This little concerto for clarinet was written for Peter Holligan a friend of its composer and the Fife Youth Concert Band (Scotland). The work was based on traditional Celtic music and consists of three movements. 1. Reel - a fast dance ending in an atmospheric but virtuoso cadenza. 2. Lament - a slow and melancholy song hinting at the sound of bagpipes. 3. A fast and virtuoso dance in 6/8 time with Irish influence. The work is a wonderful audience-pleaser and an absolute 'must' for all clarinet-players. The band too is called upon and by all means does have its part to play in the piece. Band grade 4 soloist grade 5. Dit Concertino voorklarinet werd geschreven voor Peter Holligan een vriend van de componist en de Fife Youth Concert Band (Schotland). Het werk is gebaseerd op de traditionele Keltische muziek en bestaat uit drie delen. 1. Reel - een snelle dans die eindigt in een sfeervolle maar virtuoze cadens. 2. Lament - een trage en melancholische melodie die het geluid van doedelzakken verbeeldt.3. Een snelle en virtuoze dans in 6 / 8 maatsoort met Ierse invloeden. Voor het publiek een heerlijk werk om naar te luisteren en een uitdaging voor de solist(e)! Het orkest ondersteunt deze om het tot een kleurrijk geheel te maken! Orkest graad 4 solo graad 5.

Major Yvon Ducene wanted a new lush and colourful composition for his Guides military band with André Waignein as its composer. Early in 1979 the composer began his assignement and in October of the same year the finished full score was on the music stands of this prestigious military band of the Belgian Army.The introduction (Grave) mirrors an atmosphere full of serenity in which the theme played by the oboes and the English horn is predominant and immediately holds the listener spell-bound. It is taken up again as central element of the slow movement.The Allegro breaks away from the quiet passion of the introduction. Here the band can really show its capabilities to thefull. Based on a very precise rythm an idiom of sudden desperation and adversity develops which fused with a crushing agression culminates in a kind of eruption soom calmed down by a Lento : peace and quiet has returned thanks to a melody by the horns and soon taken over by the clarinets. In the meantime the saxophone - an instrument full of human emotion - express the main spatial dimension in contemporary psyche. Following a harmonic transition the brass-players take up the theme again in forte whilst the basses and the woodwinds interwine in technical arabesques.The movings of the mind and the heart get an audible and almost touchable shape in the ensuing Allegro a movement characterized by a rhythmic dialogue in which the whole orchestra participates and where the exposition contains a wealth of sound and technical contrasts. The Lento finally uses the central theme of the slow movement again with some occasional references to the two allegros. The last page is of unprecedented grandeur. All the instruments display their most beautiful sound which were named by Jacques Ferschotte when speaking about Honneger 'harmonies d'intensités' harmonies of the unmeasurable.

The Scottish composer Fraser is known for his popular original light music pieces. In an era of pop and musical arrangements Sky Raiders is an catching piece of original wind music. De Schotse componist Fraser laat in Sky Raiders horen dat hij zijn mannetje staat in de populaire blaasmuziek. In een tijd van pop- en musicalarrangementen is het een verademing om originele populaire blaasmuziek te spelen en te beluisteren.

This extremely effective and witty composition is now presented with extended instrumentation for a modern symphonic wind orchestra. Stravinsky???s deliberately smaller original arrangement remains recognisable however and can still be played using this new version.

Opéra de Penderecki \' Ubu Rex\' contient une bande de petit vent fonctionnant comme \' L\'orchestre militaire \' du roi Ubu. Par conséquent, l\'idée d\'organiser des pièces de l\'opéra pour orchestre de grand concert facilement présenté lui-même. Henning Brauel sélectionné un matériau approprié et arrangé les scènes de l\'opéra dans une suite de cinq mouvements sans titres. Le meilleur de la musique contemporaine pour les représentations orchestrale de haut rang. / Orchestre D\'Harmonie

Cette oeuvre de Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994), représentant important de la musique protestante du Xxe siècle, a été écrite en 1977 et créée un an plus tard, par Helmut Rilling. Par son intensité dramatique, la Passion de Hessenberg compte parmi les plus remarquables de ses oeuvres de musique sacrée. / Harmonie