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In 1873 Tschaikowsky composed his "Six Piano Pieces Opus 19". 15 Years later he arranged the fourth movement, "Nocturne", for cello and orchestra. The composer's preferred cellist, Wilhelm Karl Friedr...

After the Armistice of Versailles was signed on 28 January 1871, the Paris Commune assumed power in Paris on 18 March. Fearing for his safety, Camille Saint-Saëns fled to exile in London. Under these...

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 '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...

Joseph De Luca (1890 - 1935) was an Italian-American composer, euphoniumist and conductor. De Luca entered the Conservatory of Music in Perugia and graduated when he was seventeen, studying composing,...

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...

Iolanthe was the seventh collaboration between librettist William Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. Both men were "at the top of their game" for this venture and this operetta is well known fo...

Max Reger (1873 -1916), was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. Between 1904 and 1912 Reger composed the "Schlichten Weisen" op. 76, 60 songs in 6 volumes. One of th...

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...

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)

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 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...

The Berceuse Hero'que, a lullaby for a hero, was composed in 1914 as a homage to King Albert I from Belgium and his soldiers. The work opens very dark and mysterious and then builds a huge crescendo....

The 'ballata' Questo o quella is sung by Il Duca de Mantua in the first act of Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Rigoletto. Among a group of guests he sings of his love-life: this one or that one, to me it's the...

Bellini wrote his opera I Capuleti e I Montecchi in 1825. It handles about the traditional story of Giulietta e Romeo. The aria Eccomi in lieta vesta... is sung in the first act: In her room, Giuliett...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. Like the famous polka Donner und Blitz, the Tick-Tack Polka opus 365 i...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which 'Die Fledermaus' his best contribution to this genre is. The aria Spiel'ich die Unschuld vom Lande is sung in the third act by...

This movement from Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite is very suitable for an intermezzo or as a final in your concert program. But as an encore the March of the Dwarfs will absolutely charm your audience! Th...