Peter's Popular Collection

Somebody to Love, from rock legends Queen, is one of the most popular rock ballads of all time. Taking its inspiration from gospel choirs, the band's vocal lines were multiplied many times over to cre...

Just a year after the English rock band The Zutons had considerable success with Valerie in Great Britain, Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse released a cover version - a version that was funkier, more upb...

Julius Wechter wrote Spanish Flea in 1967 for the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert, who made the tune famous. The title itself might be less familiar, but the tune is known the world over...

All You Want for Christmas ist ein grossartiges Medley aus bekannten Weihnachts-Popsongs, die jedes Jahr zur Weihnachtszeit im Radio erklingen. Ausgewählt und zu einem peppigen Medley bearbeitet wurde...

In his capacity as staff arranger of the Royal Marine Band of the Dutch Navy this arrangement is one of the best loved by Peter Kleine Schaars' band. Elvis in Concert features the twelve greatest his...

The title track to the film of the same name was originally composed by Chuck Mangione. The well-known melody helped make this 1970's jazz and pop legend so famous and popular. Peter Kleine Schaars sk...

Queen Greatest Hits is a veritable feast of fantastic melodies from one of the worlds largest supergroups. Includes: Bohemain Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We W...

The sisters Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from West Oakland in California learned how to sing in the sixties in church where their father was a minister. At the beginning of the 1970s they entered the...

The Pointer Sisters entered the music business at the beginning of the 1970s, where they proved to have a mastery of many styles - including rhythm & blues, jazz, and country. However, they acquired i...

Encourage by his role model, David Bowie, British singersongwriter George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a dazzling and stylishly unique artist known as Boy George. Boy George founded the group Cul...

Encourage by his role model, David Bowie, British singersongwriter George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a dazzling and stylishly unique artist known as Boy George. Boy George founded the group Cul...

Queen Greatest Hits is a veritable feast of fantastic melodies from one of the worlds largest supergroups. Includes: Bohemain Rhapsody, Another One Bites the Dust, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We W...

This jazz ballad from 1930 is probably one of the most covered standards of all times. The most famous interpretation dates back from 1960, covered by the one and only Ray Charles. Since then, in 1979...

Peter Kleine Schaars' Dance Medleyis an up-beat medley containing music from three legendary dance movies from the 70's and 80's. Songs include: Grease is the Word and You're the One That I Want from...

The music collected in Movie Main Theme Miracles are surely among the most famous, popular and successful melodies in the history of film: Peter Kleine Schaars has arranged the themes from Braveheart,...

Ray Charles (1930-2004) was a multitalented and pioneering American pianist and soul singer who became very popular in the late fifties, and remained respected for his music in the decades that follow...

Richard Charles Rodgers was one of Americas best-known musicaltheatre composers. In his lifetime Rodgers wrote hundreds of songsand no less than forty Broadway musicals including The Sound of Music, O...

There have been many arrangements of Beatles' songs for various kinds of ensembles, so rather than just producing a further medley of Beatles' hits, Peter Kleine Schaars has added a new twist to them...

Phil Collins first burst onto the music scene in 1970 when he joined the rock band Genesis, not as their singer but as their drummer. In 1975 following the departure of singer Peter Gabriel, Phil Coll...

For many years Peter Kleine Schaars' jazz quartet provided sparkle and energy for various festivities and other occasions. If required the ensemble could alternate jazz repertoire with pop and latin m...

Cliff Richard ist weltweit der einzige Künstler, der in den 50er-, 60er-, 70er-, 80er- und 90er-Jahren des vergangenen Jahrhunderts in den Hitparaden stand. 2008 feierte er sein 50-jähriges Bühnenjubi...

Billy Joel lässt sich gerne von ganz verschiedenen Musikrichtungen inspirieren - von Beethoven über Ray Charles bis zu den Rolling Stones. Das spiegelt sich auch in der Vielfältigkeit seiner Songs wid...

Peter Kleine Schaars schuf dieses Medley aus vier bezaubernden Liedern von holländischen Interpreten, die über die Grenzen unseres Nachbarlandes hinaus bekannt sind: Lippen op de Mijne von Nick & Simo...

Christmas is a festival of joy, so why not celebrate this time of the year with a swinging festive piece? Christmas Surprise will both surprise and delight your audience. Peter Kleine Schaars' medley,...

Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) is the most successful musical ever put on stage in the Netherlands. Since its premiere in October 2010, which was attended by the Dutch Royal Family, this theat...