Molenaar Edition

This is based on the famous tango 'El Choclo' by Angel Villoldo. The tango is the national dance of Argentina, but Terry has turned it into a samba, which is the national dance of Brazil, thereby runn...

Peter Laine has got a long and rich career with entertainment (and more serious) music. His experience, with a.o. the famous Swiss ensemble 'Hazy Osterwald Sextett' and several bands and radio orchest...

The American pianist and composer Cy Coleman(1929) is certainly best known as the author of several musical comedies such as Wildcat (1960), Sweet Charity (1966), Seesaw (1973) and of course Barnum (1...

The Brasilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote some very famous tunes such as Desafinado (1959). It was this song that first mentioned the term bossa nova. Though complex in melody and harmony, the...

To Jef Penders the influence of Glenn Miller on light music in the second half of the twentieth century is still alive. After Glenn meets Wolfgang, Glenn beats the Battle of Jericho and Glenn plays af...

In Germany and Austria there are many beautiful Christmas carols, some of them such as 'Holy Night, Silent Night' or 'O Tannenbaum' are known and sung all over the world. Josef Hastreiter (1938) arran...

(Rhapsody from Friesland)Friesland (Fryslân in the Frisian language) does not only have its own language but it also boasts a very rich own culture with many folk songs sometimes dating from many cent...

Josef Strauß, the second son of Johann Strauß Senior, worked for some time as an architect and engineer before he started conducting to replace his elder brother Johann Junior who had become seriously...

The British composer and ex military band conductor Terry Kenny got an excellent reputation as director of music of the Royal Corps of Transport Band with which he made a series of fine recordings. Si...

The Jim Croce hit streak began in 1972, with 'You don't mess around with Jim' en 'Operator then'.in April 1973, he introduced his most famous character, 'Bad, Bad Leroy Brown'. A swinging evergreen, b...

The Andalusian composer Antonio Alvarez studied at the Madrid Conservatory of Music where he graduated with First Prizes for piano, organ, harmony and composition. He conducted mainly zarzuelas (Spani...

The German police television series in which actor Horst Tappart plays the role of 'Inspector Derrick' is still extremely popular in numerous European countries, even after 23 years. There have 280 ep...

The slow 'Airs' are a Ted Huggens speciality. LARGO ALLA BAROCCO is written completely in the style of the majestic 'Air from the New Baroque Suite' which was a worldwide success. At the end an ad lib...

The once extremely popular American group 'The Village People' released its first album 'San Francisco' in 1977. The next year two more albums came, 'Macho Man' and 'YMCA', followed in 1979 by 'Go Wes...

Giulio Caccini's 'Ave Maria' has been one the most often played tunes at funerals. In 2001 it was used for the soundtrack of the movie picture 'Donnie Darko'. Here is a most pleasant and skilful arran...