Baton Music

One of the musical highlights from Franz von Suppé's operetta 'Boccaccio' is the aria 'Hab'ich nur dein Liebe' wich is sung by Fiametta. It's a beautiful tiny subdued aria which has become repertoire...

One of the musical highlights from Franz von Suppé's operetta 'Boccaccio' is the aria 'Hab'ich nur dein Liebe' wich is sung by Fiametta. It's a beautiful tiny subdued aria which has become repertoire...

Johann Strauss's (1825-1899) ninth operetta 'Eine Nacht in Venedig' (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. Dutch arranger Jos van de Braak transcribed the complete c...

Rückert-Lieder is a song cycle of five Lieder for voice and orchestra or piano by Gustav Mahler, based on poems written by Friedrich Rückert. Dutch arranger Jos van de Braak transcribed the complete c...

In 1915 Sergei Rachmaninov composed the 'Fourteen Songs' opus 34. The last song of this set is the 'Vocalise'. Written for high voice (soprano or tenor) with piano accompaniment, it contains no words,...

El carnaval de los animales es una suite musical humorística de catorce movimientos del compositor francés Camille Saint-Saëns. "Le Cygne" es el decimotercer movimiento de la suite, originalmente comp...

Die Zauberflöte no es una romántica historia de amor, sino una auténtica parábola: una semblanza del esfuerzo humano superior por la pureza y la superación. No se centra en el amor entre dos personas,...

Liù sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is.

The 'Romanian Christmas Carols' are comprised of original Romanian folk tunes, collected by Bartók over the course of many years, beginning in 1909. While much of his folk-inspired music used peasant...

Mozart wrote his Flute Quartet in C (KV 285a) for Flute, Violin, Viola and Cello. In this arrangement by Dutch arranger Olivier Bruning it is transcribed for Flute, Clarinet, Basset Horn and Bass Clar...

Mozart's funeral motet Ave verum corpus was composed in june 1791 for Anton Stroll, choirmaster at the spa of Baden, near Vienna. Within a tiny span the music sounds an extraordinary depth of feeling,...

Rinaldo fue la primera ópera que Georg Friederich Händel produjo para Londres y la primera ópera italiana compuesta específicamente para el escenario londinense. Aún hoy sigue siendo una de sus óperas...

Thomas Augustine Arne (1710 -1778) was an English composer. He is best known for his patriotic song 'Rule, Britannia!', which has become a second national anthem to 'God Save the Queen', and the song...

The 'Music for the Royal Fireworks' (HWV 351) is a suite for wind instruments composed by Georg Friederich Händel in 1749 under contract of George II of Great Britain for the fireworks in London's Gre...

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...

Several years before he finished his first opera, Giacomo Puccini composed a number of smaller orchestral works and some chamber music as well. Between 1881 and 1993 he composed six string quartets in...

March (from the Opera Scipione) by Georg Friedrich Händel, Wedding March (from A Midsummer Night's Dream) by Felix Mendelssohn, Wedding March ((from the Opera Lohengrin) by Richard Wagner, Trumpet Vol...

The Italian Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) may have been the first to embody the tradition of the sheperds music, the Pastorale in orchestral music. In this transcription special attention has to be gi...

The music to the drama Masquerade consists of 14 pieces, mostly dances. Using five out of these 14 numbers Aram Khachaturian composed an orchestral suite and in this transcription for symphonic band t...

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897-1948) fue un músico, compositor y periodista uruguayo. En 1916 compuso "La Cumparsita", que se interpretó por primera vez en público en el antiguo Café "La Giralda" de Mo...

Johann Strauss, the King of Waltzes, toured the world like a gypsy and his successful tours to St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris and New York helped to popularise his waltz music. What difference...

The 'March Opus 99' was composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943-44 for a Soviet military band and first broadcast on the radio from Moscow on April 30, 1944. It is not a typical march, but rather a livel...

The 'March Opus 99' was composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943-44 for a Soviet military band and first broadcast on the radio from Moscow on April 30, 1944. It is not a typical march, but rather a livel...

Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. His popularity was overshadowed by that of hi...