Molenaar Edition

Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed some fifteen operas. Snegurochka (Snow White), his third opera, written in 1880 and 1881, comprises four acts preceded by a prologue. The opera is based on the pla...

A game of chess took place in London between two great masters, Anderssen (English) and Kiesevitzki (Russian). That game was regarded as one of the most beautiful ever played in history. That was the...

This Rhapsody is composed by Peter kleine Schaars for the 4th international contest of light music in 2002 at St. Gallen.

Three sound portraits of Turkey: the 'Topkapi Palace' , the imperial residence built after the Ottoman conquest in Istanbul, the 'Blue Mosque' or Sultan Ahmet mosque built between 1609 and 1616 also a...

The Belgian composer Marcel Peeters is really an all round musician. In this sunny medley Mexican Dances he arranged in a most skilful and original way a series of traditional Mexican themes you will,...

Next to 'Filos Musica' and 'Olé junqueira' by this Portuguese composer, we also publish This fine medley of Portuguese melodies. These nice and very well orchestrated melodies make us dream of sunny h...

The Greek mythology relates us how the young hero Theseus kills the monster Minotaur, escapes from the Knossos labyrinth thanks to Ariadne's thread and finally marries the Queen of the Amazons. This s...

Gustav Holst (Cheltenham, 1874 - London, 1934) was of the very first great British composers of classical music to write some valuable original compositions for symphonic band. Holst composed operas,...

The longest trip we make is to the Far East. Japan, China, Tibet,... all countries with an enormous cultural background and history. Percussion is very important here to give a rich dimension to this...

This pieces D-Day describes that historical day. Water, fog banks, fear, panic, assault, guns, victims... The composition reaches its culminating point in the final choral 'abide with me'. An impressi...

The composer wrote: 'Though my English friends doubted whether this title was grammatically correct, it perfectly expresses what I wanted to say. At some moment I finally accepted the continuous failu...