Christiaan Janssen

Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34, is the common Western title for an orchestral work based on Spanish folk melodies and written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1887. Rimsky-Korsakov originally intended to wri...

'Russian Easter Festival Overture' (La grande Pâque russe), is a concert overture written by the Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1888. It is based on themes from the 'obikhod', which is a...

Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

Felix Mendelssohn composed the Marsch in D major opus 108 to celebrate a visit of the painter Cornelius to the city of Dresden in april 1841. (Concert Band)