"S" Ensembles
Sächsisches Barockorchester Leipzig
- Director : Gotthold Schwarz
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Leipzig, Germany
Sacrae Symphoniae
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 2004
- Description : a Sackbut & Cornett Ensemble
- WWW :
http://www.sacraesymphoniae.co.uk
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : UK
- Members :
- Helen Roberts (cornetto)
- Claire McIntyre (alto & tenor sackbuts)
- Chris Hickman (alto & tenor sackbuts)
- Andrew Clennell (bass sackbut)
Saeculum Aureum Players
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1999
- Description : Perform varied chamber music literature from the 18th and 19th
Centuries adhering to historically-informed performance practice.
- WWW : http://home.netcom.com/~rspece/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- 503 N. 138th St.
Seattle, WA 98133
- Telephone : (206) 366-8712
- FAX : none
- E-mail : rspece@ix.netcom.com
- Home city/country : Seattle, Washington
- Members :
- Richard Spece (clarinet and basset horn)
- William McColl (clarinet and basset horn)
- Jeffrey Cohan (flute)
- Bonnie Garrett (keyboard)
- Various Associate Members and Guest Performers
- Discography :
- "Vintage Woodwinds" - works by Felix Mendelssohn & Giovanni Simone Mayr - Crystal Records CD738 (Released in 2000.)
Saint James's Baroque Players
- Director : Ivor Bolton
- Year ensemble formed : 1984 -- by Bolton
- Description : Resident baroque orchestra of the Piccadilly Festival.
Sponsored by Lufthansa.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : London, UK
- Discography :
- Handel: "Oboe Concertos and Sonatas" - with Paul Goodwin (oboe) - Meridian CDE
84303 (Recorded in 1985. Released in 1995.)
Saint Luke's Baroque Orchestra
- Director : Rudolph Palmer
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : New York City, New York
Saint Mary Chamber Orchestra
- Musical Director : Matthew Loucks
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- WWW :
http://www.stmarylittleton.org
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- St. Mary Church
6853 South Prince Street
Littleton, CO 80120
- Telephone : ?
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : ?
- Home city/country : Littleton, Colorado, USA
Saint Mary-at-Hill Bach Players
- Guest conductor : Jonathan Rennert
- Leader : Ben Sansom
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : London, UK
Sakura Quartet
- Director : Megumi Tanno (fortepiano)
- Year ensemble formed : 2005
- Description : Met during their studies at the Royal Conservatory at
The Hague. Sakura is Japanese for cherry blossom and was chosen to
illustrate the imagination of color. They have been coached by Bart van Oort,
Jaap ter Linden, Stanley Hoogland and Kati Debretzeni and their repertoire
spans the period 1770-1840.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : The Hague, The Netherlands
- Members :
- Lilia Slavny (baroque violin)
- Charlene Yeh (viola)
- Diana Vinagre (violoncello)
- Megumi Tanno (fortepiano)
Salagon Quartett
- Director : Christine Busch (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : 2004 -- by Christine Busch
- Description : Focus on music from the 18th Century.
- WWW :
http://www.salagonquartett.de
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Germany
- Members :
- Christine Busch (violin)
- Kathrin Tröger (violin)
- Claudia Hofert (viola)
- Gesine Queyras (violoncello)
- Discography :
- Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-1792): String Quartets - Carus Verlag CV 83.194
(Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
- Rossini (in preparation)
Salomon String Quartet
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1981
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : UK
- Members :
- Current:
- Simon Standage (violin)
- Catherine Martin (violin)
- Trevor Jones (viola)
- Jennifer Ward Clarke (violoncello)
- Past:
- Micaela Comberti (violin)
- NOTE: Simon Whistler (viola) has also performed with the quartet.
- Discography :
- Hyperion
- "String Quartets": works by Jean Martin de Ron (1789-1817), Joachim Nikolas
Eggert (1779-1813), Anders Wesström (c. 1720-81) - Salomon String Quartet - Musica
Sveciae MSCD 425 (Recorded in 1991. Produced in 1992.)
- "Classical Concerti & Chamber Music: works by J. C. Bach:
Sinfonia Concerto, Sonata VI in B-flat; W.A. Mozart: Adagio & Rondo,
K.617, Adagio for Solo Harp, K.617a; F.J. Haydn: Trio in F, Hob.XV:40,
Concerto in C, Hob.15:37 - with David Watkins, harp - Meridian CDE 84425 (Recorded in
2000. Released in 2001.)
Le Salon de Mars
- Director : Piero Cartosio (traverso)
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : "To revive some peculiar moments of 18th-century chamber
music, starting from the French suite." Named after the music room of the Royal
Palace in Versailles.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Italy
- Members :
- Piero Cartosio (traverso)
- Carlo Marotta (violin)
- Andrea De Carlo (violoncello)
- Giuseppe Pistone (theorbe)
- Salvatore Carchiolo (harpsichord)
- Discography :
- Antoine Dornel (ca. 1680-1756) : "Suites pour la flûte traversière" -
Bongiovanni GB 5084-2 (recorded: 1997)
Saltarello
- Artistic director : Jacques Ade (recorder, percussion, crumhorn)
- Year ensemble formed : 1968
- WWW : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gbconsult/saltarello/
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : France
- Members :
- Jacques ADE (recorder, percussion, crumhorn)
Nicole BOUDARD (recorder)
Gérard BOUDET (vielle, psaltry, rebec, violin) (E-mail: gerard.boudet@wanadoo.fr)
Philippe DELACOTTE (recorder, chalumeaux)
Françoise ELIE (bass viol)
Hubert ELIE (recorder, crumhorn)
Claude GAIN (violoncello)
Norbert GIRARD (recorder, cornet, chalumeau)
Annick LELOUP épinette
Isabelle TORCHEUX (recorder, crumhorn, chalumeau)
Annick VIGOT (violon, vielle)
Salut! Baroque
- Directors : Sally Melhuish, Tim Blomfield
- Year ensemble formed : 1995
- Description :
Salut! Baroque is one of Australia’s most dynamic early music
ensembles, bringing together Australia’s finest baroque musicians in a chamber
orchestra of up to twelve members. Formed in 1995 and led by artistic
directors Sally Melhuish and Tim Blomfield, the ensemble is already well known
to Australian audiences, having performed subscription series concerts since
1996. Salut!’s first CD, Italian Vocal and Instrumental Music from the
Seventeenth Century, was named Early Music CD of the Month (March
2000) by UK Classic FM magazine.
- WWW :
http://www.baroque.com.au/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- 14 Wharf Road
Birchgrove 2041
AUSTRALIA
- Telephone: +61 2 95557442
- Fax: +61 2 95551828
- E-mail : Salut@baroque.com.au
- Home city/country : Sydney, Australia
- Discography :
- "Salut! - Italian instrumental and vocal music from the 17th century" - Works
by Rossi, Monteverdi, Leonarda, Cima, Marini, Strozzi & Frescobaldi - with guest
artists, Jane Edwards: soprano, Lucinda Moon: baroque violin, Marshall McGuire: double
harp - Walsingham Classics DDD WAL8024 2 [1998]
- Georg Philipp Telemann - ArtWorks
AW031 [2002]
- Suite for strings, two recorders and continuo in F Minor
Concerto for two recorders, strings and continuo in Bb major
Concerto for four violins in D major
Concerto for two recorders, strings and continuo in A minor
Sonata for two recorders and continuo in F major
Concerto for violin, strings and continuo in A minor
Salzburger Barockensemble
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Salzburg, Austria
- Discography :
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: "Marienvesper" (1693) - Kym Amps, Christopher
Robson, Anton Rosner, Albert Hartinger, Bläserkreis Innsbruck, Salzburg Schola d. Kollegs
St. Benedikt, Salzburger Bachchor - Director: Howard Arman - Ame (Released in 1996.)
