Wiener Praterleben
MVSR3465
Siegfried Translateur was a German composer, publisher and music director. He hailed from the province of Silesia where he was born as an illegitimate child. His mother later married cantor Salomon Lagodzinsky who in turn adopted young Siegfried. ...
Feuerfest!
MVSR2751
Josef Strauss (1827-1870) est issu de la célèbre famille de compositeurs autrichiens Strauss. Son père était Johann Strauss (père), son frère aîné Johann Strauss (fils) et son frère cadet ...
Pomp and Circumstance No. 4
MVSR3426
Les cinq marches de la série "Pomp and Circumstance" op. 39 font certainement partie des compositions les plus célèbres du britannique Edward Elgar. Il les écrivit entre 1901 et 1930. La première marche de la ...
Maskarade
MVSR2966
L’opéra "Maskarade" du compositeur danois Carl Nielsen se base sur une comédie théâtrale classique que Nielsen transforma en opéra-comique. Les cercles littéraires furent d’abord très ...
Polka Italienne
MVSR3424
Le compositeur, pianiste et chef d’orchestre russe Sergeij Rachmaninow (1873-1943) est considéré comme l’un des créateurs de musique les plus polyvalents de son temps. Il a écrit des symphonies, des concertos pour ...
Cortege Solennel op.91
MVSR3412
Alexandre Konstantinovitch Glazounov est né en 1865 et montra dès ses plus jeunes années un talent musical remarquable particulièrement encouragé par son professeur Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Il fut intégré ...
Sei uns gegrüßt
MVSR2693
Cette composition solennelle fut écrite début août 1844 en seulement quelques jours lorsque Richard Wagner apprit le retour d'Angleterre du roi Frédéric-Auguste II de Saxe. Cette initiative ...
Mon Salut à St. Petersbourg
MVSR2676
Hans Christian Lumbye, né le 2 mai 1810 à Copenhague, était un chef d’ orchestre et compositeur danois. Au cours de l’un des nombreux voyages en bateau qu’ il effectua avec sa famille pour les transferts militaires ...
Tannhäuser Festival
MVSR2692
Richard Wagner était principalement connu pour ses œuvres scéniques grandioses et uniques dans lesquelles il développait en tant que compositeur, parolier et metteur en scène un style scénique global et ...
Liebesflammen
MVSR2659
Le compositeur de marches mondialement connu, Julius Fučík, est né à Prague en 1872. Fučík était un véritable musicien de Bohème avec toute la polyvalence de ce type de musicien. Dans sa ville natale, il ...
Ode "An die Freude"
MVSR2622
La 9ème symphonie de Ludwig van Beethoven est l’ une des plus grandes œ uvres de l’histoire de la musique. Ce fut la dernière symphonie du compositeur tout aussi génial que difficile. Cette œ uvre ...
Der Zigeunerbaron (Ouvertüre)
MVSR2604
Il fallut beaucoup de temps à Johann Strauss (fils) pour terminer son opérette "Der Zigeunerbaron". Avant sa première au Théâtre de Vienne en 1885, Strauss travailla deux ans pour créer les trois actes ...
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 music ...
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 ...
Hebe deine Augen auf
MVSR2577
„Elias“ de Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy est un oratorio sur l’histoire du prophète biblique. Dans une lettre de 1837, il est mentionné pour la première fois que Mendelssohn avait prévu de mettre en musique le ...
Aus dem Studentenleben
MVSR1999
It is a well-known fact that Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) was not a very good student. In 1840, his parents sent him to Plzen, where, under the supervision of his older cousin, Professor and author Frantisek Josef Smetana, he was to complete his studies. ...
Nessun Dorma
MVSR2591
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) came from a tradition-steeped family of musicians. After seeing a performance of “Aida” in 1876 he decided to compose operas. “Turandot” was Giacomo Puccini’s last composition. Due to a progressive illness he could not ...
