Cette pièce vient compléter la série de concertos composés par Satoshi Yagisawa. L?écriture d?un authentique solo de percussion ainsi que l?élégante orchestration font de ce concertino une oeuvre exceptionnelle largement appréciée par l?auditoire.Le style d?écriture de Satoshi Yagisawa est habituellement dramatique mais il se pourrait fort bien qu?une empreinte de couleur différente nous soit offerte avec Concertino pour Percussion et Orchestre à Vent !

for wind orchestra (revised edition 2023). Par DE MEIJ JOHAN. Symphonie no. 1 The Lord of the Rings [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] La première symphonie de Johan de Meij ?The Lord of the Rings? [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] est basée sur la trilogie romanesque du même nom de J.R.R. Tolkien. Depuis leur parution en 1955, ces livres ont fasciné des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier. La symphonie est composée de cinq mouvements séparés illustrant chacun un personnage ou un épisode important de ce grand succès littéraire. L?oeuvre est écrite pour orchestre d?harmonie, avec des parties réservées au saxophone soprano, au bugle et au piano. Les différentes parties sont intitulées : I. GANDALF (The Wizard) [Le Magicien] II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood) [La Forêt des Elfes] III. GOLLUM (Sméagol) IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARK [Voyage dans les Ténèbres] a. The Mines of Moria [Les Mines de la Moria] b. The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm [Le Pont de Khazad-Dûm] V. HOBBITS La symphonie a été écrite entre mars 1984 et décembre 1987 et a eu sa première à Bruxelles le 15 mars 1988, interprétée par la Musique Royale des Guides Belges sous la direction de Norbert Nozy. En 1989, la Symphonie LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX remporte le premier prix du Concours International de Composition Sudler à Chicago. En 2001, la version orchestrale a été créée par le Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra et a été enregistrée par le London Symphony Orchestra. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

for wind orchestra (revised edition 2023). Par DE MEIJ JOHAN. Symphonie no. 1 The Lord of the Rings [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] La première symphonie de Johan de Meij ?The Lord of the Rings? [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] est basée sur la trilogie romanesque du même nom de J.R.R. Tolkien. Depuis leur parution en 1955, ces livres ont fasciné des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier. La symphonie est composée de cinq mouvements séparés illustrant chacun un personnage ou un épisode important de ce grand succès littéraire. L?oeuvre est écrite pour orchestre d?harmonie, avec des parties réservées au saxophone soprano, au bugle et au piano. Les différentes parties sont intitulées : I. GANDALF (The Wizard) [Le Magicien] II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood) [La Forêt des Elfes] III. GOLLUM (Sméagol) IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARK [Voyage dans les Ténèbres] a. The Mines of Moria [Les Mines de la Moria] b. The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm [Le Pont de Khazad-Dûm] V. HOBBITS La symphonie a été écrite entre mars 1984 et décembre 1987 et a eu sa première à Bruxelles le 15 mars 1988, interprétée par la Musique Royale des Guides Belges sous la direction de Norbert Nozy. En 1989, la Symphonie LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX remporte le premier prix du Concours International de Composition Sudler à Chicago. En 2001, la version orchestrale a été créée par le Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra et a été enregistrée par le London Symphony Orchestra. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

