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Three Chorale Preludes epitomizes the perfect teaching piece and performance work. Although based on familiar chorale melodies, the work is an original. Each prelude reflects contrasting tempi and tex...

In all of music literature, there is little that is more breathtaking in its raw musical power than this movement from Gustav Holst's The Planets. A thundering war theme introduces the work in a drama...

Edvard Grieg's early musical training took place in Germany, but philosophical constraints sent him back to his native Norway, where he began what is now referred to as the Norwegian School. He is bes...

The canon is a contrapuntal device that has been used by composers throughout the history of music. From the seventeenth century comes this canon, Johann Pachelbel's best-known work. This beautiful pi...

The canon is a contrapuntal device that has been used by composers throughout the history of music. From the seventeenth century comes this canon, Johann Pachelbel's best-known work. This beautiful pi...

The Second Suite in F, opus 28 No 2 by Gustav Holst, arranged by Colin Matthews, was included by the Music Committee of the Bavarian Wind Band Association as a standard work in the compulsory list of...

Recognized as the first true masterpiece for wind band, this new updated edition of the authentic Colin Matthews version now includes a full recording by the U.S. Marine Band conducted by Frederick Fe...

This transcription has been undertaken in profound admiration for the music of Bart?Ñk, and in the hope that his work will receive wider recognition by players and audiences.

Along with his First Suite in E-flat, Holst's Second Suite is among the most treasured landmark works for band. In this adaptation, Robert Longfield has adjusted the extreme ranges, used the instrumen...

Paul Lavender arranged the third movement (Allegro Assai) of the popular Symphonic Dances by Sergey Rachmaninoff for wind orchestra. He successfully managed to apply the original's dynamics and drama...

Britten's critically acclaimed opera Peter Grimes was first performed in 1945 and has become a part of the standard repertoire. Additionally, the orchestral concert suite Four Sea Interludes is freque...

Welsh composer Karl Jenkins dedicated his landmark mass The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace to the victims of the 1998-1999 war in Kosovo. More recently it is been associated with remembrances of 9/11. Th...

'Woodwind and percussion players usually are unfamiliar with the antiphonal brass choir tradition. I made this modern, more easily readable version of Bonelli's classic 1600 Toccata for flexible wind...

Los intérpretes de viento madera y percusión no suelen estar familiarizados con la tradición antifonal del coro de metales. Hice esta versión moderna y más fácil de leer de la clásica Toccata 1600 de...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

A century ago, James Causley Windram, then band director of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers (and later the Coldstream Guards) asked Gustav Holst if he would transcribe some of the composer's Hymns fr...

Originally composed to introduce the various instruments of the orchestra, Britten's 'Young Person's Guide' follows a set of variations based on a melody by Henry Purcell. In this setting for wind ban...

This tune comes to us from England during the 'Bloodless Revolution' of 1688 that saw King James deposed and Wiliam and Mary placed on the throne. Lilliburlero was a satirical political song that help...

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