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Hispaniola
This colourful work is based on the adventures of Christopher Columbus and his voyages to discover Africa and other new territories around the World. The theory that the earth was round urged...Concert Band
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DHP1074238
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Dublin Dances
Includes: Brian Boru's March The Minstrel Boy The Irish Washerwoman In Dublin Dances Jan Van der Roost has combined three well-knowntraditional Irish melodies to form an attractive medley....Concert Band
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DHP1074289
Domus
When composing this work the brief from the commissioning band was for the composer to base the work on a chorale-like subject matter and this he has done with aplomb. In the very first bars a...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1074163
Nerval`s Poems
Nervals Poems
Nerval's Poems is based on four poems from the collection Odelettes by the French poet Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855). This psychotic poete maudit lived in the realms of his imagination, where he...Concert Band
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DHP1074185
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The Heart of Lithuania
Includes: Crossing Klausuciu Street The Young Oak Grew in the Forest The Horse Neighing in the Meadow The Sun Has Set A Quiet Windless Night Composer Jacob de Haan has based The Heart of...Concert Band
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DHP1074231
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The Musical Village
In this lyrical work Jacob de Haan has created an atmospheric piece, which is in many ways similar to an on-stage stage musical production. Dreamy passages alternate with festive and swinging...Concert Band
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DHP1064026
Alpine Flowers' Party!
The Hida High School is in a highland city called Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. Takayama City has some of the highest mountains in Japan, atmospheric rows of houses and streets, and a beautiful...Concert Band
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DHP1063946
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Il Cinghiale di Bronzo
Das Bronzeschwein
This suite is based on the fairy tale The Bronze Pig by Hans Christian Andersen.This is a story about a boy who wants to be a painter and a pig made of bronze. This pig, in Florence town square, is a...Concert Band
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DHP1063945
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Butterfly Overture
Doesn't everyone get butterflies in the stomach every now and then? Every person has known moments of being in love. Accordingly, in Butterfly Overture a charming love theme has been employed, which...Concert Band
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DHP1064092
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Young Pheasants in the Sky
This fantastic, stirring fanfare was written with the composer?s wish that the young musicians performing it would fly into the bright future like pheasants. The first part of the piece is a fanfare,...Concert Band
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DHP1063951
Concordia
This unusual concert work, commissioned by the concert band ?Harmonie Concorde? from Sanem in Luxembourg, is built on two basic ideas: the evolution of the economic and social context of this...Concert Band
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DHP1064074
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Adagio for Winds
Adagio for Winds is similar in atmosphere to the well-known Canterbury Chorale (also by Jan Van der Roost), in that it has no exaggerated melodrama, but rather a melodically wide and expressive...Concert Band
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DHP1063968
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Tanczi
This suite was written in the style of traditional Russian folk music, but does not use existing melodies or themes as its basis. The colourful and varied work contains a number of surprising turns,...Concert Band
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DH1064039
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Kebek
This rhapsody reflects the four seasons combined with the natural scenery that characterises the city of Québec and its surrounding region. Autumn is depicted with hunting horns playing in the...Concert Band
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DHP1064018
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Kraftwerk
The theme of this work is the history of the town of Grafenrheinfeld (Bavaria, Germany) in the twentieth century, a town that is now mainly associated with its nuclear plant. The German word for this...Concert Band
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DHP1064019
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Pirate's Dream
Pirates Dream
In this fascinating piece, composer Hayato Hirose creates a fantasy world of a pirate who dreams of sailing to a treasure island. The music follows four different scenes that are played without...Concert Band
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DHP1053874
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Algona Overture
This piece is dedicated to all the citizens who live, have lived, and will live in the US town of Algona, who commissioned the work to celebrate it’s 150th anniversary. With dark-tinted tones (low...Concert Band
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DHP1053750
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Nordic Fanfare and Hymn
As the title suggests, this opening work consists of a fanfare and a hymn. This work was written for the opening ceremony of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf (Allgäu,...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1053861
