinaldo by Handel is a masterfully arranged character piece for concert band! Lascia ch'io pianga is an aria from the opera Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Händel. It was the first...

Halling by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg originally for piano solo is presented here with a rhytmically modern flavour. A great arrangement of Norwegian traditional music which challenge the band! T...

This Selection from Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was arranged by James Smyth. Enderby Jackson commissioned the arrangement which was used as the test piece for the third National Brass B...

The Nutcracker is proably Tchaikovsky`s most popular ballet, often played around Christmas-time. The ballet is a story of a little girl who gets a nutcracker for Christmas with a head on it. The nutcr...

The 6th symphony is probably Tchaikovsky`s most important work. It was played for first time just a few days before the composer's death in 1893. This Andante-theme is taken from the first movement of...

Tortoises from 'The Carnival of the Animals' is a brand new arrangement of this movement from the orchestral suite by Camille Saint-Säens. The slow and goofy turtle is given a hip-hop groove to speed...

The 'Rákóczi March' (Hungarian March) was the unofficial state anthem of Hungary before Ferenc Kölcsey wrote the Himnusz which is today the official national anthem of Hungary. The first version of th...

Schiller's text of 1785 was partially used by Beethoven in1824 when he did finish the 4th movement of his 9th Symphony. The melody has later been used in very many contexts. As the anthem of the Europ...

Edvard Grieg composed his 'Four Norwegian Dances, op. 35' during the summer of 1881. The second of these four dances is by far the most popular and recognizable. This short piece in ABA form has becom...

Johan August Halvorsen (1864-1935) was born in Drammen and played violin and several brass instruments. He played in both orchestra and wind bands and in 1881 he became a student at Brigademusikken in...

Brooklet' is one of the movements from Grieg's Lyric Pieces for Solo Piano opus 62. Information for the conductor: «Brooklet' is an technically advanced work for solo piano. In this arrangement, techn...

Jerker Johansson has lived in Gothenburg, on the Swedish West Coast, since 1984, and is deeply interested in the history of the country. Gothia is the most southern part of Sweden, and Gothenburg, whi...

Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903 - 1984) has a voluminous production as a composer, with orchestral works, chamber music, stage music, piano, and vocal music. His music is characterised by beautiful, lyrical...

The movies from Disney have always included a lot of great music. 'Once Upon a Dream' was written in 1959 to the musical animation movie 'Sleeping Beauty', a movie produced by Walt Disney. It is base...

The Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer, and through his music he helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for i...