Ce recueil réunit des pièces enchanteresses qui permettent aux fl tistes de découvrir les couleurs de l'impressionnisme musical. Franco Cesarini a sélectionné et arrangé huit célèbres pièces de Claude...
Bulgarian Dances est une rhapsodie libre, divisée en quatre mouvements distincts basés sur de célèbres chansons populaires bulgares. Ces chansons ont une tradition très ancienne et proviennent à la fo...
Franco Cesarini has used four anonymous renaissance pieces as the basis for this four-movement composition, and, by exploiting the many colours of the brass band, he has recreated the atmosphere of th...
During his childhood The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the favourite book of the composer Franco Cesarini. With his memories of the magic of joy, fear and freedom, Cesarini seeks to bring the figures o...
This collection contains works from the so-called 'Belle Époque', the time period right around the turn of the 20th century which have been arranged for flute and piano by Franco Cesarini. It includes...
This joyous fanfare offers many members of the band the opportunityto shine. The opening subject is passed from the clarinets to thesaxophones and then to the oboes before being taken up by thecomplet...
Demand for studies which - in addition to technique - also concentrate on musicality, interpretation and expression, has increased during recent years. These are precisely the aspects advanced players...
It is often the case that at the end of a concert a soloist is requested to perform an additional item not listed in the programme, in other words an encore. In general the piece that is chosen is sho...
This collection contains works, selected and arranged by Franco Cesarini, that explore the wide spectrum of Russian romantic music. On one side are the followers of Russian nationalism, including comp...
The pieces collected in LA FLAUTA ROMANTICA were written by three of the greatest Spanish instrumental virtuosi of their time: the pianists Isaac Albéniz and Enrique Granados as well as the violinist...
In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overt...
Nimrod ist der Name der neunten und bekanntesten Variation in Edward Elgars Enigma Variations, einem Orchesterwerk mit 14 Variationen über ein ursprüngliches Thema, das zwischen 1898 und 1899 komponie...
Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most famous composers of Italian opera. Here, Cesarini has masterfully arranged Nabucco.
Franz Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies are characterised by melancholy, great expressiveness and wonderful gypsy rhythms. No. 2 is the best known of all, mainly thanks to the use of various passages fo...
L'arrangement pour orchestre d'harmonie de "L'Arlésienne Suite n° 2" de Georges Bizet par Franco Cesarini a été réalisé après que le compositeur ait longtemps cherché une version de l'œuvre qui le sat...
Franco Cesarini presents this valuable collection of pieces, intermediate in difficulty, from the Baroque period to the Impressionists at the beginning of the 20th century. Using these carefully selec...
Le compositeur suisse Franco Cesarini est né en 1961 à Bellinzona. Avec ce quatuor pour flûtes, Cesarini a voulu écrire une musique qui permette un approfondissement tant didactique que musical, accor...
FROM BACH TO BRAHMS leads through 200 years of music history. The arrangements of these 16 small, easily accesible pieces, that were originally written for various instruments, are a wonderful additio...
Following La fl te au salon and Belle Époque, Franco Cesarini dedicated himself once more to French chamber music: Joueurs de fl te presents a delightful selection of compositions for flute and piano...
The term 'salon music' - making music in private salons - was coined in the 19th century. During this period, the invention of the Böhm System and the resulting new sound and technical capabilities of...
Fasciné par la beauté de Chicago, Franco Cesarini a traduit ses émotions en musique: c'est ainsi qu'est née la 'Symphonie N. 3 'Urban Landscapes» Op. 55,' portrait musical de cette métropole sur...
With Caucasian Sketches Franco Cesarini completes the series of piecesbased on dances in the Caucasian style which started with his CossackFolk Dances. The charming, melancholy dances and songs bring...
Ces 'images d'une ville' ne cherchent pas tant à évoquer des images visuelles qu'un tableau d'ambiance d'une grande ville moderne. La musique reflète les états d'âme de la vie actuelle avec énergie, d...
Bulgarian folk music has a long tradition and numerous typical characteristics, such as particular dissonances and complex, irregular rhythms. In Bulgarian Dances (Part II) (which can be performed tog...
Arizona is written in a typical three-part overture form. The composition is not strictly descriptive as such, but rather conveys moods and emotions, inspired by impressions of the American desert sta...
