Molenaar Edition

Here is a pleasing pastorale based on the traditional Christmas Carol 'On Christmas night all Christians sing' and with a quotation of 'Silent Night, Holy Night'. This piece will bring a moment of rel...

Light piece in three parts, each one picking up distinct parts of north-american music appreciated by Afonso Alves. The swing, the 60's with Elvis Presley and the disco hype are all remembered in this...

This Gospel Festival includes a.o. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child and Oh Peter, go ring-a dem bells. A skilfully set up and varied medley which will please all audiences.

This piece was number one on the dutch hit parade for many weeks and was sung b Raffaëla, winner of the Idols 2006 contest

Ramses Shaffy is one of the greatest and most popular singers The Netherlands have known in the 20th century but he had never been honoured with any arrangement for wind band of his songs. At last, th...

This is the first great hit (and the last as well) of Mink De Ville. This group was lead by singer and lyricist Willy De Ville. He started a solo career about 1990 with the guitar player of the group...

Here you have a fine, rhythmically supported melody in a nice arrangement for wind band. This piece will bring a moment of relief on your next concert program.

Several artists such as Incognito, John Legend and Trijntje Oosterhuis have made a cover of this great classic by the inimitable Stevie Wonder. The film 'Hitch' starring Will Smith used this music as...

Referring somehow to Ted Huggens's composition 'Choral and Rock out', Patrick Millstone composed 'Salt and Pepper'. As you find salt and pepper on each restaurant table, we advise conductors and techn...

Thinking Of You, composed in 1992, was Eric Swiggers's very first piece for windband that has officially been published. Especially in the 90's the piece has been performed many times all over the wor...

'Festiva Jubiloso' was commissioned by the Surugadai University Symphonic of the city of Saitama in Japan to celebrate the tenth anniversary of its annual concert. In the central part we can hear some...

In this medley of well-known German hits you can hear: the Udo Jürgens hit 'Aber bitte mit Sahne' (Please with cream), the success song of Spider Murphy Gang 'Skandal im Sperrbezirk' (Scandal in forbi...

Eloise was a hit song in the 60's from the brothers Paul and Barry Ryan. This is a melodramatic, orchestral number, typified by energetic refrains, and a slow intimate section. This is a powerful, fre...

With these two 'breaks' Patrick Millstone killed two birds with one stone. You can conclude the first part of your concert with 'Have a break' and start again after the interval with 'Break Away'.

For Bedrich Smetana, the polka was the source of typical Czech music par excellence. We do not only find it in his operas, symphonic works and chamber music, but he also wrote single or separate polka...

At the recording sessions for his album 'Disco Baby' (1975) Van McCoy had one extra hour of studio time left and so he wrote 'The Hustle' in a hurry, as a well-known New York disc jockey had told McCo...

In this suite you can hear a musical portrait of people born under the zodiacal signs 'Virgin' (Virgo), 'Twins' (Gemini), 'Fishes' (Pisces) and 'Archer' (Sagittarius). As usual with astrological expla...

Crimson Tide' is the title of an American movie picture dating from 1995 with a splendid soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer. The latter was awarded a Grammy as well as the BMI Film Music Award for the...

This is the fourth movement from the suite in D minor (HWV 437) for solo harpsichord. This work became widely known from it's prominent use in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon. Brian de Palma...

With this medley 'Boudewijn' arranger Gerhart Drijvers pays a tribute to one of the greatest composers of original Dutch songs. Indeed, in collaboration with Lennaert Nijgh, Boudewijn de Groot wrote n...

The march Wind in May (Vento di Maggio) was composed to celebrate the famous 'Festa dei Ceri' in Gubbio (Umbria), one of the oldest Italian folklore display. This is a solemn act of devotion towards t...

No doubt, 'The Fifth of Beethoven' is one of the most popular and famous compositions in the history of classical music as well as being one of the most often performed. This version is based on Robin...

Danse des Sauvages' (Dance of the Savages) is an excerpt from the ballet opera 'Les Indes Galantes' (The Courtly Indies). Rameau was one of the most important French composers (1683 - 1764). He wrote...