The Orchestra Mandolina Ljubljana is the only mandolin orchestra in Slovenia. It was founded 30 years ago. I have found many videos of this orchestra at youtube, including a complete set of videos from the last concert. Text from the Facebook page of the orchestra: The Mandolina Ljubljana Orchestra is the only ensemble in Slovenia, […]
I have discovered a video with a small mandolin orchestra from Brazil. The very special about this orchestra is that the members of this group are five old ladies aged between 78 and 85 years. I was really surprised when I found this video! This is the youtube video with the orchestra Bandolineiras de Oeiras:
The mandolin orchestra “Mandolinata Karlsruhe” has been filmed during a concert given in Logroño last year. The complete concert is available at youtube. The concert took place during the XIV Festival Internacional de Instrumentos Populares de La Rioja 2011. This orchestra is conducted by Christopher Grafschmidt who is a guitar player, musicologist and composer. He
I have recently added a scan of the Emperor Waltz (Kaiserwalzer) by Johann Strauss jr. arranged for mandolin orchestra to my score catalogue at musicaneo. This arrangemet of the famous waltz for mandolin orchestra was made by Ferdinand Kollmaneck. The waltzes by Johann Strauss have always been very popular and have often been played by mandolin
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The sheet music by Ferdinand Kollmaneck (11.2.1871 Wien – 13.7.1941 Leipzig) is in the Public Domain since the beginning of this year. Kollmaneck was a zither player and composer who has composed pieces for mandolin orchestra and has published arrangements for mandolin orchestras in his publishing company Hella in Leipzig. I own several pieces composed
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Some days ago I have made a scan of a nice piece for mandolin orchestra and have uploaded it to my website mandoisland and to the IMSLP site. It’s a composition by Alphons Czibulka with the great title: Songe D’Amour Apres le Bal / Liebestraum nach dem Balle / Love’s Dream after the Ball This
I have just discovered several great videos showing the German guitarist Siegfried Behrend and the German Plucked Strings Orchestra (Deutsches Zupforchester). In those videos you can see Takashi and Sylvia Ochi on the mandolin playing a concerto for two mandolins by Antonio Vivaldi, Takashi Ochi plays a part of a Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven.
LEVANTE Mandolin Orchestra 6th Concert in Morioka, JAPAN. 20th March 2011 The LEVANTE Mandolin Orchestra is located in the North-East of Japan. It has uploaded videos of the program of the last concert on March 20th 2011 in Morioka. The program of the 6th concert included the following pieces: ARSNOVA suite 1st mov. Lento espressivo,
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Last week I have found a nice video of the Japanese mandolin orchestra Viva Mandolino playing Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head This inspired me to search for other videos of this great song played on plucked instruments. Another great performance of this song is played by the Guitar Ensemble Harmonics Guitar Ensemble Harmonics Rain
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In France there has been a very positive developement of the mandolin music during the last years. Like in Germany regional mandolin orchestras have been organized to improve the skills of the players of the local mandolin orchstras. In 2011 there was a workshop for a national mandolin orchestra with Florentino Calvo and Vincent Beer-Demander
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