The overture Harlequin was composed in 1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Swiss Federation of Wind Band conductors. The striking ascending and descending melodic lines, heard throughout the comp...
Greek folk music is characterised by the sound of the 'buzuki' which is often used in combination with the clarinet, the mandolin, the violin and various types of tambourines. In Greek Folk Song Suite...
Piotta is a lively 6/8 march from well-known concert band composer, Franco Cesarini. This exciting and musically witty piece is as impressive rhythmically as it is melodically, and will make for an el...
With Convergents Franco Cesarini has succeeded in composing a piece suitable for both concerts or contests which whilst not being too difficult still has the feel of a major work. This extremely rhyth...
Dieses kurze Werk für Altsaxophon und Streichquartett ist in seiner Grundstimmung leicht und stilistisch dem Divertimento im klassischen Sinn von 'Unterhaltung' verpflichtet. Im Verlauf der Kompositio...
A Triumphant Fanfare ist - wie der Name schon sagt - eine triumphale, majestätische Fanfare. In dieser neuen Komposition von Franco Cesarini dürfen die die Blechbläser brillieren, die Holzbläser mit L...
Fanfare viennoise de Richard Strauss, une version courte de Festmusik der Stadt Wien, composée à l’origine pour dix trompettes, sept trombones, deux tubas et timbales, a servi de base à l’arrangement...
This overture, called Sinfonia, is without doubt one of the best original works for concert band to emerge from the 19th century. It is characterised by its fluid spontaneity as well as its rich textu...
Ce célèbre morceau du compositeur suisse Franco Cesarini est une façon festive de commencer votre concert.
Diese 'Bilder einer Stadt' wollen nicht so sehr visuale Bilder, sondern vielmehr ein Stimmungsbild einer modernen Großstadt heraufbeschwören. Die Musik spiegelt die Stimmungslagen des heutigen Lebens...
Inspired by the operas of Bellini, Saverio Mercadante created this richly contrasting overture from lyrical and dramatic moments in his own works. This arrangement offers modern concert bands access t...
Tancredi, composed in 1813, is rarely performed in today's opera houses, however its overture, or Sinfonia, as it was called at the time, is well-liked and has received regular performances over the y...
Genève is a festive march, composed on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the 'La Musique Municipale de la Ville Genève' music association. The composer, Franco Cesarini, integrated a traditiona...
Il était une fois en Amérique du Nord, une mère qui vivait avec sa jeune fille chez la tribu des Indiens Ojibwé. La fille souffrait de terribles cauchemars. La mère cherchait de l'aide auprès de la fe...
Bright Dawn Overture est une commande de l’Association suisse des Musiques dans le cadre d'un projet de renouvellement et d'élargissement du répertoire artistique. "Il n'y a jamais eu une nuit ou un p...
Que ton chemin soit sinueux, venteux, solitaire et dangereux, et qu'il te mène à la vue la plus spectaculaire. Que tes montagnes s'élèvent jusqu'aux nuages et les surmontent. - Eduard Abbey
This collection will give you the opportunity to concentrate on all the technical and expressive aspects of flute playing, switching from 'brilliant' pieces to works with a more cantabile character, i...
This book, which contains several arrangements of Romantic movements for flute and piano, is intended to give advanced flutists the opportunity to experience and become acquainted with more music of t...
Under the title LUX NORDICA, this edition contains a selection of Romantic pieces by various composers of northern origin. Franco Cesarini collected seven works from Niels W. Gade and Carl Nielsen (De...
German Romanticism includes selected works from some of the most important composers of the style, to whom-in terms of musical history-the Austrian Franz Schubert also belongs. Besides Carl Maria von...
The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...
The Cossacks played an integral part in Russia's history which finally ended with the Soviet occupation in the 1920s. Franco Cesarini had the opportunity to attend performances by an ethnic group of C...
American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on t...
The Gran Finale from the second act of Verdi's famous opera Aida, composed in 1869, is a complex part of the drama as in one single scene many different characters, allwith contrasting emotions, appea...
Giuseppe Verdi est l'un des plus célèbres compositeurs d'opéra italien. Ici, Cesarini a arrangé de façon magistrale Nabucco.
Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...
The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...
Camillo De Nardis' Il giudizio universale (The Universal Judgement) was awarded first prize at the Competition for Band Composition held in Naples. This composition was inspired by Verdi's Requiem wit...
