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Regalo Festivo Ouverture
Music for Orchestra,

Regalo Festivo Ouverture

InstrumentationOrchestra
Grade4
Duration8 minutes
PublisherJanssen Music
Demo Score→ Download

‘Regalo Festivo Ouverture’ is a frivolous and colourful overture for orchestra. The work was commissioned by the University Orchestra Maastricht and serves as a prelude to its concerts.

The work is freely inspired by Jan Steen’s painting “the village class”, in which the everyday chaos within a classroom can be felt.

It is also a reference to the connection with the university, where students experience their hopefully best time of their lives that eventually leads to a successful career.

In the work, the various musical themes develop into a grand apotheosis.

Manon Lescaut Suite / Giacomo Puccini
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Manon Lescaut Suite / Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini composed his opera ‘Manon Lescaut’ in 1893 and it became together with ‘Tosca’ his first outstanding success. ‘Manon Lescaut’ is a devastating depiction of a woman wrestling with her desire for love on her own terms, and the rigid double standards imposed on her by society. The opera was a breakthrough hit for Puccini, and is packed with memorable music and heartbreaking drama. This suite contains some of the most beautiful music from ‘Manon Lescaut’ to compile a small suite for Symphonic Band.

Publisher: → Baton Music

explanation text: © www.batonmusic.nl

Schlagoberswalzer / Richard Strauss
Transcriptions for Wind Band,

Schlagoberswalzer / Richard Strauss

‘Schlagobers’ (‘Whipped Cream’), Op. 70, is a ballet in two acts with a libretto and score by Richard Strauss. Composed in 1921–22, it was given its première at the Vienna State Opera on 9 May 1924. Despite the fact that both the ballet and the later compiled suite were not an unqualified success, the ballet contained, according to the critics, at least a superb waltz. Nowadays we regularly find this ‘Schlagoberswalzer’ on all the major concert stages and it lives up to the title. Dutch arranger Christiaan Janssen transcribed this beautiful waltz now for Symphonic Band.

Publisher: → Baton Music

© explanation text: www.batonmusic.nl

June & July 2024 / Wildflowers of Western Europe
Concerts 2024

June & July 2024 / Wildflowers of Western Europe

With this musical wildflower bouquet, the Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg presents a sampling of original wind music from Western Europe. The music was all written in the last 10 years and represents three other countries (Netherlands, Belgium and France) and composers who have made significant contributions to the development of wind music in addition to their homeland of Germany. In addition, the orchestra is giving a young German composer the opportunity to write a work especially for this conference. We believe that through this contrasting program we will be able to give a musical showcase of wind music culture from Western Europe in Asia.

Landesblasorchester Baden-Württemberg (D) – Björn Bus, conductor

8 June 2024 – Deilingen (D)

9 June 2024 – Kronenzentrum – Bietigheim/Bissingen (D)

6 July 2024 – Hambrücken (D)

7 July 2024 – Göppingen (D)

19 July 2024 – 20th WASBE Conference Gwangju-Gyeonggi (South Korea)

Program: → Capriccio, and many more…