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The Procession of the Nobles is the best-known piece that survived an ambitious project which was never completed due to lack of money. No less than five composers, several orchestras, choirs and ball...

Gioacchino Rossini is famous as composer of a fabulous series op splendid operas of which the overtures are often most popular and appreciated. The opera 'La Cambiale di Matrimonio' (the change of the...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights with "Scheherazade, Part I". Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's world-famous masterpiece unfolds its full splendor in this magnificent arrangement...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of the Arabian Nights with "Scheherazade, Part III", published by the renowned Molenaar Edition. In this magnificent arrangement for concert band, Nikolai Rims...

For Bedrich Smetana, the polka was the source of typical Czech music par excellence. We do not only find it in his operas, symphonic works and chamber music, but he also wrote single or separate polka...

Mussorgsky wrote 'Pictures at an Exhibition' after visiting an exhibition of paintings by his late friend Viktor Hartmann in 1874. This sixteen part suite is extremely well suited to be performed by a...

Experience the magnificent finale of a timeless masterpiece with "Baba Yaga / La Grande Porte de Kiev" from the world-famous suite "Pictures at an Exhibition", brilliantly arranged for concert band. T...

Experience one of the most monumental masterpieces in music history in all its grandeur: "Pictures At An Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky, masterfully arranged for concert band and published by Molena...

Ceci est le quatrième mouvement de la suite en ré-mineur (HWV 437) pour clavecin solo. L'œuvre est devenu très connu par son emploi dans la bande son du film Barry Lyndon de Stanley Kubrick de 1975. B...

Gustav Holst (Cheltenham, 1874 - Londres, 1934) était l'un des premiers grands compositeurs anglais qui a composé des œuvres originales pour orchestre d'harmonie. Il a écrit des opéras, des œuvres cho...

Shéhérazade opus 35 est une suite symphonique composée par Nicolaï Rimski-Korsakov à Saint Petersbourg en 1888. La suite est basée sur le célèbre recueil de contes arabes 'Les Mille et une nuits'. Cet...

Grieg composed this funeral march for his friend, Norwegian composer Rikard Nordraak who died at the age of 23. Grieg took copies of this piece on all his travels as he wished that it would be played...

La suite Pines of Rome est la deuxième oeuvre orchestrale de la trilogie romaine de Respghi. Cette suite, composée pour orchestre symphonique en 1923, dépeint divers endroits de Rome où poussent des p...

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In 1898 and 1899 Edward Elgar wrote his Enigma Variations, portraying several of his friends. Variation IX received the mysterious title 'Nimrod' and describes August Jaeger, a German who worked in a...

Sir Edward Elgar wrote his Pomp and Circumstance March no. 2 in 1901 and dedicated it to the composer Granville Bantock. Although this second march is less known than the first, it is not less beautif...

After having heard this piece for the first time at an organ recital, Feike van Tuinen was convinced that an orchestral version would be fantastic and would work very well. This piece has a stimulatin...

Towards A New Life (Josef Suk) was written in 1919 as a patriotic march, dedicated to the young Czechoslovakian army. In the same year he submitted this work to a composition competition where this ma...

In these works Smetana combined the symphonic poem form pioneered by Franz Liszt with the ideals of nationalistic music which were current in the late nineteenth century. Each poem depicts some aspect...

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) wrote two series of eight Slavonic dances. The first series, composed in 1878, was so successful that the editor asked the composer to write a second series. It was not befo...

The Capriol Suite is a set of dances in the renaissance style. It was based on tunes found in a manual of Renaissance dances by the French priest Jehan Tabourot. The treatment of the source material i...