- JS Bach: Mass in B minor - Venuti, Kallisch, Prégardien, Scharinger, Arnold Schoenberg
Choir, Director: Erwin Ortner - Koch Schwann 367572 (2 CDs. Released in 2001.)
Salzburger Hofmusik
- Director : Wolfgang Brunner
- Year ensemble formed : 1991 -- by Wolfgang Brunner
- Description : Composition varies from the trio to a full orchestra. The
ensemble's repertoire covers the 17th-early 19th centuries. Music at the court of the
Salzburg archbishops in the 17th & 18th centuries forms a special focus.
- WWW: http://www.hofmusik.at
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- c/o Wolfgang Brunner
Dr. Theodor Gugl Weg 11
A-5081 Anif
AUSTRIA
- Telephone: ++43 6246 76415
- E-Mail: wolfgang.brunner@i-one.at
- Home city/country : Salzburg, Austria
- Members :
- Wolfgang Brunner (pianoforte)
- Christine Busch (violin)
- Karl Kaiser (traverso)
- et al.
- Discography :
- Michael Haydn (1737-1806): Divertimenti - CPO 999 230-2 (Released in
1993.)
- Heinrich Ignaz Biber (1644-1704): "Arminio" - CPO 999 258-2 (3 CDs.
Released in 1995.)
- "Music at the Salzburg Court" works by Bernardi, Biber, Muffat, Lolli, Leopold
Mozart, WA Mozart - CPO 999 469-2 (Released in 1997.)
- Johann Christian Bach: Six Sonatas Op. 16 - CPO 999 494-2 (Released in
1997.)
- Isaac Posch (1565-1622): Harmonia Concertans, 1623 - CPO 999 374-2
(Released in 1997.)
- WA Mozart: misc. keyboard concerti no. 3 & 8 (KV 40, 107/1, 246)- Profil (Felicitas)
34 454 9
(released in 1999.)
- "Lauft, ihr Hirten allzugleich - Weihnachtsmusik am Salzburger Hof" (Christmas Music at the Salzburg Palace) -
works by M. Haydn, H.I.F. & C.H. Biber, Goller, Mozart, Lipp, Rättich, Stomius,
A.C. Adlgasser - Profil (Felicitas) 32 661-2
- "Beethoven Und Die Volksmusik" - Profil (Felcitas) 41 661 0
- "Schubert und die Volksmusik" - Profil (Felcitas) 41 662 8
- "Anton Diabelli - Komponist und Verleger" - works for fortepiano and
guitar - Profil 67 169 3 (3 CDs)
- "W.A. Mozart in Salzburg" - Klavierquintett KV 452, Fagottsonate KV
292, Klaviertrio KV 13, Klaviersonate KV 570 - Aeolus ACCD S 115
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Tanzen mit Mozart" - Contretänze KV 609 -
FidulaFon CD 7756
- Michael Haydn (1737-1806): "Der Traum" (a pantomime in two acts - MH
84) - CPO 999 823-2 (Recorded in 2001. Released in January 2002.)
- Sebastiano Moratelli (1640-1706): "La Faretra Smarrita" (Serenata) -
CPO 999 851-2 (Recorded in 1998. Released in May 2002.)
- Luka Sorkočević
(1734-89): "Symphonies, Nr.1-7" - CPO 999 678-2 (Recorded in
1999/2000. Released in 2003.)
- WA Mozart: Concerti for 2 und 3 Pianos (KV 365 und 242); Sonata for
2 Pianos (KV 448) - Profil PH04012 (Released in 2004.)
- Anton Diabelli: "Grande Sonate Brillante" - Profil PH04085
- "Friends of Schubert": chamber works by A. Tonitz, A. Hüttenbrenner,
F. Schubert, etc. - Profil PH05033 (Recorded between 1996-2004. Released
in 2005.)
- Michael Haydn (1737-1806): "Die Hochzeit auf der Alm" (The Wedding
on the Alpine Pasture) & "Der Bassgeiger zu Wörgl" (The Bass Violinist
of Wörgl) - Profil PH06061 (Released in 2006.)
- WA Mozart: "Horn Concertos" - Universität Mozarteum Salzburg UNIMOZ
28 (Released in 2006.)
San Antonio Early Music Ensemble
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1971 -- by George Gregory
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : San Antonio, Texas
- Members :
- George Gregory
- Madalyn Blanchett
- Linda Gomez Richter
- Alice Gomez
- Mary Ramsay
Sanssouci-Ensemble Hamburg
- Director : Thomas Pietsch (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Hamburg, Germany
Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse
- Director : Jean-Pierre Canihac
- Year ensemble formed : 1980 -- by Jean-Pierre Canihac and Jean-Pierre Mathieu
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Toulouse, France
- Members :
- Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornetto)
- Philippe Matharel (cornetto)
- Daniel Lassalle (sackbut)
- Bernard Fourtet (bass sackbut and serpent)
- Jan Willem Jansen (organ)
- Discography :
- Accord, Erato (Monteverdi's Vespers with Les Arts
Florissants), Auvidis Astrée
- "La sacqueboute": works by Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654), Dario Castello
(15..-16..), Andrea Falconiero (v. 1585-1656), Tarquinio Merula
(1594/95-1665), Cristobal de Morales (v. 1500-53), Diego Ortiz (1510-70),
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630), and Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) - Ambroisie
AMB9929 (Recorded and released in 2002.)
- "The Sackbut": works by Scheidt, Castello, Falconiero, Merula, Morales -
Mirare MIR9929 (Released in 2003.)
- 'Music at the Court of Kromeriz' - various sonatas for early brass
instruments: works by Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (1640-1693) - Johann Heinrich
Schmelzer (1623?-1680) - Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) - Johann Theile
(1646-1724) - Matthias Weckmann (1615/16-1674) - Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
Biber (1644-1704) - Ambroisie (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- Samuel Scheidt: "Ludi musici" - Ambroisie AMB9996 (Released in 2006.)
Saraband
- Director : Vladimir Ivanoff
- Year ensemble formed : 1986 -- by Ivanoff
- Description : "SARBAND" stems from Persian and Arabic, and denotes
to an improvised coupling of two parts within a musical suite. The repertoire
encompasses not only medieval music from the Orient and Occident, but also
staged productions of Baroque and contemporary music. Formed by musicologist
and musician Dr. Vladimir Ivanoff, mainly with the goal of demonstrating the
relationships between European early music and the musical cultures of Islam,
as well as their considerable consequence for contemporary music. Sarband is
an international project with artists from Iran, Germany, Italy, France,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, and the USA.
- WWW :
http://www.sarband.de/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Germany
- Members :
- Fadia El-Hage (voice)
- Miriam Andersén (voice, gothic harp, percussion)
- Dogan Dikmen
- Ian Harrison (cornetto, shawm, voice)
- Vladimir Ivanoff (percussion, ud)
- Ahmet K. Rizeli (kemenge, percussion, voice)
- Mehmet Yesilçay (ud, percussion)
- Ihsan Özer (kanun, santur, percussion)
- Safinaz Rizeli
- Anja Herrmann
- Jean Walther
- Piers Ford
- Axel
Weidenfeld (lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar)
- Discography :
Sarabande Baroque Ensemble
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- WWW : http://www.gruar.clara.net/dodd/sarabande/main.html
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Brook Cottage
Burton Road
Holme
Cumbria LA6 1QN
UNITED KINGDOM
- Telephone : 01524 781601
- E-mail : edodd@gruar.clara.net
- Home city/country : UK
- Members :
- Ann Bond (harpsichord)
- Elizabeth Dodd (viola da gamba and dance)
- Philip Gruar (baroque flute and recorder)
Sator Musicae
- Director : Roberto Meo
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : ?
