Beriato Concert Works

Theme and Variations is another brilliant test piece from the pen of Oliver Waespi, one of the most popular brass band composers of today. It is a challenging but rewarding piece which offers plenty o...

This piece tells the story of a conflict between the communities in the valleys around Sörenberg, a village in Entlebuch in the Swiss canton of Lucerne. An old legend from the 14th century tells of an...

Sinfonietta No. 3 was commissioned by the Association Suisse des Musiques (ASM) for the Fête Fédérale des Musiques in Montreux in 2016. It's a challenging and energetic piece in which lyrical material...

Hypercube is a musical narrative partly inspired by the architecture of the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris whose shape has been compared to a hypercube. With this landmark building as a starting...

Sinfonietta No. 3 was commissioned by the Association Suisse des Musiques (ASM) for the Fête Fédérale des Musiques in Montreux in 2016. It's a challenging and energetic piece in which lyrical material...

Friendly Takeover was composed for the 2016 Swiss Wind Band Convention in Montreux. In this three movement piece the composer experiments with lyrical motives combined with rhythmical pulses in differ...

Hypercube is a musical narrative partly inspired by the architecture of the Grande Arche de la Défense in Paris whose shape has been compared to a hypercube. With this landmark building as a starting...

The attacks in Brussels on 22 March 2016 created a shockwave throughout Belgium and the rest of the world. Equally, the attacks in Paris and Nice led to great public indignation, fear and disbelief. W...

Tracing Time was commissioned by the WMC Kerkrade Foundation in cooperation with the Foundation of Friends of WMC for the 2017 World Championships in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. The musical material of...

Ragnarök - The Final Destiny of the Gods re-tells parts of the Götterdämmerung from Norse mythology. The work is not a literal musical presentation of the myth, but the end of the world and its subseq...

In Nordic mythology, Ragnarök is the downfall of the gods and of the world, which takes place as a kind of battle between giants and gods. Under the flaming sword of the god of fire, everything is lai...

Jubilance was written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Xinmin Senior School in Singapore. Appropriately for the occasion, the composition is a festive, virtuoso and dynamic op...

The Celtic poem The Voyage of Bran was the inspiration for this fantasy work by Bert Appermont. The subject of this composition is Febal, who - together with his companions - travels to the 'otherworl...

Audivi Media Nocte is based on the eponymous motet by Thomas Tallis from the 16th Century - a work that holds great fascination for Oliver Waespi. During the process of composition, various chord sequ...

The eagle has always held a high symbolic value. It stands for freedom, dignity and pride in one's own country. In Hermann Pallhuber's Golden Eagle, the music describes the flight of the eagle along t...

New Ways was written for the dedication of the new high-speed train line in Austria. The 'New Ways' of the title is a comparison between a journey in an ultramodern train with that of a ride in an old...

Naoya Wada composed Homeward Voyage, which he wrote for a school wind band in his homeland, to express the emotions that always overwhelm him when travelling from Tokyo to his birthplace. Homeward Voy...

The Curiosity is an unmanned spacecraft that has been exploring Mars since 2011. Controlled remotely from the Earth, it sends back ever more information about the distant planet. Filip Ceunen depicts...

The Allschwil music school in Switzerland commissioned this composition to appeal to young people and awaken in them an enthusiasm for music. Sven Van Calster, who is known for his graceful melodies a...

In Celtic Voyage, Sven Van Calster has set the 90th anniversary of the commissioning orchestra to music in a Celtic ambience. Along with numerous wonderful memories and experiences, 90 years is bound...

Glistening, rushing creeks, clear calm mountain lakes, strange little trickles-the elixir of life, water, appears in many forms. Hermann Pallhuber presents the contrast between the danger and beauty o...

Sven Van Calster vertonte in Celtic Voyage das 90-jährige Bestehen eines Blasorchesters mit keltisch anmutenden Klängen. Neben zahlreichen schönen Erinnerungen und Ereignissen ereigneten sich in 90 Ja...

Voyage Into The Blue was commissioned by the Windbands of Mizumaki Minami Junior High School, Koyo Junior High School and Fukuma Junior High School bands performed the work in a competition. The picto...

Who among us hasn't experienced the great power that lies in the tranquillity and beauty of the mountains-wide meadows, rugged cliffs, wild, romantic gorges, thundering waterfalls and idyllic mountain...

This composition was inspired by the adventure novel Treasure Island by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The music does not recount the tale verbatim, but rather sketches particular events and...