Castellum
This work consists of two movements. The first part is rather quiet and pastoral in character, written in a gently rocking 12/8 time and expressing the tranquillity of the area around the medieval...Concert Band
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DHP1043583
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The Swan on the Hill
This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a...Concert Band
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DHP1043766
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Bridge Between Nations
This work builds a musical bridge between the nations of the European Union. In this composition each country is represented by a fragment of its national anthem. The listener will continually be...Concert Band
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DH1043699
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Balkan Dreams
Balkan Dreams was inspired by Kees Schoonenbeek’s love of the gypsy music originating from Hungary and Romania. Although this is not authentic gypsy music it echoes the compelling and melancholic...Concert Band
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DH1043644
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Intermezzo for Band
This stately concert piece is a great choice for that change of pace for your next festival! A gentle, flowing alto saxophone solo opens the piece and is joined by rich textures in the clarinets and...Concert Band
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DH1043651
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American Overture
Hayato Hirose spent his childhood and college days in the United States and it was his impressions and experiences from these years that acted as the inspiration for this exciting ‘American style’...Concert Band
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DHP1043652
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The Bremen Town Musicians
Diese Programmmusik beruht auf dem Grimms-Märchen Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten. Von "Es war einmal..." bis zu "...und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" ist es eine faszinierende...Concert Band
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DH1033483
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The Saint and the City
This tumultuous composition tells the legend of the town of Zwolle in the Netherlands. In the waters surrounding Zwolle lived a dragon. When it appeared it threatened to destroy the town with it...Concert Band
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DH1033447
Jubilus!
This characteristic opening piece starts with an energetic and robust fanfare, soon followed by a contrasting, expressive, and lyrical theme. These two ingredients alternate a few times, after which...Concert Band
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DH1023217
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Virginia
This expressive piece depicts three periods that play an important role in the history of the American state of Virginia, the colonization, slavery, and the American Civil War. The first movement...Concert Band
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DH1012561
Finnish Folk Song Suite
In this moderately easy suite, Jan Van der Roost uses four authentic folk tunes from the Swedish-speaking part of Finland. These are from Nagu, Oravais, Lappfjärd and Karlebynejden, and have been...Concert Band
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DH1012635
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Asteroid
Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of...Concert Band
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DH991561
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Festa Paesana
Lunteren, a village on the Veluwe (a wooded region in the Netherlands), sets the scene annually for a village festival dominated by folklore. Festa Paesana (Italian for village festival) is set to...Concert Band
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DH1002022
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Cobra
Shortly after the Second World War, a combative movement of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to...Concert Band
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DH991729
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Sakura
Das japanische Wort "Sakura" bedeutet "Kirschblüte", welche die nationale Blume Japans darstellt. Die Melodie im Werk "Sakura" versucht das sichtbare Bild der Kirschblüte hervorzuzaubern die im März...Concert Band
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DH991492
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Prima Luce
Prima Luce (First Light) was commisioned by the Holy Angels Elementary School located in Aurora (USA). The name of the town (which means dawn), the town’s great religious history and the fact that...Concert Band
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DH991468
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Pacific Dreams
Pacific Dreams describes the experience of Miguel, a traveling composer from Spain who, feeling somewhat alienated from his homeland, is wandering through an area of Sydney known as The Rocks. At a...Concert Band
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DH991451
Metalla
Metalla was commissioned by the 'Kreisverband Altenkirchen' of Germany and dedicated to Ottomar Jung. The composer himself conducted the premiere of the piece, which was performed by the...Concert Band
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DH991495
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Nightflight to Paris
From the energetic music symbolizing the excitement of a Concorde flight to Paris, described through relentless jazz figures, to the can-can style dance at The Moulin Rouge, and on to the very grand...Concert Band
