Concert Band for Beginners

The 'Verbrüderungsmarsch Opus 287' is one of Johann Strauss' numerous marches. The march is rather unknown but nevertheless a very grateful piece. Dutch arranger Jos van de Braak transcribed the Verbr...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Classic for Concert Band Series

This beautiful slow piece is ideal for that change of pace piece on a concert. This work was originally a soprano aria and the lyrical line is great to demonstrate the singing quality of the band.

This Andaluza (or Playera) is part of a set of 12 Spanish Dances written in 1890. The color and harmonies lend themselves so well to the sonorities of a concert band with colorful percussion. Ole!

The Girl With The Flaxen Hair is of Claude Debussy's most popular piano works. It has been said that this piece, with its impressionistic and progressive harmonies, may have been a significant influen...

'Plaisir D'Amour' for Jazz Ensemble.

Das Ave Maria von Sergej Rachmaninoff wurde von Bernd Classen einfach, aber sehr authentisch für Blasorchester aufbereitet. Es ist bei sämtlichen kirchlichen Anlässen einsetzbar. Das ruhige Werk wird...

This hauntingly beautiful melody is probably the mostfamous to come from the pen of Czech composer, Antonin Dvorák. Stephen Bulla's transcription of'Largo' from the 'New World Symphony' will helpyour...

Introduce important orchestral literature to your younger band with this masterful arrangement by James Curnow. This four movement arrangement contains the familiar Morning Mood and In The Hall Of The...

Alluring harmonies give this great new treatment of The First Noel a special character all its own. Your band members will light up as they go to work on it. Creative orchestration and rhythmic treatm...

Tchaikovsky's excursion into music for young people carries the indelible stamp of masterful composition. James Curnow has carefully maintained the intent of this work while making it accessible to th...

2006 celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birthday of possibly the greatest composer that has ever lived, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). With a prolific output of symphonies and concertos as...

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...