Christmas Concert Works for Band

The Polka 'Fata Morgana', Opus 330 was written by Johann Strauss for the grand ball of the Association of Artists in Vienna, which was held in Dianabad-Saal on 1 February 1869. All three Strauss broth...

Arturo Márquez wrote his Paisajes Bajo el signo de Cosmos (Landscapes under the sign of the cosmos) in 1993 for a retrospective exhibition of the Mexican painter Jose Maria Velasco (1840-1912) in Mexi...

After his masterpiece "The Queen Symphony", Tolga Kashif composed "The Genesis Suite" in 2011. This suite is inspired by the music of the world acclaimed English rock group Genesis and is partly Kashi...

Ruperto Chapí y Lorente (1851-1909) was a Spanish composer. He wrote a large number of symphonic, band, choral and chamber works, as well as zarzuelas and operas and is considered one of the most popu...

The String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Opus 11, was the first of Tschaikowsky's three string quartets. It was premiered in Moscow in 1871. The second movement from this quartet is the melancholic "Andan...

La Bohème was first performed in 1886 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. It soon became a staple of the operatic repertoire and has remained so ever since. Puccini had begun for the first time to speak wit...

Dvorak wrote his Prague Waltzes in December of 1879, at the request of a prestigious Prague musical society, and premiered the following January. They were written just after the first set of Slavonic...

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 aria "Dove sono i bei momenti"...

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 aria "Dove sono i bei momenti"...

Pietro Mascagni's opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana' is a tempestuous drama of adultery and revenge set on Easter Sunday in a remote Italian village. Its earthy passions, bold confrontational scenes and ric...

Pietro Mascagni's opera 'Cavalleria Rusticana' is a tempestuous drama of adultery and revenge set on Easter Sunday in a remote Italian village. Its earthy passions, bold confrontational scenes and ric...

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote concerto's for Oboe, Clarinet and Trombone and Military Band. The Concerto for Oboe (Variations for Oboe) is now edited by Marc Koninkx for the instrumentation of a modern Sympho...

The Waltz from 'The Sleeping Beauty' (Garland Waltz) is the first dance in Act one of the ballet: It is Princess Aurora's sixteenth birthday. Celebrations are already underway: the atmosphere is festi...

The Waltz from 'The Sleeping Beauty' (Garland Waltz) is the first dance in Act one of the ballet: It is Princess Aurora's sixteenth birthday. Celebrations are already underway: the atmosphere is festi...

Cavalleria Rusticana is a tempestuous drama of adultery and revenge set in a remote Italian village. Its earthy passions, bold confrontational scenes and richly melodic score set a fashion for so-call...