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DH981163
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Raise of the Son
Der autodidaktische Komponist Rossano Galante studierte Filmmusik bei Jerry Goldsmith. Dies spiegelt sich zweifelsohne in seinem Werk „Raise of the Son“ wider, das mit kraftvollen,...Concert Band
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DH981151
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Victory
Jan de Haan ließ sich von der Fußballweltmeisterschaft 1998 in Frankreich zu dieser Komposition inspirieren. Das Werk ist nicht programmatisch aufgebaut. Nach der Einleitung, in der vor allem Quarten...Concert Band
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DH981387
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Shirim
In der Komposition "Shirim" (hebräisch: Lieder) wurden bekannte jüdische Volkslieder zu einer Rhapsodie für Blasorchester verarbeitet.Concert Band
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DH981369
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Rainbow Warrior
Diese Komposition handelt vom Schiff Rainbow Warrior der Umweltorganisation Greenpeace. Kees Vlak beschreibt auf musikalische Weise die manchmal abenteuerlichen Aktionen im Kampf um das...Concert Band
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DHI0253.98
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Et In Terra Pax
This piece was commissioned by the ‘Concert Band Vlamertinge’ and is a plea for peace: the title translates as ‘Peace on Earth’. This is expressed by means of the vocal contribution expected from the...Concert Band
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DH981118
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Balkanya
Balkanya, a suite in three parts composed by Jan Van der Roost, was commissioned by the Music School of Gaillon - Aubevoye (France) for the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its creation....Concert Band
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DH981155
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Music For A Solemnity
Jan de Haan took as a starting point for Music for a Solemnity an old custom from the Dutch town of Hoogeveen, by which the faithful are called to church with drums. It was also inspired by the music...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH970921
Nemu-Susato
Nemu Susato
Commissioned by the Japan Band Clinic Committee of Yamaha for the Nemu Band Directors Clinic in Nemu no Sato, May 18-20, 1997.
The surprising title of this work is an indication of its content. By...Concert Band
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DH970907
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Choral Music
Jacob de Haan was commissioned to write Choral Music a concert band from Dinxperlo (Netherlands). This band gave the work its premiere in 1997 during the World Music Contest in Kerkrade. Choral Music...Concert Band
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DH971104
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Alpina Fanfare
Der schweizer Komponist Franco Cesarini schrieb diese Eröffnungsfanfare für den bekannten Dirigenten und Rundfunkmoderator Kurt Brogli und seine Swiss-Loss-Band.Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH971084
Overture to a New Age
Ein neues Zeitalter bricht an – eröffnet von festlichen Blechbläserfanfaren. Was wird die Zukunft bringen? In seinem Werk Overture to a New Age drückt Jan de Haan einerseits Vorfreude, andererseits...Concert Band
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DH950662
Concerto d'Amore
In Concerto d’Amore, a maestoso opening is followed by a quick and energetic movement that leads to a magnificent adagio. A motif from this adagio can be heard in a swinging movement, after which the...Concert Band
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DH950624
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Hispaniola
This colourful work is based on the adventures of Christopher Columbus and his voyages to discover Africa and other new territories around the World. The theory that the earth was round urged...Concert Band
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DHP1074238
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Dublin Dances
Includes: Brian Boru's March The Minstrel Boy The Irish Washerwoman In Dublin Dances Jan Van der Roost has combined three well-knowntraditional Irish melodies to form an attractive medley....Concert Band
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DHP1074289
Domus
When composing this work the brief from the commissioning band was for the composer to base the work on a chorale-like subject matter and this he has done with aplomb. In the very first bars a...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1074163
Nerval`s Poems
Nervals Poems
Nerval's Poems is based on four poems from the collection Odelettes by the French poet Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855). This psychotic poete maudit lived in the realms of his imagination, where he...Concert Band
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DHP1074185
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The Heart of Lithuania
Includes: Crossing Klausuciu Street The Young Oak Grew in the Forest The Horse Neighing in the Meadow The Sun Has Set A Quiet Windless Night Composer Jacob de Haan has based The Heart of...Concert Band
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DHP1074231
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The Musical Village
In this lyrical work Jacob de Haan has created an atmospheric piece, which is in many ways similar to an on-stage stage musical production. Dreamy passages alternate with festive and swinging...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1064026
Alpine Flowers' Party!
