Bjørn Mellemberg composer / arranger

Entry March of the Boyars / Bojarernes Indtogsmarsch Johan Halvorsen / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM MusikkforlagEntry March of the Boyars was composed in Norwegian city of Bergen in 1893. Halvorsen was offered employment in the Romanian capitol Bucharest that year. He did not accept the employment but was inspired to compose this march after reading about the city, the boyars and their history. Today, Entry March of the Boyars is one of the most famous marc ...

Shepherd's Song, Dance and Ballad / Lokk, dans og vise Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM MusikkforlagThis piece is a collection of three folk songs from Nord-Gudbrandsdal in Norway. To the Conductor: First part (from bar 8): The trumpets presents the theme while the horns and trombones represents a kind of echo from a distance and softer in style. Part two from bar 19: This is a dance in which the first and third beat are the most important. ...

Ave Maria - Vocal or Instrumental Solo Bach-Gounod / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM MusikkforlagThis great piece is a result of two outstanding composers creative ability. The French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) used the Prelude No. 1 from Das Wohltemperierte Klavier by Johann Sebasian Bach (1685-1750) and added a beautiful melody to the original piece. The composition has the occurred in several versions both with and without lyrics ...

Norwegian Rhapsody no. 3 / Norsk Rapsodi nr 3 Johan Severin Svendsen / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM Musikkforlag ClassicsSvendsen wrote his three Norwegian rhapsodies between 1876 and 1877. All of them are largely based on themes from a collection og songs (Ældre og nyere norske Fjeldmelodier by L.M. Lundeman. Norwegian Rhapsody no. 3 begin with two dances which eventually merge into a slower part based on a Norwegian folk tune named Aasmund Fregdegjævar. T ...

Far Away Star / Allt under himmelens fäste Traditional / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM Musikkforlag ClassicsJohan Svendsen wrote several great adaptions of folk music for strings. These are all characterized by his tasteful harmonics. Far Away Star is one of the two Swedish folk songs published as op. 27 for strings in 1878. It is important to have in mind the original string version when interpreting this instrumentation for wind instruments. ...

Fantasia Norvegese Bjørn Mellemberg / Arr. Bjorn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM MusikkforlagFantasia Norvegese is an innformal fantasy on two Norwegian folk tunes. First, the beautiful Dæ æ so fagert I Finneslotte, related to a legend of a 700 year old building on the farm Finne near Voss on the western part of Norway. The second one is a small so-called stev also from Voss; Eg er liten eg, men eg våga meg. [NO]Fantasia Norvegese Fantas ...

Concerto per Flautino Antonio Vivaldi / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM Musikkforlag ClassicsThe Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (16781741) is particularly famous for the beautiful, melodic middle movements of his instrumental concertos. This concerto was originally composed for recorder solo with orchestra accompaniment (RV 433), and the second movement is often performed (also alone) because of its pure beauty. [NO]De ...

O Mio Babbino Caro Giacomo Puccini / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: BM Musikkforlag ClassicsO mio babbino caro Giacomo Puccini Puccini composed one of the most beautiful opera arias with O mio babbino caro from his 1918 opera Gianni Schicchi. The song (My dear little father) is the young Lauretta's plea to her father for permission to marry her boyfriend. If refused, she will throw herself into the river Arno, which flows throu ...

The Two Trumpeters / De to trompeter Hans Peter Nielsen / Arr. Bjørn Mellemberg

Serie / Series: Concert Band EntertainmentThe well-known Danish composer Hans Peter Nielsen (19071977) wrote this piece in 1951. In addition to his composing career, Nielsen also performed as a musician with the Danish Radio Orchestra for several years. Bjørn Mellemberg has written this arrangement, which is the first published edition for modern concert band instrumentation of ...