Baton Music

La Gioconda est un opéra en quatre actes d'Amilcare Ponchielli sur un livret italien d'Arrigo Boito, basé sur "Angelo, tyran de Padoue", une pièce en prose de Victor Hugo datant de 1835. Créé en 1876,...

Fantasia on Christmas Carols est une œuvre de 1912 pour baryton, chœur et orchestre du compositeur anglais Ralph Vaughan Williams. La Fantasia est une œuvre en un seul mouvement qui se compose des cha...

Fantasia on Christmas Carols est une œuvre de 1912 pour baryton, chœur et orchestre du compositeur anglais Ralph Vaughan Williams. La Fantasia est une œuvre en un seul mouvement qui se compose des cha...

Sigurd Jorsalfar is an orchestral suite by Edvard Grieg, celebrating King Sigurd I of Norway compiled in 1872 from incidental music to a play by Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson. Also available as seperate edi...

Russian composer Anton Arensky (1861-1906) composed his ballet Nuits d'Egypte, based on Théophile Gautier's novella 'Une nuit de Cléopatre', in 1900. The ballet was programmed by Serge Diaghilev at hi...

Just seeing its title, the Tipsy Song may not be immediately familiar. But hearing just one bar of it, it's the Annen-Polka with a vocal part in which a proper Victorian-era lady finds herself slightl...

In 1896 Edward Elgar submitted sketches for two new works to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One work was 'The Banner of St George', the other was the 'Imperial March'. Both captured the mood o...

In 1896 Edward Elgar submitted sketches for two new works to mark Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. One work was 'The Banner of St George', the other was the 'Imperial March'. Both captured the mood o...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

Although Italian born Guglielmo Cottrau (1797-1847) had a political career, he preferred the arts, music, literature and journalism. Around 1825 he began his collaboration with Federico Girard to publ...

The 'Kaisermarsch' (Imperial March) is a patriotic march composed by Richard Wagner in 1871 in order to exalt the foundation of the German Empire after the victorious Franco-Prussian War. The 'Kaiserm...

The 'Kaisermarsch' (Imperial March) is a patriotic march composed by Richard Wagner in 1871 in order to exalt the foundation of the German Empire after the victorious Franco-Prussian War. The 'Kaiserm...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga (1806 -1826) was a Spanish Basque composer. He was nicknamed 'the Spanish Mozart' after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was both a child prodigy and an ac...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev (1837- 1910) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor known today primarily for his work promoting musical nationalism and his encouragement of more famous Russian com...

Joseph Haydn's (1732-1809) last solo concerto was composed to help with an experiment: in an effort to break through the trumpet's limitations Anton Weidinger - a trumpeter of the Vienna Court Orchest...

Pour la première en 1809 de la traduction par Schiller de la célèbre histoire de "Turandot", Carl Maria von Weber a écrit une ouverture et six pièces connexes comme musique de scène avec un thème unif...

Pour la première en 1809 de la traduction par Schiller de la célèbre histoire de "Turandot", Carl Maria von Weber a écrit une ouverture et six pièces connexes comme musique de scène avec un thème unif...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935) était un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et professeur russe. Son œuvre comprend des opéras, de la musique orchestrale, de la musique de chambre et un...

Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov (1859 - 1935) était un compositeur, chef d'orchestre et professeur russe. Son œuvre comprend des opéras, de la musique orchestrale, de la musique de chambre et un...

La Damnation de Faust was in the beginning a kind of oratorio, although Hector Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) called it himself a concert-opera. To place the Hungarian March in the piece, Hector Berlioz s...

Johann Strauss jr. composed a great amount of polka's, mazurka's and marsches to perform with his own orchestra that played on 'dance soirees' in Vienna. The Egyptischer Marsch Opus 335 is a beautiful...