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Early African-American songs contain a wealth of human expression, based on a yearning for freedom and biblical deliverance. This rhapsodic work combines Spirituals and Blues as the composer visualise...

Go tell it on the mountains, Go down, Moses, Oh, when the saints, My Lord, what a morning and By the rivers of Babylon. Have your young musicians acquainted with these traditional spirituals. They wil...

This Gospel Festival includes a.o. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child and Oh Peter, go ring-a dem bells. A skilfully set up and varied medley which will please all audiences.

The song on which this trombone solo is based on, is also known as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Wayfaring Pilgrim", a well-known American gospel tune. The melody was composed by the German composer...

Fairest Lord Jesus is arranged here for brass band with optional organ. It begins softly and sparsely, gradually building up to a powerful finale. Well-suited as a closing piece for Christmas concerts...

Composer Etienne Crausaz has created an attractive brass band orchestration of his own work Grant Us Peace, which was originally written for mixed choir. It offers various readings of a single phrase...

Composer Etienne Crausaz has created an attractive brass band orchestration of his own work Grant Us Peace, which was originally written for mixed choir. It offers various readings of a single phrase...

British composer Philip Sparke was asked to write this arrangement of Hymn to Frei for the Norwegian Brass Band Frei Hornmusikk. Sparke had already used part of this hymn by a composer well-known in t...

Have Mercy, Lord from J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion is one of the most beautiful arias from the baroque period. In Philip Sparke's arrangement, it is envisaged that the soloists stand together as a...

These '30 Original Chorales and Warm-Ups' have been designed to develop the most important aspects of band playing, by providing material that can be used at the start of a rehearsal to test balance,...

These 30 Original Chorales and Warm-Ups have been designed to develop the most important aspects of band playing, by providing material that can be used at the start of a rehearsal to test balance, dy...

Sanctuary was commissioned by Eastern Bay of Plenty Brass from New Zealand and was performed as an own choice piece at the 2018 New Zealand National Brass Band Championships. It opens with an expressi...

Many of the numerous chorals Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed during his lifetime are still very popular today. An example is the melody Ich steh an deiner Krippen her (BWM 469) composed in...

Designed as an opener or finale for a concert or special occasion, Fanfare Prelude on 'Lobe den Herren' is based on Johann Cruger's majestic hymn tune which firs appeared in the Stralsung Gesangbuch i...

Diese Bearbeitung von Jacob de Haan basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Choral von Michael Frank, einem deutschen Dichter und Komponisten aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Es ist das einzige Werk aus seiner Feder, d...

Gelobet Seist Du Jesu Christ (We Praise You Jesus Christ) is an old Christmas hymn dating from the 16th century, which can still be found in many hymnbooks today. John Blanken has created a varied and...

Pie Jesu is the famous aria for soprano and orchestra from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, opus 48. Fauré (1845 - 1924) composed the work in 1887, two years after his father's death and only a short time bef...

Jacob de Haan begins his arrangement of the well-known hymn Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr (All Glory Be to God on High) with a quotation from his own Missa Katharina, a mass for choir, soprano, and...

After the introduction, in which the landscape of Groningen with its beautiful wide views is presented, follows five variations based on the 13th-century Gregorian theme Dies Irae that is attributed t...

After the introduction, in which the landscape of Groningen with its beautiful wide views is presented, follows five variations based on the 13th-century Gregorian theme Dies Irae that is attributed t...

Chorale for Peace is a song of hope and peace for humanity. In commissioning this work, the wind band of Le Portel (France) wanted to pay tribute to the victims of 8 September 1943, when around 100 Al...