Partitions moyen pour Harmonie

The so called first horn concerto in D KV 412 is actually incomplete, and comprises a number of different parts, which according to musicologists don't really fit well together at all. The original fi...

The New Baroque Suite is a composition based on baroque motives. Many wind bands with a certain musical level had a lot of fun with this piece in sixties and seventies. And not only the musicians but...

De nombreux compositeurs ont écrit une marche triomphale, la plus connue étant peut-être celle du compositeur d'opéra italien Giuseppe Verdi pour son grand opéra de 1871, Aida, où, au deuxième acte, R...

A detatchment of native soldiers approach and pass through the village, then a song from a boat on the Nile is heard softly across the water; a short passage depicting an Arab playing his pipe, leads...

This symphony has a wonderful 2nd movement which lends itself excellently for performance by windband.In Holland this movement serves as a signature tune for a very popular tv-programme, 'Het Capitool...

Mozart rearranged some of his operas also for wind ensemble, so with that in mind, his beautiful Bassoon Concerto works wonderfully with concert band accompaniement.

The 'big' composers from all over the world who are well known for their symphonic works, seldom wrote for wind orchestra. Nikolaj Rimsky-Korsakov was one of the rare and extemely valuable exceptions,...

This symphonic masterpiece has been arranged for wind band by Piet Stalmeier as result of a commission by the famous conductor Heinz Friesen.

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson; it was revised by the composer i...

This opera in three acts is based on a libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil inspired by the play 'The sunken bell' by the German playwright Gerhard Hauptmann. It tells a tragical story, similar to the 'Undine'...