Mitropa Music

To be born under a lucky star', 'To have stars in your eyes', 'To be someone's lucky star', as well as 'To be all fired up', 'To set the world on fire' and 'To be on fire with love' all of these are e...

This work was commissioned by the Musikverein Prechtal e. V. (Germany) for its 100th anniversary in the year of 2021. The composition opens with a powerful rhythmic motif, which soon develops into the...

This work was commissioned by the Musikverein Prechtal e. V. (Germany) for its 100th anniversary in the year of 2021. The composition opens with a powerful rhythmic motif, which soon develops into the...

Fanfare for the Best' is a short composition inspired by best friends and memories of good times in pleasant company. I wrote this piece for the 50th birthday of my friend Otto M. Schwarz. 'Fanfare fo...

Fanfare for the Best' is a short composition inspired by best friends and memories of good times in pleasant company. I wrote this piece for the 50th birthday of my friend Otto M. Schwarz. 'Fanfare fo...

Sparkling Overture' was written to celebrate the centenary of the Swiss brass band La Musique Militaire de Rougemont. This energetic and dynamic piece opens with a festive and resolutely positive fanf...

Sparkling Overture' was written to celebrate the centenary of the Swiss brass band La Musique Militaire de Rougemont. This energetic and dynamic piece opens with a festive and resolutely positive fanf...

For Free Mind, a light and dynamic piece, Marc Jeanbourquin drew inspiration from a gospel song, namely 'Oh, Freedom', a post-Civil War African-American freedom song. In these times of crisis, the com...

The 'Transformation' scene from Beauty and the Beast is one of the most impressive moments from the movie and a perfect example of how magical the combination of music and images can be. Marc Jeanbour...

The 'Transformation' scene from Beauty and the Beast is one of the most impressive moments from the movie and a perfect example of how magical the combination of music and images can be. Marc Jeanbour...

The melancholic '(Somewhere) Over the Rainbowx' is unmistakably one of the most successful musical evergreens ever. The simplicity and unique beauty of this song formed the inspiration for numerous co...

This collection contains fifteen studies that make use of techniques that have been gained through previous experience, as well as offering opportunities for personal interpretation. Most aspects of f...

This collection will give you the opportunity to concentrate on all the technical and expressive aspects of flute playing, switching from 'brilliant' pieces to works with a more cantabile character, i...

It is often the case that at the end of a concert a soloist is requested to perform an additional item not listed in the programme, in other words an encore. In general the piece that is chosen is sho...

Under the title LUX NORDICA, this edition contains a selection of Romantic pieces by various composers of northern origin. Franco Cesarini collected seven works from Niels W. Gade and Carl Nielsen (De...

German Romanticism includes selected works from some of the most important composers of the style, to whom-in terms of musical history-the Austrian Franz Schubert also belongs. Besides Carl Maria von...

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

The Cossacks played an integral part in Russia's history which finally ended with the Soviet occupation in the 1920s. Franco Cesarini had the opportunity to attend performances by an ethnic group of C...

American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on t...

Take a musical tour of the North of Germany with sailors' music from the coastal areas combining with the authentic traditional folk music culture of the region. This colourful blend of many different...

Hot off the press! Composer Gerald Oswald bases this new work on an old Austrian folksong, O du lieber Augustin! The Augustin in questions is a ballad singer and an ad lib poet who apparently wrote th...

Kein schöner Land is surely one of the best-known of all German folk songs. The song recounts the story of a group of friends who spend a happy evening singing. The arrangement by Gerald Oswald begins...

If there's one Hebrew folk song that's known the world over, it's Hava Nagila. The title translated means 'let us be happy'. The melody of this festive song - often sung at Jewish weddings - comes ori...

Driving drum grooves, a straight rhythm, catchy melodies and much space for the soloists' creativity - that's how you could describe Otto M. Schwarz's new composition Groovin'Around. The infectious be...

Kool & the Gang became very popular globally, and they remain today, one of the best funk and soul bands in the history of pop music. Gilbert Tinner made a medley for smaller and young bands containin...