Concert Marches for Concert Band

As a composer Franz Lehar started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta Die lustige Witwe, (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif his...

The trio 'so muss allein ich bleiben' from the operetta Die Fledermaus is sung in the first act: Gabriel von Eisenstein is due to leave for prison and his wife Rosalinde acts to be sad about it. Meanw...

Im Feuerstrom der Reben is the very final of the second act of the Operetta Die Fledermaus. (Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Tenor, Choir and Concert Band)

'O Fledermaus, o Fledermaus' is the very final of the Operetta 'Die Fledermaus'. (2 Sopanos, 2 Mezzo Sopranos, 2 Tenors, 2 Baritones, Choir and Concert Band)

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Complete transcription by Erik Somers of Tolga Kashif's masterpiece The Queen Symphony. Performance material only for hire (www.batonmusic.nl)

Brüderlein und Schwesterlein is the very final of the second act: at the end of Prince Orlofsky's party Dr. Falke proposes to sing a song of praise to the brotherhood of the assembled company. (2 Sopa...

Täubchen das entflattert ist is the very beginning of Die Fledermaus: At Eisenstein's house the singer Alfred, in love with Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde, is heard serenading Rosalinde. Adele, the maid,...

Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, the composer conducted the orchestra of...

Scherzo d'apres une ballade de Goethe Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, t...

George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

Die lustige Witwe, composed by Franz Franz Lehar is one of the absolute highlights in the whole operetta-repertoire. The duet Lippen schweigen - Love unspoken - is a waltz in a very romantic. This tra...

Die lustige Witwe, composed by Franz Franz Lehar is one of the absolute highlights in the whole operetta-repertoire. The duet Lippen schweigen - Love unspoken - is a waltz in a very romantic. This tra...

The African-American ragtime composer Scott Joplin composed his opera Treemonisha in 1910 but it was not performed in its entirety until 1970, when the piano score was rediscovered. The music of Treem...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The polka-mazurka Stadt und Land, Opus 322 is a beautiful example of S...

Karl Millöcker (1842-1899) was one of Johann Strauss II's greatest rivals in his lifetime, but his music is almost unknown in England. Der Bettelstudent (The Beggar Student) is an operetta in three ac...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Tenor ana Concert Band. Paganini was the first Lehar operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Pagan...

Paganini was the first Lehar operetta written for Richard Tauber's voice and thus the beginning of a unique composer/artist partnership.Set in Italy in 1806, the story of Paganini tells of the legenda...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

As many may be aware, Emile Waldteufel rivaled Johann Strauss II in the genre of the waltz. But unlike Strauss, many of Waldteufel's popular waltzes were arrangements of folk themes or themes by other...

'Tristsch Tratsch' was a satirical magazine in Vienna in. In 1858 it printed a profile of Johann Strauss: it was feared, said the report, that Strauss' concert seasons in Russia and the development of...

Jon Lord (1941 - 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with "Deep Purple", as well a...