Bevrijdingsconcert 2025 - Muziekvereniging Kunst na Arbeid Nieuwpoort.
Opgenomen op 29-03-2025 in "Het Arsenaal" te Nieuwpoort. o.l.v. Peter de Kluijver

3. A time there was

8. Bei mir bist du schon

10. Trees heeft een Canadees

12. Arromanches

9. Tribute to the liberators

11. Vera Lynn forever

Our Director
March
No doubt, 'Our Director' is one of the most popular marches ever. Compo-ser Frederick Ellsworth Bigelon (1873-1929) was a pharmacist living in Massachusetts who played the clarinet and the saxophone in his spare time. He composed this march in 1892 for Joseph Morrisette, conductor of the Ashland Brass Band. The march become extremely popular and was published in different instrumental and orchestral arrangements. The trio became the official students' war song at Harvard University in 1916 and was sung as a liberation song during World War I. Gosling Mol made this fine arrangement for symphonic and fanfa-re band in 1960.
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/9690/en

Our Director (arr. Gosling Mol) - Frederick Ellsworth

Gruss von Hausen
Mbd-8
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/9995/en

Gruss von Hausen - Oscar Tschuor

Arosa
March
The Swiss conductor and composer, Oscar Tschuor studied with Luca Chresta in Chur, and at the Conservatorium of Zurich with Ernst Lüthold, but was largely self taught. In 1943 he founded the Youth Wind Orchestra of Chur, which he directed until 1956. He arranged folk tunes for wind orchestra, and composed diverse and beautiful marches, including the famous San Carlo march, Grus von Hausen, and this lively Arosa March, which he dedicated to the town of the same name in the canton of Graubunden, which is a renowned ski resort.
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/9766/en

Arosa march - Oscar Tschuor

Ouverture 2000
The number 2000 - to begin with - stands for the magic year, that is drawing near so swiftly. Another fact represented by this number is that this overture makes the two thousandth work published by MOLENAARS MUZIEKCENTRALE since its foundation in 1933. 'Ouverture 2000' was written to commemorate this occasion and it is dedicated to the Molenaar family. The music displays a pithy, festive and dynamic character. The opening fanfare is succeeded by a fast and virtuoso movement in which a 'pull-out of all stops' of the various windband registers can be heard.
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/9009/en

Ouverture 2000 - Henk van Lijnschooten

Mexican Dances
The Belgian composer Marcel Peeters is really an all round musician. In this sunny medley Mexican Dances he arranged in a most skilful and original way a series of traditional Mexican themes you will, no doubt, easily recognize. The traditional 'Mariachi' music is flavoured in different rhythms. Here you have a fine opportunity to make a musical trip to a fantastic country with a rich culture and a most typical folk music tradition.
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/14581/en

Mexican Dances - Marcel Peeters

The Lady Caliph
The Lady Caliph is Ennio Morricone's main theme of the 70's Italian drama film La Califfa directed by Alberto Bevilacqua, entered into the 1971 Cannes Film Festival. After Andrew Pearce arranged and transcribed this beautiful theme for cello & chamber orchestra for the film 'If I were you' (2012), it seemed a perfect choice for expressive euphonium solo and Band.
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20048/en

The Lady Caliph (arr. Andrew Pearce) - Ennio Morricone

Air Poetique for Horn and Band
Solo for Horn (F/Eb) and Band
The composer was so impressed by the beautiful playing of the young German hornplayer Matthias Berg that he wrote this poetic and imaginative melody. Many hornplayers all over the world have it on their repertoire.
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/8823/en

Air Poetique for horn and band - Ted Huggens

Around the Whiskey Jar
Around the Whiskey Jar is a Medley based on 5 traditional Irish tunes (Star of the County down, She moved through the fair, Maurice Manley’s Polka, Down by the Salley Gardens, What should we do with the drunken Sailor). The idea of the composer was to feature some not that popular Irish melodies and to recreate, as much as possible, an Irish Tavern atmosphere. Bodhran drum, Singing parts and Fiddle-like sections are featured in this piece to make the ambiance lively, genuine and wild. Hey !!
https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20245/en

Around The Whiskey Jar (arr. Ivan Boumans)

This song was composed for the FA Express Your Self Contest in 2025. 

Pleasantries

The Girl in 14G
The Girl in 14G was written by Jeanine Tesori for the American actress and singer, Kristen Chenoweth, and featured on her 2001 debut CD, Let Yourself Go. The song is based on her personal experience: when she first moved to New York City, she couldn’t sleep due to the constant noise. She meets her noisy neighbours and tells how she finally gets them to keep quiet. We hear elements from the opera Tristan und Isolde, the aria Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute, as well as Swan Lake.

For Female voice and band

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/20383/en

The Girl In 14G (arr. Bert Willemsen) - Jeanine Tesori

Sylvain

A brass fanfare premiere on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. Recorded live with a brass quintet at First United Methodist Church of Pasadena, conducted by me!

Sounds of Joy (2025)

Geschwind Marsch

https://www.molenaar.com/details/1/18872/en

Geschwind Marsch (arr. Willy Hautvast) - Johann Strauss

Molenaar Edition is a publisher of sheet music for Concert Band, Fanfare and Brass Band. Molenaar Edition also has its own CD label, MBCD, that releases 3 to 4 CDs , a year.

The company was founded in 1933 by Pieter Jan Molenaar under the name Molenaar’s Muziekhandel. In the 1970s, his sons Jan and Bob joined the growing company. The name was changed to Molenaar’s Muziekcentrale, and later to Molenaar Edition BV.

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