for wind orchestra (revised edition 2023). Par DE MEIJ JOHAN. Symphonie no. 1 The Lord of the Rings [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] La première symphonie de Johan de Meij ?The Lord of the Rings? [Le Seigneur des Anneaux] est basée sur la trilogie romanesque du même nom de J.R.R. Tolkien. Depuis leur parution en 1955, ces livres ont fasciné des millions de lecteurs dans le monde entier. La symphonie est composée de cinq mouvements séparés illustrant chacun un personnage ou un épisode important de ce grand succès littéraire. L?oeuvre est écrite pour orchestre d?harmonie, avec des parties réservées au saxophone soprano, au bugle et au piano. Les différentes parties sont intitulées : I. GANDALF (The Wizard) [Le Magicien] II. LOTHLORIEN (The Elvenwood) [La Forêt des Elfes] III. GOLLUM (Sméagol) IV. JOURNEY IN THE DARK [Voyage dans les Ténèbres] a. The Mines of Moria [Les Mines de la Moria] b. The Bridge of Khazad-Dûm [Le Pont de Khazad-Dûm] V. HOBBITS La symphonie a été écrite entre mars 1984 et décembre 1987 et a eu sa première à Bruxelles le 15 mars 1988, interprétée par la Musique Royale des Guides Belges sous la direction de Norbert Nozy. En 1989, la Symphonie LE SEIGNEUR DES ANNEAUX remporte le premier prix du Concours International de Composition Sudler à Chicago. En 2001, la version orchestrale a été créée par le Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra et a été enregistrée par le London Symphony Orchestra. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Par BRIDGE FRANK. Frank Bridge was one of the finest English composers of the first half of the 20th century. The Pageant of London is his only work for wind band, comprising of two marches, one scored from Bridge’s best known organ piece and including the chimes ofBig Ben, plus three short renaissance pastiche items, one arranged from Playford (later used by Peter Warlock in Capriol Suite). The music is tuneful, approachable and, in the words of wind band ‘legend’ Timothy Reynish makes a fine alternative toHolst’s two suites, which were composed around the same time. Reynish has introduced this work to concert bands right across the world. It has been performed in USA and the Far East, recorded by the celebrated Kosei Wind Orchestra of Japan and alsoby the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Chandos edition of Bridge Orchestral Music./ Répertoire / Orchestre D'Harmonie

Par COLERIDGE-TAYLOR SAMUEL. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor\'s Christmas Overture appeared posthumously in 1925. Originally orchestrated by Sydney Baynes, it features God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Hark the Herald Angels Sing. It is thought by some to have been put together from incidental music he wrote for a children\'s play called The Forest of Wild Thyme. This band arrangement, based on Baynes\' orchestra score, omits the largely developmental middle section of the original, shortening the performance time by two minutes, while retaining all of the traditional carol material. / Date parution : 2022-09-20/ Répertoire / Concert Band

