Great Classics

An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube Waltz) has had more success as a concert waltz than in the original choral version: since its victorious performance at the World Exhibition in Paris (1867...

Una Furtiva Lagrima is a brilliant arrangement by Jacob de Haan, of the aria from Gaetano Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love) for concert band. The subject of this song is the powe...

The German composer Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897) wrote his Academic Fesival Overture in the summer of 1880, together with the Tragic Overture. The occasion was the honorary degree which Brahms had re...

Neben dem Zigeunerbaron und Eine Nacht in Venedig ist Die Fledermaus eine der bekanntesten Operetten von Johann Strauss (Sohn). Dieses Werk, das 1874 uraufgeführt wurde, ist ein Paradebeispiel für die...

The Austro-Hungarian composer and conductor Franz Lehár is mainly known for his operettas. Wiener Frauen (Viennese Women), from 1902, is one of the first operettas that Lehár wrote. The overture has q...

Cherubini made his Paris debut with Démophon, which premiered in 1788. Tohru Takahashi has arranged this dramatic overture for concert band, with specific parts for oboe, bassoon and saxophone among o...

Hans Christian Lumbye was born in Denmark in 1810 and has become known for his many light-hearted and airy works, most commonly waltzes, galops, polkas, mazurkas and marches. The Champagne Galop is wi...

This volume, the first in the 'Horn Masterclass Series', contains a collection of four horn quintets by Mozart and his contemporaries Wilhelm Gottlieb, Antonin Reicha and Jan Václav Stich. The CD cont...

Set of 25 choir voices.

Schubert's famous Ave Maria was originally titled Ellens dritter Gesang and was the sixth song in the Fräulein vom See song cycle (after The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott). Later the Latin prayer A...

Pie Jesu is the famous aria for soprano and orchestra from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, opus 48. Fauré (1845 - 1924) composed the work in 1887, two years after his father's death and only a short time bef...

Pie Jesu is the famous aria for soprano and orchestra from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, opus 48. Fauré (1845 - 1924) composed the work in 1887, two years after his father's death and only a short time bef...

Gioacchino Rossini was a musical prodigy, composing his first opera when he was eighteen years old. At the age of 37, after having written 39 operas in all, he almost completely stopped composing and...

Giacomo Puccini was one of the all time great opera composers and is especially famed for his wonderful, warm-blooded melodies, his colourful instrumentations, his compelling dramatics, his musical fa...

Giacomo Puccini was one of the all time great opera composers and is especially famed for his wonderful, warm-blooded melodies, his colourful instrumentations, his compelling dramatics, his musical fa...

Symphonie Fantastique, composed by Hector Berlioz, is a symphony in five movements based upon Berlioz's own experiences of disappointment in love. Tohru Takahashi's arrangement fully exploits the capa...

In 1878, on a commission from his publisher, Anton n Dvorák wrote a series of eight Slavonic dances. Modelled on Johannes Brahms' famous Hungarian Dances, although in contrast to Brahms' work, Dvorák...

Fascinated by the expressive power and spirit of the gypsy music from Hungary, Brahms used mainly traditional melodies in his Hungarian Dances as well as themes from compositions in similar musical st...

Ravel's ballet, Daphnis and Chloé, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered with the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1912. The ballet is now rarely performed, but its Suite No. 2 remains popular....

Ravel's ballet, Daphnis and Chloé, was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered with the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1912. The ballet is now rarely performed, but its Suite No. 2 remains popular....

Offenbach (1819 - 1880), who was born in Germany, moved to Paris when he was a teenage boy and remained there for much of his life. He became especially famous as a composer of numerous operettas. and...

The famous Barcarolle from Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann opens the fourth act of the opera, which takes place in Venice. For this reason Offenbach chose a barcarolle - a Venetian gondolier song wi...

This work brings fragments from three of Giuseppe Verdi's operas together in a single composition. Opening the work is the Triumphal March from Aida. Next come two notable motifs from La forza del des...

This work brings fragments from three of Giuseppe Verdi's operas together in a single composition. Opening the work is the Triumphal March from Aida. Next come two notable motifs from La forza del des...

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), composed by Johann Strauss II in 1868, is a patriotic masterpiece that praises the beauty of the Vienna Woods. This icon of Viennese music...