Haakon Esplo

In this little suite in three movements, your young musicians really can be creative and have fun. Of course, a story must be written about the unfortunate princess who ate pea soup and got to let a s...

The most beautiful thing is one of Jahn Teigens most popular pop ballads. It was written in 1988 together with Rolf Lovland and Ove Borochstein and went straight to the top of the Norwegian hitlists....

Emperor Suite containes three movements inspired by empires, cossacks and ancient mystique. In the first movement, Ancient Song one can hear a simple, almost hypnotic old tune. Slowly it floats away.

La obertura del concierto "Bosque infinito" se inspira en un antiguo bosque, que se alza majestuoso, envuelto en misterios y secretos. Al aventurarse en este bosque, uno nunca sabe lo que le espera. E...

La obertura del concierto "Bosque infinito" se inspira en un antiguo bosque, que se alza majestuoso, envuelto en misterios y secretos. Al aventurarse en este bosque, uno nunca sabe lo que le espera. E...

Three Hazerlnuts for Cinderella, original title 'Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel', is an East German-Czechoslovakian adventure film from 1973./The film has been shown on Norwegian Broadcasting Corpor...

Planes' is the sequel of the 'Cars'-movies which have been great successes all over the world. This time, it's all about planes, and the success is about to be repeated … The planes are the heroes of...

Disney's animated film Frost was issued in December 2013 and immediately became a success in theaters. It draws inspiration from H.C. Andersen's fairy tale 'The Snow Queen'. The story is about a brave...

Music has always been of great importance in Disney's magical world. The instrumental music and songs of the animated feature films provide a unique background and magic to any Disney story. Every Chr...

Composers Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez have once again written music for Disneys sequel film Frozen II after great success in 2013 with Frozen. Many will probably remember Let it Go which...

When Christmas Comes to Town' is one of many great songs from the movie 'The Polar Express' which came in 2004. The animated film has become a tradition to see every Christmas for many children and fa...

The populare band Vamp has once again produced a hit that tops the music charts. 'Little Bird' (Liten Fuggel) is the title track of the ninth studio album which has received wonderful reviews. With th...

The beautiful song 'Song at Winter Solstice' has within short time been highly loved by listeners all around Norway. It's performed by folk-rock band 'Hekla Stalstrenga' who released their first album...

Daylight Funk is a light, funky and catchy piece of music that will fit well for concerts with your young band throughout the year. With some challenges in leading parts and simple lower parts, this i...

Sweet Piano is an easy swing piece that is guaranteed to get the audience to feel the beat. The first part is a sweet little waltz - last part is uptempo and show.

'How I love the name of Jesus' is a psalm of David Welander. He wrote it on the train home to Lorenskog in January 1923, and completed it out overnight. It was printed in the magazine 'Krigsropet' sho...

The piece 'Procession' is ment to describe, or be used as processionmusic. Perhaps the piece can work as an official entry of the youngest in your band or maybe you want to use it in your next church...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) fue, además de Claude Debussy, el compositor más importante del impresionismo francés. El término impresionismo puede traducirse como 'impresión artística', utilizado primero...

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) fue, además de Claude Debussy, el compositor más importante del impresionismo francés. El término impresionismo puede traducirse como 'impresión artística', utilizado primero...

The movies from Disney have always included a lot of great music. 'Once Upon a Dream' was written in 1959 to the musical animation movie 'Sleeping Beauty', a movie produced by Walt Disney. It is base...

Franz Schubert wrote three 'Marches Militaires', opus 51, D. 733. This publication is the first of the three (No. 1 in D major) and one of Schubert's most famous pieces. There is some uncertainty abou...

Main theme from Vltava (Moldau) The Czech composer Bedrich Smetana belongs to the national romantic period in music history. Many of his works is what we call 'program music', music that describes spe...

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major was completed 9 March 1785, just four weeks after he wrote his D minor concerto. Andante is the second movement in the concert and has been nicknamed 'Elvira Ma...

Franz Schubert was born in Lichtental, Austria in 1797 and was 28 when he composed the Ave Maria about year 1825. The original text that was set to the song is taken from the poem 'The Lady of the Lak...