Christmas Concert Works for Band

Den 'Danse Macabre' - zu deutsch'Totentanz' - komponierte Camille Saint-Saens zunächst für Gesang und Klavier, bevor er ihn zu einer symphonischen Dichtung für Orchester umarbeitete, in der die Solo-V...

Mit 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier' hat sich Ivo Kouvenhoven ein besonders schönes Choralvorspiel Johann Sebastian Bachs für seine Blasorchester-Bearbeitung ausgesucht.

Treibende Rhythmen, schwermütige, russische Volkslieder, knirschende Harmonien und ein episches Drama - Trotz der skandalösen Uraufführung des Balletts 1913 in Paris, wurde Igor Strawinskys 'The Rite...

Gershwin's landmark work brought elements of jazz to the symphonic stage. Featuring the main themes from this masterpiece here is a well-paced and effective setting for flexible instrumentation.

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) wrote NOCTURNE for Wind Instruments (NOTTURNO), Op. 34, in 1815. While the restful quality associated today with such "night pieces" did not really become standard until the pu...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) wrote NOCTURNE for Wind Instruments (NOTTURNO), Op. 34, in 1815. While the restful quality associated today with such "night pieces" did not really become standard until the pu...

Written in 1874, the orchestral tone poem Danse Macabre Op. 40 by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) premiered in January of 1875 and was not well received by the audience. 21st century scholar Roger Nic...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

The Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona (1896-1963) wrote many works labelled as "Afro-Cuban," and sorting them all can be difficult. While some are lost and others are scattered about, the 193...

Karelia Suite, Op. 11, No. 3: Alla marcia, arranged for band by Richard Franko Goldman, originates from Jean Sibelius's (1865-1957) Karelia music, composed in 1893 for a historical pageant celebrating...

A superb upper level showpiece for horn or euphonium. Transcribed and orchestrated by Donald Miller. Band M; Horn MA.

The most well-known of the Elgar's six marches, March No. 1 in D, was completed in July 1901. Its central melody hails from before these dates, and as Elgar told a friend, 'I've got a tune that will k...

While the original piano version of PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION remained unpublished at the time of Mussorgsky's death, the work was orchestrated by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov and published in 1886, alt...

This is an impressive and massive work for mature bands! Boyd's setting is not a simple rehashing of the famous Ravel orchestration, as Boyd remains more faithful to the bold musical language of Musso...

This transcription for band by Randy Earles (edited by the great Frederick Fennell) of Stravinsky's 1919 version of The Firebird Suite owes its existence to the incomparable school band program, long...