Chamber Music & Recitals

The Scarlatti family was famed across Europe, Alessandro for his operatic compositions and his son, Domenico, for his keyboard works. Employed by several royal families, Domenico moved to Madrid in 1728 following the marriage of his pupil, the Infanta...

The scandalous composer Carlo Gesualdo, Principe di Venosa, was also an excellent lutenist extolled by his contemporaries. At the end of the sixteenth century he received the first two prototypes of the archlute from his colleague Alessandro Piccinini in...

The saxophone, especially the alto saxophone, is not necessarily a very busy instrument in the symphony orchestra. However, in addition to it's formative tracks in jazz, in quite a few cases it has also left sound traces in the field of so-called...

The saxophone quartet is a versatile and exciting medium and the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet is one of the world leaders in the field.1. Sax Quartet 2. Scene 1: Maggie and Ira Doran, a Trip to Deer Lick 3. Interlude 1: Settle for Being Ordinary? 4...

The Saxon Wind Philharmonic presents music that appeals directly to the heart on it's new release: English works from early baroque to classical modernism. The only classical orchestra in Germany to perform exclusively in symphonic wind instrumentation...

The Sanskrit word "Turangal?la" roughly means "dynamism" and "vitality" - Olivier Messiaen, expert on Indian rhythms, gave this gigantic opus this title and christened it "Hymn to Joy". The Nationaltheater-Orchester Mannheim is dedicated to this...

The San Francisco Chronicle has called them 'today's finest piano duo.' the Boston Globe has said 'talent is what the Paratore Brothers are all about.' on one piano or two, Anthony and Joseph Paratore have electrified audiences all over the world, since...

The Salzburg Festival was founded in 1920. Ever since then artists and music lovers from around the world have been meeting annually at this crossroads of European culture. Much loved and often chided, the Salzburg Festival was exposed to many varied...

The Salzburg Chamber Soloists were formed by Lavard Skou-Larsen in 1991 with the goal of performing chamber music with the freedom and expression of soloists. Vivaldi's Four Seasons are instantly recognizable even to those with a low affinity for...

The Sacred Works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart including H?ndel?s Messiah -transcription by Mozart. Reference recordings of various artists: Helmuth Rilling, Thomas Quasthoff, Christian Oelze, G?chinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, Karl Richter,...

The sacred vocal music of Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693) has attracted it's fair share of attention, with recent recordings devoted to his Masses and the Requiem he composed in 1669 while still a court musician in his home city of Munich. However,...

The Saalfeld Saur organ is one of the four most important romantic organs in Thuringia. Compared to Bad Salungen, Ilmenau and Muhlhausen it is a link between the purely mechanical and the purely pneumatic organs. The instrument was built in 1894 as Opus...