The Hida High School is in a highland city called Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. Takayama City has some of the highest mountains in Japan, atmospheric rows of houses and streets, and a beautiful...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DHP1063946
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Il Cinghiale di Bronzo
Das Bronzeschwein
This suite is based on the fairy tale The Bronze Pig by Hans Christian Andersen.This is a story about a boy who wants to be a painter and a pig made of bronze. This pig, in Florence town square, is a...Concert Band
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DHP1063945
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Butterfly Overture
Doesn't everyone get butterflies in the stomach every now and then? Every person has known moments of being in love. Accordingly, in Butterfly Overture a charming love theme has been employed, which...Concert Band
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DHP1064092
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Young Pheasants in the Sky
This fantastic, stirring fanfare was written with the composer?s wish that the young musicians performing it would fly into the bright future like pheasants. The first part of the piece is a fanfare,...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1063951
Concordia
This unusual concert work, commissioned by the concert band ?Harmonie Concorde? from Sanem in Luxembourg, is built on two basic ideas: the evolution of the economic and social context of this...Concert Band
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DHP1064074
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Adagio for Winds
Adagio for Winds is similar in atmosphere to the well-known Canterbury Chorale (also by Jan Van der Roost), in that it has no exaggerated melodrama, but rather a melodically wide and expressive...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1063968
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Tanczi
This suite was written in the style of traditional Russian folk music, but does not use existing melodies or themes as its basis. The colourful and varied work contains a number of surprising turns,...Concert Band
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DH1064039
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Kebek
This rhapsody reflects the four seasons combined with the natural scenery that characterises the city of Québec and its surrounding region. Autumn is depicted with hunting horns playing in the...Concert Band
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DHP1064018
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Kraftwerk
The theme of this work is the history of the town of Grafenrheinfeld (Bavaria, Germany) in the twentieth century, a town that is now mainly associated with its nuclear plant. The German word for this...Concert Band
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DHP1064019
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Pirate's Dream
Pirates Dream
In this fascinating piece, composer Hayato Hirose creates a fantasy world of a pirate who dreams of sailing to a treasure island. The music follows four different scenes that are played without...Concert Band
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DHP1053874
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Algona Overture
This piece is dedicated to all the citizens who live, have lived, and will live in the US town of Algona, who commissioned the work to celebrate it’s 150th anniversary. With dark-tinted tones (low...Concert Band
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DHP1053750
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Nordic Fanfare and Hymn
As the title suggests, this opening work consists of a fanfare and a hymn. This work was written for the opening ceremony of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf (Allgäu,...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DHP1053861
Castellum
This work consists of two movements. The first part is rather quiet and pastoral in character, written in a gently rocking 12/8 time and expressing the tranquillity of the area around the medieval...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DHP1043583
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The Swan on the Hill
This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a...Concert Band
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DHP1043766
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Bridge Between Nations
This work builds a musical bridge between the nations of the European Union. In this composition each country is represented by a fragment of its national anthem. The listener will continually be...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH1043699
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Balkan Dreams
Balkan Dreams was inspired by Kees Schoonenbeek’s love of the gypsy music originating from Hungary and Romania. Although this is not authentic gypsy music it echoes the compelling and melancholic...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH1043644
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Intermezzo for Band
This stately concert piece is a great choice for that change of pace for your next festival! A gentle, flowing alto saxophone solo opens the piece and is joined by rich textures in the clarinets and...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH1043651
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American Overture
Hayato Hirose spent his childhood and college days in the United States and it was his impressions and experiences from these years that acted as the inspiration for this exciting ‘American style’...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DHP1043652
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The Bremen Town Musicians
Diese Programmmusik beruht auf dem Grimms-Märchen Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten. Von "Es war einmal..." bis zu "...und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" ist es eine faszinierende...Concert Band
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DH1033483
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The Saint and the City
This tumultuous composition tells the legend of the town of Zwolle in the Netherlands. In the waters surrounding Zwolle lived a dragon. When it appeared it threatened to destroy the town with it...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH1033447
Jubilus!
