Baton Music

Sobre el oratorio "Elías" de Mendelssohn, The Times dijo: "Nunca hubo un triunfo más completo, nunca hubo un reconocimiento más completo y rápido de una gran obra de arte". El libreto de Elías es una...

Otto Nicolai's last opera 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor' is the only one left and also his only one in German language. It is still one of the most performed opera's in Germany opera houses. The li...

In 1869, Josef Strauss spent the summer together with his brother Johann in Pavlovsk near St. Petersburg. When he recovered from an illness he wrote a particularly fast-paced fast polka and gave the w...

Cavalleria Rusticana is a tempestuous drama of adultery and revenge set in a remote Italian village. Its earthy passions, bold confrontational scenes and richly melodic score set a fashion for so-call...

Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien is a five-act musical mystery play on the subject of Saint Sebastian, with a text written in 1911 by the Italian author Gabriele d'Annunzio and incidental music by the Fr...

Tannhäuser is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner based on two German legends: "Tannhäuser", the mythologized medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the "Wartb...

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) composed the 'Pictures at an Exhibition' in 1874 as a suite of ten piano pieces. The suite is generally acknowledged to be Mussorgsky's greatest solo piano composition, a...

'Abendlied' (Canción vespertina) es un motete sacro del compositor alemán Joseph Rheinberger para coro mixto a seis voces. Se considera su composición sacra más conocida y tiene una gran afinidad con...

Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio is an opera in two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an existing libretto by Antonio Piazza probably called "Rocester". It was...

Franz Joseph Strauss (1822 - 1905) was a German musician. He was a composer, principal horn player of the 'Bavarian Court Opera' for more than 40 years, a teacher at the 'Royal School of Music', Munic...

Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Russian Romantic period. His works include symphonies, ballets, operas and seven string quartets in ad...

Allerseelen' ('All Souls' Day'), is a song ('Lied') composed by Richard Strauss in 1885, setting a poem by the Austrian poet Hermann von Gilm. It was included in the first collection of songs Strauss...

Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. Rhapsody in blue is...

picc. trp, 2 trp, flugel hrn, 4 hrn, 3 trb, baritono, tuba, perc., arpa Los momentos culminantes de la obra de Saint-Saens son la Sinfonía para órgano (1866) y la ópera 'Samson et Dalila' (1877). Con...

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. The set of songs is not a cycle in the narrowest sense, be...

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.

This edition contains four traditional carols from all over Catalonia. These carols were arranged to emphasize the antiphonal aspect inherent in so much brass choir music.

The romantic, picturesque and dramatic appeal of medieval Christianity furnished Richard Wagner, after 'Tannhäuser', with 'Lohengrin'. It's a romantic opera in three acts first performed in 1850 un We...

El atractivo romántico, pintoresco y dramático del cristianismo medieval proporcionó a Richard Wagner, después de "Tannhäuser", "Lohengrin". Se trata de una ópera romántica en tres actos estrenada en...

The romantic, picturesque and dramatic appeal of medieval Christianity furnished Richard Wagner, after "Tannhäuser", with "Lohengrin". It's a romantic opera in three acts first performed in 1850 un We...

El atractivo romántico, pintoresco y dramático del cristianismo medieval proporcionó a Richard Wagner, después de "Tannhäuser", "Lohengrin". Se trata de una ópera romántica en tres actos estrenada en...

English composer Henry Eccles (1670-1742) played as a violinist in the court of King William and Queen Mary in the period after the glory time of Henry Purcell. However, conceiving himself neglected i...