Les Savojardes
MVSR2539
The Overture of the operetta “The Two Savoyards” stands for a period, during which works by Jacques Offenbach triggered the development of an independent Viennese operetta in the 19th century. It was the one-act play “Le 66” that opened the second ...
Wein, Weib und Gesang
MVSR2485
For Johann Strauss II the year 1847 was of special bearing, as it allowed him to establish contacts with one of the most important musical institutions of Vienna, namely the Vienna Male Choir. In the course of time he wrote nine works for this ...
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 ...
Rosen aus dem Süden
MVSR2444
Johann Strauß (1825-1899) is known as the Waltz King; his compositions still enjoy great popularity the world over. In 1864 he came to know Jacques Offenbach, who encouraged him to write operettas. Strauß himself preferred the term comic ...
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 ...
Slavonic March
MVSR2430
The “Slavonic March”, Tchaikovsky’s opus 31, was commissioned in 1876 by the Russian Musical Society for performance at a Red Cross charity concert for the victims of the Serbo-Turkish War. In his work Tchaikovsky made use of Serbian folk tunes and ...
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 ...
Cortege from Mlada
MVSR2446
Between 1868 and 1870, work was in progress at the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg on a new ballet opera. The theme of this opera was to be based on Slavic mythology. Many well-known composers from Saint Petersburg participated in this ...
Arietta
MVSR2524
“Le nozze di Figaro”, in English “The Marriage of Figaro” is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Koechel Catalog shows this work as number K 492. The Italian libretto stems from the pen of Lorenzo da Ponte and is based on the stage comedy “La ...
Bist du bei mir
MVSR2540
Le génie universel Jean-Sébastien Bach suscite aujourd’hui encore de l’admiration et aucun compositeur, aucun interprète ne peut échapper à l’héritage artistique de ce maître. Il ...
An die Freude
MVSR2356
"An die Freude" can also be performed with band and choir. The additional chor parts are available separately.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 is a grandiose work, in regard both to its musical substance, as well as because of ...
Viva Belcanto!
MVSR2455
The title of this selection must actually not be translated. “Here is to Beautiful Singing!” would be a possible verbatim translation. However, belcanto is much more. It is an attitude to life it is sheer joy of spontaneous and virtuoso singing, it ...
Fanfare und Tanz
MVSR2405
More than a century after the first performance of “Swan Lake” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow on March 4, 1877, it has been the most universally popular of all classical ballets and the music most ...
Fra Diavolo
MVSR2411
The French composer Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782-1871) was a successful composer and Director of the Paris Conservatoire. He also was appointed Musical Director of the Imperial Court Orchestra by Napoleon III in 1857. Auber’s music is ...
Coronation March
MVSR2420
When Nicholas, the older son of Czar Alexander II died in 1865, the heir to the throne now became his brother Alexander. Alexander had to promise his dying brother that he would marry his fiancée after his death. This marriage then took place in ...
Un Poco Larghetto
MVSR1966
Pavel Stanék was born in 1927 in Prague. He finished his studies at the conservatory there, in 1950, and from this year up to 1954 he was conductor of the Folk Ensemble. During his military service he conducted the Central Band of the Ministery of ...
Polonez
MVSR2361
Michal Kleofas Oginski (1765-1833) was a talented composer who was widely known for his polonaises. During his extensive travels abroad the young aristocrat became acquainted with the current trends in European music and continued to compose and ...
Sleeping Beauty Waltz
MVSR2332
In the letters of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky the ballet theme occupies a rather modest place compared to opera for example. But, in spite of the laconicism and restraint which distinguish Tchaikovsky’s opinions about music of his own ballets, the ...
Promenade & Great Gate of Kiev
MVSR2410
Modest Petrovitch Mussorgsky was born in 1839 in the governate of Pskov. In the first place he wanted to embark on the career of an officer, and therefore joined one of the noble guards regiments. However, he abandoned that vocation after having ...