This characteristic opening piece starts with an energetic and robust fanfare, soon followed by a contrasting, expressive, and lyrical theme. These two ingredients alternate a few times, after which...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH1023217
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Virginia
This expressive piece depicts three periods that play an important role in the history of the American state of Virginia, the colonization, slavery, and the American Civil War. The first movement...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH1012561
Finnish Folk Song Suite
In this moderately easy suite, Jan Van der Roost uses four authentic folk tunes from the Swedish-speaking part of Finland. These are from Nagu, Oravais, Lappfjärd and Karlebynejden, and have been...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH1012635
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Asteroid
Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH991561
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Festa Paesana
Lunteren, a village on the Veluwe (a wooded region in the Netherlands), sets the scene annually for a village festival dominated by folklore. Festa Paesana (Italian for village festival) is set to...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH1002022
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Cobra
Shortly after the Second World War, a combative movement of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to...Concert Band
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DH991729
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Sakura
Das japanische Wort "Sakura" bedeutet "Kirschblüte", welche die nationale Blume Japans darstellt. Die Melodie im Werk "Sakura" versucht das sichtbare Bild der Kirschblüte hervorzuzaubern die im März...Concert Band
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DH991492
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Prima Luce
Prima Luce (First Light) was commisioned by the Holy Angels Elementary School located in Aurora (USA). The name of the town (which means dawn), the town’s great religious history and the fact that...Concert Band
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DH991468
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Pacific Dreams
Pacific Dreams describes the experience of Miguel, a traveling composer from Spain who, feeling somewhat alienated from his homeland, is wandering through an area of Sydney known as The Rocks. At a...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH991451
Metalla
Metalla was commissioned by the 'Kreisverband Altenkirchen' of Germany and dedicated to Ottomar Jung. The composer himself conducted the premiere of the piece, which was performed by the...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH991495
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Nightflight to Paris
From the energetic music symbolizing the excitement of a Concorde flight to Paris, described through relentless jazz figures, to the can-can style dance at The Moulin Rouge, and on to the very grand...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH981163
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Raise of the Son
Der autodidaktische Komponist Rossano Galante studierte Filmmusik bei Jerry Goldsmith. Dies spiegelt sich zweifelsohne in seinem Werk „Raise of the Son“ wider, das mit kraftvollen,...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH981151
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Victory
Jan de Haan ließ sich von der Fußballweltmeisterschaft 1998 in Frankreich zu dieser Komposition inspirieren. Das Werk ist nicht programmatisch aufgebaut. Nach der Einleitung, in der vor allem Quarten...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH981387
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Shirim
In der Komposition "Shirim" (hebräisch: Lieder) wurden bekannte jüdische Volkslieder zu einer Rhapsodie für Blasorchester verarbeitet.Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH981369
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Rainbow Warrior
Diese Komposition handelt vom Schiff Rainbow Warrior der Umweltorganisation Greenpeace. Kees Vlak beschreibt auf musikalische Weise die manchmal abenteuerlichen Aktionen im Kampf um das...Concert Band
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DHI0253.98
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Et In Terra Pax
This piece was commissioned by the ‘Concert Band Vlamertinge’ and is a plea for peace: the title translates as ‘Peace on Earth’. This is expressed by means of the vocal contribution expected from the...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH981118
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Balkanya
Balkanya, a suite in three parts composed by Jan Van der Roost, was commissioned by the Music School of Gaillon - Aubevoye (France) for the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its creation....Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH981155
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Music For A Solemnity
Jan de Haan took as a starting point for Music for a Solemnity an old custom from the Dutch town of Hoogeveen, by which the faithful are called to church with drums. It was also inspired by the music...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH970921
Nemu-Susato
Nemu Susato
Commissioned by the Japan Band Clinic Committee of Yamaha for the Nemu Band Directors Clinic in Nemu no Sato, May 18-20, 1997.