Dances from 'The Cossacs'. Par ELLING CATHARIUS. The Opera “The Cossacs” by Catharinus Elling is based on the Nikolai Gogol novel about Taras Bulba. “The Cossacs” was premiered in 1897 at Eldorado in Kristiania (the old name on Norway’s capitol Oslo). Despite positive response in the papers of that time, the opera was newer performed again in it’s entirely. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation have an abbreviated recording in it’s archives, but no complete performance is known to date. The Norwegian National Opera Orchestra recorded both the overture and the dances in 2021, conducted by Ingar Bergby. Thet are both a part of the CD “Norwegian Opera Overtures”. This arrangement is not commissioned by anyone, but rather written to better the availability of quality Norwegian orchestral music arranged for Concert Band. This edition is a good opportunity to be more familiar with Norwegian heritage of orchestral music. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn’t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years as a school assistant and his own organ and piano studies, he first worked as organist in St. Florian, then from 1855 as cathedral organist in Linz. Introduced to music theory and instrumentation by Simon Sechter and Otto Kitzler, he discovered Richard Wagner as an artistic role model, whom he admired throughout his life and also visited several times in Bayreuth. In 1868 Anton Bruckner became professor of basso continuo, counterpoint and organ at the Vienna Conservatory; ten years later court organist; and in 1891 finally honorary doctor of the University of Vienna. He was considered an important organ virtuoso of his era, but had to wait a long time for recognition as a composer. It was not until Symphony No.7 in E major, composed between 1881 and 1883, with the famous Adagio written under the effects of Wagner's death, that he achieved the recognition he had hoped for, even if he was reluctant to accept it given his inclination towards scepticism and self-criticism. Anton Bruckner was a loner who did not want to follow a particular school or doctrine. He composed numerous sacred vocal works, such as his three masses, the Missa Solemnis in B flat minor (1854), the Te Deum (1881-84) and numerous motets. As a symphonic composer, he wrote a total of nine symphonies and many symphonic studies from 1863 onwards, tending to revise completed versions several times over. Bruckner's orchestral works were long considered unplayable, but in fact were merely exceptionally bold for the tonal language of their time, uniting traditions from Beethoven through Wagner to folk music, on the threshold between late Romanticism and Modernism. Anton Bruckner composed about 40 motets during his lifetime, the earliest a setting of Pange lingua around 1835, and the last, Vexilla regis, in 1892. Thomas Doss has compiled some of these motets in this volume for symphonic wind orchestra. These motets show many characteristics of personal expression, especially Bruckner's colourful harmony in the earlier works, which is in places aligned with Franz Schubert (changes between major and minor; and movements in thirds). Later works are characterised by many components which, in addition to the expanded stature of the movements, include above all a sense of the instrumentation as an outward phenomenon and the harmony as a compositional feature that works more internally. Some aspects of Bruckner's work are the result of his long period of study, which familiarised him not only with the tradition of his craft, but also gave him insights into the 'modernity' of his time in such composers as Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz. From this developed his personal standpoint, which always pursues the connection between the old and the new. / Date parution : 2023-07-31/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896). Par BRUCKNER ANTON / DOSS THOMAS (Arr.). Anton Bruckner (b. 4.9.1824, Ansfelden, d. 11.10.1896, Vienna) didn?t have it easy. Throughout his life, the Austrian composer was plagued by self-doubt. Anton Bruckner came from a simple, rural background. After the death of his father, he was accepted as a choirboy at the monastery of Sankt Florian in 1837. After several years as a school assistant and his own organ and piano studies, he first worked as organist in St. Florian, then from 1855 as cathedral organist in Linz. Introduced to music theory and instrumentation by Simon Sechter and Otto Kitzler, he discovered Richard Wagner as an artistic role model, whom he admired throughout his life and also visited several times in Bayreuth. In 1868 Anton Bruckner became professor of basso continuo, counterpoint and organ at the Vienna Conservatory; ten years later court organist; and in 1891 finally honorary doctor of the University of Vienna. He was considered an important organ virtuoso of his era, but had to wait a long time for recognition as a composer. It was not until Symphony No.7 in E major, composed between 1881 and 1883, with the famous Adagio written under the effects of Wagner's death, that he achieved the recognition he had hoped for, even if he was reluctant to accept it given his inclination towards scepticism and self-criticism. Anton Bruckner was a loner who did not want to follow a particular school or doctrine. He composed numerous sacred vocal works, such as his three masses, the Missa Solemnis in B flat minor (1854), the Te Deum (1881-84) and numerous motets. As a symphonic composer, he wrote a total of nine symphonies and many symphonic studies from 1863 onwards, tending to revise completed versions several times over. Bruckner's orchestral works were long considered unplayable, but in fact were merely exceptionally bold for the tonal language of their time, uniting traditions from Beethoven through Wagner to folk music, on the threshold between late Romanticism and Modernism. Anton Bruckner composed about 40 motets during his lifetime, the earliest a setting of Pange lingua around 1835, and the last, Vexilla regis, in 1892. Thomas Doss has compiled some of these motets in this volume for symphonic wind orchestra. These motets show many characteristics of personal expression, especially Bruckner's colourful harmony in the earlier works, which is in places aligned with Franz Schubert (changes between major and minor; and movements in thirds). Later works are characterised by many components which, in addition to the expanded stature of the movements, include above all a sense of the instrumentation as an outward phenomenon and the harmony as a compositional feature that works more internally. Some aspects of Bruckner's work are the result of his long period of study, which familiarised him not only with the tradition of his craft, but also gave him insights into the 'modernity' of his time in such composers as Wagner, Liszt and Berlioz. From this developed his personal standpoint, which always pursues the connection between the old and the new. / Date parution : 2023-08-12/ Répertoire / Concert Band/Harmonie

