Marches concertantes pour Harmonie

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)

A short instrumental section from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin with a principal part for the brass section.The transcription is made by Geert Mooren. (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. The Operetta...

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...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed two concertpieces - Konzertstücke - opus 113 and 114 for clarinet, bassethorn and orchestra. These works were dedicated with much respect to the clarinettists Ba...

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) composed two concertpieces - Konzertstücke - opus 113 and 114 for clarinet, bassethorn and orchestra. These works were dedicated with much respect to the clarinettists Ba...

Gangar is the second movement of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Suite: a Norwegian march in an easy mood. (Concert Band)

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is different from many operas. It is intimate, devoid of spectacle, taking place completely within a house in Nagasaki. The Coro a bocca chiusa is the Summ Choir from the op...

Puccini's Madama Butterfly is different from many operas. It is intimate, devoid of spectacle, taking place completely within a house in Nagasaki. The Coro a bocca chiusa is the Summ Choir from the op...

George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess contains many songs that have become popular in their own right, becoming standards in jazz and blues in addition to their original operatic setting. One of thos...

La fanciulla del West est en fait un opéra western. Basé sur la pièce "The Girl of the Golden West" de David Belasco, il a été créé à New York en 1910 et raconte comment l'amour d'une femme bien (Minn...

La fanciulla del West est en fait un opéra western. Basé sur la pièce "The Girl of the Golden West" de David Belasco, il a été créé à New York en 1910 et raconte comment l'amour d'une femme bien (Minn...

In 1876, Edvard Grieg created incidental music for the premiere of Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, at the request of the author. Many of the pieces from this work became very popular in the form of orchestral...

In 1876, Edvard Grieg created incidental music for the premiere of Ibsen's play Peer Gynt, at the request of the author. Many of the pieces from this work became very popular in the form of orchestral...

When Puccini's opera Turandot was heard for the first time in April 1926, its composer had been dead for almost a year and a half. Turandot is considered as his best work: Puccini's mastery of orchest...

La Traviata tells the story of the young and beautiful courtesan Violetta who falls in love with Alfredo, an ordinary and poor young man.She leaves her luxurious live for him and finally offers her lo...

La Traviata tells the story of the young and beautiful courtesan Violetta who falls in love with Alfredo, an ordinary and poor young man.She leaves her luxurious live for him and finally offers her lo...

The second movement from Mozart's concerto for Bassoon in a fine transription by Marc Koninkx for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble. (Bassoon and Concert Band)

The second movement from Mozart's concerto for Bassoon in a fine transription by Marc Koninkx for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble. (Bassoon and Concert Band)

Li¨ sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is. (Soprano and Concert Band)

Li¨ sings her aria Tu che di gel sei cinta near the end of Puccini's opera Turandot. She tells Turandot that even she will learn what love is. (Soprano and Concert Band)

La Clemenza di Tito was Mozart's last Opera. In the aria 'Parto, parto' Sesto replies to Vitellia who has blamed him for not carrying out a conspiracy against the Emperor Tito. He agrees to go as she...

Mozart's funeral motet Ave verum corpus was composed in june 1791 for Anton Stroll, choirmaster at the spa of Baden, near Vienna. Within a tiny span the music sounds an extraordinary depth of feeling,...

Orfeo's famous aria Che faro senza Euridice ? (What shall I do without Eurydice?) is placed in the third and final act of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice: At length he, Orfeo can no longer resist Eury...

Giuseppe Giuseppe Verdi's romantic opera Il Trovatore lives by its streams of memorable melodies. One of those is the aria Di quella pira wich is placed at the very end of the third act: Manrico warns...