Christmas Concert Works for Band

'L'Orfeo', sometimes called 'La favola d'Orfeo', is a late Renaissance/early Baroque 'favola in musica', or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is base...

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893-1962) was an English conductor and composer. Besides his career as a conductor, Goossens was also a skilled composer, completing nearly seventy works including chambe...

Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens (1893-1962) was an English conductor and composer. Besides his career as a conductor, Goossens was also a skilled composer, completing nearly seventy works including chambe...

Iolanthe was the seventh collaboration between librettist William Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Both men were "at the top of their game" for this venture and this operetta is well known fo...

Iolanthe was the seventh collaboration between librettist William Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Both men were "at the top of their game" for this venture and this operetta is well known fo...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

The third movement, "Allegretto grazioso", of Dvorák's eighth symphony is a melancholic 'sweet and languid" waltz in 3/4 time, which at the end changes into a more Bohemian folk dance in 2/4 time. The...

The third movement, "Allegretto grazioso", of Dvorák's eighth symphony is a melancholic 'sweet and languid" waltz in 3/4 time, which at the end changes into a more Bohemian folk dance in 2/4 time. The...

Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas. The Cavatina 'Largo al factotum' is sung by Figaro, the barber of Sevilla, in the first act of the opera: he tells...

Pablo de Sarasate was not only a great violinplayer but a composer as well and because of that it's quite logic that the violin plays an important role in his work. The Carmen Fantasy, together with Z...

Max Reger (1873 -1916), was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. Between 1904 and 1912 Reger composed the "Schlichten Weisen" op. 76, 60 songs in 6 volumes. One of th...

Max Reger (1873 -1916), was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. Between 1904 and 1912 Reger composed the "Schlichten Weisen" op. 76, 60 songs in 6 volumes. One of th...

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...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

'Le Nozze di Figaro' is one of the three opera's which Mozart composed on libretto's of Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838) the famous Viennese theaterdirector and courtpoet. The 'Canzonetta sull'aria' is su...

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 -1749) was a German composer. He enjoyed an outstanding reputation in his lifetime. Shortly after his death some of his compositions were still performed, and Friedric...

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 -1749) was a German composer. He enjoyed an outstanding reputation in his lifetime. Shortly after his death some of his compositions were still performed, and Friedric...

Vincenzo Bellini is one of the great composers of the bel canto era. The role of Norma was one of the favourites of the legendary soprano Maria Callas. (2 Sopranos and Concert Band)

Emmerich Kalman most beloved operetta Die Csardasfürstin had its first performance at the Vienna Johann Strauss-Theater in November 1915. Only in the German speaking countries it was performed 5000 ti...

Sergei Prokofiev wrote the 'Overture on Hebrew Themes', Op. 34, in 1919 while he was in the United States. It is scored for the rare combination of clarinet, string quartet and piano. Fifteen years la...

Sergei Prokofiev wrote the 'Overture on Hebrew Themes', Op. 34, in 1919 while he was in the United States. It is scored for the rare combination of clarinet, string quartet and piano. Fifteen years la...

Emmerich Kalman most beloved operetta Die Csardasfürstin had its first performance at the Vienna Johann Strauss-Theater in November 1915. Only in the German speaking countries it was performed 5000 ti...

The Ballet Gayaneh was composed by Aram Khachaturian in 1940 for the Direction of Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre of Leningrad.In this ballet there is the Sabre Dance about which the same Aram Khachatu...