Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

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...

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...