O Mio Babbino Caro : from Gianni Schicchi

Giacomo Puccini composed Gianni Schicchi in 1918. It was the third opera of Il trittico (a trilogy). O mio babbino caro is a famous arietta sung by Gianni Schicchi’s daughter Lauretta. The song is very melodic and it has a beautiful harmonization. This arrangement is ideal for smaller bands or bands missing certain players as it offers alternatives for many parts and will make an ideal encore.

O Mio Babbino Caro : from Gianni Schicchi

Giacomo Puccini composed Gianni Schicchi in 1918. It was the third opera of Il trittico (a trilogy). O mio babbino caro is a famous arietta sung by Gianni Schicchi’s daughter Lauretta. The song is very melodic and it has a beautiful harmonization. This arrangement is ideal for smaller bands or bands missing certain players as it offers alternatives for many parts and will make an ideal encore.

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O Mio Babbino Caro : from Gianni Schicchi

Contemplation : Doloroso e Contemplativo

Contemplation is the first movement from the Clarinet Concerto by Jan Van der Roost, which was commissioned by Musica Reservata VOF, Belgium, and is dedicated to the famous clarinet soloist Eddy Vanoosthuyse. A slightly mysterious intro leads to an orchestral climax with ascending melodies and the entrance of the soloist. This occurs at first with fragmentary musical ideas, and then with longer melodic lines. The orchestra delivers the dialogue withthe soloist, and creates a fitting musical frame with a delicate and colourful instrumentation. Towards the end of the music, the atmosphere from the beginning is restored, and the soloist finishes on the same note that he started the piece on. The concerto is also available as a piano reduction.

A Scottish Hymn

A Scottish Hymn is a chorale arrangement of a hymn composed by Charles Hutcheson, a Scottish merchant and amateur composer who lived from 1792 to 1860. This hymn was given the title “Stracathro,” a typical Scottish name after a town in the district Angus. The melody is used with various hymn texts in the Scottish church.

You're a Lady

Songwriter and composer Peter Skellern was a great writer of many truly sensitive love songs, with You’re A Lady being the most famous by far. This evergreen was originally performed with brass band backing, making it an obvious choice for a brass band arrangement.

Love Can Build a Bridge

This arrangement for brass band of the successful song Love Can Build a Bridge includes a beautiful cornet solo. A splendid addition to any concert.

A Sunrise Impression

This evocative concert piece begins with a dreamy introduction in which we here the firt theme. The musical tension is gradually increased in the Grandioso with a new forceful theme being heard. These ever present two themes are further developed with the introduction of striking rhythmic patters bringing the work to a climax.

A Mini Christmas Medley

This joyful Christmas medley combines eight of the best known Christmas carols: Good King Wenceslas - O Come All Ye Faithful - We Three Kings - A La Nanita Nana - Away in a Manger - Once in Royal Davids City - A Spotless Rose - The First Nowell.

A Flemish Christmas

In A Flemish Christmas, Jan Hadermann tells the Christmas story by means of four Old Flemish Christmas Songs.Mary is chosen to bring Jesus Christ, the son of God, into the world: Het was een maged uitverkoren (‘She was a virgin chosen’).On the occasion of a census, Mary, who is with child, and Joseph, her husband to be, travel from Nazareth to Bethlehem, where Jesus will be born in a humble stable: Maria die zoude naar Bethlehem gaan (Mary would go to Bethlehem’).O kerstnacht, schoner dan de dagen (‘Oh Christmas Night, more beautiful than the days’) is a stately chorale that sings the praises of Jesus’ birth.Three wise men from the East, Caspar,Melchior and Balthazar, follow a bright star in the sky, which leads them to Bethlehem. There, they worship the newborn King, and offer him gold, frankincense and myrrh: Wij komen van Oosten (We’ve come from the East’).This musical Christmas story ends with a festive repeat of the third movement, the stately chorale.

Westfort Overture

Westfort Ouverture was called after the Dutch village Westervoort that is situated near Arnhem. It is an opening work of many contrasts and completely built on one main motive: G-C-D-E-F#-D-E.

