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Pater Noster (Our Father) – Nikolai Kedrov
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Pater Noster (Our Father) – Nikolai Kedrov

InstrumentationWind Band
Grade2
Duration3 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score→ Download

‘Pater Noster’ (our Father) by the Russian composer Nikolai Kedrov is a short but deeply moving chorus of the most famous Christian prayer. The work is an example of the Russian vocal tradition: simple in design, but rich in sound and emotion.

Nikolaj Kedrov, founder of the famous Kedrov Vocal Quartet, emigrated to France after the Russian Revolution. ‘Pater Noster’ was composed around 1922 during his exile in Paris.

It is an intimate. personal and inner prayer rather than a liturgical proclamation.

A beautiful arrangement for the sound and colour of a wind orchestra.

Agnes Overture
Music for Wind Band,

Agnes Overture

InstrumentationWind Band
Grade4,5
Duration7 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score→ not available yet

Score and parts are available from May 2026

commissioned by Windband St. Agnes Bunde on the occasion of the festive opening of the “Agnespoort” in Bunde (NL)

A short festive overture on the occasion of the festive opening of the “Agnespoort” in Bunde (NL). The work is based on two motifs that relate to the village of Bunde and its wind orchestra St. Agnes Bunde.

The work opens with a motif based on the song “Gans Bung” (which means “whole Bunde”) with a driving and powerful accompaniment.

The second motif is based on an “Andante Religioso”composed by one of the former conductors of Harmonie St. Agnes Bunde, Mr. August Hautvast.

After this short but sparkling opening, a more subdued section follows in which the musical link to the Patron Saint “St. Agnes” is made.

The overture ends with a resume of all motifs, resulting in a spectacular ending.

4 May 2025 / Memorial Concert
Concerts 2025

4 May 2025 / Memorial Concert

“Echo from the past”

Minderbroederschurch – Roermond (NL)

18:30 Hrs. – admission free.

Our traditional concert on next 4 May, in collaboration with the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Fallen 40-45, will be dedicated to 80 years of freedom this year. “Echo from the past” is about acknowledging and recognizing events in history and translating them to the present.

Program: → “Echo from the past” (World Premiere), and many more under which music by Mozart, Bach, Rachmaninov and Ravel.

Echo from the past
Music for Orchestra,

Echo from the past

InstrumentationOrchestra
Grade4
Duration10 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score→ download
Echo from the past – (Full Midi)

Composed on behalf of the Roermond Orchestra “De Symphonie”, in memory of all victims of war(s), on the occasion of 80 years of annual national commemoration in the Netherlands of the victims of the Second World War on May 4.

The work makes a musical link with the present, in which geopolitical tensions are increasing and history threatens to repeat itself.

The work will have its premiere on May 4, 2025 by the Roermond Orchestra “De Symphonie” conducted by the composer.

Score and parts;