Baton Music

Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time was not very successful in writing music for the stage. He had no difficulty in writing a purely abstract overture, but once beyond this...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935) was a Russian composer, conductor and teacher. His works include operas, orchestral music, chamber music and a large number of songs. His style is s...

As other famous opera composers of the long 19th century, such as Donizetti, Rossini or Verdi, Giacomo Puccini's instrumental or vocal works are little known or even completely forgotten. During Pucci...

As other famous opera composers of the long 19th century, such as Donizetti, Rossini or Verdi, Giacomo Puccini's instrumental or vocal works are little known or even completely forgotten. During Pucci...

Cavalleria Rusticana became Pietro Mascagni's most successful opera. It is still a great repertoire favorite, almost always double-billed with Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. The aria Voi lo sapete,...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed several military marches: 'Polonaise' (WoO21), 'Ecossaise' (WoO 22), 'Yorckscher March' (WoO 18), 'Military March' (WoO 19) 'Military March in D Major' (WoO 24) and the '...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed several military marches: 'Polonaise' (WoO21), 'Ecossaise' (WoO 22), 'Yorckscher March' (WoO 18), 'Military March' (WoO 19) 'Military March in D Major' (WoO 24) and the '...

In 1927, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and his wife Elsa were invited for a trip to Brazil for conducting and recitals in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo he also found some time to explore nati...

In 1927, when Italian composer Ottorino Respighi and his wife Elsa were invited for a trip to Brazil for conducting and recitals in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo he also found some time to explore nati...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed several military marches: 'Polonaise' (WoO21), 'Ecossaise' (WoO 22), 'Yorckscher March' (WoO 18), 'Military March' (WoO 19) 'Military March in D Major' (WoO 24) and the '...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed several military marches: 'Polonaise' (WoO21), 'Ecossaise' (WoO 22), 'Yorckscher March' (WoO 18), 'Military March' (WoO 19) 'Military March in D Major' (WoO 24) and the '...

Wiener Blut' ('Viennese Blood', 'Vienna Blood' or 'Viennese Spirit') is a waltz by Johann Strauss composed in 1873 to celebrate the wedding of the Emperor Franz Joseph's daughter Archduchess Gisela Lo...

Wiener Blut' ('Viennese Blood', 'Vienna Blood' or 'Viennese Spirit') is a waltz by Johann Strauss composed in 1873 to celebrate the wedding of the Emperor Franz Joseph's daughter Archduchess Gisela Lo...

Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich. It is sometimes referred to as simply "Cheryomushki" which is a district in Moscow full of cheap subsidized housing built in 1...

Moscow, Cheryomushki is an operetta in three acts by Dmitri Shostakovich. It is sometimes referred to as simply "Cheryomushki" which is a district in Moscow full of cheap subsidized housing built in 1...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Franz Doppler (1821 -1883), was a flute virtuoso and a composer born in Lemberg (the modern Lvov, in Ukraine). His father, a composer and oboist at the Warsaw Opera, gave him a strong musical foundati...

Franz Doppler (1821 -1883), was a flute virtuoso and a composer born in Lemberg (the modern Lvov, in Ukraine). His father, a composer and oboist at the Warsaw Opera, gave him a strong musical foundati...

Andreas van Zoelen (* 1978) is a saxophonist and composer of Dutch/Moravian descent. He studied conducting and saxophone at the Brabants Conservatorium in the Netherlands, with Jean Pennings. He start...

For the Danse Macabre, Saint-SaÙns turned to the 'Dance of the Death', which appears in various versions in the Art of the later Middle Ages. Saint-SaÙns evokes (using the xylophone) the midnight cavo...

In the fall of 1928, Dmitri Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), completed this arrangement for orchestra, Tahiti Trot. The original music is from a song Tea for Two that Vincent Youmans (1898 - 1946) w...

'Ernani 'is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed in 1844...

'Ernani 'is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Ernani was first performed in 1844...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...