Wendepunkte 1-9-8-9
MVSR2799
1989 / 2014: 25 years ago in Germany a political change happened having an incredible impact on the lives of so many people. With the fall of the Berlin Wall the citizens of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) acquired a freedom which they had ...
Sei uns gegrüßt
MVSR2693
Richard Wagner wrote this festive composition in early April, 1844 in just few days after hearing King Frederick Augustus II of Saxony had returned from England. This action by his own authority offended Wagner’s superiors, the Baron of Luettichau ...
Elsas Zug zum Münster
MVSR2607
Diese Musik entstammt der vierten Szene aus dem zweiten Aufzug der Oper "Lohengrin", als Elsa in einem feierlichen Zug zum Münster geleitet wird, wo sie ihren geheimnisvollen Retter heiraten soll.
Richard Wagner erzählt in seiner Oper musikalisch ...
Toccata & Fuge in d
MVSR2536
In its intellectual complexity, its formal incomparability and musical variety, Bach’s oeuvre shines out across the centuries. All composers who have come after him must prepared to be measured against him, for he has elevated the language of ...
Huldigungsmarsch
MVSR2559
Hardly any composer was so rejected, and so celebrated by his contemporaries as Richard Wagner. The Leipzig musicologist Hugo Riemann (1849-1919) describes him as “the greatest dramatic composer of the 19th century and without doubt the most ...
Akademische Festouvertüre
MVSR2580
The composer Johannes Brahms was born into a family of musicians from Hamburg. His father was a simple tavern musician who, by his great diligence, worked his way up to become a respected double bass player at the City Theatre. Apart from his ...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
MVSR2518
Richard Wagner only referred to one of his operas repeatedly and specifically as his “masterpiece”: his “Meistersinger von Nürnberg”. From the initial creative idea until its completion, the great poet-composer occupied ...
Concertino op.26
MVSR2457
Carl Maria von Weber succeeded in establishing himself as a pioneer of German opera. With the first performance of his “Freischütz” in Berlin in 1821 Weber was finally given unprecedented acclaim as the founder of German Romantic popular ...
Kol Nidrei
MVSR2517
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 overwhelming success of this work led a number ...
In Treue fest
MVSR2397
When Carl Teike enlisted in 1883 in the Grenadiers Regiment King Karl (5th Wuerttemberg) No. 123 in Ulm, he had already passed his apprenticeship as a musician of City Band Director Paul Böttcher at Wollin. He also had already gained musical ...
Slawischer Tanz Nr. 4
MVSR1830
Die zwei Reihen der „Slawischen Tänze" (op.46 und op.72) von je acht Nummern gehören zu den bekanntesten Kompositionen von Antonín Dvorák. Die ersten acht Tänze unter „Opus 46“ entstanden im Jahr 1878 zunächst für Klavier zu vier Händen. Die ...
Festparade
MVSR1735
Siegmund Goldhammer's "Festparade" is a sweeping march that impresses with its shining trumpet calls, filigree woodwind sounds and sonorous bass lines. A true enrichment of band ...
Orpheus in der Unterwelt
MVSR1711
Der deutsch-französische Komponist Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) gilt als der Begründer der modernen Operette, die ein eigenständiges Genre des Musiktheaters darstellt. Sein bedeutendstes Werk ist sicherlich „Orpheus in der ...
Gruß an Sumava
MVSR1701
Wirkungsvoller Konzertmarsch, der im Schlußteil durch strahlende C-Dur-Klänge aufhorchen ...
Siegmund Goldhammer
Siegmund Goldhammer was born on 8 March 1932, in Bielen near Nordhausen, Thuringia, East Germany. At the age of eight, he learned the accordion. Later he received piano lessons and taught himself to play the trumpet.
After the war he took up an ...