Partitions moyen pour Orchestre

Dámaso Pérez Prado defined the mambo as 'merely an Afro-Cuban rhythm with a flavour of American swing'. In the 1950's he became also a star in the USA where he was considered as 'The Mambo King'.

The associated artists Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II played a prominent role in the history of the American musical. Their collaboration started in 1943 and resulted immediately in the big...

This is a brand new original arrangement of this famous Gershwin march with optional part for vocal soloist. George Gershwin (Brooklyn, 1898 - Hollywood, 1937) is not only the composer of 'Rhapsody in...

This rhapsody for solo quintet and band has been composed especially for bands of the honour's division boasting 2 oboes, one cor anglais and 2 bassoons. The classical dance forms played by the quinte...

Mandalay, the cultural capital of Burma, was very seriously damaged by bombings of the Allied Forces during the Second World War. 'The Road to Mandalay' has been a kind of oriental symbol, which was a...

Here is another fine arrangement by Peter Kleine Schaars (Deventer, 1962) in true big band style of the famous tune composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim. A dialogue between the expressive, classical flute...

Ton van Grevenbroek wrote an excellent arrangement of the music written by James Horner for the success film by Steven Spielberg 'The Mask of Zorro' (1998) featuring Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopki...

The Belgian arranger Peter Laine uses his rich experience in the world of the international entertainment music to provide the actual symphonic band repertoire with excellent pieces, even very fine ja...

This arrangment is part of the Alan Parsons Project. The Turn tells the story of the entrance a gambler makes into a casino, full of expressionless faces and the endless spinning of the roulette wheel...

I Prelude (start)II Landscape (measure 17)III Crowded and Urbanization (measure 68)In case of lack of time or potential technical problems, it is possible to skip the third part. One can make a straig...

Cassiopeia was the wife of Cepheus, the Ethiopian king of Joppa (now known as Jaffa, in Israel), and the mother of Andromeda. The queen was both beautiful and vain, and the story of how her vanity cau...

The Dutch conductor Feike van Tuinen, who wrote 'Hever castle' for flexible instrumentation, has now written this fine composition for fanfare band 'Chorus'.It consists of a series of fine variations...