Les Sauvages
- Director : Jérémie Rhorer, harpsichord
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : Baroque ensemble
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : France
- Members :
- Olivier Benichou, traverso
- Stéphanie-Marie Degand, violin
- Catherine Montier, violon
- Jérôme Pernoo, violoncello
- Jérémie Rhorer, harpsichord
- Atsushi Sakaï, viola da gamba
- Discography :
- Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Organ concertos - with Olivier Vernet
(organ) - Ligia Digital (2 CDs. Released in 2001.)
- Concerti 1,2,6 (Released in 2004.)
- Artistic Director : Zsolt Kalló (replaced Pál Németh)
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : See Capella Savaria as well.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Budapest, Hungary
- Discography :
- Antonio Caldara : Four sinfonias following "La Passione di Gesu Cristo Signor
Nostro" - Hungaroton HCD 31862-63 (Released in 1999)
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785): "Musica Sacra" (including Confitebor; Nunc
Dimittis; Laudate Pueri.) Vocal Soloists; Angelica Girls' Choir; Fabio Pirona (conductor)
- Hungaroton HCD 31828 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- "Syrens, Enchancters and Fairies: 18th Century overtures from the
London stage." - works by John Christopher Smith, John Abraham Fisher,
Thomas Arne, and Thomas Alexander Erskine - Mary Térey-Smith (conductor) -
Dorian DOR-93251 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2003.)
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): Il Trionfo dell'Onestà; Venere e
Amore - Hungaroton HCD 32101 (Recorded 2001-2002. Released in 2003.)
SCALA Köln
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ? -- co-founded by Christoph Mayer and ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Cologne, Germany
- Members :
- Christoph Mayer (violin)
- ?
- Discography :
- Luigi Boccherini : Chamber Music - Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm
- Adam Falckenhagen (1697 - 1754) : "Alte Musik" - with Michael Duecker (lute) -
WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) (Recorded in 1996.)
Scandinavian Baroque Trio
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1991
- Description : To investigate early music for violin, viola da gamba and continuo.
Currently we are working with the development of the triosonata from its origin in Italy
and the south of Germany to the culmination in northern Germany represented by Dietrich
Buxtehude. The Scandinavian Baroque Trio has toured the Nordic Countries, Germany and
France.
- WWW :
- Contact information :
- Peter Lönnerberg
- Jens Nørbæk
- Dronningens Tværgade 48
DK 1302 København K
DENMARK
phone: +45 33 937730
e-mail: JensN@dk-online.dk
- Roland Kjellström
- Lagergrensgatan 28
S 60350 Norrköping
SWEDEN
phone +46 11 183284
- Home city/country : See Contact Information above.
- Members :
- Roland Kjellström (Baroque violin)
- Jens Nørbæk (viola da gamba)
- Peter Lönnerberg (harpsicord and organ)
Scaramouche
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1989 -- by Jaap ter Linden and Andrew Manze
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : ?
- Members :
- Jaap ter Linden (violoncello)
- Andrew Manze (violin)
- Caroline Balding
- Ulrike Wild
- Discography : Channel
Classics
Scherzi Musicali
- Leader : Nicolas Achten
- Year ensemble formed : 2000
- Description : Named after Monteverdi’s books of secular music by
the same title. Although sometimes enlarged to a small orchestra, the core
of this ensemble performs vocal and instrumental chamber music around the
plucked instruments of the lute family. Scherzi suggests a fresh,
witty and playful note. The ensemble concentrates basically on 17th century
Italian secular music, making excursions towards other genres and countries
from the same period. Less known composers like Ferrari, Sances, Mazzochi
are emphasized. The instruments used are copies of historical instruments
and on the level of performance practice; research is done by all members.
The ensemble members are (former) students of historically-informed
performance practice pioneers such as the Kuijken brothers, Ph. Pierlot and
Ph. Malfeyt.
- WWW :
http://membres.lycos.fr/scherzimusicali/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- c/o Nicolas Achten
avenue Michel-Ange, 34
B-1000 Brussels
BELGIUM
- Telephone : 0032 (0) 496.10.57.19
- FAX : ?
- E-mail :
scherzimusicali@hotmail.com
- Home city/country : Brussels, Belgium
- Members : (cumulative list)
- Nicolas Achten (lute, chitarrone, guitar, harpsichord, bass singer)
- Vincent Lesage (baroque violin, tenor singer)
- Anne Maistriau (soprano)
- Catherine Lybaert (soprano)
- Laurence Renson (mezzo soprano)
- Eriko Semba (discant and bass viols, lirone)
- Monika Mandelartz (triple harp)
- Cindy Castillo (harpsichord, organ)
Schlierbacher Kammerorchester
- Director : Thomas Fey
- Year ensemble formed : 1987
- Description : Evolved into the
Heidelberger Sinfoniker in
1993.
- WWW :
http://www.heidelberger-sinfoniker.de/
- Home city/country : Heidelberg, Germany
- Discography :
- Handel: Judas Maccabaeus - with Schlierbacher Motet Choir - Christophorus
CHR 77128 (2 CDs. Released in 1992.)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
- Conductors :
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- WWW :
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Basel, Switzerland
- Discography :
- Handel: Brockes Passion (HWV 48) - with vocal soloists,
Regensburger Domchor. Conductor: August Wenzinger Recorded in 1967 - First
released on LP's (3) on Deutsche Grammophon 413 922-1. Re-issued 2001 on DG's
"The Originals" series. Catalog number: 463 644-2 (3 CDs.)
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Trumpet Ensemble
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Basel, Switzerland
- Discography : Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
The Scholars Baroque Ensemble
- Artistic director : David van Asch
- Year ensemble formed : 1987 -- by van Asch
- Description : Perform without a conductor.
- WWW : http://www.thescholars.de/
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : UK
- Discography : Naxos
Schönbrunn Ensemble
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- WWW :
http://www.chambermusic.nl
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- Ruyschstraat 8-II
1091CB Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
- tel: 00 31 20 6923974
- fax: 00 31 20 4687012
- E-mail: chambermusic@xs4all.nl
- Home city/country : Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Members :
- Current:
- Marten Root (one-keyed flute)
- Johannes Leertouwer (violin)
- Viola de Hoog (violoncello)
- Menno van Delft (harpsichord)
- Former:
- Frank de Bruine (oboe)
- Irmgard Schaller (violin & viola)
- Sirkka-Liisa Kaakinen (violin)
- Richard Myron (contrabass)
- Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
- Discography :
- L.v. Beethoven: Serenades Op. 8, Op. 25 - Globe GLO 5090
- FJ Haydn: "Trios Op. 38" - Globe GLO 5131
- Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Sonatas for flute, violin, flute & violin, two violins
& b.c. - Globe GLO 5134
- "Divertimenti": works by FJ Haydn & Michael Haydn - Globe
GLO 5137
- JS Bach: Musical Offering - Globe GLO 5172
- Friedrich Hartmann Graf: "Out of the Shadow of the Masters" - Globe
GLO 5212 (Released in 2005.)
- Anton Reicha: "Out of the Shadow of the Masters" - Globe GLO 5219
(Released in 2006.)
Schuppanzigh Quartett
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : Originally founded in 1796 by Ignaz Schuppanzigh
(1776-1830). Re-established in 1996 (by Anton Steck) on the bicentennial year of its founding.
- Description : Perform works from the Classical to early romantic periods.
- WWW :
http://www.schuppanzigh-quartett.de
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- c/o Anton Steck
Niehler Str. 3c
D-50670 Köln
GERMANY
- Telephone: +49-(0)221 / 972 60 09
- Fax: +49-(0)221 / 912 498 47
- E-mail: Steck.Anton@t-online.de
- Performance management : Uhde &
Harckensee MusikManagement
- Home city/country : Germany
- Members :
- Anton Steck (violin)
- Christoph Mayer (violin)
- Jane Oldham (viola)
- Antje Geusen (violoncello)
- Discography :
- Beethoven: String Quartets op. 18, No. 4 & op. 59, No. 3 - Ars Musici AM 1281-2
(Recorded and released in 1999.)
