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A percussion break is when all other voices drop out and it's a time for just the percussion section to shine - that is how this fun and rhythmic piece opens. It gradually builds by adding voices (min...

Lumina Cordis, latin for 'Lights of the Heart', is a title that reflects the joy and brightness of the piece. Composed using overture form, each section has elements that represent all the happy emoti...

With rhythmic accompaniment and energetic melodic lines, this animated work contains elements of early American barn dances, then features a calmer section that develops into a moderate jig. After the...

A cornerstone of solo flute repertoire, the Concertino is a work of great charm and brilliance. By turns rhapsodic and romantic, it's a wonderful feature for your advanced flutist.

The Dance Of The Jesters was composed as incidental music for the ballet The Snow Maidens. The ballet is not based on the Hans Christian Andersen story, but on a contemporary Russian fantasy-play Sneg...

Due to careful cueing and skillful arranging, your band can play the Finale from the renowned 'Organ Symphony' even if you don't have a pipe organ or an organist available. The big, powerful sound of...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...

Johan de Meij's first symphony The Lord of the Rings is based on the trilogy of that name by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book has fascinated many millions of readers since its publication in 1955. The sym...

Willis sind feenhafte Wesen. Wenn eine Frau unverheiratet an gebrochenem Herzen stirbt, zwingen sie den Herzensbrecher dazu, sich zu Tode zu tanzen. Diese Legende wählte Giacomo Puccini für seine erst...

In 1938 Shostakovich composed his Second Jazz Suite at the request of the recently founded State Orchestra for Jazz conducted by Victor Knushevitsky. This suite was originally scored for a complete sy...

Handel?s opera Scipio was written in 1725 and performed the following year in the King?s Theatre, London. Following Handel?s death his operas fell into obscurity until the 1960?s when they experienced...

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi (music) and Francesco Maria Piave (libretto).

Thomas Doss orchestrated this inspiring and very playable transcription of Christus factus est (WAB 11), the motet written by Bruckner in 1884, for wind orchestra. After Messe für den Gründonnerstag f...

The Adagio is based on a manuscript that was discovered in the Dresden State Library after the Second World War by Remo Giazotto, a Milanese musicologist who was working on Albinoni's biography at the...

French composer Daniel François Esprit Aubers extensive outputconsisted mainly of operas, but unfortunately today only two of theseare still well known, including the comic opera Fra Diavolo. The stor...

Mit dem Titel Mozart's Greatest Hits! verspricht der Toshio Mashima nicht zu viel. Mit Themen aus fünf der bekanntesten und beliebtesten Mozartthemen, verpackt in ein meisterliches Arrangement für Bla...

Around 1914 Gustav Holst (1874-1934) wrote the seven-part work The Planets, which is still the most performed classical work from the pen of an Englishman. The magnificent chorale-like theme from the...

Una Furtiva Lagrima is a brilliant arrangement by Jacob de Haan, of the aria from Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) for concert band. The subject of this song is the powe...

One of the most recognizable and often-quoted symphonic passages in modern times is from this grand work for chorus and orchestra by Carl Orff. Combining elements from Movements I and II, Jay Bocook v...