Molenaar Edition

Michel Carros wrote a fine swinging arrangement of some famous Christmas Songs. In fact he presents some Christmas evergreens in different dance rhythms. The party starts with the German carol O Tanne...

Christmas for Five ist ein Aufsehen erregendes Medley aus vier bekannten und beliebten Weihnachtsliedern (Adeste Fidelis, Fröhliche Weihnacht überall, The first Noel en Jingle Bells). Andreas Ludwig S...

English Christmas Festival est le résultat d'un défi de Kew Wind Orchestra - écrire un medley de Noël sans chevauchement avec le Leroy Anderson Christmas Festival. Il est basé sur six chansons anglais...

Four Inappropriate Carols présente un certain nombre de chansons de Noël bien connues dans un style inattendu. Silent Night Rag, Coventry Tango, L'enfant de la promesse (Away in a Manager comme une Gy...

Medley de musiques médiévales de Noël. Composé de cinq chants de Noël du recueil de chants Piae Cantiones qui date du 16ème siècle - 'Unto Us is Born a Son', 'Divinum Mysterium (De l'amour Engendré du...

A tasteful mix of christmas standards, surprisingly arranged by one of our greatest composers

Wondrous Intrada'. Une ouverture captivante pour tout concert de Noël, basée sur le chant de Noël « Es ist ein Ros entsprungen » (Une grande et puissante merveille). La partition a été soigneusement t...

Leroy Anderson(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1908 - Woodbury, Connecticut, 1975) was the son of Swedish immigrants. He studied music and foreign languages at the famous Harvard University before starting...

Equally varied, certainly as to the countries of origin, is the wind band suite (eventually with mixed choir) 'An International Christmas' (1979) in which Kees Vlak used Italian and Czech carols.

By means of this quite original fantasy Jef Penders invites both musicians and listeners to discover the typical Christmas atmosphere in eight different countries. We hear successively Christmas music...

Kees Vlak composed the 'Christmas Time' suite for band in which he used German, Hungarian and Dutch Christmas carols.

Also Kees Vlak (1938) has apparantly been struck by the treasure of French carols and composed in 1981 the 'Fantasy on French Christmas Songs'.

Also extremely popular is the song 'Adeste Fidelis' (Come you faithful), originally a 18th century Portuguese Christmas carol, arranged for band by Jef Penders.

In France there has been for many centuries a very old and rich tradition of Christmas carols. One of those immortal carols undoubtedly is the 'Can-tique de Noël', also known as 'Minuit Chrétien', com...

The French composer and organist Michel Richard de Lalande (Paris, 1657 - Versailles, 1726), a contemporary of Jean-Baptiste Lully, was music teacher of the daughters of King Louis XIV and was appoint...

Willy Hautvast also composed a similar international Christmas suite for symphonic band 'Merry Christmas' (1993) containing a.o. 'Joy to the World', 'O, Little Town of Bethle-hem', 'Away in a Manger',...

For those who prefer swinging music, Willy Hautvast wrote the selection A Swinkling Christmas with American and English carols such as Let it snow, White Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph, the re...

In Germany and Austria there are many beautiful Christmas carols, some of them such as 'Holy Night, Silent Night' or 'O Tannenbaum' are known and sung all over the world. Josef Hastreiter (1938) arran...