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Enjoying his travels in Scotland, Marco Pütz decided to compose a piece for wind band, based on Scottish folk songs. While in the airport at Glasgow, shortly before boarding his plane, Pütz bought a c...

This piece was commissioned by Matsudo Citizen Wind Orchestra for their 30th anniversary concert and premiêred by the band conducted by Kenichiro Hasunuma in July 2009. This piece is typical of Satosh...

Konzertwerk/Wettbewerbsstück Elegy I 'Jealousy' wurde nach dem gleichnamigen Gedicht von John Donne benannt. Eifersucht (Jealousy) vermag eine ganze Reihe von Emotionen auszulösen - von Enttäuschung,...

Studying and performing this piece can be lots of fun. All the musicians have to do is imagine themselves on an energetic parade of animals, like a circus train, traveling through the country side. Li...

This piece was commissioned by Japan Ground Self Defense Force Western Army Band. In the programme note for the première the composer wrote: 'I am always impressed by the expansive earth and sparkling...

The commissioner of this piece, a conductor and friend of the composer, asked Satoshi Yagisawa to compose an item in the choral style of some of his earlier works. The result is the classic warm and g...

This piece was commissioned by Oyama City Symphonic Wind Orchestra to commemorate their 30th Anniversary. The composer was inspired by Oyama City's slogan, 'water, green and earth', to write this fest...

Le Lion de Belfort was composed for the official inauguration of the sculpture Le Lion de Belfort : an enormous red sandstone lion that dominates the landscape of the French city of Belfort. This 22 m...

Chapters of Life is a moving concerto that musically carries the positive message that even life's hardest knocks don't mean the end. In three movements: Wild Days, To Dana and Chapters of Life , the...

Saxophone Concertino is one of a series of solo concerti by Japanese composer, Satoshi Yagisawa. In this piece, the solo saxophonist's voice does not separate from the concert band, but rather develop...

The Atlas Symphony for symphonic wind band is an impressive and subtle work, thematically complex, with a rich orchestration, but also great beauty. The composer was keen to draw a parallel between an...

The Wooden Soldier is a short and simple piece commissioned by the Singapore Ministry of Education. It was originally intended as a compulsory piece for the 2012 Singapore Youth Festival. Because many...

The Soldier's Wife is a short and simple piece commissioned by the Singapore Ministry of Education. It was originally intended as a compulsory piece for the 2012 Singapore Youth Festival. Because many...

This concertino was written to a commission by Japanese percussionist Kazuko Ogawa as an addition to Satoshi Yagisawa's concerto series (trumpet, trombone, marimba, saxophone, and clarinet with wind o...

The Book of Urizen is a fascinating two-part composition for wind orchestra, soprano voice and a speaking voice that works with unusual soundscapes. The work takes its inspiration from the cycle of po...

Like the Eagle, We Soar and Rise was commissioned by Yuying Secondary School Concert Band and Yuying Alumni Association for the 2010 centenary of the school's foundation. The piece was named by a frie...

Sa Música - 'Our Music' - is the music from Mallorca, an island with a long and difficult past. The work tells of the Greeks, who once erected a temple on the island; of the Romans who occupied the is...

Intermezzo is the second movement of Satoshi Yagisawa's Clarinet Concerto. The concerto was first performed by Higashi-Hiroshima Wind Ensemble in Hiroshima, Japan in 2010 with guest performer Shinsuke...

This composition was written on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the De Pinte wind band. This is also the derivation of Latin title Aureus (golden-from the word aurum, or gold). This work is comp...

The inspiration for this three-part work goes back to the International European Youth Wind Music Festival, of which the patron has been Jacob de Haan several times. It begins in a festive march tempo...

KYO-WA is a suite in three movements - Fanfare, Chorale and March, which composer Satoshi Yagisawa wrote individually year on year between 2008 and 2010 for a symphonic wind band. The word KYO in the...

This piece was commissioned by Horikoshi High School Wind Ensemble. The director and conductor of the ensemble, Takashi Yoshizawa, has been a close friend of Satoshi Yagisawa since the inception of th...

Satoshi Yagisawa has lived in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture in Japan since he was in elementary school. Around Christmas time every year in Ichikawa City, seven Chiba high school bands hold a joint...

This work was especially composed for a concert series that was characterised by a variety of musical directions. These musical directions are captured in Campus Intrada, which was named after the Cul...

Here's a cheerful piece for young - and perhaps incomplete - ensembles, which portrays a tropical island. Syncopated motifs create bags of swing. Great fun for young musicians and their audience who,...