Great Classics

The Intermezzo from the Romantic opera Notre Dame, based on Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame, is in fact Franz Schmidt's best-known work. The charm of this lovely composition lies in it...

In 1878, on a commission from his publisher, Anton n Dvorák wrote a series of eight Slavonic dances. Modelled on Johannes Brahms' famous Hungarian Dances, although in contrast to Brahms' work, Dvorák...

Offenbach (1819 - 1880), who was born in Germany, moved to Paris when he was a teenage boy and remained there for much of his life. He became especially famous as a composer of numerous operettas. and...

Cherubini made his Paris debut with Démophon, which premiered in 1788. Tohru Takahashi has arranged this dramatic overture for concert band, with specific parts for oboe, bassoon and saxophone among o...

Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald (Tales from the Vienna Woods), composed by Johann Strauss II in 1868, is a patriotic masterpiece that praises the beauty of the Vienna Woods. This icon of Viennese music...

A cantastoria or Bänkelsänger German for busker was a travelling musician who made music in streets and squares, together with his colleagues. Die Bänkelsängerlieder (buskers songs) originally stem fr...

Pie Jesu is the famous aria for soprano and orchestra from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, opus 48. Fauré (1845 - 1924) composed the work in 1887, two years after his father's death and only a short time bef...

Der Elsässer Louis Adam (1758-1848) war ein französischer Komponist und Klaviervirtuose. Er war Klavierpädagoge und Autor einer berühmten Klavierschule und Vater des Pädagogen und Komponisten Adolphe...

Der Elsässer Louis Adam (1758-1848) war ein französischer Komponist und Klaviervirtuose. Er war Klavierpädagoge und Autor einer berühmten Klavierschule und Vater des Pädagogen und Komponisten Adolphe...

In a Persian Market was composed in 1920 by English composer Albert W. Ketèlby. It is a short tone poem that describes the hustle and bustle taking place at a busy, exotic Persian bazaar. Camel herder...

Der englische Komponist, Dirigent und Pianist Albert W. Ketèlbey (1875-1959) machte sich besonders durch seine farbigen Instrumentierungen, die auf orientalischer Musik basierten, einen Namen. In a Mo...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) originally composed this work in 1887, as a Pie Jesu, when he was an organist in the St George's Church in Worcester. Years later, in 1902, he transformed the Pie Jesu into an...

Franz Lehár was born in Komárom, Hungary on 30th April 1870. From the age of fifteen he received composition and violin lessons at the Prague conservatory from Antonín Dvorák. In 1905 he composed The...

Als Basis für dieses strahlende Werk, das er zum Dank für die ihm verliehene Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität Breslau schrieb, verwendete Brahms in erfinderischer und heiterer Manier verschiedene deut...

Fascinated by the expressive power and spirit of the gypsy music from Hungary, Brahms used mainly traditional melodies in his Hungarian Dances as well as themes from compositions in similar musical st...

Julius Fuèik wrote over 100 compositions: chamber music and piano pieces as well as works for symphony orchestra and choir. Aside from this he created countless compositions for wind band, earning him...

Fred Raymond, geboren als Fred Vesely im Jahre 1900 in Wien, war Spross einer böhmischen Musikantenfamilie. Seine musikalische Karriere begann er als Kabarettpianist, bald schrieb er auch selbst Chans...

In his comic opera Banditenstreiche, Suppé uses all the qualities that have made him so well-loved by a wide audience. The appealing music is brimming with unexpected ideas and written in a light and...

Die Annen-Polka schrieb Johann Strauss (Sohn) zu Ehren der Kaiserin Anna Maria von Österreich. Uraufgeführt wurde das heute noch beliebte Stück im Juli 1852 im Wiener Vergnügungspark Prater. Die Annen...

Following the immense success of his fi rst waltzes Émile Waldteufel decided to continue composing works only in this genre. As a result of this he was nicknamed 'The French Strauss'. He composed more...

Following the immense success of his fi rst waltzes Émile Waldteufel decided to continue composing works only in this genre. As a result of this he was nicknamed 'The French Strauss'. He composed more...

An der schönen blauen Donau komponierte Strauss (Sohn) im Jahr 1866 für den Wiener Männergesangsverein, also ursprünglich als Chorwerk. Die Premiere war nicht so erfolgreich. Als Konzertwalzer hatte d...

Als die alte Mutter (Songs My Mother Taught Me) is the fourth of Dvorak's Gypsy Songs (Opus 55), a cycle he composed in the year 1880. This moving song was written to a German poem by Adolf Heyduk, an...

Als die alte Mutter ist der vierte Titel aus Antonin Dvoraks Liederzyklus Zigeunermelodien (opus 55) von 1880. Über die Jahre hinweg wurde die Melodie von großen Sängerinnen, wie Joan Sutherland und R...