BM Concert Band

Svendsen wrote his three Norwegian rhapsodies between 1876 and 1877. All of them are largely based on themes from a collection og songs Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier' by L.M. Lundeman. Norwegian...

Johan Svendsen wrote several great adaptions of folk music for strings. These are all characterized by his tasteful harmonics. Far Away Star is one of the two Swedish folk songs published as op. 27 fo...

This great piece is a result of two outstanding composers creative ability. The French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) used the Prelude No. 1 from 'Das Wohltemperierte Klavier' by Johann Sebasian...

Johan Svendsen (1840 - 1911) was the first great Norwegian symphonic composer, as well as one of the leading conductors of his time. Next to Edv. Grieg, he was the most prominent figure in Norwegian m...

Grieg is the most important Norwegian composer in the national-romantic period. In 1872 he composed the incidental music for Sigurd Jorsalfar, a play on a subjekt drawn from Norse saga by the national...

This piece is a collection of three folk songs from Nord-Gudbrandsdal in Norway. To the Conductor: First part (from bar 8): The trumpets presents the theme while the horns and trombones represents a k...

Hanna Glawari's beautiful song in the garden-party in the operatta 'The Merry Widow by Franz Lehar. Lyrics in german and norwegian Solo-parts for instrumentalist (C - Bb or Eb) is included in the set