In this three-part piece, Peter Kleine Schaars uses the initials of the German concert band association otherwise known as the Bund Deutscher Blasmusikverbände (BDB). With 'B' equating to a B flat, va...
Pop City combines pop and funk music, and has been composed in the style of a film or television theme tune. It was commissioned by the municipal wind band of Phalempin (France), and represents the vi...
The powerful, dynamic number Gospel John, by the versatile American composer, producer and music educator Jeff Steinberg, is known in particular through performances by Maynard Ferguson. In his versio...
Antonin's New World is an excellent piece of musical theatre featuring a comedy act for triangle soloist and band. The music itself does not sound comical, being based on Anton Dvorak's Symphony in E...
Latin ABC is a suite in three movements inspired by the music of the Caribbean. The first movement is a joyful Curaçaon waltz, the second movement a sensual, slow salsa: a style that is popular on the...
As with his march Fresena, Jacob de Haan assimilated a well-known folksong from his province of birth (Friesland) into this swinging composition. Both works originate from a festival suite that he onc...
The Andante from the first movement of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony (often nicknamed Pilgrims' March) contains the most beautifully haunting melody supported by the simplest of bass lines and counte...
This programmatic piece tells the biblical story of the fall of Jericho. The music paints a vivid picture of the procession of armed men and seven priests marching around the city for seven days, befo...
Supernova is an energetic piece in a pop style that inspires joy and good humour, its rhythm giving it an exceptionally lively and festive character. Its theme is renewal, rebirth and solidarity in th...
