Partituras para orquesta de viento

Jubilance was written to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Xinmin Senior School in Singapore. Appropriately for the occasion, the composition is a festive, virtuoso and dynamic op...

Holiday Prelude is Belgian composer Hans Aerts' musical version of the feeling of anticipation one feels when looking forward to going on holiday. Holiday Prelude starts with a beautiful solemn melody...

Earth - Fire - Water - Air: According to the four element theory of temperaments, earth, fire, air and water are the building blocks of the universe. Without them, life would not exist. They shape our...

In 2000, the movie Cast Away stormed into cinemas and received two Oscar nominations in the process. It follows the story of a man (played by Tom Hanks) who gets stranded on an island after the plane...

subTERRA tells the story of a miner who miraculously survives the collapse of a mine shaft. The work consists of five movements: 1. The Dream: A horrible nightmare plagues the miner. Dissonances and u...

subTERRA tells the story of a miner who miraculously survives the collapse of a mine shaft. The work consists of five movements: 1. The Dream: A horrible nightmare plagues the miner. Dissonances and u...

Bert Appermont composed Song for Sakiko during a stay in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Tokyo. 'Sakiko' roughly translated means 'flower child' and is associated with a dreamy, poetic atmosphere. Appe...

This grand work contains four contrasting movements. The first movement, Prelude, takes the form of an overture: it raises the curtains and marks the beginning of the piece. The brilliant motifs of th...

From the first beat Sven Van Calster's new composition gives the message - it's time for celebrations to begin! Let's Celebrate was composed for the youth band SJOW in Hoboken, Belgium, to commemorate...

Stef Minnebo's Concert Pitch is a spectacular opening piece. It contains two contrasting sections that flow into one another. The introduction is musically beautiful, however it can be performed as ba...

Bert Appermont composed Song for Sakiko during a stay in the cosmopolitan metropolis of Tokyo. 'Sakiko' roughly translated means 'flower child' and is associated with a dreamy, poetic atmosphere. Appe...

The 'J. Geils Band', from Massachusetts in the USA, played blues-rock in the 1970s, but by the beginning of the 1980s had evolved their sound to a somewhat more pop style. And not without success: the...

Impressionist composer Claude Debussy wrote his set of Préludes for the piano between 1909 and 1913. In their entirety, his Préludes total 24 individual pieces in two volumes. It is from these that Ka...

This grand work contains four contrasting movements. The first movement, Prelude, takes the form of an overture: it raises the curtains and marks the beginning of the piece. The brilliant motifs of th...

Fanfare and Jubilation was commissioned by the Yahata Technical High School Band (Fukuoka, Japan) to celebrate the 40th edition of their annual concert, and is dedicated to its directors, Mr. Satoru Y...

The Corrs are a well-known contemporary Irish band. They take Irish folk tunes and dress them up with pop, rock, and Celtic influences. They also use a mix of contemporary and traditional instruments...

The Corrs are a well-known contemporary Irish band. They take Irish folk tunes and dress them up with pop, rock, and Celtic influences. They also use a mix of contemporary and traditional instruments...

In On Wings Bart Picqueur cleverly portrays the sense of freedom and joy that music can bring. On Wings was commissioned by the VLAMO of East Flanders (Belgium). VLAMO is an umbrella association that...

I composed Axis as a dedication to my friend Shinya Nakamitsu. He is a wonderful graphic designer who loves wind band music. Some years ago, I made a demo CD to hand out to a number of people. He over...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) composed his opera The Night before Christmas in 1894-95. The premiere took place on December 10 1895 in St. Petersburg. The libretto to the opera came from Rimsky-...

ESSENTIA is an collaborative orchestral merger in Essen, Noorderkempen, in Belgium. This amalgamation was first established in September 2010. The piece The Essence of Music was written in honour of t...

Jan Moretus (1543-1610) was a book printer and publisher in his native city of Antwerp. He worked as assistant to his father-in-law, the renowned master printer and publisher Christoffel Plantijn. Aft...

The name 'Aldacum' (alder wood) dates from the period of the Roman occupation, and is the Latin name of the brewing town Alken in the Belgian province of Limburg. The Koninklijke Harmonie Sint-Aloysiu...

The Legend of Ratu Kidul carries us into the world of Indonesian mythology, on the island of Java: Once upon a time, the Queen of the Southern Seas was a kind and beautiful princess. She was the daugh...

This miniature tone poem for concert band is a sequel of Benjamin Yeo's earlier work Flight. Voyage to the End of the Earth depicts a voyage by ship across the sea. The music expresses the calm of the...