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The second movement from Mozart's concerto for Bassoon in a fine transription by Marc Koninkx for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble. (Bassoon and Concert Band)

The Concerto for Bassoon in B flat, KV 191 is the earliest surviving wind concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It seems unadventurous and conventional, but we must remember Mozart was attempting to wr...

Gioacchino Rossini composed the Variations in Do for Clarinette in 1810 during his last year of study at the Musical Lyceum of Bologna. It was, in all probability, written for a school concert given b...

After the performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's Concerto's for Oboe and Trombone and Military Band in 1876, the composer wrote: 'My third and last composition of this character is a Konzertstück for the C...

After the performances of Rimsky-Korsakov's Concerto's for Oboe and Trombone and Military Band in 1876, the composer wrote: 'My third and last composition of this character is a Konzertstück for the C...

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote concerto's for Oboe, Clarinet and Trombone and Military Band. The Concerto for Trombone is now edited by Marco Tamanini for the instrumentation of a modern Symphonic Windorchestr...

Rimsky-Korsakov wrote concerto's for Oboe, Clarinet and Trombone and Military Band. The Concerto for Trombone is now edited by Marco Tamanini for the instrumentation of a modern Symphonic Windorchestr...

I Got Rhythm is a song composed by George George Gershwin published in 1930, which became a widely-known jazz standard. The song was introduced by Ethel Merman in the musical Girl Crazy. In 1933, Geor...

I Got Rhythm is a song composed by George George Gershwin published in 1930, which became a widely-known jazz standard. The song was introduced by Ethel Merman in the musical Girl Crazy. In 1933, Geor...

Antonino Pasculli (1842-1924), perhaps the greatest oboe virtuoso of historical memory was called the Paganini of the Oboe. Like Paganini, not finding compositions which could fully exploit his extrao...

Antonino Pasculli (1842-1924), perhaps the greatest oboe virtuoso of historical memory was called the Paganini of the Oboe. Like Paganini, not finding compositions which could fully exploit his extrao...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The complete work was premiered, with the...

The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra, composed by Sergei Rachmaninov between the autumn of 1900 and April 1901. The complete work was premiered, with the...

Horn and Concert Band. Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to per...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829. His father was of German-Jewish decent and his Catholic mother was a Creole from Haiti. His piano lessons commenced at the age of five and were...

Louis Moreau Gottschalk was born in New Orleans in 1829. His father was of German-Jewish decent and his Catholic mother was a Creole from Haiti. His piano lessons commenced at the age of five and were...

Trumpet and Concert Band. Mexican composer Augustin Lara (1897- 1970) was mainly a composer of songs used in movies and cabarets. It is said that Lara never learned musical notation. In total he wrote...

Rhapsody in Blue is a musical composition by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band written in 1924, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects. The composition was...

Variations for Clarinet and Symphonic Band on a theme from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet by Russian composer Grigory Kalinkovich.

Variations for Clarinet and Symphonic Band on a theme from Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet by Russian composer Grigory Kalinkovich.

Only after John Golland passed away in 1993 the score of his Tuba Concerto Op. 46 was found. The first performance of this work was given by Andrew Duncan and the Halle Orchestra at the Halle Proms at...

The famous Meditation from Jules Massenet opera Tha's is the entr'acte for violin and orchestra played between the scenes of the second act and nowadays often performed as a separate concert piece.

German composer Max Bruch was an enthusiastic exponent of music for solo string instruments. His Romance in F for Viola and Orchestra has long occupied a permanent place in the viola repertoire, wheth...