Par MANCINI HENRY. Henry Mancini (1924-1994), l'Académie primé arrangeur et compositeur américain est surtout connu comme un compositeur de musiques de film et de télévision. Mancini a également remporté un nombre record de Grammy awards, y compris un Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Son oeuvre la plus connue est le thème de l'idiome de jazz à la série de films de la panthère rose, inclus ici da…

Few operas have had such a remarkable history as Mussorgsky’s masterpiece Boris Godunov. It exists in no less than three complete versions by the composer himself as well as posthumous editions and orchestrations by Rimsky-Korsakov (from which this arrangement is taken) Shostakovich and others.The Coronation Scene is set in the Square of the Moscow Kremlin between the Cathedral of the Ass…

This composition by Bertrand Moren presents various dreams which could have an effect on a dreamer’s life. Its very high level of difficulty provides a great challenge for the conductor and musicians. You will be taken through a living Nightmare with spine-chilling passages as dissonant chords alternate with aggressive percussion. Daydream is a patchwork of solos with all the brass band soloist…

The musical My Fair Lady (a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe) is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Show Me arranged by Mark Freeh is taken from Act II of My Fair Lady and is when Liza storms out of Higgins’ house to stumble outside into Freddy. Freddy protests that he is in love with her but Liza is sceptical and brushes him off. Brass Band Gr…

Arrangement: Duncan Andrew. Par DUNCAN ANDREW. / Répertoire / Brass Band

'The Alchymist's Journal' gets its title from the book of the same name by American author Evan S. Connell. The book fictionalises a number of famous Alchemist’s writings each one developing another's thoughts thus continuing one idea but changing it subtly to provide a new view point or way of thinking. This process is in fact alchemical as one idea transmutes into another. This idea is …

Composed during the summer of 1988. Commissioned by The Norwegian Brass Band Club First performed in the Grieg Hall at the 10th Anniversary Concert for the Norwegian Championship Bergen February 1989. EBML conducted by Michael Antrobus.

Valdres March by the Norwegian composer Johannes Hanssen arranged for Brass Band by Herbert Møller.

Tuba Quartet and Brass Band