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1) 'Jour de Fête.* A quiet sunday atmosphere on the Avenue Foch, a residental area for the well-to-do in Paris. It begins with full-soun­ding chords, with a wealth of added tones. It seems as if many...

I needed a new tune at trotting tempo to accompany a display at the 'Horse of the Year Show' for which my band plays every year. I couln't find one but managed to think of this one which fitted nicely...

With this 'Air', the third part of his cantata about People going to church on Whitsuntide, the Dutch composer Pieter Goemans (Istambul, 1925) proves his talents as a composer go far beyond songs for...

Von Fremden Ländern und Menschen/Kuriose Geschichte/Musche Mann/Wichtige Begebenheit/Träumerei/Am Kamin/Der Dichter spricht

The work opens with a theme in a folksong character: an introduc-tion in minor. Timpani and the low winds symbolise the Hungarian character and the never-ending struggle of the people of Hungary. Afte...

A couple of years ago Piet Daalhuisen and Marcel Peeters combined their talents to write the most successful band selection 'With a smile to the Classics'. Here is another work resulting from their co...

Since the Soviet Union no longer seems to be that far away from our Western World, we are eager to know Russian music better. Of course, we do prefer the music by Russian composers (such as Salnikov's...

Les plages de Rio de Janeiro sont presque aussi célèbres dans le monde entier que la musique brésilienne, avec ses caractéristiques typiques. Le mélange de différentes races a donné lieu non seulement...

The Canadian composer Legrady, born in Hungary, wrote this fine suite with three famous mediterrenean holiday resorts in mind.He was successively inspired by the Monte Carlo Casino, the Greek isle of...

This suite in five parts by the famous Russian wind music composer Salnikov is remarkable for its brilliant composition technique and its superb inspiration. Original Russian themes have been linked i...

In a previous successful work Glenn meets Wolfgang Penders revised a Mozart tune in the Glenn Miller style; this time the famous spiritual Battle of Jericho was the willing victim of Glenn Miller's sp...

Symphonie Ibérique (Iberian Symphony) was composed in 1989. As the title suggests the composer evokes in this three part composition some Spanish atmospheres. The melodic structure and the typical mus...

In his three hours lasting box-office hit 'Les Uns et les Autres' the French filmmaker Claude Lelouch describes the joys and sorrows, important events and everyday incidents of the lives of a number o...

The outer movements of this Little Suite are based on traditional Swedish folkdances. The melancholy second movement sings of the girl Hilla and her love for Duke Hillebrand, unattainable for her, as...