Concert Band Sheet Music from Beriato Music

Commissioned by the Stadtharmonie Zurich Oerlikon-Seebach for the 2005 WASBE Conference in Singapore

Shake a Tailfeather is a song from 1963 sung by The Five Du-Tones. It was only many years later in 1980 that Ray Charles version, from the cult movie The Blues Brothers, made the song famous. This dri...

This work was commissioned by the Koninklijk Vlaams Conservatorium (Royal Flemish Conservatoire) of Antwerp and is dedicated to the flautist Aldo Baerten. Its first performance took place on 15 March...

Commissioned by the Stadtharmonie Zurich Oerlikon-Seebach for the 2005 WASBE Conference in Singapore

Shake a Tailfeather is a song from 1963 sung by The Five Du-Tones. It was only many years later in 1980 that Ray Charles version, from the cult movie The Blues Brothers, made the song famous. This dri...

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is one of the most significant 20th century Italian composers. In particular, his works 'Pini di Roma', 'Feste Romane' and 'Fontane di Roma' are very well known and his g...

The Rubicon is a river in Northern Italy which Julius Caesar crossed with his army in 49 BC in defiance of the leaders of Rome, who feared his power. A civil war against rival Pompey ensued, which cul...

Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) is one of the most significant 20th century Italian composers. In particular, his works 'Pini di Roma', 'Feste Romane' and 'Fontane di Roma' are very well known and his g...

The Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) based almost all his works on traditional Hungarian folk music, as did his contemporary and compatriot Béla Bartók. His 'Peacock Variations' (1939) are...

The Rubicon is a river in Northern Italy which Julius Caesar crossed with his army in 49 BC in defiance of the leaders of Rome, who feared his power. A civil war against rival Pompey ensued, which cul...

This new work is based on Irish folk music.

Saturnalia is a feast, in honour of Saturn, that originated in the Roman Empire (circa 800-510 BC). It was celebrated for the first time on 17 December 497 BC when the gods Saturn and Janus ruled Ital...

In addition to 15 symphonies, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) also wrote ballet music and a small number of operas. The best-known opera of this composer, who was suppressed by...

In the 15th century AD, the northern region of Portugal was hit by the plague. Legend has it that the population made a sacrifice to St. Bartholomew in the form of a special type of blessed bread, cal...

This Irish traditional song is widely known even though this tune consists of only a few bars that are repeated all the time. Bart Picqueur turned it into a lively arrangement and incorporated the the...

Simi Jadech is Hebrew for 'give me your hand'. This work was commissioned by the royal wind band 'De Heidegalm Heusden- Berkenbos', Belgium. The composer based his composition on a Jewish folk song of...

James Mangold's film 'Walk the Line' which depicts the life of rock star Johnny Cash was possibly the biggest box office success of the past year. Stef Minnebo made a selection of the best songs of th...

This classic song by songwriter Woody Payne performed by the Blues Brothers achieved world fame. In this song, a man tries to convince his wife to return to the American city of Chicago: 'Baby don't y...

This new work is based on Irish folk music.

This amusing, short piece from 'The Goonies' (1985) by Steven Spielberg, in which a gang of children is looking for a pirates' treasure, is very refreshing and virtuoso without being particularly diff...

Saturnalia is a feast, in honour of Saturn, that originated in the Roman Empire (circa 800-510 BC). It was celebrated for the first time on 17 December 497 BC when the gods Saturn and Janus ruled Ital...

This work was commissioned by the municipality of Kapelle-op-den-Bos on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of canon Jaak Muyldermans. Haexdonck is the old spelling of the present day region of 'Oxd...

In addition to 15 symphonies, the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975) also wrote ballet music and a small number of operas. The best-known opera of this composer, who was suppressed by...

In the 15th century AD, the northern region of Portugal was hit by the plague. Legend has it that the population made a sacrifice to St. Bartholomew in the form of a special type of blessed bread, cal...

Symphony No. 0 was commissioned by the Koninklijke Harmonie St. Cecilia from Zele, Belgium, on the occasion of its 175th anniversary. 'Phoenix ex cinere suo renascitur' (the Phoenix will rise from its...