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£129.99
Weather Report - Shin'ya Takahashi
Weather Report was commissioned by Marunouchi Junior High School in Nagano in 2010 and premiered at the Nagano State Band Contest.One of my new thoughts for composition has been to ask students for titles, images and ideas. For this commission I collected many interesting concepts, and quite a few had to do with weather. So, I constructed the piece based on weather news and report. After the main weather news presentation, the meteorologist presents the daily weather forecast:"The morning will be clear and beautiful becoming cloudy at noon and eventually shower later. Rain intensity will increase turning into a thunderstorm. Towards the evening, rain and storm will leave, and there will be a beautiful sunset. That's the weather for today."(Shin'ya Takahashi)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£122.50Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams is one of the most successful rock singers of modern times with his raspy voice and his ability to sing rock songs as skilfully as expressive ballads contributed to his fame. Wolfgang Wssner, a great fan of Bryan Adams, has made a selection of the most appealing and successful songs by the Canadian singer and arranged them to form a medley for concert band. The medley includes the following titles: Everything I Do, I Do it for You from the movie Robin Hood, The Best of Me, Please Forgive Me and Summer of '69. This mixture of ballads and rock songs will ensure everyone will leave your concert humming one of their favourite Bryan Adams hits.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£141.99A Tribute to Ray Charles
Ray Charles (1930-2004) was a multitalented and pioneering American pianist and soul singer who became very popular in the late fifties, and remained respected for his music in the decades that followed. By incorporating gospel, jazz, blues, and big band elements, he helped shape the sound of rhythm and blues, and brought a soulful sound to everything from country music to pop standards. Ray Charles embodied the American dream, starting out a poor, blind boy from the southern United States and becoming an international music phenomenon; his nickname was "the Genius" for a good reasonIn this arrangement for concert band, Peter Kleine Schaars presents five of the songs thatcontributed to Ray Charles' fame: I Can't Stop Loving You, Hit the Road Jack, Georgia on My Mind, Hallelujah I Love Her So, and Unchain My Heart.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£109.99Andreas Gabalier in Concert
Andreas Gabalier is one of the most popular Austrian folk singers of his generation. In 2012, he won an ECHO music award and has also won the Amadeus Austrian Music Award twice. This medley contains 'I sing a Liad fr di', 'So liab hob i di', 'Amoi seg' ma uns wieder', 'Zuckerpuppen' and 'Go for Gold'.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£49.99Gershwin In Wind Band - Keiichi Kurokawa
American composer George Gershwin (1898-1937) created many world-famous Broadway and popular melodies and also pioneered "symphonic jazz", the fusion of classical and jazz styles. Gershwin in Wind Band! is a compilation of my brass octets Gershwin in Brass! (2007) and Gershwin in Brass 2!! (2011). I also included more of Gershwin's famed ideas.This medley includes: Concerto in F, Strike Up the Band, Someone to Watch Over Me,'S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm.(Keiichi Kurokawa)
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£114.50Jesus Christ Superstar - Andrew Lloyd Webber
In 1970 the British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber (London, 1948) had a real big success with his second musical Jesus Christ Super Star'. Besides the title song, Willy Hautvast selected the most popular songs 'I don't know how to love Him', 'Everything is all right', 'I only want to say' and 'Hosanna'. This selection commemorates a musical monument of the entertainment music of the last quarter of the 20th century.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£57.50Selections from A Hard Day's Night - John Lennon
From the classic movie about the Fab 4, Michael Sweeney has written a new easy medley that includes four of the mega-hits from this pop culture phenomena. Includes: A Hard Day's Night, And I Love Her, Can't Buy Me Love, and If I Fell.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£64.99The Beatles - 1964!
