Christmas Concert Works for Band

Tosca' might be described as a thriller with political overtones it shows its hero and heroine, the singer Floria Tosca and the painter Mario Cavaradossi, caught up in and eventually destroyed by the...

Joseph Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) last solo concerto was composed to help with an experiment: in an effort to break through the Trumpet's limitations Anton Weidinger - a Trumpeter of the Vienna Court...

Joseph Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) last solo concerto was composed to help with an experiment: in an effort to break through the Trumpet's limitations Anton Weidinger - a Trumpeter of the Vienna Court...

Carmen' is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment. The aria 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle', also named the Habanera is...

Reverie is one of Scriabin's earliest orchestral works, dating from 1898. Its languid movement and drifting chromatics straight away establish the atmosphere of dreamy sensuality, which permeates so m...

Reverie is one of Scriabin's earliest orchestral works, dating from 1898. Its languid movement and drifting chromatics straight away establish the atmosphere of dreamy sensuality, which permeates so m...

In the third act of Charles Gounod's Opera Faust, Marguerite sings her famous Jewel Song 'Ah! Je ris' when she looks satisfied to herself in the mirror and to the box with jewels which Faust gave her...

In the third act of Charles Gounod's Opera Faust, Marguerite sings her famous Jewel Song 'Ah! Je ris' when she looks satisfied to herself in the mirror and to the box with jewels which Faust gave her...

In 1926-1928 Mossolov composed the ballet Stal (steel) intending to glorify the time of industrialization. He wanted to express the feeling of the new industrial, urbanized machine-age in a barbaric s...

In 1926-1928 Mossolov composed the ballet Stal (steel) intending to glorify the time of industrialization. He wanted to express the feeling of the new industrial, urbanized machine-age in a barbaric s...

At the very end of the opera Otello sings Nium mi tema: he bids farewell to the chill corpse of Desdemona before stabbing himself. (Tenor and Concert Band)

At the very end of the opera Otello sings Nium mi tema: he bids farewell to the chill corpse of Desdemona before stabbing himself. (Tenor and Concert Band)

In the duet Diceste questa sera le vostre preci? Otello asks if Desdemona has made her prayers and a tragedy of jealousy ends with the death of Desdemona who's strangled by Otello. (Soprano, Tenor and...

In the duet Diceste questa sera le vostre preci? Otello asks if Desdemona has made her prayers and a tragedy of jealousy ends with the death of Desdemona who's strangled by Otello. (Soprano, Tenor and...

The Italian composer Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) finished his masterpiece Otello in October 1885. In the last act - after singing the Canzone del Salice (Willowsong) - Desdemona says her eveni...

The Italian composer Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) finished his masterpiece Otello in October 1885. In the last act - after singing the Canzone del Salice (Willowsong) - Desdemona says her eveni...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

The French composer Ambroise Thomas composed his Opera Hamlet in 1868. The Choeur des Comediens et Chanson Bachique is a part of the second act: Hamlet, son of the Danish King, has invited a group of...

Carmen' is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment.The aria 'Je dis que rien ne m'epouvante' is sung by Micaela in the th...

The Aria Un baccio di mano (A handkissing) was conceived in May 1788 in Vienna for the singer Francesco Albertarelli as part of the opera Le Geloise fortunate from the Italian composer Pasquale Anfoss...

The Aria Un baccio di mano (A handkissing) was conceived in May 1788 in Vienna for the singer Francesco Albertarelli as part of the opera Le Geloise fortunate from the Italian composer Pasquale Anfoss...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...