Baton Orchestral

German composer Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) started work on the overture based on Martin Luther's chorale 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (A mighty fortress is our God) in the summer of 1836. In the foll...

Heinrich August Marschner (1795 - 1861) was a German composer born in Zittau. After a meeting with Beethoven, he decided to devote himself to music and became a private music teacher in Bratislava. Ma...

Albert Leutner (Berlin, 1815 - 1871) was a German composer. He started composing dances, marches and quadrilles as early as 1835. In 1838, at the age of 23, he became Kapellmeister of the Military Ban...

Albert Leutner (Berlin, 1815 - 1871) was a German composer. He started composing dances, marches and quadrilles as early as 1835. In 1838, at the age of 23, he became Kapellmeister of the Military Ban...

El compositor francés Hector Berlioz escribió numerosas "oberturas", muchas de las cuales se han convertido en populares obras de concierto. Entre ellas se encuentran verdaderas oberturas, destinadas...

El compositor francés Hector Berlioz escribió numerosas "oberturas", muchas de las cuales se han convertido en populares obras de concierto. Entre ellas se encuentran verdaderas oberturas, destinadas...

La ópera bufa "Così fan tutte" (Así hacen todos) es una de las tres óperas de Mozart para las que Da Ponte escribió el libreto. Las otras dos colaboraciones Da Ponte-Mozart fueron "Le nozze di Figaro"...

La ópera bufa "Così fan tutte" (Así hacen todos) es una de las tres óperas de Mozart para las que Da Ponte escribió el libreto. Las otras dos colaboraciones Da Ponte-Mozart fueron "Le nozze di Figaro"...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality o...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality o...

El rapto en el serrallo es un singspiel en tres actos de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. El libreto alemán es de Gottlieb Stephanie, basado en "Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail" de C...

El rapto en el serrallo es un singspiel en tres actos de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. El libreto alemán es de Gottlieb Stephanie, basado en "Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail" de C...

The opera buffa ‘Don Giovanni’ is one of the three Mozart operas for which Da Ponte wrote the libretto. The other two Da Ponte-Mozart collaborations were ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ and ‘Così fan tutte’. ‘Do...

Madama Butterfly es una ópera en tres actos de Giacomo Puccini, con libreto italiano de Luigi Illica y Giuseppe Giacosa. Está basada en el cuento "Madame Butterfly" (1898) de John Luther Long. La vers...

Madama Butterfly es una ópera en tres actos de Giacomo Puccini, con libreto italiano de Luigi Illica y Giuseppe Giacosa. Está basada en el cuento "Madame Butterfly" (1898) de John Luther Long. La vers...

El bateo' es una zarzuela en un acto (género chico) y cuatro escenas, con música de Federico Chueca y libreto de Antonio Domínguez y Antonio Paso. La obra es una de las representantes de las últimas o...

El bateo' es una zarzuela en un acto (género chico) y cuatro escenas, con música de Federico Chueca y libreto de Antonio Domínguez y Antonio Paso. La obra es una de las representantes de las últimas o...

Die Zauberflöte isn't a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Die Zauberflöte isn"t a romantic love story but a real parable: a resemblance about higher human striving to purity and self-improvement. Not love between two people is in the centre but a more indivi...

Verdi composed "Un Ballo in Maschera" for the San Carlo Theatre in Naples where it was to have been staged during the 1858 carnival season. The libretto told the true story of the liberal King Gustavu...

Dutch composer Johan Wagenaar (1862 - 1941) parodied the conventions of Romantic opera in his own operas and secular cantatas, his music itself is staunchly Romantic in voice, little troubled by even...

1812 Ouverture Solenelle fue escrita por Tschaikowsky en 1880 para conmemorar la defensa rusa de Moscú contra el avance de la Grande Armee napoleónica en la "Batalla de Borodino" de 1812. La obertura...

1812 Ouverture Solenelle" was written by Tschaikowsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon's advancing Grande Armée at the "Battle of Borodino" in 1812. The overture debu...

Il Pirata (The Pirate) was Bellini's third opera. "Il Pirata" is an opera in two acts to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani from a French translation of the tragic play "Bertram", or "The Castle of...

After completing and premiering his powerful and controversial 13th Symphony, Babi Yar, in 1962, Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) spent the next year in a state of physical and creative recuperation. T...