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This song was first heard in the film "The Thomas Crowne Affair" and was also famously sung by Hannah Gordon in a force 9 gale in the 1973 Morecambe and Wise Christmas special! The main tune is given...

A flexible arrangement of this beautiful movement from the Serenade for Winds "Gran Partita". The piece features 3 solo lines and an accompanying ensemble, as listed , (minimum 8 players). A score and...

Cavatina (meaning a short simple melody) was originally written for piano, before Stanley Myers re-wrote it for guitar. It was made famous in the film The Deer Hunter. The oboe has the chance to show...

This beautifully fluid aria comes from Act 2 of Mozart's rather spooky opera Don Giovanni, and is sung by Donna Elvira, complaining that Don Giovanni has betrayed her, but also pitying him. The almost...

The last movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 11, this piece was inspired by the music of Turkish marching bands. In Mozart's day this piece was often performed on a piano which had a 'Turkish Stop':...

A thrilling arrangement of the virtuoso showpiece from the opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan". The chromatic melody buzzes frantically from one part to the other, making it a little less exhausting than...

Dreaming, the best known movement from Schumann's Kinderszenen, written for piano in 1838. It is set here for flute and clarinet ensemble, with the 1st Clarinet and 1st Flute sharing the tune, warmly...

This is the most famous of Schubert's three Marches Militaire Op. 51, which were originally written for piano four-hands in 1818. They have been arranged for many different combinations over the centu...

The arranger was inspired to create this arrangement of the American national anthem during the recent presidential inauguration, having heard the new version sung at the ceremony. A trawl through You...

Possibly the most memorable dance from Swan Lake, this version of the Dance of the Cygnets gives the waddling tune to the flute and clarinet while the bassoon takes over in the off-beat middle section...

Ready for Anything is a bravura ensemble piece for a quintet to have fun with.

The famous song from Bizet's opera.

The Bassoons feature in this march from Carmen, with an optional easier oboe part.

Bizet's seductive Habanera, also used in the stairlift scene in the film 'Up'!

This rousing march is scored for anything from 3 to 300 players of mixed abilities!

This smaller scoring of Beethoven's rousing march has additional easier parts for oboe and bassoon, and mini-bassoon/tenoroon parts included.

An easier version of Beethoven's exhuberant march, without grace notes, and with tenoroon/mini-bassoon parts.

This prelude is taken from book 2 of Bach's 48 Preludes and Fugues known as The Well-Tempered Clavier, compiled 20 years after the first book. It has two contrasting themes, a lively fanfare in compou...

Composed in 1917, these two songs 'To be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water' were originally for wordless chorus, but work beautifully, in a slightly more robust way, for double reeds. The first is a...

Dvorak's famous G minor Slavonic Dance, from the first set which brought him to prominence in 1878 is arranged here for massed double reeds with optional percussion. The lively melodies race around th...

The third movement of Debussy's Petite Suite for piano duet is reworked here for advanced double  reeds. This arrangement was inspired by the orchestral version which starts with the two oboes' plaint...

Masques et Bergamasques is a four movement suite in a neoclassical style, taken from a short operatic divertissement commissioned by the Prince of Monaco for the Monte Carlo Theatre in 1918. Only the...

One of his many Lyric Pieces, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen was written to celebrate Grieg and his wife Nina's silver wedding anniversary. Troldhaugen was the name of Grieg's house. The joyous outer sect...

Handel's beautiful soprano aria from his opera of 1711 Rinaldo, which translated means "Leave me to weep over my cruel fate". The first oboe carries the plaintive melody and while some ornamentation h...

Handel composed the Music for the Royal Fireworks to accompany a lavish firework display in London's Green Park in April 1749, to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession. It was origin...