Concert Marches for Concert Band

The aria "O mio babbino caro" from Giacomo Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" is a small jewel. In the heart of the opera, young Lauretta implores her father with tender sweetness. The touching melody and pa...

This aria, also known as "Musetta's Waltz," is part of the second act of the opera. Musetta, accompanied by her current lover, meets her bohemian friends at the Café Momus. Among them is Marcello, her...

The Carnival of the Animals was composed in 1886 and privately performed the following year during Mardi Gras. At the composer’s explicit request, the work was only performed publicly and published af...

This young, comic opera, composed in 1835 on one of Wagner's own libretti, based on a play by Shakespeare, was unsuccessful at the Magdeburg theatre in 1836 and even the composer considered it a 'sin...

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,...