Mitropa Music

The 'Transformation' scene from Beauty and the Beast is one of the most impressive moments from the movie and a perfect example of how magical the combination of music and images can be. Marc Jeanbour...

The melancholic '(Somewhere) Over the Rainbowx' is unmistakably one of the most successful musical evergreens ever. The simplicity and unique beauty of this song formed the inspiration for numerous co...

This collection contains fifteen studies that make use of techniques that have been gained through previous experience, as well as offering opportunities for personal interpretation. Most aspects of f...

This collection will give you the opportunity to concentrate on all the technical and expressive aspects of flute playing, switching from 'brilliant' pieces to works with a more cantabile character, i...

Under the title LUX NORDICA, this edition contains a selection of Romantic pieces by various composers of northern origin. Franco Cesarini collected seven works from Niels W. Gade and Carl Nielsen (De...

This edition includes some of the best-loved Christmas melodies from various countries arranged for flute and piano. The melody runs twice through in different versions, each passage preceded by a pre...

German Romanticism includes selected works from some of the most important composers of the style, to whom-in terms of musical history-the Austrian Franz Schubert also belongs. Besides Carl Maria von...

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

The Cossacks played an integral part in Russia's history which finally ended with the Soviet occupation in the 1920s. Franco Cesarini had the opportunity to attend performances by an ethnic group of C...

Take a musical tour of the North of Germany with sailors' music from the coastal areas combining with the authentic traditional folk music culture of the region. This colourful blend of many different...

Hot off the press! Composer Gerald Oswald bases this new work on an old Austrian folksong, O du lieber Augustin! The Augustin in questions is a ballad singer and an ad lib poet who apparently wrote th...

Kein schöner Land is surely one of the best-known of all German folk songs. The song recounts the story of a group of friends who spend a happy evening singing. The arrangement by Gerald Oswald begins...

If there's one Hebrew folk song that's known the world over, it's Hava Nagila. The title translated means 'let us be happy'. The melody of this festive song - often sung at Jewish weddings - comes ori...

Driving drum grooves, a straight rhythm, catchy melodies and much space for the soloists' creativity - that's how you could describe Otto M. Schwarz's new composition Groovin'Around. The infectious be...

Kool & the Gang became very popular globally, and they remain today, one of the best funk and soul bands in the history of pop music. Gilbert Tinner made a medley for smaller and young bands containin...

This piece was composed as a birthday present for the Austrian conductor Walter Rescheneder to acknowledge the strong support he has given to the composer, Thomas Doss. Doss drew the inspiration for t...

Selbstwahlstück Europäische Meisterschaften der böhmischen & mährischen Blasmusik 2010 - Oberstufe

Marc Jeanbourquin found inspiration for his composition Mazel Tov in traditional klezmer music. The title of the work means 'congratulations' in Hebrew-a wish heard at weddings, births and bah mitzvah...

Many composers of the 20th century enriched their own musical language with elements of jazz, just think of George Gershwin or Leonard Bernstein. In the 'globalized' 21st century, Stefan Schwalgin ext...

In this arrangement Hans Joachim Rogoll uses the themes from three classical works, which will be instantly recognized: Hummelflug by Nikolai Rimski Korsakov, Carmen by Georges Bizet and Sword Dance b...

Take Five is by far jazz pianist Dave Brubeck's most famous piece, easily recognized by its quirky 5/4 rhythm. Blue Rondo a la Turk, while written in a more conventional 9/8, divides the beats into gr...

In 2009, one year after its formation, the Swiss brass ensemble Azimuts Brass commissioned its conductor, Marc Jeanbourquin, to write them a signature tune. He composed Jazzimut, which features a fest...

Das Andante Religioso ist der langsame Teil der vierten von sechs Orgelsonaten, die der Komponist und Pianist Mendelssohn Bartholdy zwei Jahre vor seinem Tod komponierte. Die authentische Blasorcheste...

The Ave Maria by Franz Schubert is known and loved worldwide and was originally written as part of the song cycle The Lady of the Lake. In the course of time, the German text has been replaced by the...