Elizabethan Serenade is a light music composition by the British Composer Ronald Binge. When it was first played by the Mantovani orchestra in 1951, it was simply titled "Andante Cantabile", although the original orchestral manuscript parts in Ronald Binge's own hand show the title "T...
The Minuet in G (No.2) was composed by Beethoven. The original version, written for orchestra, was lost; and only an arrangement for piano exists. This simplified version, from the John Brimhall Easy Classics series, is played mainly as a string ensemble with a section played by plucked strings (piz...
The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor "Quasi una fantasia", Op. 27, No. 2, popularly known as the Moonlight Sonata, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven and was completed in 1801 This was played as a straight piano solo without any pedals, just the two keyboards, given the structur...
Meditation According to Wikipedia, Meditation is a symphonic intermezzo from the opera Thaïs by French composer Jules Massenet. The opera premiered in Paris on March 16, 1894. The piece is written for solo violin and orchestra. I love playing this very moving piece but I find it technically quite c...
Hi Ken, Don, Hugh and Fred, Thanks for your comments. Ken .. I have played this piece on my Yamaha AR 80 organ. I have ordered a Ringway RS1000E digital organ, but am still waiting for that to be delivered. Hugh .. I split the lower keyboard and put a horn on the upper split which I occasionally bro...
A Trumpeter's Lullaby is a short composition for solo trumpet and orchestra, written by American composer Leroy Anderson in 1949 at the request of Voisin, who was principal trumpeter of the Boston Pops Orchestra at the time. It premiered on May 9, 1950, by the Boston Pops Orchestra with Arthur Fiedl...
Eine kleine Nachtmusik is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German title means "a little serenade," though it is often rendered more literally but less accurately as "a little night music." (Wikipedia) https://app.box.com/s/qoogu4uuhzxz7gvs...