Baton Music

Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1802-1803 his opus 48, 'Sechs Lieder (nach Gedichten von Gellert)' for voice and piano. The fourth song is 'Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur' which became very popular an...

Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

Felix Mendelssohn composed the Marsch in D major opus 108 to celebrate a visit of the painter Cornelius to the city of Dresden in april 1841. (Concert Band)

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. Like the famous polka Donner und Blitz, the Tick-Tack Polka opus 365 i...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Brüderlein und Schwesterlein is the very final of the second act: at the end of Prince Orlofsky's party Dr. Falke proposes to sing a song of praise to the brotherhood of the assembled company. (2 Sopa...

Täubchen das entflattert ist is the very beginning of Die Fledermaus: At Eisenstein's house the singer Alfred, in love with Eisenstein's wife Rosalinde, is heard serenading Rosalinde. Adele, the maid,...

Scherzo d'apres une ballade de Goethe Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, t...

Every year, Pomp and Circumstance (March no.1) is one of the encore's at the Last Night of the Proms in London: without any doubt, it's Edward Elgar's most populair work. (Concert Band)

Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. From 1893 til...

The name 'Pathetique' for the last of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's six symphonies was suggested by the composer's brother the day after its premiere in 1893. And indeed the 'Finale' of this symphony is...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The polka-mazurka Stadt und Land, Opus 322 is a beautiful example of S...

Jon Lord (1941 - 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with "Deep Purple", as well a...

Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), is a waltz medley composed by Strauss in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-R...

Joyeuse Marche del compositor francés Emmanuel Chabrier es la segunda parte de un par de piezas orquestales (la otra era "Prélude Pastoral") estrenadas el 4 de noviembre de 1888 en Angers, bajo la dir...

Soprano y conjunto de viento El compositor austriaco Carl Zeller (1842-1898) contribuyó en gran medida a la gloria de la Edad de Oro de la opereta vienesa, en la que Johann Strauss hijo, Franz von Sup...

Les Patineurs Valse (opus 183), conocido en español como "El vals de los patinadores", fue compuesto en 1882 e inspirado por el "Cercle des Patineurs" o "Pista de patinadores" del Bois de Boulogne en...

La Gioconda es una ópera en cuatro actos de Amilcare Ponchielli con libreto de Arrigo Boito, basado en "Angelo, tyran de Padoue", una obra en prosa de Victor Hugo de 1835. Estrenada en 1876, "La Gioco...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

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...

Christmas Day - a Choral Fantasy on Old Carols fue escrita en 1910, poco después de que Gustav Holst terminara los tres grupos de "Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda" y más o menos al mismo tiempo que la...

Sleigh Ride es una composición del compositor británico Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Es una pieza típica de Delius que se ajusta al estilo de sus miniaturas (mucho) posteriores como "On hearing the f...

Fantasía sobre villancicos es una obra de 1912 para barítono, coro y orquesta del compositor inglés Ralph Vaughan Williams. Se estrenó en el "Festival de los Tres Coros" de 1912 en la Catedral de Here...

Fantasía sobre villancicos es una obra de 1912 para barítono, coro y orquesta del compositor inglés Ralph Vaughan Williams. Se estrenó en el "Festival de los Tres Coros" de 1912 en la Catedral de Here...