Peter Kleine Schaars

Much like a film score, Peter Kleine Schaars' composition paints colourful images while telling the story of the Anglo-Saxon monk, Lebuïnus. In around 768 AD, Lebuïnus founded a mission in the Dutch p...

Much like a film score, Peter Kleine Schaars' composition paints colourful images while telling the story of the Anglo-Saxon monk, Lebuïnus. In around 768 AD, Lebuïnus founded a mission in the Dutch p...

Christmas is a festival of joy, so why not celebrate this time of the year with a swinging festive piece? Christmas Surprise will both surprise and delight your audience. Peter Kleine Schaars' medley,...

In 1979, Dan Hartman's disco classic, Relight My Fire, occupied the top slot of the US dance charts for six weeks. In 1993, the song was back at No. 1 reworked and sung by British boyband, Take That....

All Together is a sparkling piece that is suitable for various playing levels, and offers the ideal motivation for young musicians within your society. Peter Kleine Schaars wrote this composition espe...

This jazz ballad from 1930 is probably one of the most covered standards of all times. The most famous interpretation dates back from 1960, covered by the one and only Ray Charles. Since then, in 1979...

In late 1950s Brazil, a new music style influenced by jazz arose out of the samba: the bossa nova. This composition by Peter Kleine Schaars sounds just like a bossa nova should sound: catchy, warm, re...

From the beginning of the Middle Ages, we have known performance practices in which the duration of the notes can differ from the actual notation. In some cases, binary written melodies were performed...

The American trumpeter, jazzbandleader and composer Quincy Jones worked with Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie before he performed as accompanist of great stars such as Frank Sinatra and Sarah Vaugha...

The American pianist and composer Howard Hoagland 'Hoagy' Carmichael was considered the creator of the so-called 'white man's blues' which he mainly used as part of the music he wrote for a series of...

The once extremely popular American group 'The Village People' released its first album 'San Francisco' in 1977. The next year two more albums came, 'Macho Man' and 'YMCA', followed in 1979 by 'Go Wes...

This is the fourth movement of the five-part suite 'Nomenclatura' commissioned by the Dutch Customs Band 'Douane Harmonie Nederland'. This movement is a quiet ballad, that could be considered as a qui...

This rhapsody for solo quintet and band has been composed especially for bands of the honour's division boasting 2 oboes, one cor anglais and 2 bassoons. The classical dance forms played by the quinte...

This is the fifth and final movement of the colourful suite 'Nomenclatura' by Peter Kleine Schaars (1962). After subsequently a salsa, a ballad, a rumba and a funk melody, here is a capricious piece c...

Here is a blues theme that is being played by all instruments at least one time throughout the composition. Fine accompaniments and a thrilling drum solo complete this composition which is a most valu...

In Four Faces of Jazz / Vier Gesichter des Jazz zeigt Peter Kleine Schaars in ebenso vielen Sätzen vier verschiedene Facetten von Jazzmusik auf: Beginnend mit Im Feeling Blue, einem Blues wie ihn ursp...

Der einzigartige Sound der vom Jazzschlagzeuger Maurice White gegründeten Gruppe Earth, Wind & Fire machte die Band zu einer der einflussreichsten Soul- Gruppen der Siebziger. Dieses Medley von Peter...

Der einzigartige Sound der vom Jazzschlagzeuger Maurice White gegründeten Gruppe Earth, Wind & Fire machte die Band zu einer der einflussreichsten Soul- Gruppen der Siebziger. Dieses Medley von Peter...

For Three Aspects of Kurt Weill Peter Kleine Schaars took inspiration from the three periods that characterise the life of Weill - he successively lived in Berlin, Paris and New York. One theme is use...

For Three Aspects of Kurt Weill Peter Kleine Schaars took inspiration from the three periods that characterise the life of Weill - he successively lived in Berlin, Paris and New York. One theme is use...

The immortal French song 'Les Feuilles Mortes' (Autumn Leaves) was composed by Joseph Kosma on a text by Jacques Prévert. Kosma worked with Berthold Brecht, Kurt Weil and Hans Eisler in Berlin before...

Weihnachten ist ein Fest der Freude - warum also nicht einmal mit einem Stück im fröhlichen Swing-Stil die schönste Zeit des Jahres feiern? Peter Kleine Schaars' flottes Medley aus den bekannten Liede...

On the 6th of April 1999, exactly 25 years after ABBA had won the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo, the musical Mamma Mia! opened in London. The funny and appealing love story, based on...