Johan de Meij: Partituras medio

The premiere of Riverdance took place on April 30, 1994 during a seven-minute pause in the Eurovision Song Contest at the Point Theatre, Dublin. Thanks to 10, 000 performances on four continents, TV a...

The Musical CATS, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It became Lloyd Webber’s third great success, after the m...

The Musical CATS, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber is based on the 1939 poetry collection Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. It became Lloyd Webber’s third great success, after the m...

With hit musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, Starlight Express and The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the most successful musical composer ever. His most recent production...

The Swedish pop music group ABBA boasted a fantastic world wide success after winning the 'Eurosong Festival' in 1974 with the song 'Waterloo'. Johan de Meij was one of the very first arrangers to tur...

No pop music group whatsoever was more popular than The Beatles, founded in 1959 by those four boys from Liverpool. In the meantime, the music by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney has become immortal. J...

This overture recounts the magical re-awakening of Spring's arrival in Sweden with the help of two Swedish folk songs. A melancholic, haunting song is first heard from afar as various instruments from...

Summer is the second in a series of symphonic poems, inspired by the seasons and the folk music of Scandinavia. In Spring, the composera made use of two Swedish folk tunes, whereas Summer focuses on F...

The Cake Walk is, just like the Quickstep, the Schottisch, the 'Rag and the Quadrille, a popular American dance from the second half of the last century. Both the rhythmic and the melodic structure of...

Back to the thirties! Mr. Faust wrote an original light composition in the Ragtime idiom.

In this selection of well-known James Bond melodies, arranger Johan de Meij has availed himself of the following themes successively: 'All Time High' (from 'Octopussy', Roger Moore's last role as secr...

This timeless film music brings a feeling of the Wild West. Director Sergio Leone gave a simple yet effective development of the story, which touched many people. 'Once Upon a Time in the West', has l...

No pop music group whatsoever was more popular than 'The Beatles', founded in 1959 by those four boys from Liverpool. In the meantime, the music by John Lennon and Paul Mc Cartney has become immortal....

Back to the thirties! Mr. Faust wrote an original light composition in the Ragtime idiom.