- Gaetano Brunetti (1744-98): "String Quartets" - String
quartets in A major, B flat major, G minor (Op.2 No. 1), and E flat major
(Op. 2 No. 3) - CPO 999 780-2
(Recorded and released in 2001.)
- Joseph Martin Kraus (1756-92): "Flute
Quartets / String Quartets" - with Martin Sandhoff (traverso). Capriccio
67 066 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2003.)
- Ferdinand Ries (1784-1838): String Quartets
- Vol. 1 - CPO
777 014-2
(Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
- Vol. 2 - CPO (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2007.)
Schütz-Akademie
- Director : Howard Arman
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Germany
- Discography :
- "Schütz und Venedig" (Schütz and Venice): works by Praetorius, Schütz,
Monteverdi, Gabrieli - Capriccio 10 409 (Recorded in 1991.)
- "Weinachtshistorien" (Christmas Histories): Johann Schelle (1648-1701):
Actus Musicus auf Weyh-Nachten; Heinrich Schütz: "Weinachtshistorie" or "Historia
der Geburt Christi" (SWV 435) - Capriccio 10 508 (Recorded in 1993.)
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643): "Vesper zum Fest Christi Himmelfahrt"
(vespers for the feast of the ascension) - with soloists - Capriccio 10 521
(Recorded in 1993.)
- Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): "Musikalische Exequien" (Trauermusiken des
17.Jh. = 17th century funeral music) - includes works by Michael Praetorius
(1571 - 1621), Johann Hermann Schein (1586 - 1630), Johannes Christoph
Demantius (1567 - 1643) - Berlin Classics. (Recorded in 1993. Released in
1994. Reissued in 2005 as BC1242.)
Schütz Consort
- Director : Roger
Norrington
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : UK
La Scintilla
Scottish Baroque Players
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Scotland
- Members :
- Roger Foxwell (violin)
- Greq Squire (violin)
- Ian Budd (viola)
- Alison McGillivray (violoncello)
- John Clark (double bass)
- Richard Ashton (oboe)
- Mary James (oboe)
- Discography :
- "Music from King's: Volume VI; Six Eighteenth-century Organ Concertos" works
by Stanley, Hayes, Felton, Wesley, Ross, and Hook - with Roger Bevan Williams (organ) -
Alpha Records (Oxford) CDCA 964 (Recorded in 1994.)
Scottish Early Music Consort -- disbanded
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : early 1970s
- Year disbanded : 1998
- Description : The group performs music from medieval times through to Schubert.
- WWW : http://www.scot-art.org/semc/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Glasgow, Scotland
Seattle Baroque
- Music director : Ingrid
Matthews (violin)
- Artistic director : Byron
Schenkman (keyboard)
- Year ensemble formed : 1993
- WWW : http://www.seattlebaroque.org
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- c/o Early Music Guild
2366 Eastlake Ave E.
Suite 333
Seattle, WA 98102
- Telephone : (206) 322-3118
- Fax: (206) 322-3119
- E-mail : Info@seattlebaroque.org
- Home city/country : Seattle, Washington
- Discography :
- Handel: "Tra Le Fiamme" - with Ellen Hargis, soprano - Wildboar 9604
(Recorded in 1996.)
- JS Bach: "Concertos for Harpsichord" - with Byron Schenkman, harpsichord -
Centaur Records CRC 2497 (Recorded in 1998.)
- Vivaldi: "Bassoon Concertos" - Michael McCraw, bassoon - Centaur Records
CRC 2538 (Recorded in 1999.)
- Heinrich Biber: "Sonatas for Strings" - Sonata V a sei in E Minor; Sonata
IX a cinque in B-flat; Sonata a sei in B-flat "Die Pauernkirchfahrt;"
Anonymous keyboard partita in D Minor; Sonata XI a cinque in A; Sonata VIII a
cinque in G; Anon. Keyboard partita in G; Sonata VI a cinque in F; Sonata III
a sei in G Major; Sonata II a sei in D - Centaur Records CRC 2615 (Recorded in
2001. Released in 2003.)
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): Agar et Ismaele Esiliati (trans. The Exile
of Hagar and Ishmael) - Centaur Records CRC 2664 (Recorded in 2001. Released
in 2004.)
- "The Pachelbel Canon and other Baroque favorites" -
Loft Recordings LRCD-1019
(Recorded in 2003.)
The Second City Musick
- Director : John Mark Rozendaal
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : a viol consort
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Chicago, Illinois
- Members :
- Mary Springfels
- Craig Trompeter
- John Mark Rozendaal
Seicento Italiano
- Director : Daniele Boccaccio (organ, harpsichord)
- Year ensemble formed : 1999 -- by Boccaccio
- WWW : http://www.seicentoitaliano.it/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Italy
- Members : (cumulative)
- Maria Paola Cavallini (violin)
- Rossella Croce (violin)
- Hedwig Raffeiner (violin)
- Rebeca Ferri (violoncello)
- Giuliano Eccher (violone)
- Giangiacomo Pinardi (chitarrone, theorbe)
- Daniele Boccaccio (organ, harpsichord)
- Discography :
- Giovanni Antonio Leoni (1590 ca. - after 1652): Violin Sonatas, Book I, Opus 3 (1652) -
Tactus TC 591290 (2 CDs; Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757): "Cantate da Camera" (Chamber Cantatas) with
Lavinia Bertotti, soprano
- Part 1: Nos. 1, 2, 3 & 5 - Tactus TCT 681901 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
- Part 2: Nos. 4, 6, 7 & 8 - Tactus TCT 681902 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
Selva Della Musica Köln
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1989 -- by Schmidt-Laukamp, Kuwagata, and Wendland
- Description : To perform works from the 17th & 18th centuries.
- WWW :
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Cologne, Germany
- Members: (cumulative)
- Ursula Schmidt-Laukamp (recorder)
- Viola da gamba: Peter Wendland, Heike Johanna Lindner
- Michael Freimuth (theorbo, baroque guitar)
- Ilka Wagner (bassoon)
- Harpsichord: Harald Hoeren, Akiko Kuwagata
- Discography :
- "Musik am Hofe von Versailles": works by Marin Marais, Michel Blavet,
Jean-Marie Leclair, Pierre Danican-Philidor, Charles Dieupart - Prezioso CD 840.401
- "Selva Della Musica Köln": works by François Couperin, Robert de Visée,
Louis de Caix d'Hervelois, Marin Marais, Jean-Philippe Rameau - Ars Produktion FCD 368 337
- "Aus Einer Leydenschaft in die andere..." (Italian sonatas from the
baroque) - works by Handel, Francesco Mancini, Francesco Maria Veracini
- Selva Della Musica - BeLaMusic
BLM1001 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2007.)
