Concert Pieces for Concert Band

Gratitude is one of Grieg's beautiful lyrical pieces, Op. 62 No. 2. Eva Knardahl made a beautiful recording that I well remember was used as background for a picture cavalcade by the Norwegian Broadca...

This Selection from Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was arranged by James Smyth. Enderby Jackson commissioned the arrangement which was used as the test piece for the third National Brass B...

The 'Rákóczi March' (Hungarian March) was the unofficial state anthem of Hungary before Ferenc Kölcsey wrote the Himnusz which is today the official national anthem of Hungary. The first version of th...

Schiller's text of 1785 was partially used by Beethoven in1824 when he did finish the 4th movement of his 9th Symphony. The melody has later been used in very many contexts. As the anthem of the Europ...

Edvard Grieg composed his 'Four Norwegian Dances, op. 35' during the summer of 1881. The second of these four dances is by far the most popular and recognizable. This short piece in ABA form has becom...

Johan August Halvorsen (1864-1935) was born in Drammen and played violin and several brass instruments. He played in both orchestra and wind bands and in 1881 he became a student at Brigademusikken in...

Brooklet' is one of the movements from Grieg's Lyric Pieces for Solo Piano opus 62. Information for the conductor: «Brooklet' is an technically advanced work for solo piano. In this arrangement, techn...

Jerker Johansson has lived in Gothenburg, on the Swedish West Coast, since 1984, and is deeply interested in the history of the country. Gothia is the most southern part of Sweden, and Gothenburg, whi...

Gustav Sparre Olsen (1903 - 1984) has a voluminous production as a composer, with orchestral works, chamber music, stage music, piano, and vocal music. His music is characterised by beautiful, lyrical...

Gustav Holst (1874-1934) was a British composer. His most famous work is the orchestra suite 'The Planets'. 'Jupiter Hymn' is an excerpt from the fourth movement named 'Jupiter'. This Young Band arra...

This Coronation March is from the opera Le Prophète (The Prophet) by Giacomo Meyerbeer and was arranged for brass band by James Smyth. The march was performed during a series of brass band events whic...

The Selection from La Figlia del Reggimento (The Daughter of the Regiment) by Gaetano Donizetti comes from the second of a series of works (No. 6 in the advertisement below) called Distin's Brass Band...

The Hippodrome Galop by H. White is No. 5 in the first of a series of works called Distin's Brass Band Scores (see advertisement below), published in 1854 by Henry Distin. These publications represent...

The Opera “The Cossacs” by Catharinus Elling is based on the Nikolai Gogol novel about Taras Bulba. “The Cossacs” was premiered in 1897 at Eldorado in Kristiania (the old name on Norway’s capitol Oslo...

This arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's famous piece "Flight of the Bumblebee" was originally written for tuba soloist (!) And concert band, commissioned by Lilleaker skoles musikkorps. The target grou...

This arrangement was written for Norwegian School Band Madlamark Skolekorps to their participation at the Norwegian Championships 2023. The arrangement will work excellent also for a wind ensemble (on...

The incidental music for William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale was composed for a radio theatre production 1938. Larsson later chose 4 of the 22 musical contributions to be included in a suite title...

This arrangement of Johann Sebastian Bach Andante from Organ Sonata No. 4 was created under the Covid times. Under the long days of isolation, I found the recording of the Islandic virtuoso Vikingur O...

Willam Henry Monk wrote the music to this psalm in 1861. It's among the most popular all over the world and it's regared as one of the most beautiful melodies ever written.

Few composers have had such an impact on Swedish music life as Tor Aulin (1866-1914). He studied violin and music theory in Stockholm 1877-83, and in Berlin 1884-86. In 1887 he founded the Aulin Quart...

Johan Svendsen (1840 - 1911) was the first great Norwegian symphonic composer, as well as one of the leading conductors of his time. Next to Edv. Grieg, he was the most prominent figure in Norwegian m...