The title refers to the historical period that marked the transition between the baroque and classical styles. Rococo music is characterised by a profusion of ornaments, by graceful elegance and light...
La Passacaille est un ensemble de variations reposant sur une basse ostinato. La Passacaille et Fugue en ut mineur pour orgue de Bach est l'apogée de ce qui avait été réalisé jusque-là. La version po...
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) était un compositeur d'opéra allemand d'origine juive, décrit comme étant peut-être le compositeur de musique de scène le plus prolifique du XIXe siècle. De 1831 à sa mor...
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) était un compositeur d'opéra allemand d'origine juive, décrit comme le compositeur de théâtre le plus réussi du XIXe siècle. Il est resté une figure dominante du monde de...
César Franck, Komponist, Pianist, Organist und Musiklehrer schrieb Amor und Psyché, seine sechste und letzte symphonische Dichtung in 1887. Die Uraufführung fand 1888 in Paris statt und war ein großer...
Créée à Vienne en août 1848, la Marche Radetzky de Johann Strauss Jr. est l’une des marches les plus célèbres de tous les temps. Il est dédié au maréchal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz. Strauss a été char...
« La Gioconda », sur un livret d’Arrigo Boito, est l’œuvre théâtrale la plus réussie d’Amilcare Ponchielli (1844-1886). Il comprend deux pièces de danse : la Furlana à la fin de l’acte 1 et la Danza d...
Nimrod est le nom de la neuvième variation, la plus connue, des Enigma Variations d'Edward Elgar, une œuvre orchestrale de 14 variations sur un thème original, composée entre 1898 et 1899. Chaque vari...
Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871-1927) était un pianiste, chef d’orchestre et compositeur suédois. Ses compositions comprennent de la musique de scène, des opéras, des concertos, deux symphonies et des œuvres...
The world-famous Vocalise Op. 34 by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1912) is actually a lyrical exercise for singers but is especially suitable as an expressive performance piece for solo instrument. In his arra...
Franco Cesarini ha composto questo brano in omaggio a Bisacquino, comune nel palermitano del quale è cittadino onorario. La Suite siciliana è una composizione formata da una serie di sette danze: intr...
Mit den bezaubernden Stücken in dieser Sammlung können Geiger beginnen, sich mit der Musik des Impressionismus vertraut zu machen. Zu diesem Zweck wurden acht bekannte Stücke von Claude Debussy - dem...
Lugano is an exciting concert march that Franco Cesarini composed for the Civica Filarmonica di Lugano, which Cesarini has been conducting since 1998. The idyllic location of the Ticinese city and the...
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Diesen Marsch widmete Franco Cesarini dem Schweizer Kanton Tessin, der zu zwei Dritteln aus einer imposanten, nahezu unzugänglichen Berglandschaft besteht. Das Werk erzählt von der Poesie der Landscha...
Siebnen a été commandé à Franco Cesarini par Blaise Héritier, chef d'orchestre de la fanfare de la ville du même nom dans le canton suisse de Schwyz. La première représentation de la pièce a eu lieu l...
Siebnen a été commandée à Franco Cesarini par Blaise Héritier, chef de l'orchestre de musique de la ville du même nom dans le canton suisse de Schwyz. La première de la pièce a eu lieu lors du concert...
À l'occasion de l'élévation de la commune de Tamm, une charmante ville allemande du Bade-Wurtemberg, l'association musicale locale a commandé la marche Tamm à Franco Cesarini. Tamm est une marche à la...
Cesarini composed this work as a tribute to the memory of Darius Milhaud, born a century earlier in Aix-en-Provence, France. The premiere, conducted by the composer, was presented by the Civic Philhar...
Après le grand succès de la "Greek Folk Song Suite", qui dure depuis plus de vingt ans, Franco Cesarini se penche à nouveau sur la longue et riche tradition de la musique populaire grecque. Sa Greek F...
Au cours de son expérience en tant que chef d'orchestre d'harmonie et professeur de direction au conservatoire, Franco Cesarini a souvent été confronté la thématique de l'échauffement. Pendant ses lon...
The Flute Trio Op. 24 is comprised of six miniatures, hardly any of which last longer than one minute. The composition is highly simplified in nature, pared right down to the bare essentials. A minima...
A wonderful original piece that is full of contrasts and perfect for displaying the versatility of the saxophone.