Amstel Concert Band

The Year 1941 was composed during World War II. Prokofiev was evacuated to the Caucasus along with other composers when Germany began attacking the Soviet Union in 1941. It was under such circumstance...

Sergei Prokofiev's The Stone Flower (Opus 118) is his eighth and last ballet, which he composed between 1948 and 1950. His most famous ballets are Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and Le Pas d'Acier. The...

Sergei Prokofiev's The Stone Flower (Opus 118) is his eighth and last ballet, which he composed between 1948 and 1950. His most famous ballets are Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella and Le Pas d'Acier. The...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dvorak's Symphony No. 4 (1874) was a pivotal work in the career of this famous Bohemian composer. In the work Dvorák is finally freed from the influence of other composers and succeeds in producing a...

The opera-ballet Mlada was an epic project involving six different Russiancomposers including Mussorgsky, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov. Unfortunately the work didn't ever receive a performance howevert...

Die mehr als 600 Lieder von Franz Schubert gehören zum absolut Besten des Genres Lied. In vielen Liedern, so auch in Der Tod und das Mädchen, gehen Gedicht und Musik eine besondere Symbiose ein. Schub...

In Mondriaan, composer Johan de Meij, producer Rob Hauser and saxophone virtuoso Henk van Twillert are taking their audiences on an adventure of sound, light and movement. The music leads us through v...

Wind Poweris a powerful overture for concert band, commissioned on behalf of a company that specialises in renewable solar and wind energy. So, from wind power to wind music, the piece contains five s...

Wind Power is a powerful overture for concert band, commissioned on behalf of a company that specialises in renewable solar and wind energy. So, from wind power to wind music, the piece contains five...

Sinfonietta No. 1 was originally written for brass band, commissioned by the Dutch National Championships 2011 in Groningen. It also served as the test piece for the Swiss National Championships 2011...

Sinfonietta No. 1 was originally written for brass band, commissioned by the Dutch National Championships 2011 in Groningen. It also served as the test piece for the Swiss National Championships 2011...

Cloud Factory is an industrial piece, inspired by a huge steel plant in Holland. Following an opening section that recalls the sounds of the nearby North Sea, we hear the factory locomotives, the mach...

The Catskill Mountains is a beautifully preserved region in Upstate New York, flanked to the east by the Hudson River. From the moment my Johan de Meij and his wife settled in 2008 in Saugerties, a qu...

Another award-winning composition by Johan de Meij: a spectacular orchestral adventure, exploring the endless possibilities of the note 'E' in all its different forms and appearances.

This symphony was inspired by a selection of 19th century German poetry: three poems from Friedrich Rückerts' Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) and three poems by Heinrich Heine and H...

Echoes of San Marco is the winner of the 30th Edition of the International Composition Competition in Corciano Italy. It is based on one of Giovanni Gabrieli's canzones for two four-part brass choirs,...

Echoes of San Marco is the winner of the 30th Edition of the International Composition Competition in Corciano Italy. It is based on one of Giovanni Gabrieli's canzones for two four-part brass choirs,...

The Painted Bird, the controversial novel by Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), tells the story of a Jewish boy during World War II. For his safety, the child was sent to the Polish countryside by his parent...

The Painted Bird, the controversial novel by Jerzy Kosinski (1933-1991), tells the story of a Jewish boy during World War II. For his safety, the child was sent to the Polish countryside by his parent...