Medleys for Concert Band

In Norwegian Woodn't, two extremely different but equally famous melodies take turns. Initially, Morning Song from Grieg?s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 is presented followed by the melody of Norwegian Wood b...

In 1941, Khatchaturian composed a ballet soon to be known throughout the world - Gayaneh. In this piece the composer describes the landscape of his native country Armenia, and the people who tried to...

Duration: 9:00 minutes

Giacomo Puccini was one of the all time great opera composers and is especially famed for his wonderful, warm-blooded melodies, his colourful instrumentations, his compelling dramatics, his musical fa...

This work brings fragments from three of Giuseppe Verdi's operas together in a single composition. Opening the work is the Triumphal March from Aida. Next come two notable motifs from La forza del des...

Pjotr Iljitsj Tchaikovsky is famous for his fantastic moving melodies. Different to many of his other romantic Russian contemporaries, Tchaikovsky had a particular feel for the European music taste of...

Pjotr Iljitsj Tchaikovsky is famous for his fantastic moving melodies. Different to many of his other romantic Russian contemporaries, Tchaikovsky had a particular feel for the European music taste of...

The arrangement for wind orchestra of Georges Bizet's "L'Arlésienne Suite No. 2" by Franco Cesarini was created after the composer had long searched for a version of the work that would satisfy him. F...

Franco Cesarini’s arrangement for wind orchestra of Georges Bizet’s *L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2* came about after the composer had long searched for a version of the work that would satisfy him. Franco...