Baton Orchestral

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...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

Franz von Suppé composed about 30 operettas and 180 farces, ballets, and other stage works. Although the bulk of Suppé's operas have sunk into relative obscurity, the overtures - particularly 'Dichter...

As a contribution to the opera "Armer Columbus" by German composer Erwin Dressel, Shostakovich composed two of his quirkiest and oddest early orchestral pieces. An energetic "Entr"acte" in c minor (Al...

French composer Adolphe Adam composed his opera 'si j'etais roi' (if I Were King) in 1852. Though less popular than 'Le postillon de Lonjumeau', it is often regarded as Adam's finest work. The well-de...

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...

Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen (WWV 49) (Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Bulwer-Lytton's novel of t...

Since its premiere in 1892, "Werther" has ranked among Jules Massenet's most admired and beloved scores; it has also proved the most enduring. He was inspired to compose the opera about the doomed poe...

George Gershwin composed his "Cuban Overture" in July and August 1932. Originally was the work titled "Rumba" and was the result of a two-week holiday which Gershwin took in Havana, Cuba in February 1...

Many see Wagner's Tristan und Isolde as the beginning of the move away from common practice harmony and tonality and consider that it lays the groundwork for the direction of classical music in the 20...

Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) de Rossini es una de las más grandes óperas cómicas. Basada en una excelente obra de Beaumarchais, "El barbero de Sevilla" deleita al público con sus personajes agudamen...

La forza del destino es una ópera italiana de Giuseppe Verdi. El libreto fue escrito por Francesco Maria Piave basándose en un drama español, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino", de Ángel de Saavedra. "...

La forza del destino es una ópera italiana de Giuseppe Verdi. El libreto fue escrito por Francesco Maria Piave basándose en un drama español, "Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino", de Ángel de Saavedra. "...

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...

The idea of a 'Hamlet overture' had first occurred to Tschaikowsky in 1876. However, by 1888 he had altered these plans when he was asked to write incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's pl...

The Wasps is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was based on Aristophane's ancient Greek comedy The Wasps for a production at Trinity College, Cambrid...

Beside his 150 waltzes Johann Strauss composed several operettas of which "Die Fledermaus" his best contribution to this genre is. This transcription follows the short but jolly introduction of the fi...

La Gazza Ladra (La urraca ladrona) de Rossini es un melodrama u "ópera semiseria" en dos actos sobre un libreto de Giovanni Gherardini basado en "La pie voleuse" de Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubign...

Nabucco fue la primera ópera de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) que se convirtió en un verdadero éxito. Se considera que esta ópera estableció definitivamente la reputación de Verdi como compositor: "Esta...

Nabucco fue la primera ópera de Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) que se convirtió en un verdadero éxito. Se considera que esta ópera estableció definitivamente la reputación de Verdi como compositor: "Esta...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed 'Egmont' as a set of incidental music pieces for the play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The overture has become famous on its own and is in a similar st...

Johann Strauss's operetta 'Eine Nacht in Venedig' (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high acclaim, the pres...

Johann Strauss's operetta 'Eine Nacht in Venedig' (A Night in Venice) premiered 1883 in Berlin and is his only operetta to be premiered outside Vienna. Although the score gained high acclaim, the pres...

Vanda es una gran ópera en cinco actos de Antonín Dvořák, estrenada en el Teatro Provisional de Praga el 17 de abril de 1876. La historia trata de la reina polaca, la princesa Wanda, que se ahoga en e...

Vanda es una gran ópera en cinco actos de Antonín Dvořák, estrenada en el Teatro Provisional de Praga el 17 de abril de 1876. La historia trata de la reina polaca, la princesa Wanda, que se ahoga en e...