Baton Music

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...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppé and Karl Millöcker were t...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppé and Karl Millöcker were t...

Ténor, chœur et orchestre symphonique Le compositeur autrichien Carl Zeller (1842-1898) a largement contribué à la gloire de l'âge d'or de l'opérette viennoise, dont les grands noms étaient Johann Str...

Ténor, chœur et orchestre symphonique Le compositeur autrichien Carl Zeller (1842-1898) a largement contribué à la gloire de l'âge d'or de l'opérette viennoise, dont les grands noms étaient Johann Str...

The Austrian composer Carl Zeller (1842-1898) did contribute a great part to the glory of the Golden Era of the Viennese operetta in which Johann Strauss jr., Franz von Suppé and Karl Millöcker were t...

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...

In 1933 Revueltas composed his brief symphonic poem "Janitzio" named after an island in Lake Patzcuaro, in the state of Michoacán, west of Mexico City, whose population had derived its income largely...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Frederico Chueca composed many Zarzuela's. The 'Tango de la Menegilda' (Housemaid's Tango) is sung in the...

If we say that zarzuela is Spanish light opera with spoken dialogue we shall be near the mark. Frederico Chueca composed many Zarzuela's. The Tango de la Menegilda (Housemaid's Tango) is sung in the 2...

The zarzuela 'El barberillo de Lavapies' (1874) is the comic masterpiece of Spanish composer Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. It's a miracle of raw popular spirit, musical subtlety, ironic wit and political...

The zarzuela "El barberillo de Lavapiés" (1874) is the comic masterpiece of Spanish composer Francisco Asenjo Barbieri. It's a miracle of raw popular spirit, musical subtlety, ironic wit and political...

Quando me'n vo, également connue sous le nom de Valse de Musetta, est un air de soprano chanté au deuxième acte de l'opéra "La Bohème" de Puccini par Musetta en présence de ses amis bohémiens, et adre...

Quando me'n vo", also known as Musetta's Waltz, is a soprano aria sung in the second act of Puccini's opera La Bohème" by Musetta in presence of her bohemian friends, and is directed toward Marcello i...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

Most of Mozart's solo horn music was composed between 1781 and 1789 for his friend and fellow freemason, Ignaz Leutgeb, an accomplished player from Salzburg who continued to perform after setting up a...

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...

n 1980, wellknown and respected Brittish composer/arranger Peter Hope arranged a number of Christmas Carols which were recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and Colin Davis. In this transcription...

Le compositeur et cornettiste américain Herbert L. Clarke a été l'un des premiers solistes à combiner une technique pyrotechnique avec un son luxuriant et romantique. Son style "virtuose avec un cœur"...

American composer and Cornetplayer Herbert L. Clarke was one of the first soloists to combine a pyrotechnic technique with a lush, romantic sound. His "virtuoso-with-a-heart" style set the standard fo...

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...