Baton Orchestral

The name 'Pathetique' for the last of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's six symphonies was suggested by the composer's brother the day after its premiere in 1893. And indeed the 'Finale' of this symphony is...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The polka-mazurka Stadt und Land, Opus 322 is a beautiful example of S...

Jon Lord (1941 - 2012) was an English composer, pianist, and Hammond organ player known for his pioneering work in fusing rock with classical or baroque forms, especially with "Deep Purple", as well a...

Rosen aus dem Süden (Roses from the South), is a waltz medley composed by Strauss in 1880 with its themes drawn from the operetta Das Spitzentuch der Königin inspired by a novel by Heinrich Bohrmann-R...

Joyeuse Marche del compositor francés Emmanuel Chabrier es la segunda parte de un par de piezas orquestales (la otra era "Prélude Pastoral") estrenadas el 4 de noviembre de 1888 en Angers, bajo la dir...

Sleigh Ride es una composición del compositor británico Frederick Delius (1862-1934). Es una pieza típica de Delius que se ajusta al estilo de sus miniaturas (mucho) posteriores como "On hearing the f...

Les Patineurs Valse (opus 183), conocido en español como "El vals de los patinadores", fue compuesto en 1882 e inspirado por el "Cercle des Patineurs" o "Pista de patinadores" del Bois de Boulogne en...

La Gioconda es una ópera en cuatro actos de Amilcare Ponchielli con libreto de Arrigo Boito, basado en "Angelo, tyran de Padoue", una obra en prosa de Victor Hugo de 1835. Estrenada en 1876, "La Gioco...

Tristsch Tratsch era una revista satírica vienesa. En 1858 publicó un perfil de Johann Strauss: se temía, decía el reportaje, que las temporadas de conciertos de Strauss en Rusia y el desarrollo de su...

La polca "Fledermaus" es uno de los seis arreglos de danza sobre temas de la opereta de Johann Strauss "Die Fledermaus". Se estrenó en 1874 en el Theater an der Wien y, según los periódicos de la époc...

Strauss compuso la "Annen-Polka" en 1852 para celebrar el día de Santa Ana. Esta polca fue muy popular desde su estreno en 1852, cuando los periódicos vieneses informaron de lo siguiente: "Johann Stra...

Although Franz Lehár became most known for his contribution to the operetta repertoire, he also composed a lot of marches. One of these is 'Piave induló' (Piave Marsch, Marche form the 106th Regiment)...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

In 1933 Revueltas composed his brief symphonic poem "Janitzio" named after an island in Lake Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacán, west of Mexico City, whose population had derived its income largely...

Johann Strauss wrote the 'Russische Marsch-Fantasie' (Russian March Fantasy) for a tour to Russia in 1872. Because the tour was cancelled, the successful first performance of the march was held in Vie...

Brahms composed this festive overture in 1879 as a gesture of gratitude to the University of Breslau for the honourary doctorate in philosophy it granted him. He incorporated a number of student songs...

A Rossini overture is a challenge for any orchestra and a treat for the audience. It is especially the woodwinds that show their best side in this less known but no less splendid overture. (Concert Ba...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed the Fugue in E-Flat Major, and its companion Prelude, as the beginning and ending works of the third part of the 'Clavierübungen' around 1739-1740.This colle...

The 'Missa Solemnis in B flat' was Anton Anton Bruckner's first major work for choir and orchestra. In this transcription of the Agnus Dei, a brass choir of horns, Trumpets and trombones replaces the...

We may regret Khatchaturian's delay in bringing this music before a wider audience: it is one of the best of his lighter scores and there is no reason why it should not have enjoyed the popularity of...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi composed his opera Rigoletto in 1851 and together with La Traviata (1853) and Il Trovatore (1853), this opera belongs to the top of Giuseppe Verdi's middle period of composing....

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887) started working on his only opera Prince Igor in 1869, but at his death 18 years later it remained unfinished.The splendid overture seems to have been completed by Glazun...

The intermezzo is the fifth movement of the original suite of Aram Khachaturian's music to Lope Felix de Vega Carpio's Spanish comedy The Valencian Widow.A somber dramatically opening leads to a slowe...

Nielsen's Rhapsodic Overture (1927) represents the romantic musical element in orchestral composition. The sub-title A fantasy journey to FaroÙr belies the imaginative character of the piece, which is...

Also sprach Zarathustra!', ('Thus Spoke Zarathustra') is a tone poem by Richard Strauss, composed in 1896 and inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra!'. The compo...