Schott Harmonie Serie

Best playability and musical spirit - this is what characterizes the music of Bertold Hummel who died in 2002, and why his music must be part of the repertoire of any amateur and semi-professional orc...

At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a...

At funeral or memorial services and ceremonies, the traditional, slowly marching funeral music, the Tombeau, still plays an important musical role today. In most cases, such musics were created for a...

This piece requires a smaller woodwind-brass ensemble without percussion. Penderecki composed the Fanfare for a parish fair in Poland. This short effective piece will be a pleasure to rehearse and per...

Rolf Granderath has put together a sequence of the most spirited tunes and stirring Latin American rhythms from Heinz Geese's popular children's musical 'the boat trip to Rio' (ED 6585 / ED 6586) and...

The Ragtimes & Habaneras were commissioned by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, one of the most famous Brass Bands in Great Britain. Individual scenes and short pieces of incidental music in typical Amer...

Penderecki wrote this piece for the brass section of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. A very idiomatic composition in Penderecki's characteristic style it contrasts solos for horn and for trumpet wi...

This short effective piece would be a pleasure to rehearse and perform by any wind orchestra. It begins with a simple one-part melody by the trumpets, and is gradually joined by all other parts. In th...

The tripartite work harks back to musical practice from the pre-Baroque period when wind ensembles performed compact, brief pieces in churches, on town squares and from towers. The three movements Int...

With regard to its sound-world, this is a work of tempered modernity, written for several groups of players in which the composer makes use of typical horn motifs. The Intrade is technically demanding...

With regard to its sound-world, this is a work of tempered modernity, written for several groups of players in which the composer makes use of typical horn motifs. The Intrade is technically demanding...

The title of this piece refers to the place of the world premiere, Bad Säckingen, where the members of the European Trumpet Guild gathered in November 2000. Bertold Hummel was commissioned to compose...

The title of the piece refers to the place of its premiere, Bad Säckingen. It was there that the members of the European Trumpet Guild gathered in November 2000. Bertold Hummel was asked to compose a...

This extremely effective and witty composition is now presented with extended instrumentation for a modern symphonic wind orchestra. Stravinsky's deliberately smaller original arrangement remains reco...

Ernst Toch was one of the most important contemporary composers of the late Twenties and Thirties. He was active in Berlin and after 1933, in Los Angeles. As well as being a composer he was mainly a t...

Paul Hindemith's well-known second substantial original composition for wind band. It is in every way a supreme professional musical achievement and can perhaps be described as one of the best works i...

The 'Carmina Burana' constitute the most famous and most popular choral work of the 20th century. Johan Krance has chosen 12 particularly suitable pieces from the 25 in the original score and arranged...

This is a new edition of the well-known popular character piece. Its technical and musical demands should not be under-estimated!

This is a new edition of the well-known popular character piece. Its technical and musical demands should not be under-estimated!

Penderecki wrote this work for the brass players of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In Penderecki's typical way of composing this piece is finest, highly inspired brass music.There are a horn and a...

This work was written for the Donaueschingen Musiktage of 1926 and given its first performance there together with Paul Hindemith's 'Konzertmusik' and Ernst Toch's 'Spiel' for wind band. Until a few y...

Gottfried Sonntag, a in military musician in Bayreuth, created a (concert) march from some of the central musical motifs of the 'Ring'. In those days this was a frequent way of making music from stage...

This is a new aspect of Leslie Searle's creativity; it is a march in the best English tradition. The first part is characterized by motifs referring to military signals, the melody of the Trio has a c...

Since their first publication Willy Schneider's original compositions based on Swabian folk dances have had a strong influence on form and style. This high quality, genuine folk music, free of all pop...

This is a ceremonious, sonorous work for wind band with four solo fanfares (valve fanfares) or solo trumpets. The accompanying part can also be reduced and played by a brass ensemble. It is easy to pl...