Concerto for Trombone
MVSR2369
Das Posaunenkonzert von Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow wurde im Jahre 1877 komponiert.
Es besteht aus 3 Sätzen:
1. Allegro vivace
2. Andante cantabile
3. Allegro-Allegretto
Die Sätze 2 und 3 ...
Ruslan & Ludmilla
MVSR2415
After the extraordinary success of his Opera “A Life for the Tsar” (or “Ivan Susanin”) in 1836, Mikhail I. Glinka (1804-1857) immediately considered composing a second opera. Pushkin’s early poetic fairy-tale “Ruslan and Lyudmilla” was to become ...
Andante
MVSR1955
Pavel Stanék was born in 1927 in Prague. He finished his studies at the conservatory there, in 1950, and from this year up to 1954 he was conductor of the Folk Ensemble. During his military service he conducted the Central Band of the Ministery of ...
Largo
MVSR2319
The 9th symphony of the Czech composer Antonín Dvorák marks both the endpoint and the climax in his symphonic musical production. His best known and most popular work, which he composed between December 1882 and May 1893, was first produced in the ...
Pilky
MVSR1944
During his lifetime, Leoš Janacek (1854-1928) was long regarded as a "mere" folklorist. He indeed collected folk songs systematically and studied them thoroughly. The folk melodics and words then constituted the basics of his original ...
La Gazza Ladra
MVSR2046
During Rossini’s second creative period (approx. 1813-1817) his inclination increased, to borrow musical material from earlier works, when time could not have been responsible. While there is the increased occurrence of self-borrowing, Rossini, at ...
Zwei berühmte Choräle
MVSR2350
These two pieces doubtlessly belong to the “Greatest Hits” of Bach's works. The arrangement by Albert Loritz contains the following features
• It retains the original allocation of parts and roles.
• It abandons ...
Slawischer Tanz Nr. 1
MVSR2308
The two series of »Slavonic Dances« (op.46 and 72), each of them consisting of eight numbers, belong to the most famous works of Antonín Dvorák. The eight dances with "opus 46" were first composed for the piano duet. But an orchestration was ...
Legende No. 4
MVSR2307
Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) composed his Legend No. 4, op. 59, like his Slavonic Dances, first for the piano in 1880, but scored them shortly afterwards. The cycle of ten smaller pieces with an extra-musical programme of legends is considered a ...
Marsch aus Nussknacker
MVSR2322
The production of the three great ballets by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) in St. Petersburg represents the supreme expression of the classical dance and thus created the base for the renaissance of the ballet in the 20th ...
Sonatine No.3
MVSR2313
Pavel Stanék transcribed the first movement of the Sonatine opus 137 No. 3 by Franz Schubert for concert band. The Czech composer gives proof of his sure feeling for Schubert's tonal language and for his enormous knowledge of the modern concert band. ...
St. Hubertus
MVSR2090
Julius Fucík (1872-1916) often nicknamed ”king of marches”, studied for some time in the master class of Antonín Dvorak at the Prague Conservatory but eventually embarked on a path different from that pursued by his more famous ...
Vier Altböhmische Intraden
MVSR1947
Evzen Zámecník was born in Frýdek-Místek (Czech Republik) in 1939 . He studied violin and composition at the conservatory in Brno and continued his composing studies at the Janácek-Academy with Jan Kapr. Due to his ...
Trepak
MVSR1915
Russian Dance from the ballet "The Nutcracker"
The production of the three great Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) ballets in St. Petersburg represents the supreme expression of the classical dance and thus ...
Serenata Sentimentale
MVSR1789
Enrico Toselli (1883-1926) was a successful pianist, who later worked as composer, teacher and pianist in Florence. In 1906, he married archduchess Luise of Austria-Tuscany, who left King August II. of Saxonia for him. Six years later, this ...
