Christmas Concert Works for Band

Ouverture

Homage to P.I. Tchaikowsky

Probably the most popular song dedicated to summer. Written by George Gershwin in 1933 and then inserted in the work "Porgy and Bess". Summertime is the lullaby sung by Clara at the beginning of the f...

This famous melody by Jeremy Clarke has been orchestrated in a simple but effective manner by Antonella Bona. The part for the two solo trumpeters is offered without embellishments, to render it easie...

Giuliano MOSER has carried out a transcription from the evocative Adagio in Mozart's famous Concerto K 622. An essential work for all bands that have a good solo clarinettist available.

Michele Netti carried out the transcription of this cornerstone of clarinet literature, composed by Karl Maria von Weber.

Inspired by William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, Charles Gounod's opera, 'Roméo et Juliette', was first performed at the 'Théâtre Lyrique' in Paris on 27 April 1867. It was the only opera b...

Tchaikovsky composed this ballet between 1875 and 1876. Its premiere, in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was a flop. New productions were staged in Moscow, in 1880 and 1882, but these were no m...

In the summer of 1818 the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was employed by Count Esterházy to teach music to his two daughters at their home in Hungary. To teach the two young countesses,...