Baton Orchestral

The music to the drama Masquerade consists of 14 pieces, mostly dances. Using five out of these 14 numbers Aram Khachaturian composed an orchestral suite and in this transcription for symphonic band t...

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez (1897-1948) fue un músico, compositor y periodista uruguayo. En 1916 compuso "La Cumparsita", que se interpretó por primera vez en público en el antiguo Café "La Giralda" de Mo...

Johann Strauss, the King of Waltzes, toured the world like a gypsy and his successful tours to St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Paris and New York helped to popularise his waltz music. What difference...

The 'March Opus 99' was composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943-44 for a Soviet military band and first broadcast on the radio from Moscow on April 30, 1944. It is not a typical march, but rather a livel...

The 'March Opus 99' was composed by Sergei Prokofiev in 1943-44 for a Soviet military band and first broadcast on the radio from Moscow on April 30, 1944. It is not a typical march, but rather a livel...

Eduard Strauss (1835 - 1916) was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. His popularity was overshadowed by that of hi...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1802-1803 his opus 48, 'Sechs Lieder (nach Gedichten von Gellert)' for voice and piano. The fourth song is 'Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur' which became very popular an...

Ludwig van Beethoven composed in 1802-1803 his opus 48, 'Sechs Lieder (nach Gedichten von Gellert)' for voice and piano. The fourth song is 'Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur' which became very popular an...

Most of the music which Dmitri Shostakovich used for his Ballet Suites was composed for the silent films in the early 30ies or was re-used from early opera's and ballets. The Dutch composer/arranger C...

Felix Mendelssohn composed the Marsch in D major opus 108 to celebrate a visit of the painter Cornelius to the city of Dresden in april 1841. (Concert Band)

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. Like the famous polka Donner und Blitz, the Tick-Tack Polka opus 365 i...

Der Zigeunerbaron is Strauss's second most popular operetta after Die Fledermaus. Its 1885 premiere had political resonance; the plot popularized the Dual (Austro-Hungarian) Monarchy which was to come...

Scherzo d'apres une ballade de Goethe Paul Dukas completed The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the spring of 1897, and it was performed for the first time on May 18 of that year in Paris. On that occasion, t...

Every year, Pomp and Circumstance (March no.1) is one of the encore's at the Last Night of the Proms in London: without any doubt, it's Edward Elgar's most populair work. (Concert Band)

Paul Lincke (1866-1946) is Germany's best known operetta composer and often compared with Austria's Johann Strauss. He composed a lot of operetta's, songs, dance- , revue- and filmmusic. From 1893 til...

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...

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...

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...

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...