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...
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...
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...
Addio Napoli is a medley of well-known Neapolitan melodies, including Torna a Surriento by Ernesto de Curtis (1875-1937), Neapolitan Dance by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - which he used in hi...
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...
This march, opus 470 in Johann Strauss the Younger's oeuvre, was dedicated to the k. u. k. (Royal) Infanterie-Regiment 'Hoch und Deutschmeister No. 4' on the occasion of its 200th anniversary. In 1896...
Der Elsässer Louis Adam (1758-1848) war ein französischer Komponist und Klaviervirtuose. Er war Klavierpädagoge und Autor einer berühmten Klavierschule und Vater des Pädagogen und Komponisten Adolphe...
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...
A few flavoursome introductory bars carry the listener off to a temple garden in Manchuria in North-eastern China. Mysterious incantations of the priests in the temple and the scent of incense set the...
