Wonderful Winds

This piece comes from Grieg's second Peer Gynt suite. Because of its haunting nature, it was used recently on Joanna Lumley's film about the northern lights, and the piece brings on visions of the aur...

These two pieces come from Grieg's earliest set of Lyric Pieces, and are popular choices for student pianists. Newly arranged for Clarinets, Popular Melody is a mazurka with a melancholy tune, likely...

Gershwin's incidental music from Shall We Dance depicts taking a dog for a walk around a luxury liner. It features a great jazzy, high solo for Bb clarinet or Eb Clarinet and will test the lower instr...

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...

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...

This trio was originally written for a host of angels. Its delicate harmonies and gentle syncopation certainly have a spiritual feel while drama comes in the form of quietly insistent fugal phrases an...

This trio was originally written for a host of angels. Its delicate harmonies and gentle syncopation certainly have a spiritual feel while drama comes in the form of quietly insistent fugal phrases an...

This piece was originally written as a piano duet, and is subtitled 'Flamenco (gypsy dance)'. This arrangement passes bits of melody around all of the instruments, including a short rearranged section...

Ravel wrote these three charming songs for unaccompanied chorus while waiting to be enlisted into the army during World War 1. The lyrics are Ravel's own, and offer plenty of scope for colourful compo...

Composed in 1899 for solo piano, and then orchestrated by the composer in 1910, Ravel described this piece as "an evocation of a Pavane that a little princess might, in former times, have danced at th...

Certainly the most well known of Rachmaninov's Fourteen Songs, Op.34, this is the final song of the set, and has no words, but is sung on one vowel of the singer's choice. This setting shares the melo...

Dreaming, the best known movement from Schumann's Kinderszenen, written for piano in 1838. This short piece suits the lyrical qualities of the clarinet, with the 3 top parts sharing the tune, supporte...

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...

Saint-Saëns' tone poem begins at midnight on Halloween. Death plays the fiddle to summon the dead from their graves; the music builds as more and more skeletons join in, eventually reaching a fortissi...

Six pieces from Tchaikovsky's Opus 39 for piano. Although the original collection is "for the Young" these are charming miniatures which make satisfying and enjoyable pieces for a fairly advanced ense...

These charming short pieces are taken from two books of pieces 19th century Belgian composer César Franck wrote for the harmonium (an instrument similar to an organ, where the sound is produced as air...

This selection represents 3 areas of Grieg's most famous works. There are 3 pieces from Peer Gynt, 2 of his most popular Lyric Pieces and his famous Norwegian Dance No. 2. Arranged here for duet, thes...

Tchaikovsky's most popular works are his Ballet Suites (Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty & The Nutcracker), which include a multitude of tunes that stand out amongst the entire repetoire of popular classics...

With the spring everything bursts back to life in the sunshine: particularly those plants that thrive whether you want them or not! Gardeners may call them weeds, but they have inspired Wild Garden: a...

With the spring everything bursts back to life in the sunshine: particularly those plants that thrive whether you want them or not! Gardeners may call them weeds, but they have inspired Wild Garden: a...

Commonly known as Bach's Adagio, this arrangement refers back to Bach's original, with articulation and ornamentation left to the players' discretion.

The Bull Fighter's song from Bizet's great opera, the tunes are shared between all three players.

This lively dance opens the final act of Bizet's fabulous opera, Carmen.

Bizet's seductive Habanera is also used in the stairlift scene from the film 'Up'! The oboes share the sultry melody.

This soldiers' march from Carmen puts the spotlight on the cor anglais.