Thomas Tallis écrivit son deuxième psaume dans le cadre de ses Nine tunes for Archbishop Parker?s Psalter en 1567 une collection qui fut utilisée fréquemment comme source d?inspiration dans le passé. Tandis que des compositeurs comme Vaughan Williams ou Philip Sparke ont cité et varié le thème d?une manière toujours reconnaissable la version de Rob Goorhuis après une introduction déguisant le thème ne le présente en forme originale qu?une fois mais d?une façon splendide et spectaculaire.

The sinister yet darkly entertaining nature of this Tim Burton movie comes through loud and clear in the music composed by Danny Elfman. This opener for the field features themes from the Overture and Christmas Eve Montage with plenty of variety energy and drive!

Four Sketches for Band comprend quatre mouvements courts de caractère varié qui dépeignent l?atmosphère d?une fête foraine à l?ancienne. Les mélodies sont agréablement divertissantes mais ont une structure rythmique simple. L?instrumentation de la composition est parfaite pour fanfares à taille réduite. Chaque mouvement de cette composition peut être utilisé en tant que morceau de concert indépendant.

As a trumpet player André Waignein has composed many pieces for this instrument; extremely electrifying pieces meant for young trumpet-players and more demanding works for professionals.With his rhapsody André Waignein wanted to compose a piece in which spontaneity dominates and in which the virtuosity sonority and style of the soloist is featured to its maximum. Although the piece is not one of the most difficult it nevertheless places high musical demands on the soloist. Following an impressive orchestral opening the soloist comes to the fore with long phrases followed by more dynamic and rhythmic passages. The second movement gives evidence of extreme sensitivity andoffers the soloist the opportunity to prove that the trumpet (flugel horn) can be a stirring and emotional instrument. The third movement is the most spectacular. The orchestra actively participates with increasingly delicate interventions. The soloist can display all the possibilities offered to him by his instrument. With a long sostenuto on the trumpet (flugel horn) the beautiful rhapsody ends.

The Battle on the Heath On 24 January 1597, the ?Tielenheide? - a stretch of moorland near the Belgian village of Tielen, south of Turnhout-was the scene of a great battle. Prince Maurice of Nassau, commander of the Dutch army, crushingly defeated Count Varax, a Burgundian general of the Spanish army. In military circles, the Battle of Turnhout caused quite a stir: a Spanish army of five thousand men was initially held up for hours through daring short moves by fifteen cavalrymen and a few hundred foot-soldiers -and subsequently, this Spanish army was overpowered by barely a thousand cavalrymen, without the help of the infantrymen. New weaponry proved its value that day. The Dutch cavalrymen were not armed with spears, as previously, but with long, carbine-like pistols . Before the pikemen of the Spanish army could stick their fearsome, six-metre-long spears into the ground to protect themselves against the onrushing horses, they were shot to pieces or knocked down. During the battle, the state troops seized a number of flags, which would embellish the Ridderzaal (Knights? Hall) in The Hague for years.In a contemporary Dutch military magazine, the victory at the ?Tielenheide? has been described as ? the heaviest blow ever delivered by the Dutch cavalry?. The location where the battle took place is no langer moorland: it is now a pine forest planted more than a century age, to meet the demand for wood in the old coalmines of Limburg . Part of the forest is now the military territory of the Third Paratroop Batallion, and part is now the De Waal nature reserve: it is not accessible to the public. In Tielen there is still a street called the Tielenheide, near the former moorland.