Baton Ensemble

The Passacaglia is a composition on a recurring bass line with ever-new variations in the melody voices. Falconiero's Passacaglia from Il Primo Libro was original written for three instruments and bas...

picc. trp, 2 trp, flugel hrn, 4 hrn, 3 trb, baritone, tuba, perc., harp The highlights of Saint-Saens oeuvre are the Organ Symphony (1866) and the opera 'Samson et Dalila' (1877). With its familiar st...

The highlights of Saint-Saëns oeuvre are the Organ Symphony (1866) and the opera Samson et Dalila (1877). With its familiar story and many stretches of vigorous and appealing music Samson et Dalila ha...

Instrumentation solo trumpet, picc. trp, trp, flugel hrn, 4 hrn, 3 trb, baritone, tuba 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia' (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. Based on an excellent play by Beauma...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...

'Die Zauberflöte' isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indi...

'Idomeneo, re di Creta' is an opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The duet 'S'io non moro a questi accenti' is sung by Ilia and Idamante at the beginning of the 3rd act. In this duet they sing abo...

'Idomeneo, re di Creta' is an opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The duet 'S'io non moro a questi accenti' is sung by Ilia and Idamante at the beginning of the 3rd act. In this duet they sing abo...

Liù sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is.

Liù sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is.

A relatively small number of Antonio Vivaldi's solo concerto's are those (3) written for ‘flautino', a ‘little flute' or high-pitched recorder that is the equivalent of today's piccolo. One of these c...

A relatively small number of Antonio Vivaldi's solo concerto's are those (3) written for ‘flautino', a ‘little flute' or high-pitched recorder that is the equivalent of today's piccolo. One of these c...

Mozart wrote his Flute Quartet in G (KV 285a) for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello. In this arrangement by Dutch arranger Olivier Bruning it is transcribed for Flute, Clarinet, Basset Horn and Bass Clar...

Mozart wrote his Flute Quartet in C (KV 285a) for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello. In this arrangement by Dutch arranger Olivier Bruning it is transcribed for Flute, Clarinet, Basset Horn and Bass Clar...

Mozart composed along with the divertimenti in D (KV 136) and B-flat (KV 137) the divertimento in F (KV 138) in early 1772. He wrote these as a string quartet but his father Leopold Mozart gave them t...

'Le tombeau de Couperin' is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917, in six movements based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the m...

Le tombeau de Couperin is a suite for solo piano by Maurice Ravel, composed between 1914 and 1917, in six movements based on those of a traditional Baroque suite. Each movement is dedicated to the mem...

'Lyric Pieces' (Norwegian: Lyriske stykker) is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 (Op. 12) to 1901 (Op. 71). The colle...

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a well-known piece written for solo piano by Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under...