Baton Music

In this transcription Marco Tamanini has combined two martial sections of the opera into a march-fantasy in the great Italian tradition. (Concert Band)

Giacomo Puccini's opera "Tosca" might be described as a thriller with political overtones. Set in Rome in 1800 at a time when the Police Chief Scarpia is conducting a reign of terror, it shows its her...

El sombrero de tres picos" ("The Three-Cornered Hat") is a ballet in two acts choreographed by Léonide Massine to music by Manuel de Falla. The ballet was premiered in 1919 in London at the "Alhambra...

The Toy Symphony, (Kinder-Sinfonie) was also published as Sinfonia Berchtolsgadensis because it was written for instruments that were manufactured in the toy industry of Berchtensgaden that flourished...

Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was an Austrian composer, son of Johann Strauss ('Vater') and brother of Johann jr. and Eduard. Josef Strauss was arguably the most talented of the Strauss dynasty, although...

El Rey Arturo es una semi-ópera en cinco actos con música de Henry Purcell y libreto de John Dryden. El argumento se basa en las batallas entre los britanos del Rey Arturo y los sajones, más que en la...

French composer Erik Satie is mainly known for his 'Gymnopédies', a composition of three piano works completed in April 1888. The work's unusual title comes from the French form of 'gymnopaedia', the...

German composer Felix Mendelssohn composed his opus 24, 'Ouverture für Harmoniemusik' (Overture or Winds) for the court orchestra of Bad Doberan near Rostock his. He was only 15 years and it already d...

Ecce sacerdos magnus (He aquí un gran sacerdote), WAB 13, es un motete sacro de 1885 del compositor austriaco Anton Bruckner. Es una adaptación musical de la antífona del mismo título. La obra es un r...

Richard Wagner's Fliedermonolog Was duftet doch der Flieder is sung in the second act of the Opera Die Meistersinger: Sitting outside his house on a sultry Midsummer's Eve, Hans Sachs tries to concent...

The Wahnmonolog Wahn! Wahn! Uberall Wahn! is sung by Hans Sachs in the first scene of the third and last act of Richard Wagner's Opera Die Meistersinger. On a sunny morning Sachs is sitting in his wor...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'Mlada' is a Wagner-influenced epic teeming with national conflicts and battles in the spirit world; it draws on Russian myth, yet contains parallels to Goethe's Faust...

One of the most influential of German romantic composers is Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826). He is especially known because of his opera's but he composed some masses and a number of solo concerto's...

'Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente' es una zarzuela en un acto con libreto de Miguel Ramos Carrión y música de Frederico Chueca. Se estrenó en el teatro Apolo de Madrid el 23 de junio de 1897 y se convi...

'Agua, Azucarillos y Aguardiente' es una zarzuela en un acto con libreto de Miguel Ramos Carrión y música de Frederico Chueca. Se estrenó en el teatro Apolo de Madrid el 23 de junio de 1897 y se convi...

Johan Wagenaar (1862 -1941) was a Dutch composer and organist. His compositions include operas, cantatas, organ music, and orchestral works. The music of Hector Berlioz had a modest influence on his w...

In 1873 Tschaikowsky composed his "Six Piano Pieces Opus 19". 15 Years later he arranged the fourth movement, "Nocturne", for cello and orchestra. The composer's preferred cellist, Wilhelm Karl Friedr...

After the Armistice of Versailles was signed on 28 January 1871, the Paris Commune assumed power in Paris on 18 March. Fearing for his safety, Camille Saint-Saëns fled to exile in London. Under these...

George Gershwin no escribió mucha música de cine, pero ¿qué habría pasado si no hubiera muerto a una edad temprana? Una de las excepciones es la música para la película de 1937 "Shall We Dance". De es...

The Prelude for Orchestra (Granada) was commissioned in 1961 by Granada Television for use in their broadcasts.Walton had composed in the genre several times before (Crown Imperial, Spitfire etc.) but...

The 'Slavonic Dances' are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. The seventh dance from the first s...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) fue uno de los tres grandes comopisitores de la era belcantista que dominó la escena operística italiana en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. "La Sonnambula" es la primera d...

For piano four-hands Franz Schubert composed a small series of three military marches, which are collected under the catalog of works by Otto Erich, German, as D 733. The first of the three is far mor...

Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Pr...

'Zaïde' es una canción para soprano y orquesta compuesta por Hector Berlioz en noviembre de 1845 sobre un poema de Roger de Beauvoir. Fue compuesta al mismo tiempo que reanudaba la composición de 'La...