In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overt...
Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most famous composers of Italian opera. Here, Cesarini has masterfully arranged Nabucco.
Franz Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies are characterised by melancholy, great expressiveness and wonderful gypsy rhythms. No. 2 is the best known of all, mainly thanks to the use of various passages fo...
Master-composer Ludwig van Beethoven was born in Bonn, in 1770, but he lived in Vienna from 1792, until his death in 1827. With his innovative style, he has had a great influence on Western classical...
This overture, called Sinfonia, is without doubt one of the best original works for concert band to emerge from the 19th century. It is characterised by its fluid spontaneity as well as its rich textu...
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...
Inspired by the operas of Bellini, Saverio Mercadante created this richly contrasting overture from lyrical and dramatic moments in his own works. This arrangement offers modern concert bands access t...
Tancredi, composed in 1813, is rarely performed in today's opera houses, however its overture, or Sinfonia, as it was called at the time, is well-liked and has received regular performances over the y...
Lorsque l'on parle de chansons populaires allemandes, Kein schöner Land (Il n'est pas de plus beau pays) est probablement la plus célèbre de toutes. On y raconte l'histoire d'un groupe d'amis qui chan...
Entre août 1844 et janvier 1845, Mendelssohn compose ses Six sonates pour orgue, Op. 65. Véritable compendium de l'art de jouer de l'orgue, chaque sonate possède une atmosphère particulière. L'Andante...
The Ave Maria by Franz Schubert is known and loved worldwide and was originally written as part of the song cycle The Lady of the Lake. In the course of time, the German text has been replaced by the...
Thomas Doss a créé un arrangement magnifique et sensible de cette célèbre oeuvre religieuse d'Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).
Opéra en quatre actes de Giuseppe Verdi (musique) et Francesco Maria Piave (livret).
Giuseppe Verdi est l'un des plus célèbres compositeurs d'opéra italien. Ici, Cesarini a arrangé de façon magistrale Nabucco.
Aroldo, number 22 of the 32 operas written by Verdi, is certainly not one of the best-known works from 'the genius of Busseto. ' Written in 1857, it is in fact a remake of the 1848 opera Stiffelio, wh...
Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...
In 1854, Verdi was in Paris to compose I vespri siciliani (1855), a commission from the Theatre of the Opera. The composer soon became intolerant to the requests of the French 'Grand Opéra' as he cons...
Ernani (1844), Giuseppe Verdi's fifth opera, is based on the homonymous tragedy by Victor Hugo. Verdi's success with Ernani, as well as Nabucco and I lombardi alla prima crociata, can be ascribed to t...
For the first draft of the libretto of Un ballo in maschera (1859), Giuseppe Verdi drew his inspiration from the grand-opéra Gustave III by Auber, an opera performed for the first time in Paris in 183...
A technique much employed by Verdi is to alternate main scenes of a drama with others which allow the listener to relax temporarily. These moments are often entrusted to the choir (as in the case of t...
The celebrated Austrian composer Josef Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) owes his fame predominantly to his symphonies, his masses, his Te Deum, his string quintets and his devotional church music, including...
The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...
Camillo De Nardis' Il giudizio universale (The Universal Judgement) was awarded first prize at the Competition for Band Composition held in Naples. This composition was inspired by Verdi's Requiem wit...
Thomas Doss a arrangé pour orchestre d'harmonie cette transcription exaltante et très abordable de Christus factus est (WAB 11), le motet écrit par Bruckner en 1884. Après la Messe für den Gründonners...
Pomp and Circumstance est le titre porté par cinq marches composées entre 1901 et 1930 par le compositeur anglais Sir Edward Elgar. Si la Marcheno 1 est incontestablement la plus célèbre, la Marche no...
Anton Bruckner is probably best known today as a symphonist however he was also a significant composer of religious works, motets and masses, and the composer of the great Te Deum. These choral works...
Thomas Doss created a beautiful and sensitive arrangement of this famous religious work by Anton Bruckner (1824-1896).
Considéré aujourd'hui comme un grand classique de la culture américaine, l'opéra Porgy and Bess (1935) fut longtemps controversé et ne connut le succès qu'après la mort de Gershwin (1898 - 1937). Cet...