The surprising title of this work is an indication of its content. By...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH970907
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Choral Music
Jacob de Haan was commissioned to write Choral Music a concert band from Dinxperlo (Netherlands). This band gave the work its premiere in 1997 during the World Music Contest in Kerkrade. Choral Music...Concert Band
Mittel-/Oberstufe
DH971104
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Alpina Fanfare
Der schweizer Komponist Franco Cesarini schrieb diese Eröffnungsfanfare für den bekannten Dirigenten und Rundfunkmoderator Kurt Brogli und seine Swiss-Loss-Band.Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH971084
Overture to a New Age
Ein neues Zeitalter bricht an – eröffnet von festlichen Blechbläserfanfaren. Was wird die Zukunft bringen? In seinem Werk Overture to a New Age drückt Jan de Haan einerseits Vorfreude, andererseits...Concert Band
Oberstufe
DH950662
Concerto d'Amore
In Concerto d’Amore, a maestoso opening is followed by a quick and energetic movement that leads to a magnificent adagio. A motif from this adagio can be heard in a swinging movement, after which the...Concert Band
Mittelstufe
DH950624
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Hispaniola
This colourful work is based on the adventures of Christopher Columbus and his voyages to discover Africa and other new territories around the World. The theory that the earth was round urged...Concert Band
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Dublin Dances
Includes: Brian Boru's March The Minstrel Boy The Irish Washerwoman In Dublin Dances Jan Van der Roost has combined three well-knowntraditional Irish melodies to form an attractive medley....Concert Band
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Domus
When composing this work the brief from the commissioning band was for the composer to base the work on a chorale-like subject matter and this he has done with aplomb. In the very first bars a...Concert Band
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Nerval`s Poems
Nervals Poems
Nerval's Poems is based on four poems from the collection Odelettes by the French poet Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855). This psychotic poete maudit lived in the realms of his imagination, where he...Concert Band
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The Heart of Lithuania
Includes: Crossing Klausuciu Street The Young Oak Grew in the Forest The Horse Neighing in the Meadow The Sun Has Set A Quiet Windless Night Composer Jacob de Haan has based The Heart of...Concert Band
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The Musical Village
In this lyrical work Jacob de Haan has created an atmospheric piece, which is in many ways similar to an on-stage stage musical production. Dreamy passages alternate with festive and swinging...Concert Band
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Alpine Flowers' Party!
The Hida High School is in a highland city called Takayama in Gifu Prefecture. Takayama City has some of the highest mountains in Japan, atmospheric rows of houses and streets, and a beautiful...Concert Band
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Il Cinghiale di Bronzo
Das Bronzeschwein
This suite is based on the fairy tale The Bronze Pig by Hans Christian Andersen.This is a story about a boy who wants to be a painter and a pig made of bronze. This pig, in Florence town square, is a...Concert Band
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Butterfly Overture
Doesn't everyone get butterflies in the stomach every now and then? Every person has known moments of being in love. Accordingly, in Butterfly Overture a charming love theme has been employed, which...Concert Band
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Young Pheasants in the Sky
This fantastic, stirring fanfare was written with the composer?s wish that the young musicians performing it would fly into the bright future like pheasants. The first part of the piece is a fanfare,...Concert Band
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Concordia
This unusual concert work, commissioned by the concert band ?Harmonie Concorde? from Sanem in Luxembourg, is built on two basic ideas: the evolution of the economic and social context of this...Concert Band
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Adagio for Winds
Adagio for Winds is similar in atmosphere to the well-known Canterbury Chorale (also by Jan Van der Roost), in that it has no exaggerated melodrama, but rather a melodically wide and expressive...Concert Band
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Tanczi
This suite was written in the style of traditional Russian folk music, but does not use existing melodies or themes as its basis. The colourful and varied work contains a number of surprising turns,...Concert Band
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Kebek
