Música de concierto de navidad para orquesta de viento

In the central part of the concerto, the Adagio, Mozart's preoccupation with cantabile melody opens a new world of sonority.It opens with a melody which must be one of the most beautiful ever written,...

The famous recitative and aria Se quel guerrier... Celeste Aida is sung at the beginning of the opera: the young Egyptian Radames shows his ambitions as a general and the tenderness of his love for th...

The famous recitative and aria Se quel guerrier... Celeste Aida is sung at the beginning of the opera: the young Egyptian Radames shows his ambitions as a general and the tenderness of his love for th...

El compositor francés Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) compuso el Réquiem entre 1877 y 1900. El Pie Jesu de esta misa es una deliciosa pieza para soprano solista. En esta transcripción, la parte solista tamb...

El compositor francés Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) compuso el Réquiem entre 1877 y 1900. El Pie Jesu de esta misa es una deliciosa pieza para soprano solista. En esta transcripción, la parte solista tamb...

The work of the Russian composer Anatol Liadov (1855-1914) is characterized by bizarre humour, originality, precision and imagination. All these qualities are expressed in the 'Eight Russian Folk Song...

Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco was first produced in the Teatro alla Scala in 1842. Its triumph was total: the public went mad insisting of an 'encore' of the chorus Va pensiero! that became the second nati...

In 1877 Dvorak was requested by the violinist Josef Markus to write a new piece for him. Dvorak went back to an earlier piece and transformed the slow movement of the String Quartet opus 7 into the Ro...

In 1877 Dvorak was requested by the violinist Josef Markus to write a new piece for him. Dvorak went back to an earlier piece and transformed the slow movement of the String Quartet opus 7 into the Ro...

The aria with chorus Del futuro nel bujo discerno is sung at the very end of the third act of the opera Nabucco just after the famous Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. Zaccaria, a Jewish high priest, encou...

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) started working on his only opera Prince Igor in 1869, but at his death 18 years later it remained unfinished.The splendid overture seems to have been completed by Glazun...

The intermezzo is the fifth movement of the original suite of Aram Khachaturian's music to Lope Felix de Vega Carpio's Spanish comedy The Valencian Widow.A somber dramatically opening leads to a slowe...

The Romanza Bella siccome un angelo is sung by Dottor Malatesta in the first act of Donizetti's opera Don Pasquale. Bursting with impatience, the rich, elderly Don Pasquale is waiting for Dr. Malatest...

Ralph Vaughan Williams completed the Five Mystical Songs for baritone, chorus and orchestra in 1911. In the second song I got me Flowers there are incessant changes of time-signature, though the vocal...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (also Eight Little Preludes and Fugues), BWV 553-560, are a collection of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. While originally attributed to Bach, scholars suggest that...

The Eight Short Preludes and Fugues (also Eight Little Preludes and Fugues), BWV 553-560, are a collection of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. While originally attributed to Bach, scholars suggest that...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Georges Bizet composed 'L'Arlésienne' as incidental music to Alphonse Daudet's play of the same name, usually translated as 'The Girl from Arles'. The incidental music has survived and flourished, how...

Emmanuel Chabrier's opera-comique 'Le Roi malgré lui' debuted at the Opéra-Comique in 1887. The opera was well received, although the librettists were booed at the première. The music was praised and...

Emmanuel Chabrier's opera-comique 'Le Roi malgré lui' debuted at the Opéra-Comique in 1887. The opera was well received, although the librettists were booed at the première. The music was praised and...

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair, Emmanuel Chabrier composed what were to be called 'Pièces pittoresques'. He used 4 of these 10 pieces for piano to orchest...

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair, Emmanuel Chabrier composed what were to be called 'Pièces pittoresques'. He used 4 of these 10 pieces for piano to orchest...

Nielsen's Rhapsodic Overture (1927) represents the romantic musical element in orchestral composition. The sub-title A fantasy journey to FaroÙr belies the imaginative character of the piece, which is...