Partitions moyen de Musique d'ouverture

For this exciting work Johan de Meij took his inspiration from Rembrandt's The Night Watch, Vermeer's Love Letter and Steen's Prinsjesdag. In the first movement the solo trombone keeps watch at night,...

Cloud Factory is an industrial piece, inspired by a huge steel plant in Holland. Following an opening section that recalls the sounds of the nearby North Sea, we hear the factory locomotives, the mach...

The Continental Overture was commissioned by the California Band Directors Association [CBDA] and was premiered on February 23rd 1997 at the 40th annual CBDA Conference in Bakersfield [CA] by the Cali...

Chicago, America's third largest city, is characterised by its modernskyline with dazzling architecture, fabulous restaurants and swingingjazz clubs. It is also, however, famous for its bitterly cold...

Ein Konzert in drei Sätzen, das den vielfältigen Facetten des Instrumentes Rechnung trägt. Der Eröffnungssatz ähnelt im Stil fast einem Rag. Der langsamere zweite Satz erforscht zunächst das Chalumeau...

Euphonium Concerto No. 2 est une adaptation du Concerto pour Clarinette composé à l'origine pour la clarinettiste concertiste Linda Merrick. Philip Sparke en a réalisé une adaptation pour euphonium po...

The idea behind this work was to create an opening piece, something to start a concert in an unusual way. The title is a portmanteau word derived from madrigal. The work indeed begins in Renaissance m...

The Battell was written during the late 14th Century when England was in a mood of national celebration after victory over the Spanish and French Armadas. The movement which Byrd called Marche Before...

Philip Sparke a composé cette œuvre à l'occasion du 40e anniversaire de l'Orchestre d'Harmonie Izumiotsu City Band d'Osaka au Japon. La création a eu lieu le 19 novembre 2006 par la formation dé...

Maple Leaf Overture porte l'emblème du Canada (la feuille d'érable) jusque dans son titre... Ce morceau, composé par Philip Sparke, a été joué par l'Orchestre Symphonique du Lycée de Calgary dans le c...

Five States of Change est une commande de l'institut Kunstfactor pour la 4e division des Championnats néerlandais de Brass Band en 2011. Cette œuvre est dédiée à Jappie Dijkstra et au Music Info...

The work opens with a stern fanfare in bare fifths, which leads to a cantabile theme introduced by alto saxophone. This builds to a climax and reintroduces the fanfare, which slowly evolves into the s...

With Clouds Descending is a fantasy on the powerful Advent hymn Helmsley which is long associated with another Advent hymn - Wesley's Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending. The hymn tune is divided into...

Highdays and Holidays was commissioned by the South Berks Concert Band to celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2016. The band rehearses in the village of Mortimer, which has a long and fascinating histor...

Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel' was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, Ad Excel, is a play on words: it is Latin for 'to...

Festival Prelude 'Ad Excel' was commissioned by the AD Concert Band, from Solihull in the UK, to celebrate their 40th Anniversary in 2016. The title, Ad Excel, is a play on words: it is Latin for 'to...

Watch Your Step! was commissioned by Stadtmusik Biel from Switzerland and is dedicated to the mayor of Biel/Bienne, Erich Fehr. The title was chosen to represent Biel as the watch-making capital of Sw...

Ce célèbre morceau du compositeur suisse Franco Cesarini est une façon festive de commencer votre concert.

Showdown for Band was written as a compulsory exercise for the Third International Light Music Competition at St. Gallen, Switzerland in 1998. The intention of the composer was to write a piece in a l...

The triumphal march from Aida is probably one of the best known classical works of all times. This superb transcription by Franco Cesarini retains the exciting spirit of the original. As always his na...

This festive overture by the Austrian composer Thomas Doss, whose father was German, is intended to be a symbol of the friendship between Germany and Austria, and the countries that border on these tw...

Intrada est une pièce d'ouverture lente et majestueuse qui dévoile la richesse de la palette sonore de l'Orchestre d'Harmonie. La douce fluidité des lignes mélodiques met en lumière la sonorité velout...

Chacun a déjà plus ou moins entendu parler de La Guerre des mondes (The War of the Worlds). Lorsque Jeff Wayne livre sa version musicale du roman d'Herbert Georges Wells, il n'imaginait pas le succès...

Des fanfares brillantes jouées par les cuivres, une mélodie charmante et un interlude sous la forme d'un choral ; voici les ingrédients essentiels de cette composition. L'ouverture ample et vive est e...

Cette oeuvre a été commandée par la Musikkapelle Heiden, en Allemagne, à l'occasion du centenaire de cette société musicale polyvalente et énergique. Triumphal Prelude commence par un feu d'artifice d...