Written in 1887 for the violinist Raphael Diaz Albertini with whom he was touring, the Havanaise ...

Gustav Holst's first excursion into music for band (known as 'military band' at the time) was com...

Composed by a 26-year-old John Knowles Paine between 1860 and 1866, the Mass in D, Op. 10 was the...

First heard with the premiere of the opera on May 22, 1813 in Venice at the Teatro San Benedetto,...

Gustav Holst's 'Choral Fantasy on Old Carols' was composed in 1910, just two years before the sim...

Berlioz composed his Grand Messe des Morts, or Requiem, in 1837 for a huge orchestra with four br...

Completed in 1849, the Te Deum, like the earlier and more famous Grande Messe des Morts, is one o...

Sargeant's unique orchestration of Brahms' popular set of sixteen waltzes is a welcome addition t...

As with his earlier ballet Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky contemplated the creation of a concert suite ta...

Edwin Eugene Bagley (1857-1922) was born in Craftsbury, Vermont and started his music career at t...

Pohadka Leta (A Sumer Tale) was composed at a particularly dark time in the composer's life, just...

One of Johann Strauss II's most enduring sets of waltzes, Roses from the South was arranged by th...