This work was commissioned for The Berkshire Young Musicians Trust (England), who required a testing piece for the woodwind section of their concert band. The piece opens with a strong unison passage...
The convent of St. Florian was the place of work of the upper Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. This convent, with its marvellous church, where many of Bruckner's great symphonies were composed, is si...
Otto M. Schwarz composes not only for symphonic bands, but has written the soundtracks for many films. In this piece, he describes a ride on a roller coaster. At the beginning, the cars are pulled up...
The instrumental music of the Yiddish-speaking Jews, especially those of Eastern Europe, is known as klezmer. This terminology was originally used in Jewish cultural life as the name of a musician who...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is the freestanding bell tower ('campanile' in Italian) next to the Cathedral of Pisa ('Duomo di Pisa'). This creation built by the masters Guglielmo and Bonanno Pisano can b...
Rikud' means 'dance' in Hebrew. The plural ending '-im' tells us that the title means 'Dances'. Thus, Rikudim is a suite in four movements based on Jewish dances, bearing in mind, that these are not a...
This suite tells the story of the French town 'Tulle' in the 'Nouvelle-Aquitaine'. Tulle was built on seven hills, just like Rome and Lisbon, and is beautifully situated on the river Corrèze. The firs...
This is an ancient Welsh air that was first published in 'Relics of the Welsh Bards' in 1794. Dafydd (David) Owain was a famous Welsh bard who lived on a farm called Garreg Wen (The White Rock) in Eif...
As a source of inspiration, the composer used the dazzling, impressive and beautiful world-famous St. Stephen's Cathedral-the 'Stephansdom'-in Vienna. Often seen as a national symbol of Austria, it st...
