Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

St. Louis Blues is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. It was also one of t...

St. Louis Blues is a popular American song composed by W. C. Handy in the blues style and published in September 1914. It remains a fundamental part of jazz musicians' repertoire. It was also one of t...

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is a song from the English duo Wham!, first released as a single in the UK on 14 May 1984. It became their first number one in the UK and America, and was also voted as the...

Wake Me Up Before You Go Go is a song from the English duo Wham!, first released as a single in the UK on 14 May 1984. It became their first number one in the UK and America, and was also voted as the...

I- Logos (reason)

I- Logos (reason)

This splendid, colourful concert work lets your band shine in every respect. The dreamlike beginning is followed by a dancing passage that grows increasingly impassioned and in which all groups have t...

Six Rhaeto-Romanic folk songs from Graubünden, the largest canton of Switzerland, form the basis for this splendid piece by Oliver Waespi. The composer reproduces these melodies almost verbatim and wo...

Cathedrals have always appealed to the imagination. Hundreds of years of manpower have been invested in their building and it is not for nothing that today they represent imposing symbols of architect...

The sun glides over the white-blue rock, the glaring back-light on the snowflakes whisked up by the wind, mirror-images in waterfalls and ice-fields, glaciers veined with moraines, further on the dark...

10W-60 is the name of an engine oil that is entirely synthetic, has a very long life and is used mainly in vehicles from which high performance is required. In this way the composer makes the link wit...

Debussy wrote his 'Préludes' for piano between 1909 and 1913. He composed 24 in all, divided equally between two books. He thought of the 'Préludes' as separate pieces of music, so they did not necess...

10W-60 is the name of an engine oil that is entirely synthetic, has a very long life and is used mainly in vehicles from which high performance is required. In this way the composer makes the link wit...

Naoya Wada's style is characterised by a positive and optimistic undertone. This is also the case in this composition, with the expressive title Towards the Bright Future. The opening fanfare is playe...

Townscape was composed for the centenary of the St. Cecilia concertband from Oudenburg, a town which also inspired the composer throughout this work. The first part depicts a train slowly approaching...

The Norwegian composer Morten J. Wallin dedicated 'New Horizons' to his three children, of 8, 20 and 23 years old. Each of them lives in a world of their own and is at a different stage of life, with...

Biberussa', the old name of the small town of Beverst in Belgium, is a combination of the words 'biber' and 'ussa', meaning beaver and river. This concert march was composed for the 100th anniversary...

The Norwegian composer Morten J. Wallin dedicated 'New Horizons' to his three children, of 8, 20 and 23 years old. Each of them lives in a world of their own and is at a different stage of life, with...

The Via Aurelia is a Roman road that runs from Rome to Pisa. The construction of this long route started in the third century BC and was used to reach the town of Cosa (now Ansedonia), which the Roman...

The Via Aurelia is a Roman road that runs from Rome to Pisa. The construction of this long route started in the third century BC and was used to reach the town of Cosa (now Ansedonia), which the Roman...

In Caledonia, Oliver Waespi adapted three well-known Scottish folk songs into a rhapsodic suite for wind orchestra. The first, rather humorous song, The Devil Came Fiddling Through the Town, tells the...

It Takes Two was a huge hit when it came out in 1965, perhaps one of Marvin Gaye's biggest ever. The lyrics talk about how it is easier to pursue dreams together with someone else rather than by yours...