Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Puccini composed 'Manon Lescaut' between 1889 and 1892. The libretto, which is based on the novel 'L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut' by Antoine François Prévost, went through a d...

Béla Bartók (1888 - 1945) showed from the beginning of his career an interest in popular music. He began studying music at the age of five and eventually focused on composition and piano. He collected...

Excerpts from: Dichter und Bauer (F. von Suppé), Zigeunerbaron (J. Strauss), Fra Diavolo (D. Auber), Die Fledermaus (J. Strauss), Les Contes d'Hoffmann (J. Offenbach), Leichte Kavallerie (F. Von Suppé...

The opera Gli Orazi e i Curiazi by Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801) was performed in Venice in 1796 and was the most successful of his compositions belonging to the serious genre. The Overture consists...

The Russian Easter Overture is a symphonic overture by the renowned Russian teacher and composer Nicolaj Rimskij-Korsakov (1844-1908), especially well-known for his skills in orchestration. Composed b...

The titleThis famous Wagnerian piece, taken from his opera 'Tannhäuser', adapts well the expressive abilities of a woodwind orchestra. The splendid transcription by Lorenzo Pusceddu for a symphonic ba...

The titleTchaikovsky 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...

The piece''Die Walküre'' (the Valkyries) is the second of the four works that make up the 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' (The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered in Munich in 1870. The 'Ride of the Valkyri...

The pieceNabucco was Giuseppe Verdi's third opera and the one that established his reputation as a composer. It premiered in 1842 at the Teatro La Scala in Milan. One of Verdi's best-loved choruses is...