This powerful overture with cinematic overtones is designed to be playable by band alone or band and strings combined. Depicting the vision of the world from the eyes of an eagle in flight, the music
A masterpiece at this level! In addition to wonderful tutti writing, the string section and wind section are featured on their own in this colorful arrangement, which makes a perfect opener to any concert.
Schubert composed his incidental music to the Romantic drama "Rosamunde, Princess of Cypress" in less than three weeks, finishing just two days before the play's premiere in December of 1823. Not much time