Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Probably the most popular song dedicated to summer. Written by George Gershwin in 1933 and then inserted in the work "Porgy and Bess". Summertime is the lullaby sung by Clara at the beginning of the f...

This famous melody by Jeremy Clarke has been orchestrated in a simple but effective manner by Antonella Bona. The part for the two solo trumpeters is offered without embellishments, to render it easie...

Giuliano MOSER has carried out a transcription from the evocative Adagio in Mozart's famous Concerto K 622. An essential work for all bands that have a good solo clarinettist available.

Michele Netti carried out the transcription of this cornerstone of clarinet literature, composed by Karl Maria von Weber.

Inspired by William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name, Charles Gounod's opera, 'Roméo et Juliette', was first performed at the 'Théâtre Lyrique' in Paris on 27 April 1867. It was the only opera b...

Tchaikovsky composed this ballet between 1875 and 1876. Its premiere, in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was a flop. New productions were staged in Moscow, in 1880 and 1882, but these were no m...

In the summer of 1818 the Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797-1828) was employed by Count Esterházy to teach music to his two daughters at their home in Hungary. To teach the two young countesses,...

Grieg, who had a keen interest in folk melodies, managed to preserve the freshness and vitality of that music in his short pieces and fragments of bigger works. At times, besides reproducing folk song...

Edward Grieg (Bergen, 1843 -1907) is regarded as Norway's greatest composer. Music historians classify Grieg as belonging to the Norwegian 19th century national school. His art is without doubt 'naif'...

Written to honor Tsar Alexander II, who promoted the expansion of the Russian empire towards the East, this symphonic poem describes a caravan of Asian folks who cross the desert steppes of the Caucas...

Georg Friedric Haendel (1685 - 1759) studied composition, organ, harpsichord, violin, and oboe. He lived in the most musically relevant European countries of his time (Germany, Italy, England) and wor...