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A Baroque Triptych : A Christmas Fantasy on Themes by Bach & Handel

In his own distinctive style, Robert van Beringen has composed a very unique fantasy on three themes by the famous Baroque composers Johann Sebastian Bach and George Friedrich Händel. Van Beringen used Bach’s chorale Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht (‘Break forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light’) from his Christmas Oratorio and the recitative Behold, a Virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel, God with Us from Händel’s Messiah. A perfect way to say Merry Christmas in music!

A Boundary Island : Op. 118

This new original composition by the Japanese composer Itaru Sakai for ten-part brass ensemble is characterised by two main ideas: a fanfare section, deriving from a literal quotation from the opening of Mahler’s fifth symphony, and a contrasting,wandering theme that’s rather melancholy.

A Salzburg Impression

In this composition, Dizzy Stratford gives a musical impression of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beautiful hometown. The theme of the work has been derived from the middle movement of one of Mozart’s piano sonatas and provides the concert band with a glimpse into the creative genius of this great composer.

A Morricone Portrait

Inspired by the music of legendary Italian composer, Ennio Morricone, A Morricone Portrait is a skilfully arranged piece from Roland Kernen containing some of Morricone’s most beautiful melodies. Songs include: My Name Is Nobody, Metello and Here’s to You. These familiar songs will be well received by any audience!

A German Christmas

Following a Christmas concert in German speaking Belgium, Jan Hadermann put together A Geman Christmas. Three well-known German Christmas carols O Tannenbaum, Alle Jahre Wieder and Süßer die Glocken nie klingen have beentranscribed in this Christmas medley. The romantic simplicity of the music makes it ideal for all bands.

A Glorious Summer Day

The Japanese composer Satoshi Yagisawa is known for writing beautiful and colourful melodies. This moving slow piece is suitable as a warm-up piece or a quiet moment in your concert programme. It also allows you to work on intonation, phrasing and musicality.

A Rossini Remix

The effortlessness with which Rossini wrote his melodies verges on the incredible. In over twenty years, he composed about forty operas. And who does not know the famous William Tell Overture from his last opera. Jacob de Haan, as a true deejay, made a great remix of this theme, in combination with another surprising musical theme.

A Rossini Remix

The effortlessness with which Rossini wrote his melodies verges on the incredible. In over twenty years, he composed about forty operas. And who does not know the famous William Tell Overture from his last opera. Jacob de Haan, as a true deejay, made a great remix of this theme, in combination with another surprising musical theme.

Bliss : Impressions of a Village

Bliss: Impressions of a Village is a spectacular test piece by one of the most renowned brass band composers in Holland, Jacob de Haan. It contains three impressions of a village in the beautiful Brabant province in the Netherlands. The first movement is in a very classical style, which captures the village’s history appropriately. The entire band joins in as the small river approaches an ancient castle. The third movement contains lots of interesting rhythms portraying the hustle and bustle of everyday life in the village.

A Caribbean Sailing Trip

With this composition in a rumba style, Peter Kleine Schaars invites us to enjoy a relaxed sailing trip in the waters of the Caribbean. The feeling of freedom on the boat is mirrored by an extensive melody surrounded by a palette of colourful harmonies the shades of the water while the clever percussion sets the course of the ship. Who wouldn’t dream of such an adventure? Although the musical themes and accompaniments have been constructed from combinations of rhythmic cells that occur less often, the composition sounds very natural and flowing. Assuming the rhythmic cells 1 to 8 are part of the basic skills of your band, in this composition, the accent rather lies on cells 9 to 13. The instrumentation is created in such a way that these ‘new cells’ occur in all parts, so that all musicians of the band become familiar with this rhythmic development.

Three Songs : A medley of three countries

Jan de Haan has created an easy international arrangement that sounds anything but, featuring Au clair de la lune from France, Mary Had a Little Lamb from England and Un, dun, dip, a Dutch children’s song.

It's a Sin

In the eighties the Pet Shop Boys produced hit after hit. It’s a Sin originates from the same year as their largest selling record West End Girls and this brave arrangement by Klauss van der Woude now means your brass band can enjoy the simplicity of this great pop song.