Promo Kat: Hafabra Wind Band 2023-2024 (Quality Music with a Difference)

The engulfed cathedral Claude Achille Debussy / Arr. José Schyns

French composer Claude Debussy published The Engulfed Cathedral ("La cathédrale engloutie") in 1910 as the tenth prelude in his first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes. The Engulfed Cathedral is the quintessential example of French Impressionism, which used a musical depiction or allusion of an image or idea to bring meaning to the audience. The image that Debussy is d ...

Berliner Luft Paul Lincke / Arr. Yo Kitano

Dance of the Cockerels from the opera Maskarade Carl Nielsen / Arr. José Schyns

Dance of the cockerels is the third act of the opera "Maskarade". In the beginning of the 1890s, Carl Nielsen got the idea to base an opera on one of Ludvig Holberg's comedies. It was not until New Year 190304 that he began working out the structure of the opera based on Holberg's Mascarade. The text by Vilhelm Andersen was finished in April 1904; Carl Nielsen did not, howev ...