- Director : Gérard Lesne
- Year ensemble formed : 1985
- WWW :
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- c/o
Fondation Royaumont
95270 Asnières sur Oise
FRANCE
- Telephone : 33 1 30 35 59 00
- FAX : 33 (0)1 30 35 39 45
- E-mail: ilseminariomusicale (at) royaumont.com
- Home city/country : Asnieres sur Oise, France
- Members :
- Gérard Lesne (countertenor)
- Richard Myron (contrebasse)
- Bruno Cocset (violoncello)
- Pascal Monteilhet (theorbe)
- Blandine Rannou (harpsichord)
- Jean-Charles Ablitzer (organ)
- Concert schedule :
http://www.ilseminariomusicale.com
- Discography :
http://www.ilseminariomusicale.com
- Monteverdi: Salve Regina - Motets for 1, 2 & 3 voices - Gerard Lesne / Josep Benet /
Josep Cabre / Brigitte Lesne - with Tragicomedia - Virgin Veritas 7 59602-2 (1990)
- Handel: "Lucrezia" - cantatas for solo countertenor - Gérard Lesne -
Virgin Veritas 7 59059-2 (1991)
- Antonio Caldara: "Medea, Cantates et Sonates", Stradella: Motets - Gérard
Lesne - Virgina Veritas - 5 61588-2 (1991)
- Vivaldi: Salve Regina - Sacred works for countertenor and double orchestra, Violin
Concerto (RV 581) Gerard Lesne / Fabio Biondi - Virgin Veritas 7 59232-2 (1992)
- Giovanni Bononcini: "Amarilli, Cantates et Sonates" for solo countertenor,
Cello Sonata in A minor, Trio Sonata in D minor - Gérard Lesne - Virgina Veritas 5
45000-2 (1993)
- Baldassare Galuppi: "Motets" - Confitebor tibi, Domine Arripe alpestri ad
vallem - Gérard Lesne / Véronique Gens / Peter Harvey - Virgin Veritas 5 45030-2
(1994)
- Alessandro Scarlatti : "Motets" Gérard Lesne / Véronique Gens - Virgin
Veritas 5 45103-2 (1994)
- Charpentier: : Leçons de Ténèbres, Office du Jeudi Saint - Piau / Lesne / Honeyman /
Harvey Virgin Veritas 5 45075-2 (1995)
- Charpentier: : Leçons de Ténèbres, Office du Vendredi Saint - Mellon / Lesne /
Honeyman / Bona - Virgin Veritas 7 59295-2 (1995)
- Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres, Office du Mercredi Saint - Greuillet / Pelon / Lesne
/ Purves - Virgin Veritas 5 45107-2 (1995)
- Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres - Gérard Lesne - Virgin Veritas 5 61483-2 (3 CDs;
all three discs above assembled)
- "Ombra ma fù" : Gérard Lesne / Il Seminario musicale - Virgin Veritas - 5
45179-2 (1995)
- Nicolo Jommelli : "Lamentations de Jérémie du Mercredi Saint" - Véronique
Gens, Gérard Lesne, Christophe Rousset - Virgin Classics 5 45202-2 (1996)
- Alessandro Scarlatti : "Cantatas" Gérard Lesne / Sandrine Piau - Virgin
Veritas 5 45126-2 (1996)
- Sébastien de Brossard : Leçon des morts, Dialogus poenitentis animae cum Deo -
Véronique Gens - Gérard Lesne - Virgin Veritas 5 45271-2 (1997)
- Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, Salve Regina, Sinfonia Véronique Gens / Gérard Lesne
- Virgin Veritas 5 45291-2 (1997)
- Hasse : "I Pellegrini al Sepolcro di Nostro Signore" - Elliott / Gabail
/ Lesne / Chance / Harvey - Virgin Veritas 5 45329-2
- "Dans un bois solitaire": French cantatas by Nicolas Clérambault, Du Buisson,
Philippe Courbois, Nicolas Bernier, Jean-Baptiste Stuck - Virgin Veritas 5 45303-2
(Released in 1999)
- Alessandro Scarlatti : Stabat Mater, Salve Regina, Quae est ista - Lesne, Piau,
Novelli - Virgin Veritas 5 45366-2 (Recorded in 1998. Released in 1999)
- F. Couperin : Leçons de ténèbres - Harmonic Records H/CD 9140
- Vivaldi : Stabat Mater + Motets - Harmonic Records H/CD 8720
- Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749) : "Motets pour Saint-Sulpice" - with vocal
soloists: Gérard Lesne, Mark Padmore, Josep-Miquel Ramon i Monzó - Virgin VC 5454152
(Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Alessandro Scarlatti: "Sedecia, ré di Gerusalemme"
(1706) - G. Lesne, Philippe
Jaroussky, Virginie Ponchon, Mark Padmore, Peter Harvey - Virgin
Veritas 5 45452-2 (2 CDs.
Recorded in 1999. Released in 2001.)
- Charpentier: "Trois histoires sacrées" -
Naïve Astrée E8821 (Recorded in
2000. Released in 2001.)
- "Bach Family Arias & Cantatas": works by Johann Michael Bach, Johann
Christoph Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach -
Naïve Astrée E8873 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2002.)
- Henry Purcell: "O Solitude" - Naïve Astrée
E8882 (Released in 2003.)
- M-A Charpentier. "Tristes Déserts" - includes Orphée descendant aux
Enfers (H471), Epitaphium Carpentarii (H474), Stances du Cid (H457-9),
Airs sérieux et à boire - with Gérard Lesne (countertenor), Cyril Auvity
(tenor), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (bass). Zig-Zag Territoires (To be
released in March 2007)
Semperconsort
- Director : Luigi Cozzolino (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : 1999 -- by Cozzolino
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Florence, Italy
- Members :
- Luigi Cozzolino (1st violin)
- Luca Giardini (2nd violin)
- Bettina Hoffmann (Violoncello)
- Gianluca Lastraioli (Theorbo and Baroque guitar)
- Andrea Perugi (Organ and harpsichord)
- Discography :
- Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1632-1692): Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 - Naxos
8.570182 (Released in 2006.)
Sequentia
- Artistic Directors : Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton
- Year ensemble formed : 1977 -- by Benjamin Bagby and Barbara Thornton
- Description : Specialize in medieval music; especially the music of Hildegard von
Bingen. The larger ensemble consists of three groups. (See below.)
- WWW : http://www.earlymusic.org.uk/dirwww/rev-z/sequentia.html
- Contact Information :
- Performance Management :
- Home city/country : Cologne, Germany
- Members :
- Vox feminae (Sequentia women's vocal ensemble) - Barbara Thornton
(director)
- Sons of Thunder (Sequentia men's vocal ensemble) - Benjamin Bagby
(director)
- Sequentia instrumental ensemble :
- Elizabeth Gaver (director, medieval fiddles)
- Benjamin Bagby (medieval harp, portative organ, organistrum
- Na'ama Lion (medieval fiddle)
- Discography :
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- Todd McComb's catalog
of Sequentia recordings
Sérénade à Trois
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Germany
- Members :
- Petra Müllejans (violin & viola)
- Karl Kaiser (traverso)
- Sonja Prunnbauer (guitar)
- Discography :
- Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1773-1830): "Notturnos for Flute, Viola and Guitar" -
CPO 777 190-2 (Recorded in 2005. Released in 2006.)
La Serenata
- Director : Christian Mendoze
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : France
- Discography :
- Vivaldi: "Sonates pour flute á bec & b.c."
- Arion / Pierry Verany PV787023
La Serenissima
- Director : Alessandro Bares (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : ? -- by Alessandro Bares
- Description : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Lyon, France
La Serenissima
- Director : Adrian Chandler (renaissance/baroque violin)
- Year ensemble formed : 1994
- Description : Singers and instrumentalists. Specialises in music from 17th and
18th-century Venice.
- WWW :
http://www.laserenissima.co.uk
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- La Serenissima
St. Catherine's
73 High Street
Robertsbridge
East Sussex
TN32 5AN
UNITED KINGDOM
- E-mail:
adrian@laserenissima.co.uk
- Home city/country : UK
- Members :
- Mhairi Lawson (soprano)
- Adrian Chandler (Renaissance and Baroque violin)
- Gareth Deats (violoncello)
- Elizabeth Kenny (theorbo)
- Robert Howarth (harpsichord)
- Discography :
- "Per Monsieur Pisendel": works by Johann Georg Pisendel, Tomaso Albinoni,
and Antonio Vivaldi - Avie Records AV 0018
(Released in 2003.)
- Antonio Vivaldi: "Vivaldi in Arcadia - Concertos and Arias" - Avie
Records AV 0031 (Recorded and released in 2003.)
- Vivaldi: "Music for the Chapel of the Pietà" - Avie Records AV 2063
(Recorded in 2004. Released in 2005.)
