La Boutique Fantasque - Wind Band

Wind Band - Rossini wrote in the period after his opera William Tell numerous short character pieces for piano, put it in the living room to play with friends. Respighi, viola player in the orchestra of St. Petersburg, studied orchestration with Nicolai Rimsky-Korssakov.Choreograaf Sergei Diaghilev approached in 1918 Respighi to write music for the Russian Ballet and Respighi sought out the music of Rossini. La Boutique Fantasque describes a toy store in the French city of Nice. Wealthy American and Russian tourists come to this shop to mechanical dolls to approve and buy. A few Neapolitan puppets dancing the Tarantella. Windscreen and Heart Woman dancing with Spade and Clover King of the mazurka. Furthermore let Russian Cossacks, a poodle and a Cancan-couple their skills. The tourists make their choice and will the next day to buy some dolls. The next day the tourists come to their dolls to collect. The shop is empty and the tourists have empty hands disappear. The dolls come suddenly reappeared and dancing joyfully the Cancan.

Specifications

Composer	Gioacchino Rossini / Ottorino Respighi
Arranger	Martin Koekelkoren
Difficulty	E - difficult
Duration	00:18:20
Year of publication	1998