Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

The Andante from the first movement of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony (often nicknamed Pilgrims' March) contains the most beautifully haunting melody supported by the simplest of bass lines and counte...

As the title suggest this work offers the young musician their first opportunity to take the stage as a soloist. The solo part of First Concerto can be played on a variety of brass or woodwind instrum...

This concert march is a tribute to the 'pioneers' in the world of brass music in the Lowlands of Netherlands, the original founders of the bands and the people who take the lead in organising the soci...

This piece was composed in the summer of 2000, on commission of the Whightull Wind Ensemble. Seaside Road is a march in two-four time. The work begins with a tempestuous sound, followed by a light pas...

A rip roaring grandioso concert march, full of wonderful melodic lines and striking rhythmic features. An extremely appealing composition for both performers and listeners alike.

John Blanken composed his traditional style concert march Liberty was composed in 2004. The first performance took place during a concert in which the theme was the struggle for independence and durin...

The opera Carmen, perhaps the best known work by Bizet, was first criticised in France because of the 'obscene libretto, ' but was soon considered a masterpiece, partly thanks to the appealing melodie...

The Latin title Ad Fontis means ?to the source?. This lively march in 2/4 time follows traditional forms of march composition with a cheerful opening followed by a somewhat more lyrical trio. This cer...

In Dublin Dances Jan Van der Roost has combined three well-known traditional Irish melodies to form an attractive medley. The medley contains Brian Boru's March, a melody made popular by world famous...

For Three Aspects of Kurt Weill Peter Kleine Schaars took inspiration from the three periods that characterise the life of Weill - he successively lived in Berlin, Paris and New York. One theme is use...

This programmatic piece tells the biblical story of the fall of Jericho. The music paints a vivid picture of the procession of armed men and seven priests marching around the city for seven days, befo...

This concert march does not begin with flourishing trumpets or loud tutti sounds: Jupiter opens refreshingly with percussion instruments and the 'high woodwinds'. This original introduction is followe...

The melody of Fascination was composed in 1905 by Dante Pilade 'Fermo' Marchetti. In the 1930s it was successfully performed in French and English and in 1957 it again became famous when it was used i...

Karl Millöcker zählt zu den Operettenkomponisten der Goldenen Wiener Ära. Sein Bettelstudent wurde im Jahre 1882 im Theater an der Wien uraufgeführt. Die mitreissenden, eingängigen Lieder und Melodien...

William Blueheart March was written in memory of all those people who devote a large part of their free time to what their hearts are most attached to: the brass band and the music club life. For the...

From the first bars the stately character of this solemn, yet celebratory, march is clearly heard. The introduction of the main theme takes place in the medium register, immediately resulting in a nob...

Mit einem flotten Marsch, zu dem ein wunderbarer Text von G. Gstettner im Trio gesungen werden kann, hat Franz Bummerl allen Egerländer-Freunden eine dankbare Komposition geschrieben. Viva bella music...

Klaas van der Woude has based his arrangement An Old Swedish Hymn on an old pastoral hymn from Dalarna. This beautiful melody even attracted ABBA as they used it as the opening music for some of their...

Like previous marches by Jan Van der Roost (Mercury, Arsenal, Helios, Minerva, Artemis, Montana...) the overall character of Apollo is rather stately and noble. Broad themes and a lyrical trio melody...

This lively, attractive march originates from one of the best-known operettas by Franz Lehár, Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), a work that brought the composer enormous success. The operetta featu...

Viterbo shares its name with a province located in the Latium region of Italy. Its landscape, a mixture of fl atland, rolling hills and lakes, contains many artefacts of the Roman Empire as well as th...

Viterbo shares its name with a province located in the Latium region of Italy. Its landscape, a mixture of fl atland, rolling hills and lakes, contains many artefacts of the Roman Empire as well as th...

Eric J. Hovi cleverly incorporates a well-known German children's song, Ich bin ein Musikante, into this march, with plenty of syncopated rhythms thrown in for good measure. The simple melody and Jan...

Albastum is a proud, stately concert march written in classic A-B-A form. It opens with a festive fanfare in the brass section, followed by a lively, bright theme, symbolising the joy of playing music...