Obras instrumentales para orquesta de viento

Es gelingt dem Pariser Komponisten Mickey Nicolas wieder, mit seiner üblichen Begabung, zugleich die Musiker und das Publikum mit exotischen Klängen zu begeistern. Diese reizende Komposition führt uns...

Der Lobgesang und die Dankhymne 'Te Deum laudamus' (Wir loben Dich, o Gott) war das Ende der Metten (der ersten Morgengebeten in den Klostern). Eher behauptete die Tradition der Heilige Augustinus sei...

Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921) put an end to his career as leading trumpeter with several famous London symphony orchestras to become a full-time composer. He became world famous with his soundtrack music...

About his composition 'Fin de Siècle', completed in 1995, Alkema writes: 'At the end of each century 'everything is allowed' for some time. Everything is being summarized and eventually leads to a las...

'At a concert one should modulate the tonal atmosphere both for the musicians and the audience' dixit Maddy Nicolas, my wife to whom I dedicate this composition. The menuet's elegance and noble simpli...

The German composer Max Bruch was born in 1838 and died in 1920. Shortly after his arrival in Britain in 1880, where he had been appointed musical director of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, he co...

Suntan was written during a visit to Cyprus. In a jaunty melody, it attempts to reflect some of the sunshine and warmth of the small mediterranean island.

In 1991 the Russian town Leningrad has been renamed Saint Petersburg again, after a period of more than 70 years. This piece, based on Russian folksongs, is dedicated to the people of this beautiful t...

Though composed as a simple unpretentious little work, this 'Fandango Fantasy' sounds somewhat virtuoso. The slow middlepart makes us think of the plendid piano pieces by the Spanish composer Isaac Al...

Here is a kind of matrial hymn, composed in honour of the Olympics. Pieter Goemans wrote this work fort he Dutch Radio Orchestra 'Metropole Orkest' and here you have a skilful arrangement by Marcel Pe...

Without claiming to possess a 'Magic Formula' to realize this sequence, the composer fancied to imagine a Formula One race at Monza. The binary beat portrays the combustion engine. The exaggerated eff...