Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

This 1983 hit performed by Queen became a huge success not only because of the universal meaning of the lyrics, but also because of the iconic official video. The Austrian composer and arranger Thomas...

The story of the Gipsy Kings is remarkable, and their sound - a fusion between Spanish flamenco and Cuban rumba - conquered the world in the 1980s. Amongst their most famous hits is 'Bamboleo', from 1...

Each summer has its stand-out hit. 2019 was without doubt the summer of Señorita by Camila Cabello and Sean Mendez. Want to feel good and hear a melody that'll get stuck in your head in the best way p...

Ironic is the best-known song by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette. This appealing hit from the 90's, which garnered success worldwide, attracted extra attention with its charm...

Deep Purple are one of the most famous rock bands of all time. This medley is an essential piece of Concert Band repertoire. Keep on rocking with this powerful arrangement which includes Burn, Highway...

Gilbert O'Sullivan rose to fame in the 1970s. Dressed in his cap and golfing trousers he sat at the piano and sang charming and cheerful songs. Roland Kernen has produced this arrangement of Matrimony...

Bring the ultimate 90s cult classic to the concert stage! With "I Want It That Way," the Backstreet Boys delivered one of the greatest pop hits of all time – a timeless anthem with an instantly recogn...

Stevie Wonder is an outstanding lyricist, composer and musician. He mixes African-American traditions with rhythm, blues and rock to soul music like no other. Songs such as You Are the Sunshine of My...

Der einzigartige Sound der vom Jazzschlagzeuger Maurice White gegründeten Gruppe Earth, Wind & Fire machte die Band zu einer der einflussreichsten Soul- Gruppen der Siebziger. Dieses Medley von Peter...

In 1958, Domenico Modugno (1928-1994) song Nel blu dipinto di blu (or Volare) was the Italian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest. Modugno did not win the contest (he became third) but the song - a t...

Bohemian Rhapsody was a massive worldwide hit for the pop group Queen. It topped the charts in 1975 and again in 1991 and 1992. The song is somewhat unusual for a pop hit as it is in the style of a ro...

Simply the Best was first performed by the little known Bonnie Tyler in 1988, but did not gain wide-spread popularity until Tina Turner recorded it barely one year later. The song has become one of Ti...

Simply the Best was first performed by the little known Bonnie Tyler in 1988, but did not gain wide-spread popularity until Tina Turner recorded it barely one year later. The song has become one of Ti...

Gotthard are one of the most successful rock bands to have come out of Switzerland, both on national and international platforms. In 2010 Gotthard's charismatic lead singer, Steve Lee, was tragically...

The Loco-motion was the hippest dance routine to hit the clubs in the 1960s. In contrast to many songwriters who write songs after a trend has taken off , singer/songwriter partners and couple Gerry G...

Encourage by his role model, David Bowie, British singersongwriter George Alan O'Dowd reinvented himself as a dazzling and stylishly unique artist known as Boy George. Boy George founded the group Cul...

Brian May's We Will Rock You was not Queen's biggest hit when it first came out. However, looking back it has become much more than simply a successful song. It is the group's hymn, welcomed with loud...

Stand By Me, perhaps Ben E. King's greatest hit ever, was first released in 1961 as the b-side of a single, but as it soon went to number one on the R&B charts and to number one of the pop charts, the...

It's Raining Again was pop band Supertramp's second largest hit, following closely behind The Logical Song. Thanks to Peter Kleine Schaars' arrangement, you can now perform one of Supertramp's most po...

In 1979, Dan Hartman's disco classic, Relight My Fire, occupied the top slot of the US dance charts for six weeks. In 1993, the song was back at No. 1 reworked and sung by British boyband, Take That....

Isn't she lovely' sang Stevie Wonder in 1976 on the birth of his daughter Aisha. Since the song never appeared as a single it became known chiefly through radio airplay and continues to be a much-love...

As with previous releases from Thriller, the seventh and last single provided yet another top ten hit in many countries in 1984. With the most ambitious and costliest video to date, Jackson set a new...

Just a year after the English rock band The Zutons had considerable success with Valerie in Great Britain, Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse released a cover version - a version that was funkier, more upb...

Julius Wechter wrote Spanish Flea in 1967 for the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert, who made the tune famous. The title itself might be less familiar, but the tune is known the world over...