Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

The magnificent triumphal march which Beethoven composed as incidental music for this tragedy, and which bears the number of WoO 2a, was written for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinet, two bassoons,...

Intermezzo from act 2. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, a 20th century Venetian opera composer, drew inspiration from the styles of Mozart and Rossini, adopting the 18th century as a model. His opera "I quattro...

The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues, BWV 553-560, are a collection of works for keyboard formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach. The Prelude and Fugue in C major, BWV 553, combines features of a...

Volume 12 dedicated to Grade 1 youth bands. Designed to introduce the very young to classical music.It contains the winning piece and the pieces mentioned at the 2nd International Competition of Compo...

An easy and delightful medley that, in 7 minutes, presents to the audience some of the most famous melodies by the renowned musician from Bergamo, taken from "L'elisir d'amore," "Don Pasquale," "Lucia...

On themes from G.F. Händel's "Water Music," appropriately arranged, the author has created a typical baroque concerto in three movements, with contained difficulty. "Water Music" is a series of three...

The Carnival of the Animals was composed in 1886 and privately performed the following year during Mardi Gras. At the composer’s explicit request, the work was only performed publicly and published af...

Prelude (Carmen), Choeu des gamins (Carmen), Prelude (Suite n° 1 Arlesienne), Farandole (Suite n° 2 Arlesienne), Toreador (Carmen)

Questa semplice melodia in tonalità minore risale al tardo Rinascimento italiano, dove il tema musicale si ritrova ne 'La Mantovana', anche conosciuta come 'Ballo di Mantova' ovvero 'Fuggi fuggi fuggi...

This young, comic opera, composed in 1835 on one of Wagner's own libretti, based on a play by Shakespeare, was unsuccessful at the Magdeburg theatre in 1836 and even the composer considered it a 'sin...

Ouverture

Homage to P.I. Tchaikowsky