Christmas Concert Works for Band

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed the Pictures at an Exhibition in 1874 as a suite of ten piano pieces.The suite is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, and...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The complete work was premiered, with the...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The complete work was premiered, with the...

Karl Millöcker (1842-1899) was one of Johann Strauss II's greatest rivals in his lifetime, but his music is almost unknown in England. Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three ac...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World' (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonin Dvorak in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World' (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonin Dvorak in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World' (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonin Dvorak in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor 'From the New World' (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonin Dvorak in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

The Symphony No. 9 in E Minor "From the New World" (Op. 95), popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1893 during his visit to the United States from 1892 to 1895....

Jose Serrano's zarzuela La Cancion del olvido was first performed in 1916 in Valencia and until now it belongs to one of the most succesful zarzueala's in history.La Cancion del olvido has a Napoleoni...

José Serrano's zarzuela La Canción del olvido was first performed in 1916 in Valencia and until now it belongs to one of the most succesful zarzueala's in history.La Canción del olvido has a Napoleoni...

Paganini was the first Lehár operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Paganini was the first Lehár operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Horn and Concert Band. Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to per...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) is one of the greatest of all comic operas.Based on an excellent play by Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville delights audiences with its keenly sketched characters, melo...

Shosatkovich' ballet The Bolt is a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes. The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The composer himself fashioned a suite (Suite...

Shosatkovich" ballet The Bolt is a full-length ballet with three acts and seven scenes. The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory. The composer himself fashioned a suite (Suite...

With Les Pêcheurs des Perles Bizet first made his mark in 1863. Set in ancient Ceylon, this tale of friendship, love and betrayal has been performed more and more often in opera houses around the worl...

Sullivan's Operetta The Gondoliers (first staged in 1889) was the last of the wildly successful Gilbert and Sullivan productions. The exuberant Dance a Cachuca is sung towards the beginning of the sec...

Ruggiero Leoncavallo, both composer and librettist, based Pagliacci on real-life events he recalled from childhood. From these he fashioned a vivid musical play with intense passions build in the live...