for bassoon and concert band-Nicolaï Rimski-Korsakov disait du basson qu?il était « sénile et fourbe en Majeur souffrant et triste en mineur ». Dans le grave et en staccato il est indéniablement comique grotesque et bouffon. Cette diversité de caractère avait déjà inspiré la Commedia dell?arte qui confia à Signor Fagotto l?un des rôles comiques essentiels. Au XVIIIe siècle selon l?usage de l?opéra-comique italien (opera buffa) la voix était doublée par un instrument à vent. De Signor Fagotto au basson l?instrument qui allait le seconder il n?y avait qu?un pas. C?est aussi à cette époque que le basson devient un instrument soliste à part entière. Vivaldi lui consacrera près de40 concertos. Sans doute a-t-il été conquis par sa personnalité généreuse comme bien d?autres compositeurs dont Maxime Aulio. Il Signore Fagotto débute avec une introduction orchestrale brillante. Le soliste expose ensuite le thème premier de l?œuvre. L?utilisation presque constante d?un chiffrage de mesure irrégulier (7/8) permet au basson d?accentuer son caractère espiègle et charmant tout en laissant à l?auditeur un espace de liberté suffisant pour imaginer les facéties du personnage. Il Signore Fagotto est une œuvre captivante pour l?accompagnement orchestral et qui offre au basson une superbe partie soliste.Il Signore Fagotto a été donné en création mondiale le 24 avril 2002 par Laurent Le Chenadec (basson) accompagné de l?Orchestre d?Harmonie du Conservatoire National de Région de Toulouse.

The Tuba Concerto was composed in 1953/4 after the London Symphony Orchestra invited Vaughan Williams to write a work for inclusion in the Orchestra’s fiftieth anniversary concert. The first performance was given by Philip Catelinet in the Royal Festival Hall London on 13th June 1954 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli. The brass band arrangement is by Phillip Littlemore and is a welcome addition to the brass band repertoire.

Par CURNOW JAMES. What a terrific way to kick off a combined chorus, band and even orchestra concert! THE MUSIC-MAKERS, based on O’Shaughnessy’s poem by the same name, by James Curnow works just as well as a closer, pulling your groups together for an all-inclusive grand finale. The rhythmic exuberance from measure number one sets up the inspiring choral entrance and the lovely andante espressivo middle theme contrasts delightfully. Careful scoring ensures successful balance as you thrill the audience with a panoply of rich and colorful sound. Spectacular! (Also works for Orchestra alone, Band with String Section or Full Band and Orchestra combined) / Niveau : 3 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

Renowned Belgian composer Kevin Houben composed ?Ride? for the ?Fanfare ?Bereden Wapens??. This orchestra originated after drastic reorganisations and cutbacks within Defense in 2011 and 2012, including in the military music armed forces. The thought behind the composition ?Ride? is the signal ?forward?. The signal ?Forward? is part of a military memorial ceremony, as the sign to close off a sad or dark period, and to go on with renewed force. ?Ride? is also a command for horses to go forward. Appropriate, as the ?Fanfare ?Bereden Wapens??, part of the regiment Huzaren van Boreel, is part of the Cavalry. When the Fanfarekorps Koninklijke Landmacht ?Bereden Wapens? was abrogated, this was an extremely sad and radical moment for the orchestra members. The ?Fanfare ?Bereden Wapens?? announces the dawn of a new period and picks up again with an effervescent and splashing composition: ?Ride?.

Par BALAZS ARPAD. Television viewers of nearly a hundred countries have experienced Árpád Balázs's touching melodies. The series of cartoons have neither dialogue nor text: the music presents the amiable and entertaining adventures of the rabbit with chequered ears and its friends. Balázs has rephrased and developed the well-known melodies and as a result a ''children's story symphony'' of seven movements has been created in which, in contrast with Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf, there is no narrator but the instruments themselves represent the story-tellers. The composer has again associated the groups of instruments with one another in a colourful and varied manner, skilfully alternating the modes of solo, chamber orchestra and orchestra. Movements I, II, IV and VII represent a ''short suite'' that can be independently performed, thus due to its duration of four minutes and easier level, ensembles with more modest opportunities can also perform it. The most well-known parts of the cartoon series music - the main title and the ending - are included in both versions./ Répertoire / Concert Band

A Masque (short for Masquerade) has been defined by Historians as 'A revel in which Mummers or masked folk come with torches blazing into the festive hall and call upon the company to dance and dice'. The chaos of this dramatic dance is depicted in this 'Masque' by Hesketh. The main theme is bravura and is often present in the background. The form of the piece is a simple scherzo-trio-scherzo. Colourful scoring (upper wind solos trumpet and horn solos alternating with full bodied tuttis) with a dash of wildness may tease both player and listener to let their hair down a little! 'Masque' has been transcribed for wind band by Kenneth Hesketh from his 'Scherzo for Orchestra' commissioned by the National Children's Orchestra in 1987.