- Vivaldi: "L'Amore per Elvira" - Sonata (RV83); Cantata: Tremori al
braccio (RV 799); Sonata 'Graz' No.3 (RV 11); Cantata: Elvira, anima mia (RV
654); Sonata 'Graz' No.2 (RV 37); Cantata: Lungi dal vago volto (RV 680) -
Linn Records SACD CKD281 (Recorded and released in 2006.)
- "The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto: 1690-1740":
- "Volume One: The Dawn of the Virtuoso" - works by Albinoni, Legrenzi,
Navara, Valentini, and Vivaldi - Avie Records AV 2106 (Recorded and released
in 2006.)
- Vol. 2: Vivaldi: "Virtuoso Impresario" - with Mhairi Lawson, soprano -
Avie Records AV 2218 (Recorded and released in 2007.)
Séverin
- Year ensemble formed : 1998 -- by the Steenbrink sisters
- Description : To research and perform 17th and 18th century chamber
music for strings and continuo.
- WWW : http://www.severin.nl
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : The Netherlands
- Members :
- Lidewij van de Voort (violin)
- Judith Steenbrink (violin)
- Joshua Cheatham (viola da gamba)
- Tineke Steenbrink (harpsichord)
Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols
- Director : John Dornenburg
- Year ensemble formed : 1994 -- by Dornenburg
- Description : Performances of music for viol consort from Josquin des Prez to
Henry Purcell. Core membership of four players perform on all sizes of viol from treble
down to G violone and D violone. Other players and guest vocalists are added to meet the
demands of programs. Recent guest vocalists have included soprano Susan Rode Morris,
mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane, soprano Judith Nelson, and tenor Scott Whitaker. The
consort's first recording of Schein's "Banchetto musicale" was named Recording
of the Month in July/August 1998 by the German magazine Alte Musik Aktuell.
- WWW : http://www.sfems.org/viols/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : San Francisco Bay area, California
- Members :
- John Dornenburg
- Julie Jeffrey
- Farley Pearce
- Lynn Tetenbaum
- Recent guest gambists: Roy Whelden, David Morris
- Discography : J.H. Schein : "Banchetto Musicale" (Centaur - CRC 2357)
- Recent Concert Programs : Cries of London, Josquin des Prez and Contemporaries, A
Jacobean Fantasy, An Elizabethan Valentine, Orlande de Lassus, Banchetto musicale, Musica
Transalpina (Monteverdi and other Italian music in Britain).
La Sfera Armoniosa
- Musical director : Mike Fentross (lute et al.)
- Year ensemble formed : 1991 -- by Mike Fentross
- Description : Specializes in performance music from the 17th century. The
ensemble's name is derived from a work commissioned for a 17th-century noble marriage,
published for voice and continuo. The group is based around an unchanging core of continuo
players. Vocal soloist are then added to the ensemble according to the demands of the
repertoire.
- WWW : http://members.aol.com/Sferarmoniosa/page.htm
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Europe
- Members :
- Constanze Backes (soprano)
- Maria Jonas (mezzo-soprano)
- Paulina van Laarhoven (viola da gamba, lirone)
- Mike Fentross (lute, chitaronne, baroque guitar)
- Discography :
- François Couperin (1713-1717): Leçons
de Ténèbres for one and two voices. with sopranos Anne Grimm & Johannette
Zomer - Channel Classics Hybrid SACD CCSSA20306
Shin Nakayama group
- Director : Shin Nakayama (viola da gamba, viola bastarda)
- Year ensemble formed : 1998
- Description : The ensemble consists of musicians who specialize in early music
and who have studied at such music institutions as Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano,
Centre de Musique Ancienne de Genève (branch of the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève),
and Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag, and who have collaborated with renowned
international early music ensembles. Based firmly upon musicological research, the members
strives to rejuvenate early music and perform it with FRESHNESS, FREEDOM, and over all
ENTHUSIASM as we believe the music would have been performed in its original setting.
- Repertoire :
- Italian music around 1600 (sonatas and canzons by Dario Castello, by Biagio
Marini, by Girolamo Frescobaldi etc.; passageated madrigals by Ricardo & Francesco
Rognoni, by Orazio Bassani etc.; and vocal & instrumental "concerti")
- French music of the 17th & 18th centuries (pièces de violes, sonatas and
concerts by Marin Marais, Antoine et Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, François Couperin,
Jean-Marie Leclair etc.)
- WWW : http://members.freemail.ch/shin/main.htm
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- route de Drize 3
CH-1227 Carouge/GE
Switzerland
- Telephone/FAX : +41-22-343-07 12
- E-mail : shin@freesurf.ch
- Home city/country : Switzerland
- Members :
- Shin Nakayama (viola da gamba, viola bastarda)
- Mariko Abe (violin, viola da gamba)
- Claudia Combs (violin)
- Rodney Prada (viola da gamba, violoncello)
- Yu Yashima (harpsichord)
- Concert schedule : http://members.freemail.ch/shin/main.htm
Sibelius Academy Baroque Ensemble
(See next entry.)
Sibelius-Akatemian barokkiyhtye
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : Members are faculty of the Sibelius Academy.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Helsinki, Finland
Siena Ensemble
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : The repertoire straddles the 16th-17th centuries.
- WWW :
http://www.earlymusic.org.uk/dirwww/r-z/sienaensemble.html
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Michelene Wandor
71 Belsize Lane
London NW3 5AU
- Telephone : 020 7435 8152
- E-mail :
mwandor@compuserve.com
- Home city/country : London, UK
- Members :
- Lisette Wesseling (soprano)
- Jennie Cassidy (alto)
- Layil Barr (recorder)
- Michelene Wandor (recorder, viol, text)
- Philip Thorby (harpsichord, viol, recorder)
- David Miller (chitarrone/guitar)
- Discography :
The Classical
Recording Company
- Salamone Rossi Hebreo Mantovano
La Signora
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Italy
- Members :
- Maria Paola Cavallini (violin)
- Renata Sfriso (violin)
- Ugo Galasso (chalumeaux)
- Alessandro Licostini (chalumeaux)
- Federico Maria Sardelli (traverso)
- Bettina Hoffmann (viola da gamba)
- Michele Tazzari (violoncello)
- Maurizio Pratola (lute)
- Anna Clemente (harpsichord)
- Discography :
- Francesco Bartolomeo Conti (1681-1732): "Cantatas" with Rossana Bertini, Anna
Simboli (sopranos) - Tactus TC 680301 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
Silete Venti!
- Director : Simone Toni
- Year ensemble formed : 2004
- Description : Silete Venti! was born in 2004 with a mission to
explore the extraordinary repertoire for wind instruments of the Baroque and
Classic periods. The ensemble considers the theoretical and didactic through
the research of ancient sources set against the backdrop of history and
culture. This effort combines the use of original instruments with great
attention towards the execution of recently discovered performance
techniques.
- WWW : http://www.sileteventi.it
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- c/o Simone Toni
Via Monte Bianco 46
I 20149 Milano (Italia)
- Telephone : ++39 02 4691793
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : info@sileteventi.it
- Performance management :
- Home city/country : Milan, Italy
La Simphonie du Marais
- Director : Hugo Reyne (recorder)
- Year ensemble formed : 1987 -- by Hugo Reyne
- Description : La Simphonie du Marais has a special interest in 17th and 18th
century French music. "Simphonie" in those days meant an instrumental group; the
other half of the name of this Paris-based ensemble is that of one of the most beautiful
areas of Paris, the Marais, which flourished in the baroque period. The group's repertoire
is drawn mainly from French instrumental music (symphonies) from the baroque to the
classical period by composers such as Lully, DeLalande, Philidor, Mouret, Rebel, Francoeur
and Rameau, covering a century of musical development. The group also performs chamber
music in smaller formations and is one of the few baroque ensembles to give concerts of
true open-air music with oboes, drums, trumpets and tympani.
