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In 1991 the Russian town Leningrad has been renamed Saint Petersburg again, after a period of more than 70 years. This piece, based on Russian folksongs, is dedicated to the people of this beautiful t...

Though composed as a simple unpretentious little work, this 'Fandango Fantasy' sounds somewhat virtuoso. The slow middlepart makes us think of the plendid piano pieces by the Spanish composer Isaac Al...

Here is a kind of matrial hymn, composed in honour of the Olympics. Pieter Goemans wrote this work fort he Dutch Radio Orchestra 'Metropole Orkest' and here you have a skilful arrangement by Marcel Pe...

Without claiming to possess a 'Magic Formula' to realize this sequence, the composer fancied to imagine a Formula One race at Monza. The binary beat portrays the combustion engine. The exaggerated eff...

A rhythmical study for youth band. Some Fanfares based on a rock pattern gradually change into an old fashioned swing music.

TRIANAThe twelve part piano composition 'Iberia', published in four volumes between 1906 and 1909, is often considered as the absolute summit of all piano compositions by Albéniz. Among those pieces '...

Let's go back to the fifties. As I have played as a musician at such famous places as Carrère and Maxim's in Paris and the Palm Beach in Cannes, I wanted to recreate the musical climate of that time....

Some musicians were complaining that in lighter music the 2nd cornets, 2nd and 3rd trombones and other players seldom had a tune to play. The composer resolved to put that right and has given the melo...

Noch ein ausgezeichnetes Arrangement von J. Hastreiter der eine gewisse Fachkenntnis zeigt. Hier gibt es ein sehr schöne Orchestrierung für Blasorchester von diesem leichten Unterhaltungswerk Ortolani...

As the title implies, the work was inspired by the comic theatrical tradition developed in Italy from the 16th century onward, by troups of travelling actors. However, it originated long before during...

Obwohl er am meisten in Paris komponiert hat, ist Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) einer der wichtigsten Komponisten der italienischen Opernschule. Er komponierte diese zwei Märsche 1836 für den Kronpri...

Michel Carros is the pen name chosen by a well-known Dutch wind band music composer to sign some compositions in the lighter vein. Among those compositions is this short but joyful piece 'The Happy Mi...

Manfred Schneider (1953), musician with the German Army Band Heeresmusikkorps 300 in Koblenz, has already proved his merits with his overture 'Uspide Down', the 'Song of Freedom' and the rhythmical et...

With this composition I have tried to reproduce, in an abstract way, the different aspects of the actual life. One will discover alternatively spiritual and secular aspects - the never ceasing boister...

The pianist and composer Enrique Granados y Campina (Lérida 1867) studied composition with Pedrell in Barcelona. He went to Paris in 1887 to study the piano with de Beriot. In 1901 he founded his own...

Johann Strauß Junior wrote this 'Perpetuum Mobile' opus 257 in 1861, inspired by a grand Viennese Ball. This event had been announced as a 'Carnival Perpetuum Mobile' with non-stop dancing and music....