This rhapsody reflects the four seasons combined with the natural scenery that characterises the city of Québec and its surrounding region. Autumn is depicted with hunting horns playing in the...Concert Band
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Kraftwerk
The theme of this work is the history of the town of Grafenrheinfeld (Bavaria, Germany) in the twentieth century, a town that is now mainly associated with its nuclear plant. The German word for this...Concert Band
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Pirate's Dream
Pirates Dream
In this fascinating piece, composer Hayato Hirose creates a fantasy world of a pirate who dreams of sailing to a treasure island. The music follows four different scenes that are played without...Concert Band
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Algona Overture
This piece is dedicated to all the citizens who live, have lived, and will live in the US town of Algona, who commissioned the work to celebrate it’s 150th anniversary. With dark-tinted tones (low...Concert Band
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Nordic Fanfare and Hymn
As the title suggests, this opening work consists of a fanfare and a hymn. This work was written for the opening ceremony of the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf (Allgäu,...Concert Band
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Castellum
This work consists of two movements. The first part is rather quiet and pastoral in character, written in a gently rocking 12/8 time and expressing the tranquillity of the area around the medieval...Concert Band
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The Swan on the Hill
This stately opening work begins in the low register with a broad main theme from the low brass immediately setting the tone. Gradually other sections and registers enter and despite retaining a...Concert Band
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Bridge Between Nations
This work builds a musical bridge between the nations of the European Union. In this composition each country is represented by a fragment of its national anthem. The listener will continually be...Concert Band
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Balkan Dreams
Balkan Dreams was inspired by Kees Schoonenbeek’s love of the gypsy music originating from Hungary and Romania. Although this is not authentic gypsy music it echoes the compelling and melancholic...Concert Band
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Intermezzo for Band
This stately concert piece is a great choice for that change of pace for your next festival! A gentle, flowing alto saxophone solo opens the piece and is joined by rich textures in the clarinets and...Concert Band
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American Overture
Hayato Hirose spent his childhood and college days in the United States and it was his impressions and experiences from these years that acted as the inspiration for this exciting ‘American style’...Concert Band
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The Bremen Town Musicians
Diese Programmmusik beruht auf dem Grimms-Märchen Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten. Von "Es war einmal..." bis zu "...und wenn sie nicht gestorben sind, dann leben sie noch heute" ist es eine faszinierende...Concert Band
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The Saint and the City
This tumultuous composition tells the legend of the town of Zwolle in the Netherlands. In the waters surrounding Zwolle lived a dragon. When it appeared it threatened to destroy the town with it...Concert Band
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Jubilus!
This characteristic opening piece starts with an energetic and robust fanfare, soon followed by a contrasting, expressive, and lyrical theme. These two ingredients alternate a few times, after which...Concert Band
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Virginia
This expressive piece depicts three periods that play an important role in the history of the American state of Virginia, the colonization, slavery, and the American Civil War. The first movement...Concert Band
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Finnish Folk Song Suite
In this moderately easy suite, Jan Van der Roost uses four authentic folk tunes from the Swedish-speaking part of Finland. These are from Nagu, Oravais, Lappfjärd and Karlebynejden, and have been...Concert Band
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Asteroid
Asteroids and comets have played an important role throughout the history of life on earth. It is quite probable that the dinosaurs have been exterminated by an asteroid's impact in the Gulf of...Concert Band
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Festa Paesana
Lunteren, a village on the Veluwe (a wooded region in the Netherlands), sets the scene annually for a village festival dominated by folklore. Festa Paesana (Italian for village festival) is set to...Concert Band