Fanfare
MVSR1885
During the second half of the 19th century there were indications of a budding Belgian national music at least in the field of sacred organ music. Nicolas Jacques Lemmens (1823-1881) was active as organ teacher in Brussels, and in 1879 he founded ...
Pique Dame
MVSR2309
Nach der Revolution des Jahres 1848 hatte das Singspiel für die Wiener viel von seiner Anziehungskraft verloren und es waren jetzt die lebensfrohen Werke von Jacques Offenbach, die dort Beachtung fanden. Franz von Suppè (1819-1892), bereits ...
Sinfonia aus dem Oratorium »Salomon«
MVSR1913
George Frederic Handel composed his oratorio “Solomon” (HWV 67) within the space of only six weeks, between May 5th and June 13th 1748. The complete work for soloists, large choir and orchestra consists of an overture and 3 acts with 39 movements, ...
Chanson Napolitaine
MVSR2018
The work of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) is exemplary of the synthesis of Russian musical thought (influenced by Italian and French music) and the tendencies of western neo-romanticism. He is regarded as one of the world’s greatest ...
Ins neue Leben
MVSR1963
Josef Suk (1874-1935), the pupil and son-in-law of the composer Antonin Dvorak and a protagonist of the Czech Modernism in music, in 1919 entered his composition V novy zivot (Towards a New Life), subtitled Festive Sokol March for Large Orchestra, Op. ...
Last Rose of Summer
MVSR2063
Melodie und Text "'Tis the Last Rose of Summer” in der Fassung von Thomas Moore erschienen erstmalig 1813 in einer „Auswahl irischer Melodien“. Das Lied erlebte jedoch größte Verbreitung durch seine Verwendung in Friedrich von Flotows (1812-1883) ...
Leichtes Blut
MVSR2303
At the traditional Vienna carnival revue on March 10, 1867 the Strauß brothers presented 25 novelties. Especially with his fast polka „Leichtes Blut“ op. 319, Johann starts a big celebration right from the first ...
Solvejgs Song
MVSR1971
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) schuf mit einigen gleichgesinnten Weggefährten die nationale Musik Norwegens. Aus der Zusammenarbeit mit dem Schriftsteller Henrik Ibsen entstand seine Bühnenmusik zu dessen dramatischem Gedicht „Peer Gynt“. Nach dem Erfolg ...
Concertino für Posaune
MVSR1950
Ernst Sachse exerça comme tromboniste à la cour de Saxe et comme le premier trombone solo à Weimar. Collaborateur fréquent de Franz Liszt, il fut aussi parmi les membres de l'orchestre créant la première de ...
Galop Bajadérek
MVSR2300
The Galop Bajadérek had been originally composed as a small piano piece, a fast polka in fact, and a stylisation of the fiery dance of the harem ...
Hornkonzert Nr.3 Es-Dur KV 447
MVSR1892
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) wrote his four horn concertos in Vienna between 1781 and 1791. We still do not know why Mozart did not register those concertos fully dated in his catalogue of works. The dating used in the Köchel catalog turned ...
Polka und Finale
MVSR1729
"Die verkaufte Braut" war die zweite Oper von Bedrich Smetana. Obgleich das Libretto von Karel Sabina den Möglichkeiten des Musiktheaters geschickt angepaßt war, war der Erfolg der Prager Uraufführung am 30.05.1866 nur gering. ...
Serenada
MVSR1952
Pavel Josef Vejvanovský (1640-1693) is an exponent of the Czech Baroque music. After studies at the Jesuit Latin school in Olomouc (1656-1660), he became a member of the orchestra of the Olomouc bishop Karl Lichtenstein-Castelcorn in Kromeríz in ...
Libussa-Fanfare
MVSR2023
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), the father of Czech national music art wrote his fourth opera "Libussa", based on the story of princess Libussa, after a libretto by Josef Wenzig and Erwin Spindler and determined it for festive events of the Czech ...
