Molenaar Edition

En 1999, la banda Metallica publicó una grabación en directo de "Nothing Else Matters" en colaboración con la Orquesta Sinfónica de San Francisco, dirigida por Michael Kamen. Esta versión inspiró a Bo...

The Swedish pop music group ABBA boasted a fantastic world wide success after winning the 'Eurosong Festival' in 1974 with the song 'Waterloo'. Johan de Meij was one of the very first arrangers to tur...

Kees Vlak composed the 'Christmas Time' suite for band in which he used German, Hungarian and Dutch Christmas carols.

No pop music group whatsoever was more popular than The Beatles, founded in 1959 by those four boys from Liverpool. In the meantime, the music by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney has become immortal. J...

This world famous Latin-american evergreen is now available in an arrangement for symphonic windband and fanfare orchestra. The warm blooded, Latin-american drive has been preserved excellently.

The traditional Mexican 'mariachi' music is a festive and exuberant type of music that puts you in a good mood. One of those traditional themes is La Bamba which has been sung and recorded by several...

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...

The Canadian composer René Dupéré was one of the founders of the world famous 'Cirque du Soleil' company. He composed the music for the shows 'Nouvelle Expérience', We reinvent the Circus', 'Saltimban...

The influence of television is hardly deniable. This theme was to be heard in a publicity spot for the Dutch AirLine Company K.L.M. and became extremely popular.

Birds flying high, you know how I feel", interpretada por Michael Bublé.

This big hit by Marco Bosato, one of the most popular Dutch singers of all times, was number one in the hit parade for several weeks. This is a most varied composition by a great pop music artist John...

Feliz Navidad (Spanish for 'happy Christmas) is one of the most popular Christmas Carols of Latin America and it has been performed by many artists (such as José Feliciano). This piece in the shape of...

'MacArthur Park' is a song written by Jimmy Webb, first recorded by Richard Harris in 1968 and then covered by many other performers. One of the best-known covers of the song is Donna Summer's 1978 di...

By means of its simplified rhythms 'Mas Que Nada' allows the starting musician to play some typical Brazilian music. Both performances by Black Eyed Peas and by Sergio Mendes have recently made this t...

Due to the success of Henk Ummels' arrangement 'The Best of the Blues Brothers' he wrote a sequel which should be equally successful. This part includes the hits 'Think', 'Minnie the Moocher' and 'I'm...

This is a very clever arrangement of one of the biggest hits from the Dutch singer Caro Emerald. This song is from her Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor album from 2010. The single was releas...

That Man is a single from Caro Emerald. It comes from her 2010 album 'Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor'. The single was released on May 14 2010. Just like Caro's first single 'A Night Like T...

This Italian song, known in the English version as 'Time to say goodbye', has been made famous by the blind Italian (Toscan) tenor Andrea Bocelli. The latter was introduced to the international musica...

By popular demand, there is now in The Best Of series for 5 part flexible setting, a selection of some of the best songs of Michael Jackson. Henk Ummels has selected and made a balanced and very playa...