The Fab Four exploded on the American music scene with a banner year of hits in 1964. This medley of Beatle favorites includes I Want to Hold Your Hand, And I Love Her and Twist and Shout. It was a good year!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£184.99
Rubicon - Bert Appermont
The Rubicon is a river in Northern Italy which Julius Caesar crossed with his army in 49 BC in defiance of the leaders of Rome, who feared his power. A civil war against rival Pompey ensued, which culminated in Caesar seizing power as the absoluteruler of Rome. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" therefore refers to any person committing himself irrevocably to a risky, decisive and irrevocable of course of action.The work consists of three parts that deal with this important moment in history.Part 1 (Meditation) symbolises Caesars request to the Gods to assist him in his difficult choice. In a slow introduction we hear the melancholy and beseeching sounds of the duduk (alternatively, this part can be played by a soprano saxophone)and of the soprano solo singer over the bourdon accompaniment. The soprano solo singer then sings "dona tibi pacem" (give him rest) in a melodious and probing theme.In Part 2 (Battle of Pharsalus) trumpets and trombones resound alternately ina stately Roman fanfare, producing a stereophonic effect. This develops into a martial theme in which Caesars impressive army goes to battle against the army of rival Pompey. While the theme of Caesars army fades away, Pompeys theme emerges as anaive dance in six-eight time. His army is definitely in the majority and it believes it can easily defeat the enemy. Suddenly trumpets and trombones clash on two sides of the orchestra: Caesars army advances and attacks. A fierce battle ensues inwhich the two themes are played alternately as well as simultaneously. Thanks to his shrewd battle tactics, Caesar manages to win this legendary battle after all: his theme resounds ever louder in trumpets and horns until everything dies out andchanges into a kind of reconciliation between the soldiers of the two armies. The melancholy "dona tibi pacem" from part 1 now serves as a reconciliation theme.Caesar is now the sole ruler of the New Roman Empire, which would be destined to leave itsmark on our Western civilisation to this day. The third part is a sparkling succession of dance music (Dance) with many Greek and Roman elements in which Caesars victory is praised and celebrated. It is common knowledge that the culture(arts, gods, etc.) of the Romans drew heavily on Greek culture. I have therefore used an authentic Greek theme (the Seikolos song) several times in this part (bar 17 in the euphonium, bar 60 in the base section, bar 68 in the sopranosaxophone) to suggest the music of that era and to evoke the right atmosphere. After a gradual increase in tempo in the entire orchestra, the opening melody gloriously resounds once more, surrounded by virtuoso dance music. The work ends withbombastic brass fanfares in which Caesars theme triumphs once more.NOTE FOR THE CONDUCTOR:The Armenian duduk and the monochord that are used in the introduction give a special tone to the music, but could be substituted (soprano saxophone instead ofthe duduk) or left out (monochord). The soprano solo is also doubled within the orchestra and could therefore also be left out if necessary, although it does provide the work with an extra dimension. The male voices in the introduction and the finalecould possibly be replaced with a synthesizer with choral setting.As a visual and acoustic element in part 2, the trumpets, the e-flat cornet, the small drum and trombones can be stood up and placed at two sides of the orchestra (bar 80).Seen fromthe point of view of the conductor, put the trumpets, the e-flat cornet and the small drum in the left section and the trombones in the right section of the orchestra. This also helps to create a visual contrast between the two themes of the secondpart. The players can be seated again at bar 97 or bar 121. The soprano soloist can be placed in or in front of the orchestra, depending on what gives the best result. For the conclusion of the work the soprano solo can be sung from afar (from thewings) to create additional atmosphere.This work was composed especially for the "St Joseph" brass band from Pey/Echt (Belgium) with conductor Mark Prils.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£264.99Panoptikum - Thomas Doss
Armin Schaer commissioned this work in his search for a new piece for the tuba. More specifically, he wanted a work that showed off the versatility of this splendid instrument, written in a musical style that is both fresh and modern, while not banishing the orchestra to a simple supporting role. Taking all these specifications into account, Thomas Doss created a work that allows stylistic leaps and is fun, exciting, romantic, and virtuosic, but does not lose sight of the thread that connects the opening measures to the very last.Armin Schaer describes his Panoptikum as follows:Panoptikum is a show of appreciation for my beautiful home and community at LakeConstance, an eventful life, the people that have enriched this life, and a fascinating instrument: the tuba. This work musically embodies the many different moods found around theBodensee - cheerfulness and melancholy, departures and longing, calm and agitation. The roles of the soloist and the orchestra were consciously crafted in a way that does not follow the usual conventions of the genre. The work should spark emotions, address broad segments of listeners, and persuade them of the tuba's ability to be a solo instrument as well as the richness symphonic wind ensembles have to offer. I hope this work enriches the lives of all the soloists and orchestras that cross its path, as well as everyone in the audience who gets to partake!
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
