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Kol Nidrei
Although Bruch’s oeuvre is extensive and significant, modern listeners are nowadays really only familiar with his Violin Concerto No.1, which belongs to the standard repertoire of all violinists. The...Concert Band
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MVSR2517
Festival March op. 54
The “Festival March” was first heard on April 23, 1879 during the performance of Shakespear’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream.” On the occasion of the visit of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I with his...Concert Band
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MVSR3552
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Tibi Soli Peccavi
The Flemish composer and conductor Orlando di Lasso (1532-1594) was working in Italy, England and the Netherlands. From 1556 on, he worked as the conductor of the Bavarian court orchestra in Munich....Concert Band
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MVSR2514
Spanischer Marsch
op. 433
Johann Strauss II, best known as the “Waltz King”, also composed a few marches. He dedicated a whole series of pieces of this genre to certain countries and their monarchs: the “Persian March op....Concert Band
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MVSR3449
La Gazza Ladra
Gioachino Antonio Rossini, born in Pesaro, Italy, in 1792, was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding opera composers of the 19th century. The overtures to his operas were particularly popular and...Concert Band
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MVSR2046
March
from the ballet "The Nutcracker"
In the St. Petersburg performances of the three great ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), classical dance reached its peak and thus formed the starting point for the renewal of ballet in...Concert Band
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MVSR2322
Pique Dame
After the revolution of 1848 the "Singspiel" lost much of its appeal and the lively works of Jacques Offenbach were welcomed by the Viennese with open arms. Franz von Suppè (1819-1895), already a...Concert Band
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MVSR2309
TE DEUM - Prélude
Ensemble Time (Die Musizierstunde) MZ 323 (Brass Quintet) Rondeau - Premier Couplet - Second Couplet The TE DEUM is considered the most famous work by the French composer Marc Antoine...Ensemble (Brass)
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MVSR5323
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AIDA - Gran Finale Secondo
AIDA is one of the most famous operas written by Giuseppe Verdi. The premiere took place in Cairo on 24 December 1871. Verdi had completed the pompous opera in „pure Egyptian style“ a year earlier,...Concert Band
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MVSR1827
Berenice
»Andante Larghetto«
BERENICE, Regina di Egitto (HWV 38) is an opera composed by Georg Friedrich Händel in 1736/37. It consists of three acts and was written along with Händel’s other two operas ARMINIO and GIUSTINO...Concert Band
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MVSR2668
Il Guarany
Sinfonia
IL GUARANY by Antônio Carlos Gomes is considered the first Brazilian opera and was written between 1868 and 1870. It is very important for Brazil’s musical history - even though it was...Concert Band
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MVSR3409
Pomp and Circumstance No. 1
op. 39/1
Between 1901 and 1930, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) published five splendid military marches for large symphony orchestra entitled "Pomp and Circumstance". The best known was the first, originally in the...Concert Band
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MVSR0312
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Un Poco Larghetto
Opus 6 by the composer George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) comprises twelve works. Each one is a so-called "Concerto Grosso", a concert genre and instrumentation typical of the Baroque period, in...Concert Band
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MVSR1966
Festmarsch
Johann Strauß (son) (1825-1899) acquired the title of “King of Waltz” only in the musical field, but as a prominent member of Vienna’s high society in the 19th century he also...Concert Band
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MVSR3468
BEETHOVEN 1-9
In 2020 we celebrated the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth. The composer who was born in Bonn is considered the most performed classical composer in the world. He is often...Concert Band
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MVSR3507
Marche des Janissaires
Marsch der Janitscharen
Belgian-French composer André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry (1741-1813), who had studied in Rome, was early-on enthusiastic about opera and became one of the celebrated Parisian opera composers...Concert Band
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MVSR1737