Marsch der Komödianten und Springtanz
MVSR1788
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884), hat seine zweite Oper "Die verkaufte Braut" nach einem Libretto von Karel Sabina komponiert. Die Uraufführung fand am 30. Mai 1866 im Interimstheater in Prag statt.
Die heitere Begebenheit oder eher Anekdote über die ...
Marsch zur Shakespeare-Feier
MVSR1866
In 1864 there was a big celebration in Prague for the occasion of William Shakespeare's 300th birthday. As a great finale they performed the "Festive March for the Shakespeare Celebration" with about 250 characters from all Shakespeare ...
Slawischer Tanz Nr. 8
MVSR1895
The two series of »Slavonic Dances« (op.46 and 72), each of them consisting of eight numbers, belong to the most famous works of Antonín Dvorák (born 8. Sep. 1841 in Muehlhausen/Moldau, † 1. May 1904 in Prague). The ...
Festliche Ouvertüre
MVSR1880
The “Festive Overture” by Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) was composed for the laying of the foundation stone for the National Theater in Prague in 1868. Due to its dignified character and its expressiveness, this piece was often performed on ...
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 ...
Polonaise
MVSR1881
Antonín Dvorák (* 8. Sep. 1841 in Mühlhausen/Moldau, † 1. May 1904 in Prague) composed the Polonaise in E-flat major in 1879 to promote the idea of a „Reform of dance music to give it a national character“ and ...
Marche des Janissaires
MVSR1737
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 during the French Revolutionary period. The republic charged ...
Morgenstimmung
MVSR1779
The dramatist and poet Henrik Ibsen wrote his epic poem “Peer Gynt” in 1876. It was, however, not initially conceived for the stage. Several years later Ibsen began to adapt it to theater use and already at the outset of ...
Suite from Abdelazer and The Double Dealer
MVSR1702
Eine abwechslungsreiche Suite mit Stücken des berühmten englischen Komponisten. Besonders der 3. Satz ist seit der Verwendung in Benjamin Brittens "Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra" ...
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 ...
Music for the Royal Fireworks-Teil III
MVSR1732
LA RÉJOUISSANCE
Die „Neuigkeit“ in diesem Satz stellt der Part der Kleinen Trommel dar. Bei Händel heißt es einfach: "with the side drums" - für den Bearbeiter eine Aufforderung, eine Trommelstimme zu ...
Music for the Royal Fireworks-Teil II
MVSR1713
Unser zweiter Teil der »Feuerwerksmusik« enthält die Mittelsätze, in denen die Holzbläser und Hörner im Vordergrund stehen.
Die BOURRÉE ist lediglich dreistimmig: zwei gleichberechtigte ...
Music for the Royal Fireworks - Teil I
MVSR1712
Die "Feuerwerksmusik" von Georg Friedrich Händel gehört zu den bekanntesten Werken der Barockzeit. Für uns von großer Bedeutung: Es gibt zwei Fassungen. Händel selbst favorisierte die Fassung für Bläser und Streicher, die Version ...
Vergnügungszug
MVSR1685
There was a real need for dance novelties to be performed at the fashionable Viennese carnival balls. A true challenge hence for Johann Strauss, the waltz king, and his brothers. The galop “Pleasure Train” was premiered on Jan. 19, 1864 in ...
Toccata BuxWV 157
MVSR1596
Transkription eines Orgelwerks des norddeutschen Bach-Vorläufers Dietrich Buxtehude. Brillante Toccatenteile mir ihren virtuosen Tonleiterfiguren. Dreiklangbrechungen und Akkordrepetitionen umrahmen einen reizvollen Fugen-Mittelteil. Eine ...
Andantino
MVSR1571
Das „Andantino in g-moll“, das typisch für den spätromantischen und von der Ausdrucksästhetik geprägten Stil ist, zählt zu den weniger bekannten Orgelkompositionen von César Franck (1822-1890). Albert Loritz ...
