Obras instrumentales para orquesta de viento

Long a staple in the Ludwig Music catalog, directors wishing to have their bands experience the beauty and majesty of Beethoven's only opera are well served in the faithful rendering of this overture.

This western look at a Japanese melody, with stark rhythmic treatments, has been immensely popular since its first publication. A lyrical clarinet/saxophone/euphonium melody provides a beautiful contr...

This classic of the Ludwig Music library is a wonderful reworking of one of Richard Strauss' lovely and haunting early art songs. The wind band arrangement is extremely respectful of the original work...

Written as a tribute to a high school band director killed in a car accident three months after starting his first teaching job, this work is sensitive without being maudlin. A great combination of cl...

Dana Wilson always strives to introduce students and audiences to new ways of thinking about music and performance practices. This work serves somewhat as an incantation, a summoning up of, by means o...

As a composer with great skills and an avowed desire to artfully combine traditional band forms and formats with contemporary techniques and colors, Tom Duffy has fashioned this one-movement tone poem...

A piece that works extremely well for good middle school bands as well as high school bands. Not outrageously demanding, with some very exciting percussion parts, it is a great combination of artistry...

El Abanico es la obra más famosa del director de orquesta español Alfredo Javaloyes. Este pasodoble debe su nombre a un popular café de Cartagena que tenía una gran mesa en forma de abanico donde, al...

With "Chaconne For Winds", the renowned Ludwig Music Publishing Company presents an impressive work for modern concert band that masterfully blends historical tradition with fresh musical vitality. Th...

These masterworks of J.S. Bach's organ oeuvres are respectfully and masterfully presented in this wonderful transcription by the late John P. Paynter. A terrific recording is also available through Lu...

Colorful, sophisticated, challenging, rewarding and fun are all words that come to mind in Duffy's tribute to the automobile industry. Composed in five continuous sections, 'Cold Starts,' 'Chasing the...

Glass Reflections is an original and colorful tone poem for band by this respected composer. Appropriate for contest and concert programs, this is a very playable and exciting work. Percussion scoring...

Sousa was a prominent composer of operettas or musical comedy, his most successful being El Capitan (1895). It has been noted that if he had not established his popular and world famous professional b...

Pierre ha escrito otra obra ganadora. Basada en la canción popular Old Joe Clark, es una alegre fantasía de contrastes de estilos, tempi y dinámicas, con muchos retos y recompensas para todos. Seguro...

NICCOLO PICCINI (1728 - 1800), compositor italiano de ópera, nació en Bari, pero en Nápoles afirmó su talento para la música a una edad temprana, ingresando en el Conservatorio a los 14. Su ópera bufa...

Los dragones de Villars es una ópera cómica en tres actos de Aimé Maillart. Se dice que la historia de la ópera fue tomada de La Petite Fadette de Georges Sand, actualizada por los libretistas a la ép...

La Obertura para Banda Sinfónica fue compuesta en 1970 por Bin Kaneda a petición de la Banda de Conciertos Yamaha. Esta música fue interpretada por primera vez por la Banda de Conciertos Yamaha en su...

Esta obra aventurera representa la esencia del mar, desde su serenidad tranquila hasta su turbulencia tempestuosa; en todas las situaciones, demuestra la vida rebosante siempre presente en las aguas....

Una obra lírica y rítmicamente emocionante que captura el sentido de aventura y romance asociado con el vuelo espacial. No es programática, es sólida, accesible, escrita para banda y puede encajar bie...

En tres movimientos (cada uno de los cuales tiende más a la ligereza que a la pesadez), se trata de una obra inmensamente accesible que sería apropiada para bandas de nivel moderadamente avanzado. Des...

Comenzando con una extensa sección lenta y lírica, esta obra de un solo movimiento desemboca en una sección allegro en metros dobles. Con articulaciones claras y cambios de tonalidad de buen gusto, la...