Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Revueltas composed his score for Chano Urueta's film La noche de los mayas ("The Night of the Mayas") in 1939. It was edited to a concert suite by Ives Limantours some twenty years after the composer'...

The Hungarian Dances (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. The 5th dance is probably the most ce...

The Hungarian Dances (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. The 5th dance is probably the most ce...

The Hungarian Dances (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. The 5th dance is probably the most ce...

The Hungarian Dances (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. The 5th dance is probably the most ce...

As many may be aware, Emile Waldteufel rivaled Johann Strauss II in the genre of the waltz. But unlike Strauss, many of Waldteufel's popular waltzes were arrangements of folk themes or themes by other...

As many may be aware, Emile Waldteufel rivaled Johann Strauss II in the genre of the waltz. But unlike Strauss, many of Waldteufel's popular waltzes were arrangements of folk themes or themes by other...

The work of the Russian composer Anatol Liadov (1855-1914) is characterized by bizarre humour, originality, precision and imagination. Kikimora is a fairy tale for orchestra by Liadow about a female h...

The work of the Russian composer Anatol Liadov (1855-1914) is characterized by bizarre humour, originality, precision and imagination. Kikimora is a fairy tale for orchestra by Liadow about a female h...

The work of the Russian composer Anatol Liadov (1855-1914) is characterized by bizarre humour, originality, precision and imagination. Kikimora is a fairy tale for orchestra by Liadow about a female h...

The work of the Russian composer Anatol Liadov (1855-1914) is characterized by bizarre humour, originality, precision and imagination. Kikimora is a fairy tale for orchestra by Liadow about a female h...

Entry March of the Boyars, composed in 1895 by the Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen, has been a popular orchestral favorite ever since and one of the best-known examples of Scandinavian orchestral m...

Zu den brillanten 'Danzas Fantasticas' wurde der spanische Komponist Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) durch die Erzählung 'La Orgia' von José Mas inspiriert. Das Werk ist dreisätzig, jeder Satz ist in einem...

Zu den brillanten 'Danzas Fantasticas' wurde der spanische Komponist Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) durch die Erzählung 'La Orgia' von José Mas inspiriert. Das Werk ist dreisätzig, jeder Satz ist in einem...

Danzas Fantásticas by spanish composer Joaquín Turina is a brilliant, wholly Spanish piece and his best-known work. It is inspired by the novel "La Orgía" by José Mas. The work does have three movemen...

Danzas Fantásticas by spanish composer Joaquín Turina is a brilliant, wholly Spanish piece and his best-known work. It is inspired by the novel "La Orgía" by José Mas. The work does have three movemen...

German composer Max Bruch was an enthusiastic exponent of music for solo string instruments. His Romance in F for Viola and Orchestra has long occupied a permanent place in the viola repertoire, wheth...

The opera 'Macbeth' was first performed in Florence in 1847. A second revised version was premiered in the Paris Theatre Lyrique in 1865. The chorus 'Patria oppressa' is sung at the very beginning of...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. When the industrial age dawned in the middle o...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. When the industrial age dawned in the middle o...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. When the industrial age dawned in the middle o...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. When the industrial age dawned in the middle o...

Giuseppe Verdi's opera Un Ballo in Maschera contains two famous soprano roles, strong male solo roles, fine choruses and sharp dramatic situations. And yet it is not quite as popular as some other Ver...