Concert Pieces for Concert Band

Intermezzo from act 2. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, a 20th century Venetian opera composer, drew inspiration from the styles of Mozart and Rossini, adopting the 18th century as a model. His opera "I quattro...

The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues, BWV 553-560, are a collection of works for keyboard formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. The Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 553, combines features of a...

Volume 12 dedicated to Grade 1 youth bands. Designed to introduce the very young to classical music.It contains the winning piece and the pieces mentioned at the 2nd International Competition of Compo...

An easy and delightful medley that, in 7 minutes, presents to the audience some of the most famous melodies by the renowned musician from Bergamo, taken from "L'elisir d'amore," "Don Pasquale," "Lucia...

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...

Prelude (Carmen), Choeu des gamins (Carmen), Prelude (Suite n° 1 Arlesienne), Farandole (Suite n° 2 Arlesienne), Toreador (Carmen)

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...