Allegretto
MVSR1572
Aus dem Zyklus der "Sechs Londoner Sinfonien".
Haydn konnte im Londoner Sinfonieorchester mit einem beachtlichen Anteil an Bläsern rechnen, so daß die Originalpartitur der Sinfonie eine komplette "klassische ...
Passacaille
MVSR1548
This piece is taken from the suite for cembalo in g minor. It beginns with a unisono opening, leading to several variations, where the high and low sections of the band alternately dominate. It ends with a bright finale.
A passacaglia, ...
Air und Bourée
MVSR1531
Johann Sebastian Bachs "Air" aus der D-Dur Suite gehört zu den beliebtesten und bekanntesten Stücken klassischer Musik überhaupt. Neben der zauberhaften Originalversion für Streichorchester mit Cembalo erklingt dieses ...
Old English Tunes and Airs
MVSR1539
There are many beautiful compositions in old English music that have never reached a deserved level of awareness. This suite of “Old English Tunes and Airs” contains unknown pieces of less famous composers that are in no way inferior to ...
Kaiserwalzer
MVSR1503
Berlin darf sich fast mit gleichem Recht wie Wien als Johann-Strauß-Stadt bezeichnen. Der Komponist war an der Spree ebenso bekannt und geschätzt wie an der Donau, er hat in Berlin Erfolge von triumphalen Ausmaßen erlebt. Bei vielen ...
Zwischenaktmusik Nr. 2 / Ballettmusik Nr. 2
MVSR0425
Das Drama "Rosamunde, Prinzessin von Zypern" aus der Feder von Wilhelmine von Chézy wurde insgesamt nur zwei Mal aufgeführt: am 20. und 21. Dezember 1823 im Theater an der Wien. Der Text ist verschollen.
Die ...
Pomp and Circumstance No. 1
MVSR0312
Sir Edward William Elgar war der erste bedeutende Komponist in Großbritannien nach Henry Purcell (1659-1695). Dass er quasi zum Synonym für englische Musik wurde, ist vor allem "patriotischen" Werken wie den fünf ...
Suite aus der »Wassermusik«
MVSR0409
George Friedrich Handel’s „Water Music is one of his most famous and popular works. A Thames boat ride of King George I on July 17, 1717 was the occasion for this composition. Handel was supposed to provide festive musical amusement during ...
Klassik Panorama
MVSR0240
Famous classical melodies in a beautiful medley, instrumented and arranged in a not too difficult way. This piece is highly recommendet for open air or show performances.
Includes:
Capriccio Italien (P.I. ...
Figaro-Marsch
MVSR1803
This is a concert march arrangement of the Figaro aria from "The Marriage of Figaro". Bearbeitung der Arie des Figaro aus der "Hochzeit des Figaro". The whole band is playing the march theme whereas the aria melody appears first in ...
Marsch aus Herkules
MVSR0282
This majestic and festive march is taken from the Oratory "Herkules" (1745) and suits perfectly as opening piece for almost any occasion. The composition is quite short, yet rich in variety: tutti sounds, a trumpet solo and brass choir. You ...
Der Kalif von Bagdad
MVSR0155
Two operas paved the way of François Adrien Boieldieu (1775-1834) from Rouen to Paris, where the first production of the opera “The Caliph of Baghdad” in 1800 was unanimously acclaimed. After that he went to St. Petersburg where he was appointed ...
Lohengrin Fantasie
MVSR1111
Richard Wagner, 1813 in Leipzig geboren, wandte sich mit zwanzig Jahren der Theaterlaufbahn als Kapellmeister und Opernkomponist zu. Die Städte Würzburg, Magdeburg, Riga, Paris, Dresden, München sind wichtige Stationen auf seinem ...
Verdi
MVSR0391
Giuseppe Verdi was the composer of titanic greatness in the world of the nineteenth-century Italian opera. From Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti he inherited the tradition of the glorious vocal melody to which he added a sense of drama what has never ...