Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Flex Series, 4 Parts + Percussion

Flex Series, 4 Parts + Percussion

Den 'Danse Macabre' - zu deutsch'Totentanz' - komponierte Camille Saint-Saens zunächst für Gesang und Klavier, bevor er ihn zu einer symphonischen Dichtung für Orchester umarbeitete, in der die Solo-V...

Mit 'Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier' hat sich Ivo Kouvenhoven ein besonders schönes Choralvorspiel Johann Sebastian Bachs für seine Blasorchester-Bearbeitung ausgesucht.

Treibende Rhythmen, schwermütige, russische Volkslieder, knirschende Harmonien und ein episches Drama - Trotz der skandalösen Uraufführung des Balletts 1913 in Paris, wurde Igor Strawinskys 'The Rite...

Arranged by John Cacavas for concert band. This work is cross-scored extensively (just like the original orchestration) and may be played by bands of limited instrumentation.

Thema aus g-moll Symphonie #40; Klavierkonzert, 2.Satz; Türkischer Marsch;

This is a programmatic masterpiece! You can almost hear the breaking waves and imagine the vastness of the cave Mendelssohn encountered on his tour of the Hebrides Islands of Scotland. With numerous t...

Written in 1881, this Serenade for 13 wind instruments was written by Richard Strauss when he was only 17 years old. His father, the principal horn player with Munich's court orchestra, had a select l...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) wrote NOCTURNE for Wind Instruments (NOTTURNO), Op. 34, in 1815. While the restful quality associated today with such "night pieces" did not really become standard until the pu...

Louis Spohr (1784-1859) wrote NOCTURNE for Wind Instruments (NOTTURNO), Op. 34, in 1815. While the restful quality associated today with such "night pieces" did not really become standard until the pu...

Bruce Broughton's Concerto for Tuba was originally written as a Tuba Sonata (M158791). Each movement presents the soloist with a different technical challenge, ranging from facility to the upper regis...

Morton Gould, equally comfortable in the worlds of both "serious" and "light" music, presented his symphonettes (an Americanization of the term "sinfonietta," much like kitchenette and dinette) as wor...

Commissioned by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, this work is subtitled "A Symphonic Rhapsody for Concert Band based on Canadian Indian themes." Wapawekka, in the language of the Cree Indians, means "whit...

Commissioned by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, this work is subtitled "A Symphonic Rhapsody for Concert Band based on Canadian Indian themes." Wapawekka, in the language of the Cree Indians, means "whit...

Vivaldi originally wrote his C major concerto, RV433, for a sopranino recorder around the years 1728 and 1729. It has three movements titled: 1. Allegro 2. Largo 3. Allegro molto

Vivaldi originally wrote his C major concerto, RV433, for a sopranino recorder around the years 1728 and 1729. It has three movements titled: 1. Allegro 2. Largo 3. Allegro molto

The "Guaracha" is the Third Movement from Mr. Gould's fourth Symphonette, LATIN AMERICAN SYMPHONETTE, which is in four movements - Rhumba, Tango, Guaracha, and Conga. The "Guaracha," relatively speaki...

Clarinet Escapade by Russell Ward, is designed to present to the audience the virtuosity of the clarinet section of a concert band. The clarinet passages convey an impression of great technical diffic...

Clarinet Escapade by Russell Ward, is designed to present to the audience the virtuosity of the clarinet section of a concert band. The clarinet passages convey an impression of great technical diffic...

La Gazza Ladra, an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), was given its premier performance at La Scala, Milan, on May 31, 1817; about fourteen months after the debut of his The Bar...

La Gazza Ladra, an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), was given its premier performance at La Scala, Milan, on May 31, 1817; about fourteen months after the debut of his The Bar...

La Gazza Ladra, an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), was given its premier performance at La Scala, Milan, on May 31, 1817; about fourteen months after the debut of his The Bar...

Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow (1844-1908) has employed the lovely fable by Ostrovsky, which is set in a legendary country in pagan times, to weave a fantasy of great charm. The Snow Maiden asks her parents,...