Douglas McLain

Although some of Revueltas's music might hint at somber, ancient Indian rites (Noche de los Mayas and Sensemaya) or paint austere landscapes (Planos and Itinerarios), Caminos (1937) is one of Revuelta...

The 'Banditen-Galop (Bandit's Gallop) is a gallop which was arranged from melodies in Strauss' operetta 'Prinz Methusalem'. The title of the composition is derived from the appearance in the stage wor...

The 'Banditen-Galop (Bandit's Gallop) is a gallop which was arranged from melodies in Strauss' operetta 'Prinz Methusalem'. The title of the composition is derived from the appearance in the stage wor...

George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) fue un compositor estadounidense. Su estilo se considera "americano", pero quedó eclipsado hacia el final de su vida, cuando la música de Gershwin y Copland se h...

Victor August Herbert (1859-1924) fue un compositor, violonchelista y director de orquesta estadounidense nacido en Irlanda y criado en Alemania. Herbert fue un compositor prolífico, con una obra enor...

In 1851 Johann Strauss jr. composed the 'Albion-Polka', dedicated to Count Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. The count and his wife, Priscilla, both loved music...

A Shropshire Lad es una colección de 63 poemas del poeta inglés Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936). Los poemas hablan de la fugacidad del amor y de la juventud, del deber hacia la patria, de enfrentars...

Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen composed incidental music for the play 'Vasantasena' in 1896 while he worked as a theater conductor in Bergen. Later he selected four numbers for performance as a co...

El amor brujo es un ballet compuesto en 1914-1915 por Manuel de Falla. En 1925, el ballet cuenta la historia de amor de una gitana poseída por el espíritu de un antiguo amante. Este amante aparece en...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) was the greatest representative of the national style in Czechoslovakia. He graduated from the Prague conservatory in 1859 and worked several years as a viola player and mus...

'La danza' es una canción patter de Gioacchino Rossini, en tiempo de 'Tarantella napoletana'. Es la octava canción de la colección "Les soirées musicales", que compuso entre 1830 y 1835. "La danza" se...

La opereta "Babes in Toyland" fue compuesta por Victor Herbert (1859-1924) en 1903. En esta opereta con libreto de Glen MacDonough, varios personajes de las rimas infantiles de Mamá Ganso se entreteje...

Léon Jessel was a German composer of operettas and light classical music pieces. Today Jessel is best known internationally as the composer of 'The Parade of the Tin Soldiers' (Die Parade der Zinnsold...

As a composer, Edward MacDowell is mostly remembered for his two piano concertos, a great number of compositions for piano, several important instrumental suites and a large number of songs that were...

Souvenir de Porto Rico, Op. 31, fue escrita por Louis Moreau Gottschalk en 1857 durante una gira por Puerto Rico y publicada en Maguncia hacia 1860 con el subtítulo de "Marche de Gibaros". Se basa en...

Nochebuena es una ópera en cuatro actos con música y libreto de Rimsky-Korsakov, compuesta entre 1894 y 1895. En el tercer acto de la ópera, un coro canta las alabanzas de la Zarina en una magnífica p...

Nochebuena es una ópera en cuatro actos con música y libreto de Rimsky-Korsakov, compuesta entre 1894 y 1895. En el tercer acto de la ópera, un coro canta las alabanzas de la Zarina en una magnífica p...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif hi...

As a composer Franz Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe', (The merry widow), in 1905 made him clear that he had to gif hi...

This edition contains four traditional carols from all over Catalonia. These carols were arranged to emphasize the antiphonal aspect inherent in so much brass choir music.

German composer Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) was the 11th child of Johann Sebastian Bach. After his death, six of his symphonies where assigned to the opus number 18. Symphony No.6 actually began...

Christmas Day - a Choral Fantasy on Old Carols fue escrita en 1910, poco después de que Gustav Holst terminara los tres grupos de "Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda" y más o menos al mismo tiempo que la...

This edition contains six traditional carols from England: 'The Boar Head Carol', 'The Sussex Carol', 'What Child is this', 'Gloucestershire Wassail', 'The Coventry Carol', 'I saw three Ships'. These...