Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

'Girl Crazy' is a musical in two act with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It had its premiere in 1930 in New York and had in the first run a total of 272 performances. The overtur...

This piece is a dramatic and rhythmically exciting overture for band. It is set in three contrasting sections: 'Ablaze,' 'Glistening,' and 'The Radiance,' each with its own character and style. Brilli...

Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23 No. 5 presents a deep, brooding atmosphere in its opening before transitioning into sweeping, lyrical sections. This arrangement for wind band maintains the i...

This short and lively overture will make a fantastic opening piece for any concert. It begins with the fanfare-like main theme played by the clarinets and saxophones, which is taken up by the whole ba...

Designed to open a Christmas concert, A Christmas Herald starts with a fanfare that introduces a lyrical theme, which eventually turns out to be a descant to Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, which is sub...

Fanfare for an Occasion was written to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the founding of Anglo Music Press, the publishing company dedicated to the works of British composer, Philip Sparke. It is a br...

In this great Disney musical a little girl, Lilo, adopts what she believes is a puppy but is what turns out to be an alien that has landed on earth by mistake. Their friendship is sealed by their mutu...

Composed in commemoration of the 2006 Football World Cup. The World Cup is a global event that only takes place every four years and that is preceded by a number of qualifying rounds. In the actual ev...

Inspired by the operas of Bellini, Saverio Mercadante created this richly contrasting overture from lyrical and dramatic moments in his own works. This arrangement offers modern concert bands access t...

Who doesn't know the famous introduction 'To boldly go where no man has gone before' at the beginning of each Star Trek sequel? Many generations grew up with Star Trek - one of the most iconic Sci-Fi...

The fanfare-like piece Freedom Forever deals with the chances and possibilities that arise with freedom and is uses two famous quotes from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and from Jean-...

Wim Stalman bases his work on the internationally known chorale Adeste Fideles - in German: Come, O ye faithful. The Call of Christmas is excellently suited as an opening work. Joyful fanfares alterna...

We proudly bring you another one of Robert van Berigen's spectacular arrangements of popular classical works, based on Franz Schubert's famous song, The Trout, Op. 32, composed in 1817. Schubert liked...

Neben dem Zigeunerbaron und Eine Nacht in Venedig ist Die Fledermaus eine der bekanntesten Operetten von Johann Strauss (Sohn). Dieses Werk, das 1874 uraufgeführt wurde, ist ein Paradebeispiel für die...

This work was commissioned by the civilian wind orchestra Shimizu il compagno, based in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, as a commemorative work for their 10th Anniversary. The world premiere...

In the summer of 2010 Dirk Brossé was appointed music director of The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. During his inauguration concert in September that year he brought a musical surprise to the cit...

On the occasion of its 850th anniversary, the Swiss municipality of Reinach (canton of Basel-Land) commissioned Gauthier Dupertuis to compose an energetic and rousing work for its wind orchestra, the...

On the occasion of its 850th anniversary, the Swiss municipality of Reinach (canton of Basel-Land) commissioned Gauthier Dupertuis to compose an energetic and rousing work for its wind orchestra, the...

Bring the sparkling charm and exhilarating elegance of Viennese operetta to your concert stage! With the world-famous Overture to "Die Fledermaus" (La Chauve-Souris), Editions Marc Reift presents a ti...

Bring the dazzling charm of Viennese operetta to your concert stage! The world-famous overture to Johann Strauss's masterpiece "Die Fledermaus" (La Chauve-Souris) bursts with infectious joie de vivre,...