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Cobra
Shortly after the Second World War, a combative movement of Danish, Belgian and Dutch artists chose the cobra snake - extremely dangerous yet considered sacred - as a symbol of their resistance to...Concert Band
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Sakura
Das japanische Wort "Sakura" bedeutet "Kirschblüte", welche die nationale Blume Japans darstellt. Die Melodie im Werk "Sakura" versucht das sichtbare Bild der Kirschblüte hervorzuzaubern die im März...Concert Band
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Prima Luce
Prima Luce (First Light) was commisioned by the Holy Angels Elementary School located in Aurora (USA). The name of the town (which means dawn), the town’s great religious history and the fact that...Concert Band
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Pacific Dreams
Pacific Dreams describes the experience of Miguel, a traveling composer from Spain who, feeling somewhat alienated from his homeland, is wandering through an area of Sydney known as The Rocks. At a...Concert Band
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Metalla
Metalla was commissioned by the 'Kreisverband Altenkirchen' of Germany and dedicated to Ottomar Jung. The composer himself conducted the premiere of the piece, which was performed by the...Concert Band
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Nightflight to Paris
From the energetic music symbolizing the excitement of a Concorde flight to Paris, described through relentless jazz figures, to the can-can style dance at The Moulin Rouge, and on to the very grand...Concert Band
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Raise of the Son
Der autodidaktische Komponist Rossano Galante studierte Filmmusik bei Jerry Goldsmith. Dies spiegelt sich zweifelsohne in seinem Werk „Raise of the Son“ wider, das mit kraftvollen,...Concert Band
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Victory
Jan de Haan ließ sich von der Fußballweltmeisterschaft 1998 in Frankreich zu dieser Komposition inspirieren. Das Werk ist nicht programmatisch aufgebaut. Nach der Einleitung, in der vor allem Quarten...Concert Band
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Shirim
In der Komposition "Shirim" (hebräisch: Lieder) wurden bekannte jüdische Volkslieder zu einer Rhapsodie für Blasorchester verarbeitet.Concert Band
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Rainbow Warrior
Diese Komposition handelt vom Schiff Rainbow Warrior der Umweltorganisation Greenpeace. Kees Vlak beschreibt auf musikalische Weise die manchmal abenteuerlichen Aktionen im Kampf um das...Concert Band
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Et In Terra Pax
This piece was commissioned by the ‘Concert Band Vlamertinge’ and is a plea for peace: the title translates as ‘Peace on Earth’. This is expressed by means of the vocal contribution expected from the...Concert Band
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Balkanya
Balkanya, a suite in three parts composed by Jan Van der Roost, was commissioned by the Music School of Gaillon - Aubevoye (France) for the celebration of the twentieth anniversary of its creation....Concert Band
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Music For A Solemnity
Jan de Haan took as a starting point for Music for a Solemnity an old custom from the Dutch town of Hoogeveen, by which the faithful are called to church with drums. It was also inspired by the music...Concert Band
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Nemu-Susato
Nemu Susato
Commissioned by the Japan Band Clinic Committee of Yamaha for the Nemu Band Directors Clinic in Nemu no Sato, May 18-20, 1997.
The surprising title of this work is an indication of its content. By...Concert Band
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Choral Music
Jacob de Haan was commissioned to write Choral Music a concert band from Dinxperlo (Netherlands). This band gave the work its premiere in 1997 during the World Music Contest in Kerkrade. Choral Music...Concert Band
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Alpina Fanfare
Der schweizer Komponist Franco Cesarini schrieb diese Eröffnungsfanfare für den bekannten Dirigenten und Rundfunkmoderator Kurt Brogli und seine Swiss-Loss-Band.Concert Band
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Overture to a New Age
Ein neues Zeitalter bricht an – eröffnet von festlichen Blechbläserfanfaren. Was wird die Zukunft bringen? In seinem Werk Overture to a New Age drückt Jan de Haan einerseits Vorfreude, andererseits...Concert Band
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Concerto d'Amore
In Concerto d’Amore, a maestoso opening is followed by a quick and energetic movement that leads to a magnificent adagio. A motif from this adagio can be heard in a swinging movement, after which the...Concert Band
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