Orchestral & Symphonic

Saving the imagination. This was one of the secrets of good composition ("sparing the imagination and conducting a piece with a few ideas") according to Donizetti. Indeed, this economy of invention proved especially effective in chamber music,...

Saverio Mercadante's substantial contribution to instrumental music is exceptional among other famous Italian opera composers of his time. Both his Omaggio a Bellini and the Gran Sinfonia sopra motivi dello Stabat Mater del celebre Rossini are fantasias...

Sarah Nemtanu is a renowned solo violinist, and in 2010 she was the "real" violinist playing Tchaikovsky's violin concerto in the film Le Concert. On this release she plays the same concerto on the exact same stage at Theatre du Chatelet, but with the...

Samuel Pepys (1633 - 1703) pondered the difference between dreaming and waking in his personal diary, which the Secretary of State of the Royal Navy and passionate amateur musician kept during the years 1660 -1669. He played the lute and noted 1668, that...

Samuel Jones is a sensitive musician with great imagination, and he is a real craftsman. These works should be part of the core of the great American repertoire. Of his Symphony No. 3, Jones writes: "I wanted to capture in music that magical moment."1...

Sammartini: Concertos / Suppa, Bianchi, Ferrigato, Quaranta, Sammartini / I Musici Ambrosiani / Suppa, Composer: Giuseppe Sammartini, Performer: Donatella Bianchi, Paolo Ferrigato, Francesco Quaranta, Conductor: Paolo Suppa, Orchestra/Ensemble: I Musici...

Salon music was chiefly music for the grand piano in the salon (or more frequently: the upright piano in the drawing-room) - whether it was arrangements of orchestral works, operas or operatic excerpts, or (as was quite frequently the case) original...

Saint-Saens complete piano concertos on a 2 CD Eloquence set presents some truly rare recordings - Campanella's of the Fourth and Tagliaferro's of the Fifth. And while the second is oft-played, this set gives the listener an opportunity to discover the...

Saint Matthew Passion J. S. BACH three CD's This monumental piece, composed by J.S. Bach, recounts the dramatic story of the capture and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, it presents a profound, dramatic, lyrical and contemplative work. Koopman uses only...

Sacred motets for 1-6 voices published in Venice before, during, and after the plague of 1630, featuring Capella Intima and the Gallery Players of Niagara.

Sacred motets for 1-6 voices published in Venice before, during, and after the plague of 1630, featuring Capella Intima and the Gallery Players of Niagara.

Sacchini's debut in Paris with Renaud (1783) was a success, earning him the favor of Marie-Antoinette. Encouraged by the public, he enriched the repertoire of the Paris Opera with several masterpieces, some of which were staged regularly for many years...