- WWW :
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Paris, France
- Members : (cumulative)
- Hugo Reyne (recorder, flute, oboe)
- Béatrice Delpierre (flute, oboe)
- Pierre Hamon (recorder)
- Jean-Pierre Nicolas (recorder)
- Gilone Gaubert-Jacques (1st violin)
- Francoise Duffaud (violin)
- Roberto Crisafulli (violin)
- Christophe Robert (viola)
- Géraldine Roux (viola)
- Jérôme Hantaï (viola da gamba)
- Emmanuel Jacques (violoncello)
- Arnaud Marzorati (bass)
- Vincent Dumestre (guitar and theorbo)
- Pascal Haarscher (bassoon)
- Gabriel Vernhes (bassoon)
- Jean-Luc Machicot (trumpet)
- Pierre Hantaï (keyboard)
- Gilles Harlé (organ)
- Didier Plisson (percussion)
- Discography :
- Michel-Richard DeLalande : "Sinfonies pour les soupers du roi" (Symphonies for
the King's Supper) - Harmonia mundi France 90.1337/40 (4 CDs; Released in 1990)
- F. Francoeur : Musiques des Tables Royales - Fnac Music 592287 (Released in 1993)
- "Musiques à danser à la court et a l'opéra" : music by Lully, Campra,
Marais, with Les Talents Lyriques - Erato (2 CDs)
- Dieupart : 6 Suites pour Flute a Bec - EMI France, CDC 7 54771-2
- F. Andre Philidor : Marches Fêtes & Chasses Royales - Fnac Music 592332 (Released
in 1995)
- Jean de la Fontaine : "Un Portrait Musical" - Virgin Veritas CDC 45229
(Released in 1996)
- Henry Purcell : "A Collection of Ayres" for recorders - Virgin Veritas 45182
(Released in 1996)
- Gautier de Marseille : "Symphonies" - Auvidis Astree E8637 (Released in 1998)
- Desmarest : "La Diane de Fontainebleau" - Auvidis Astree E8633 (Released in
1998)
- Louis-Antoine Dornel (1685-1765) : "Pièces d'orgue & Simphonies", Cantata
"La Fin des Siècles" with Gilles Harlé (organ) - Tempéraments TEM 316018
(Recorded in 1997; Released in 1999
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) : "Le massacre des innocents" &
"Psaumes de David" with soloists and the Ensemble Vocal Contrepoint -
Accord 241972 (Recorded in 1990; Originally released in 1990 by Adda; Re-released by
Accord in 1999)
- "Musiques aux États du Languedoc - Symphonies and airs d'opéras from Lully to
Rameau" : music by Lully, Gautier de Marseille, Campra, Mouret, Mondonville, Rameau -
with Françoise Masset (soprano) - Auvidis-Astrée E8650 (Recorded in 1998; Released in 1999)
- Narcis Casanoves (1747-1799) : "Un Noël Catalan" - with François Espinasse
(organ), Maîtrise de Radio France, Toni Ramon (director) - Tempéraments 316019 (Recorded
in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Pietro Antonio Fiocco (1654-1714) : "Le retour du printemps." Cantatas, arias &
sonatas - with soloists - Cyprès CYP3616 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.)
- Jean-Baptiste Moreau (1656-1733): "La Musique d'Athalie" - Calliope
CAL 9534 (Recorded and released in 2001.)
- "Lully ou le musicien du soleil" (translation: "Lully or
the Musician of the Sun") [Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)] - Accord
- Volume 1: Le temple de la paix (1685) &
"L'idylle sur la paix" (1685) with soloists - CD 465 345-2 (Recorded in 1998;
Released in 1999.)
- Volume 2: Le ballet royal de flore (1669) - CD 461 804-2 (Recorded in
2000. Released in
2001.)
- Volume 3: Les plaisirs de l'île enchantée /
La grotte de Versailles / Le Carroussel - CD 461 811-2 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
- Volume 4: Le bourgeois gentilhomme - CD 472
512-2 (2 CDs;
Recorded in 2001. Released in 2002.)
- Volume 5: Le Triomphe de l'Amour
- CD 476 105-3 (2 CDs; Recorded
in 2002. Released in 2003)
- Volume 6: "Les premiers opéras français" -
Robert Cambert - Pomone (excerpts); Jean-Baptiste Lully - Les
Fêtes de l'Amour et de Bacchus - CD 476 243-7 (2 CDs. Recorded in 2003. Released
in 2004.)
- Volume 7: Isis (1677): with La Choeur du Marais. Accord 476804-8 (3 CDs)
- Volume 8: Amadis (1684): Accords (3 CDs. Released in 2006.)
- "Musique pour les mosquetoires" (Music
for the Musketeers): works by Desrosiers, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Cambert,
Babelon, Philidor, Dumas - Calliope CAL9527 (Released in 2005.)
- Jean-Philippe Rameau. La Naissance d'Osiris (Acte de ballet, 1754).
Musiques à la Chabotterie - Musiques à la Chabotterie, MC002 (Released
in 2006.)
Sine Nomine Ensemble for Medieval Music
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1991
- Description : The ensemble's mission is to research and perform vocal and
instrumental music of the Middle Ages.
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sinfonia Britannica
Sinfonye
- Director : Stevie
Wishart (medieval fiddles & voice)
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : Particularly interested in repertories sung, inspired or composed
by women.
- WWW : http://www.sinfonye.com/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : London, UK
- Current members:
- Stevie Wishart (medieval fiddles & voice)
- Vivien Ellis (voice)
- Jocelyn West (voice)
- Jim Denley (bendirs, pandeiro)
- Past members:
- Paula Chateauneuf (medieval lute)
- Mara Kiek (voice)
- Bonnie Shaliean (medieval harp)
- Discography :
- Members:
- Karina Agerbo, Marit Ernst, Pia Loman, Helle Nielsen
- Discography:
- Johann Christian Schickhardt: Concerto I in C major; Concerto II in D
minor; Concerto III in G major (from Concerti for four Treble Recorders and
Basso continuo); Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Concerto II in A minor;
Concerto IV in B minor (from VI Concertos pour 5 flûtes traversières, Op.XV);
Sonata III in E minor; Sonata VI in A minor (from Six Sonates, Op.XXXIV);
Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in E major; Concerto in F major (from
Concerto a.4. Violini Senza Basso) - with Dan Laurin (recorder), Mogens
Rasmussen (viola da gamba), Fredrik Bock (baroque guitar & theorbo), Leif
Meyer (harpsichord & organ) - BIS CD1234 (Released in 2003.)
SIRINU
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1992
- Description : The group takes its name from the Andean word for the
treacherous water spirits that, as the source of all music and knowledge, both
inspire and ensnare mortals with sounds of their springs and waterfalls. These
beings represent not only the creation of fresh new life and animation, but
also a link with the past and ancestors. In European mythology a similar
universal idea surfaces in the tale of the Sirens, who lure sailors to their
doom by the beauty of their singing. For the group, the name SlRINU symbolizes
the convergence of different myths, cultures and ideas across history through
the inspiration of music.Perform primarily music from the Middle Ages.
- WWW :
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : UK
- Members :
- Sara Stowe (soprano voice, organ, recorder, percussion)
- Matthew Spring (voice, lute, hurdy-gurdy, shawm, lira da braccio, viol, gittern)
- Jon Banks (voice, harp, sackbut, organ, viol, recorder, percussion)
- Henry Stobart (voice, recorder, bagpipes, viol, shawm, pipe, tabor)
- Discography :
Hyperion
- "The Cradle of the Renaissance - Italian music from the time of Leonardo
da Vinci (1452-1519)" - Hyperion CDA66814 (Recorded in 1995.)
- "Stuart Age Music - Tunes from Troubled Times" - Griffin GCCD 4007
(Recorded in 1995.)
