Concert Marches for Concert Band

Jan de Haan took as a starting point for Music for a Solemnity an old custom from the Dutch town of Hoogeveen, by which the faithful are called to church with drums. It was also inspired by the music...

Wir schlüpfen in die Haut von Miguel und reisen mit ihm nach Australien. Einigermassen entfremdet von seiner spanischen Heimat schlendert er durch das Viertel The Rocks in Sydney. Auf einem kleinen Ma...

Jacob de Haan ist zu Gast in der Region Veluwe und vertont auf seine eigene Weise das jährliche Dorffest - ganz im Zeichen des Brauchtums in Lunteren. 'Als Thema wählte ich ein niederländisches Volksl...

Es war einmal eine Frau, die hiess Maxima. Sie hatte wunderschönes langes Haar. Sie träumte immer wieder von einem Prinzen auf einem weissen Pferd. Sollte sie ihn eines Tages heiraten? Und sollte sie...

Dizzy Stratford's musical fairy tale begins like this: "Once upon a time there was a girl called Máxima. She had beautiful long hair that she could braid into heavy plaits. She kept dreaming of the pr...

The Dakota (or Sioux) Indians from the American states of North and South Dakota form the central figures in this composition. The work consists of five movements in which the culture and history of t...

Volcano is a work commissioned by the Municipal Wind Orchestra of Endingen in Germany. The three creative impulses which provided the basis for this symphonic poem are inspired by outside sources. The...

Sinfonietta consists of four movements that have no thematic or musical relationship with each other. Each movement has its own character and atmosphere, which displays a variety of qualities and poss...

Sinfonietta consists of four movements that have no thematic or musical relationship with each other. Each movement has its own character and atmosphere, which displays a variety of qualities and poss...

Ottoman Dances is a work by Jacob de Haan consisting of two dances in south-eastern European style. One of them comes from Bosnia Herzegovina and the other from Turkey. Both countries were part of the...

Guernica, eine friedliche, strategisch eher bedeutungslose Stadt im Baskenland in Spanien, ist durch einen furchtbaren Blitzangriff von Nazibombern im Jahr 1937 zum Symbol für die Sinnlosigkeit und Gr...

Singapore Rhapsody is an exciting work in two movements based on popular Malaysian folksongs. The songs that occur in the first movement are Rasa Sayang eh (a love song), Gelang Sipaku Gelang (a song...

This piece is dedicated to all the citizens who live, have lived, and will live in the US town of Algona, who commissioned the work to celebrate it's 150th anniversary. With dark-tinted tones (low dru...

This piece is dedicated to all the citizens who live, have lived, and will live in the US town of Algona, who commissioned the work to celebrate it's 150th anniversary. With dark-tinted tones (low dru...

This delightful new composition takes its inspiration from the classic French swash buckling tale of Cyrano de Bergerac and his fight to win the love of the beautiful maiden Roxane. The subject was a...

This delightful new composition takes its inspiration from the classic French swash buckling tale of Cyrano de Bergerac and his fight to win the love of the beautiful maiden Roxane. The subject was a...

This piece attempts to portray atmospheric pictures through music. The opening section evokes the somewhat misty and hazy early morning atmosphere surrounding the ancient monument. When the band reach...

This piece attempts to portray atmospheric pictures through music. The opening section evokes the somewhat misty and hazy early morning atmosphere surrounding the ancient monument. When the band reach...

The effortlessness with which Rossini wrote his melodies verges on the incredible. In over twenty years, he composed about forty operas. And who does not know the famous William Tell Overture from his...

The Chinese conceptions yin and yang represent the two contradicting principles of an object or phenomenon, such as day and night, light and dark, man and woman. In Yin Yang Serenade this can be found...