Partituras de Molenaar para orquesta de vientos

A tasteful mix of christmas standards, surprisingly arranged by one of our greatest composers.

Here's at last a nice new piece of music for your Christmas concert: Michael W. Smith composed this enchanting music in the style of John Williams' film music for E. T. and Harry Potter. Henk Ummels s...

This composition by Andrew Pearce was commissioned by the French television channel TF1, to celebrate the end of the year's festivities. This bright and festive piece features euphonium soloists with...

Wondrous Intrada. An exciting opener for any Christmas concert, based upon the carol Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (A Great and Mighty Wonder). The work is carefully scored to work for a reduced band if...

Everybody knows the very popular song 'Gloria in Excelsis Deo', actually a thirteenth century French carol called 'Les Anges dans nos Campagnes' (The angels in our countryside). Jef Penders (1928) wro...

Pjotr Iljitch Tchaikovsky is not only famous for his poignant symphonies and virtuoso concertos, but is also popular thanks to his romantic ballet music. The Nutcracker Ballet was inspired by the fair...

El inquietante Normandy Carol es una melodía alternativa para Away in a Manger. Este conjunto libre de variaciones [sobre el villancico] también presenta un motivo recurrente de Noche de Paz y contien...

Feliz Navidad (Spanish for 'happy Christmas) is one of the most popular Christmas Carols of Latin America and it has been performed by many artists (such as José Feliciano). This piece in the shape of...

The Dutch conductor and composer Vincent van den Bijlaard (Rheden, 1968) already attracted attention with his 'Winter Symphony' . Now he arranged a set of ten international famous Christmas Songs whic...

English Christmas Festival is the result of a challenge from Kew Wind Orchestra - write a Christmas medley with no overlap with the Leroy Anderson Christmas Festival. It is based upon six English Caro...

Kees Vlak composed the 'Christmas Time' suite for band in which he used German, Hungarian and Dutch Christmas carols.

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...

For those who prefer swinging music, Willy Hautvast wrote the selection A Swinkling Christmas with American and English carols such as Let it snow, White Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, the re...

Leroy Anderson(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1908 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1975) was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting...

Equally varied, certainly as to the countries of origin, is the wind band suite (eventually with mixed choir) 'An International Christmas' (1979) in which Kees Vlak used Italian and Czech carols.

The Dutch composer Meindert Boekel (Amsterdam, 1914 - Hilversum, 1989) became famous because of the Scherzo from his 'Suite Classique' already published by Molenaar Edition in 1948. Boekel was, no dou...

By means of this quite original fantasy Jef Penders invites both musicians and listeners to discover the typical Christmas atmosphere in eight different countries. We hear successively Christmas music...

Also Kees Vlak (1938) has apparantly been struck by the treasure of French carols and composed in 1981 the 'Fantasy on French Christmas Songs'.

Also extremely popular is the song 'Adeste Fidelis' (Come you faithful), originally a 18th century Portuguese Christmas carol, arranged for band by Jef Penders.

The French composer and organist Michel Richard de Lalande (Paris, 1657 - Versailles, 1726), a contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully, was music teacher of the daughters of King Louis XIV and was appoint...