Baton Orchestral

Danzon no. 2 du compositeur mexicain Arturo Marquez a été inclus dans le programme de l'Orchestre des Jeunes Simon Bolivar de Venuzuela dirigé par Gustavo Dudamel lors de leur tournée de 2007 en Europ...

Orphée aux enfers est une opérette comique composée par Jacques Offenbach en 1858. L'opérette est une parodie irrévérencieuse et une satire cinglante de Gluck et de son "Orfeo ed Euridice", qui culmin...

Conga del Fuego Nuevo a été inscrite au programme de l'Orchestre des jeunes Simón Bolívar du Venezuela, sous la direction de Gustavo Dudamel, et a été jouée lors d'un concert du Nouvel An en Allemagne...

The Wasps' is incidental music composed by the British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1909. It was based on Aristophane's ancient Greek comedy 'The Wasps' for a production at Trinity College, Camb...

La vie parisienne" is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by French composer Jacques Offenbach. It was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike his earlier...

Czech composer Leos Janácek (1854-1928) has been inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style and along with Dvorák and Smetana, he is considered one of...

Although Franz Lehár became most known for his contribution to the operetta repertoire, he also composed a lot of marches. One of these is 'Piave induló' (Piave Marsch, Marche form the 106th Regiment)...

The 'Hungarian Dances' (Ungarische Tänze), evoking directly the warm blood of Hungarian gypsy music, consist of 21 dances, originally composed for piano four hands. Perhaps less familiar than the famo...

The Toy Symphony, (Kinder-Sinfonie) was also published as Sinfonia Berchtolsgadensis because it was written for instruments that were manufactured in the toy industry of Berchtensgaden that flourished...

Ecce sacerdos magnus (Voici un grand prêtre), WAB 13, est un motet sacré de 1885 du compositeur autrichien Anton Bruckner. Il s'agit d'une mise en musique de l'antienne du même titre. L'œuvre est un r...

As a composer, Johann Strauss Sr. is probably less well known than his son Johann Strauss Jr., but his 'Radeztky March' is still one of the most popular pieces in classical music. Besides this march h...

In 1869 Johann Strauss composed the polka francaise 'Im Krapfenwald'l' ('In Krapfen's Woods'). It was originally titled 'Im Pawlowsk Walde' when first performed in Pavlovsk (Russia). Reportedly, sever...

L'œuvre la plus connue de Kurt Weill (1900-1950) est "Die Dreigroschenoper" ("L'Opéra de quat'sous") (1928), une reprise de "The Beggar's Opera" de John Gay, écrite en collaboration avec Bertolt Brech...

Johann Strauss wrote the 'Russische Marsch-Fantasie' (Russian March Fantasy) for a tour to Russia in 1872. Because the tour was cancelled, the successful first performance of the march was held in Vie...

Nowadays, Carmen is probably the most famous opera in the whole opera-repertoire, although its premiere in 1875 was a great disappointment because of the misunderstanding of the very realistic plot. C...

Die Moldau (Vltava) est le deuxième mouvement du cycle de poèmes symphoniques "Ma Vlast" du compositeur tchèque Bedrich Smetana. Dans cette pièce, Smetana utilise la peinture sonore pour évoquer les s...

Johann Strauss jr. composed in 1864 the 'Persischer Marsch' (Persian March), Op. 289. It was dedicated this to his Majesty Nasir-ad-Din imperial Shah of Persia (1831-1896). The melody of the trio is t...

Les Planetes du compositeur Gustav Holst est une suite orchestrale en sept mouvements dans laquelle chaque mouvement porte le nom d'une planète du système solaire et du caractère astrologique correspo...

Besides operettas Franz Lehár also wrote sonatas, symphonic poems, marches and a number of waltzes. The most popular of these waltzes is 'Gold und Silber' (Gold and Silver) which he composed for Princ...

Nineteenth-century Russian operas almost invariably abound in set dance numbers. Eugen Onegin, composed in 1877, the year of Pyotr Ilych Tschaikowsky's marriage, is no exception. Several of its dances...

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 orchestr...

El sombrero de tres picos" ("Le chapeau à trois cornes") est un ballet en deux actes chorégraphié par Léonide Massine sur une musique de Manuel de Falla. La première du ballet a eu lieu en 1919 à Lond...

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 orchestr...

The Planets du compositeur anglais Gustav Holst est une suite orchestrale en sept mouvements, dont chacun porte le nom d'une planète du système solaire et le caractère astrologique correspondant. L'or...

Lorsqu'en 1889, le compositeur militaire allemand Carl Teike apporta au régiment la marche qu'il venait de composer, le maître de chapelle lui dit simplement : "Nous avons suffisamment de marches musi...