Baton Music

Gustav Mahler's first four symphonies are often referred to as the 'Wunderhorn Symphonies' because many of their themes originate in earlier songs by Mahler on texts from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'. His...

French composer Jules Demersseman was one of the first French composers to write music for the newly-developed saxophone. One of these was 'Fantaisie sur un thème original' for Alto Saxophone and Pian...

French composer Jules Demersseman was one of the first French composers to write music for the newly-developed saxophone. One of these was 'Fantaisie sur un thème original' for Alto Saxophone and Pian...

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg composed the four 'Symphonic Dances Op. 64' in 1896. They draw their inspiration from the earlier folk works collected by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. Slovenian arranger Gr...

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg composed the four 'Symphonic Dances Op. 64' in 1896. They draw their inspiration from the earlier folk works collected by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. Slovenian arranger Gr...

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg composed the four 'Symphonic Dances Op. 64' in 1896. They draw their inspiration from the earlier folk works collected by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. Slovenian arranger Gr...

Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg composed the four 'Symphonic Dances Op. 64' in 1896. They draw their inspiration from the earlier folk works collected by Ludvig Mathias Lindeman. Slovenian arranger Gr...

In 1892 Johann Strauss composed 'Ritter Pásmán', a three-act opera with a libretto by Ludwig Dóczi based on a Hungarian narrative poem. When the opera's debut was announced, it was met with great enth...

In 1892 Johann Strauss composed 'Ritter Pásmán', a three-act opera with a libretto by Ludwig Dóczi based on a Hungarian narrative poem. When the opera's debut was announced, it was met with great enth...

French composer Erik Satie is mainly known for his 'Gymnopédies', a composition of three piano works completed in April 1888. The work's unusual title comes from the French form of 'gymnopaedia', the...

French composer Erik Satie is mainly known for his 'Gymnopédies', a composition of three piano works completed in April 1888. The work's unusual title comes from the French form of 'gymnopaedia', the...

German composer Felix Mendelssohn composed his opus 24, 'Ouverture für Harmoniemusik' (Overture or Winds) for the court orchestra of Bad Doberan near Rostock his. He was only 15 years and it already d...

German composer Felix Mendelssohn composed his opus 24, 'Ouverture für Harmoniemusik' (Overture or Winds) for the court orchestra of Bad Doberan near Rostock his. He was only 15 years and it already d...

'Ecce sacerdos magnus' (Behold a great priest), WAB 13, is an 1885 sacred motet by the Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. It is a musical setting of the antiphon of the same title. The work is a six-pa...

Richard Wagner's Fliedermonolog Was duftet doch der Flieder is sung in the second act of the Opera Die Meistersinger: Sitting outside his house on a sultry Midsummer's Eve, Hans Sachs tries to concent...

The Wahnmonolog Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn! is sung by Hans Sachs in the first scene of the third and last act of Richard Wagner's Opera Die Meistersinger. On a sunny morning Sachs is sitting in his wor...

'Orphée aux enfers' (Orpheus in the Underworld), is a comic operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1858. The operetta is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck and his 'Orfeo ed Euridice...

'Orphée aux enfers' (Orpheus in the Underworld), is a comic operetta composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1858. The operetta is an irreverent parody and scathing satire on Gluck and his 'Orfeo ed Euridice...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'Mlada' is a Wagner-influenced epic teeming with national conflicts and battles in the spirit world; it draws on Russian myth, yet contains parallels to Goethe's Faust...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'Mlada' is a Wagner-influenced epic teeming with national conflicts and battles in the spirit world; it draws on Russian myth, yet contains parallels to Goethe's Faust...

Charles Gounod's opera 'Faust' tells the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants to be young and feel the passion of love. He concluded a pact with the devil - Méphistophélès - that helps him...

Charles Gounod's opera 'Faust' tells the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants to be young and feel the passion of love. He concluded a pact with the devil - Méphistophélès - that helps him...

The third act of Wagner's opera 'Der fliegende Holländer' opens with the 'Entr'acte' and 'Sailors' Chorus': an introduction including motifs associated with the sailors and with the girls' spinning-so...

The third act of Wagner's opera 'Der fliegende Holländer' opens with the 'Entr'acte' and 'Sailors' Chorus': an introduction including motifs associated with the sailors and with the girls' spinning-so...

Antonio Álvarez (1867 - 1903) was a Spanish pianist and composer. Among his works are zarzuelas like 'El gran visir', 'Las niñas toreros' and 'El traje del alcalde'. He also composed a numerous pasaca...