Obras instrumentales para orquesta de viento

George Gershwin no escribió mucha música de cine, pero ¿qué habría pasado si no hubiera muerto a una edad temprana? Una de las excepciones es la música para la película de 1937 "Shall We Dance". De es...

The Prelude for Orchestra (Granada) was commissioned in 1961 by Granada Television for use in their broadcasts.Walton had composed in the genre several times before (Crown Imperial, Spitfire etc.) but...

The 'Slavonic Dances' are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvorák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. The seventh dance from the first s...

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) fue uno de los tres grandes comopisitores de la era belcantista que dominó la escena operística italiana en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. "La Sonnambula" es la primera d...

Mendelssohn wrote the incidental music, for Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in 1842, 16 years after he wrote the Overture. It was written to a commission from King Frederick William IV of Pr...

'Zaïde' es una canción para soprano y orquesta compuesta por Hector Berlioz en noviembre de 1845 sobre un poema de Roger de Beauvoir. Fue compuesta al mismo tiempo que reanudaba la composición de 'La...

Though now more famous as the father of Richard Strauss, Franz Strauss was a very well-known horn player with a well-documented reputation for being both musically conservative and difficult to work w...

L'Orfeo, a veces llamada "La favola d'Orfeo", es una "favola in musica" u ópera de finales del Renacimiento y principios del Barroco de Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), con libreto de Alessandro Strigg...

The third movement, "Allegretto grazioso", of Dvorák's eighth symphony is a melancholic 'sweet and languid" waltz in 3/4 time, which at the end changes into a more Bohemian folk dance in 2/4 time. The...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

As a composer Lehár started with contributions to the opera-genre but the great triumph of his first operetta 'Die lustige Witwe' ('The merry widow') in 1905 made him clear that he had to give his tal...

Der Bürger als Edelmann es el título alemán de una obra de Molière y una suite orquestal de Richard Strauss. La obra original francesa se titula "Le bourgeois gentilhomme" y trata de un rico comercian...

Le Nozze di Figaro es una de las tres óperas que Mozart compuso sobre libretos de Lorenzo da Ponte (1749-1838), famoso director de teatro y poeta vienés. La "Canzonetta sull'aria" es cantada en el ter...

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690 -1749) was a German composer. He enjoyed an outstanding reputation in his lifetime. Shortly after his death some of his compositions were still performed, and Friedric...

Vincenzo Bellini is one of the great composers of the bel canto era. The role of Norma was one of the favourites of the legendary soprano Maria Callas. (2 Sopranos and Concert Band)

The 'Slavonic Dances' are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvor(ák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. The fourth dance from the first s...

The Ballet Gayaneh was composed by Aram Khachaturian in 1940 for the Direction of Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre of Leningrad.In this ballet there is the Sabre Dance about which the same Aram Khachatu...

Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was an Austrian composer, son of Johann Strauss ('Vater') and brother of Johann jr. and Eduard. Josef Strauss was arguably the most talented of the Strauss dynasty, although...

Josef Strauss (1827-1870) was an Austrian composer, son of Johann Strauss ('Vater') and brother of Johann jr. and Eduard. Josef Strauss was arguably the most talented of the Strauss dynasty, although...

In 1884 Edvard Grieg composed the ‘Holberg Suite’, subtitled ‘Suite in olden style’. It’s a suite of five movements based on eighteenth-century dance forms, written to celebrate the 200th anniversary...

Faust is based on the novel Faust und Margarethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the libretto was conceived by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre.It's the story of the old Dr. Faust who once again wants...

The 'symphonie Fantastique' (Episode in the life of an artist) was heard for the first time in Paris on 5 December 1830. Still we can feel the beating of the creator's heart at every performance. In t...

The Messe breve no.7 'Aux Chapelles', in C major dates from the 1890's. With its purity of line and transparent polyphony, its melodic simplicity and the economy of its modulations, the Messe breve no...

The Messe breve no.7 'Aux Chapelles', in C major dates from the 1890's. With its purity of line and transparent polyphony, its melodic simplicity and the economy of its modulations, the Messe breve no...

Johann Sebastian Bach composed the first part of Das Wohltemperierte Klavier in 1722 while he was Kapellmeister to Prince Leopold at the court of Cöthen. The somewhat unusual title is based on the dis...