Baton Orchestral

Le "Ruisseau limpide" était de loin le plus populaire des ballets de Chostakovitch. Ses mélodies délibérément simples, ses harmonies banales, ses rythmes directs et ses couleurs criardes ont permis à...

The Limpid Stream" was by far the most popular of Shostakovich ballets. Its deliberately simple-minded melodies, banal harmonies, straightforward rhythms, and garish colors had the work playing succes...

Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23...

Edvard Grieg composed his Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak in 1866, in honour of his friend and fellow Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak, who had died in March of that year at the age of 23...

En 1933, Revueltas a composé son bref poème symphonique "Janitzio", du nom d'une île du lac Patzcuaro, dans l'État de Michoacßn, à l'ouest de Mexico, dont la population tirait essentiellement ses reve...

La cantate Grief of Gravity raconte l'histoire de deux amants : "Awareness", la conscience qui nous relie tous, et "Gravity". Pendant des milliards d'années, 'Gravity' et 'Awareness' se sont entrelacé...

The cantata Grief of Gravity tells the story of two lovers: Awareness", consciousness that connects us all and "Gravity". For billions of years, "Gravity" and "Awareness" intertwined until a light bea...

This ouverture-like symphonic movement in C-minor has been ascribed in the past to as well Anton Bruckner as Gustav Mahler. But in the eighty's of the last century it became almost certain that Mahler...

This ouverture-like symphonic movement in C-minor has been ascribed in the past to as well Anton Bruckner as Gustav Mahler. But in the eighty's of the last century it became almost certain that Mahler...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the 'Coronation March' by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

Tschaikowsky received the commission for the "Coronation March" by the Mayor of the City of Moscow for the occasion of the coronation of Alexander III in May 1883, for a performance in Sokol'nikii Par...

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...

Le diptyque "Estampes Simfoniques" (Images symphoniques) du compositeur espagnol (catalan) Joaquim Serra (1907-1957) ne serait pas une pièce unique dans sa production si ce n'était parce que la musiqu...

The diptych "Estampes Simfòniques" (Symphonic Images) by the Spanish (Catalan) composer Joaquim Serra (1907-1957) would not be a unique piece in its production if it wasn"t because in this occasion th...

Alejandro Garcia Caturla (1906 - 1940) was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes. He was fascinated by creolized Afro-Cuban rhythms and these Creole themes were characteristic of hi...

Alejandro García Caturla (1906 - 1940) était un compositeur cubain de musique artistique et de thèmes cubains créolisés. Il était fasciné par les rythmes afro-cubains créolisés et ces thèmes créoles é...

Maurice Ravel est peut-être mieux connu pour son œuvre orchestrale Boléro (1928), qu'il considérait comme triviale et qu'il décrivit un jour comme une pièce pour orchestre sans musique. Le Boléro est...

Maurice Ravel est peut-être mieux connu pour son œuvre orchestrale Boléro (1928), qu'il considérait comme triviale et qu'il décrivit un jour comme une pièce pour orchestre sans musique. Le Boléro est...

Variations sur un thème original pour orchestre (Enigma), opus 36, communément appelées "Variations Enigma", est un ensemble composé d'un thème et de ses quatorze variations écrites pour orchestre par...

Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra(Enigma), Op. 36, commonly referred to as the Enigma Variations, is a set of a theme and its fourteen variations written for orchestra by Edward Elgar in 1...

In 1899 Edward Elgar finished his best-known large-scale composition, the 'Enigma Variations'. Elgar dedicated the piece to 'my friends pictured within', each variation being an affectionate portrayal...

In 1899 Edward Elgar finished his best-known large-scale composition, the "Enigma Variations". Elgar dedicated the piece to "my friends pictured within", each variation being an affectionate portrayal...

Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written between 1877 and 1878 and first performed at a Russian Musical Society concert in Saint Petersburg on February 1878 under Nikolai Rubinste...

Tschaikowsky's Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36, was written between 1877 and 1878 and first performed at a Russian Musical Society concert in Saint Petersburg on February 1878 under Nikolai Rubinste...

Der Ring des Nibelungen (L'Anneau du Nibelung) est un cycle de quatre opéras épiques du compositeur allemand Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Les œuvres s'inspirent librement des personnages des sagas nord...