- "Bold, Fearless, and Rash" - Music from the Courts of Burgundy 1363–1477 -
HCE Projects
- "All Goodly Sports - Complete Music of Henry VIII" - Chandos Chaconne CHAN
0691
Sirius Ensemble
- Director : Erin Helyard (harpsichord) and Anna McDonald (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : 1999 -- by Helyard and McDonald
- Description : Ranges from a chamber group of three players to a
large orchestra of up to 40 players.
- WWW :
http://www.mva.org.au/performers/default.asp?ID=395
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Sydney, Australia
- Members :
- Anna McDonald (violin)
- Briar Goessi (violin)
- Caroline Henbest (viola)
- Susan Blake (violoncello)
- Erin Helyard (harpsichord, fortepiano)
- Discography :
- Francesco Maria Veracini (1690-1768): Violin sonatas, Opus 1 -
Artworks AW024
- Handel: Semele - with Cantillation (choir), conductor Antony
Walker - ABC Classics
980 047-0 (3 CDs. Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003.)
Siskiyou Baroque Ensemble
- Director : Jim Rich (Renaissance and Baroque woodwinds)
- Year ensemble formed : 1985 -- by Jim Rich
- Description : a five-member chamber ensemble
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Southern Oregon, USA
Smithson String Quartet
- Director : Jaap Schröder
- Year ensemble formed : 1981
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
- Members :
- Jaap Schröder (violin)
- Jorie Garrigue (violin)
- David Cerutti (viola)
- Kenneth Slowik (violoncello)
- Discography : Smithsonian Recordings
Smithsonian Castle Trio
(See Castle Trio above.)
Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra
- Director : Kenneth Slowik (violoncello) (formerly Jaap Schröder)
- Year ensemble formed : circa 1980
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
- Discography :
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- Smithsonian Recordings
Smithsonian Chamber Players
- Director : Kenneth Slowik (violoncello)
- Year ensemble formed : 1976 -- by harpsichordist and Smithonian curator James
Weaver. Began as a single singer and eight instrumentalists.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
- Discography :
- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- Smithsonian Recordings
Sneak's Noyse
- Conductor : Roderick Skeaping
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : UK
Solamente Naturali
(Translation: "Simply Natural")
- Artistic Director : Miloš Valent (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : 2000 as a baroque ensemble (1995 as a
classical chamber ensemble)
- Description : “Solamente Naturali” -- these were the two words,
from the 16th century Nicola Vicentino Treaty, which resonated with the
director when choosing a name for the ensemble. The musicians are dedicated
to the performance of 17th and 18th century music.
- WWW :
http://www.solamentenaturali.sk
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Bratislava, Slovak Republic
- Discography :
- Joseph Umstatt: Concerti /ORF/
- Vladimír Godár: Mater
Solinger Streichquartett
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1988
- Description : A string quartet. Formed by members of the
Symphonieorchesters der Stadt Solingen.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Germany
- Members :
- Heiko Schmitz (violin)
- Almuth Wiesemann (violin)
- Gunhild Mentgens (viola)
- Peter Lamprecht (violoncello)
- Discography : Castigo
- Franz Joseph Haydn: ""Rasiermesser" - String quartets op. 55 No. 3 in B
major (Hob. III:62), No. 2 in F minor (Hob. III:61), No. 1 in A major
(Hob. III:60) - CD 02404 (Recorded in 1996.)
- Franz Schubert: "Rosamunde" - String quartet in A minor, op. 29, D 804 ("Rosamunde")
- CD 02405 (Recorded in 1997.)
- WA Mozart: "String Quartets" - Quartetto in D minor (KV 421), Quartetto in
C major (KV 465) - CD 02406
I Solisti della Accademia Musicale Napoletana
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1979
- Description : Formed within the Accademia Musicale Napoletana.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Naples, Germany
- Members : ?
- Discography :
- Fedele Fenaroli (1730-1818): "Stabat Mater", "Mottetto per l'Immacolata
Concezione", etc. with soloists and Maurizio Ciampi, conductor - Nuova Era/Ancient
Music - 7306 (Recorded in 1997, Released in 1998)
I Solisti di Fiesole
- Director : Nicola Paszkowski
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Italy
I Solisti di Zagreb
- Director : Anton Nanut
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Zagreb, Croatia
Soloists of Catherine the Great
- Artistic Director : Andrey Reshetin (violin)
- Year ensemble formed : 2001
- Description : The ensemble is interested in the music performed at
the Russian noble estates in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
- WWW :
http://www.earlymusic.ru/index.php?id=65&lng=1
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : St. Petersburg, Russia
- Members :
- Andrei Reshetin (violin)
- Fatima Lafisheva (violin)
- Andrey Penyugin (viola)
- Alexander Listratov (violoncello)
Sonare
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : A Renaissance brass ensemble (i.e., cornettos, sackbuts, serpent,
etc.) Also an early to modern brass & percussion sextet.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : London, Ontario, Canada
Sonat Tuba
- Director : Dave Baum
- Year ensemble formed : 1996
- Description : A natural trumpet ensemble.
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Baltimore, Maryland
Les Sonatistes
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : A chamber quartet consisting of 2 baroque violins, viola da gamba,
and harpsichord
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : ?
Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1983
- Description : Ensemble named translated : Musicians of the joyous
"Marca" (or 'borderland' -- of the Venetian republic since the 15th
century)
- WWW : http://www.sonatori.net
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Giancarlo Rado
Via Verga, 5
31100 Treviso
Italy
- Telephone : +39 422 432725
- FAX : +39 422 436280
- E-mail : sonatoritv@tvol.it
- Home city/country : Treviso, Italy
- Concert Schedule : http://www.sonatori.net/
- Discography : http://www.sonatori.net/
- Pier Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676) - "La Calisto" - Stradivarius STR 13606/7
(Recorded in 1988. Released in 1989)
- Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690) : "Sonate e Balletti per strumenti ad arco" -
Rivoalto CRR 9014 (Recorded in 1991. Released in 1996)
- C. Monteverdi - "Il Ritorno d' Ulisse in Patria" - Director:
Alan Curtis - Nuova Era (2 CDs. Recorded in 1991. Released in
1992)
- A. Vivaldi - "Le Quattro Stagioni" - Divox Antiqua CDX-79404-F - (Recorded in
1992. Released in 1994)
- Torelli, Cima, Uccellini - "Von Bologna Bis Venedig" - with other performing
groups - WDR (3 CDs. Recorded and released in 1994)
- A. Vivaldi - "Le Humane Passioni" : "Il Favorito" (RV 277),
"L'Inquietudine" (RV 234), "Il Sospetto" (RV 199),
"L'Amoroso" (RV 271), "Il Piacere" (RV 180), "Originale" (RV
153) - Divox Antiqua CDX- 79406 (Recorded and released in 1995)
- G. Legrenzi - "La Morte del Cor Penitente" (an oratorio) - Divox Antiqua
CDX-79504 (Recorded in 1995. Released in 1996)
- A. Vivaldi - "Concerti per le Solennità" : "Per la Solennità
della S. Lingua di S. Antonio in Padua" (RV 212), "Il Riposo - per il S.
Natale" (RV 270), "Per la Solennità di S. Lorenzo" (RV 286), "Per la
Santissima Assunzione di Maria Vergine" (RV 582 & 581), "LDBV, Grosso
Mogul" (RV 208) - Divox Antiqua CDX-79605 (Recorded and released in 1996)
- C. Monteverdi - "Vespro de la Beata Vergine" - with Ensemble Chiaroscuro,
Theatrum Instrumentorum, and the Coro della RTSI - Director: Nigel Rogers - Tring GI 058/1
(Recorded in 1993. Released in 1996).
- "Balli, Capricci, Stravaganze - Musiche per archi del '600 italiano" - Divox
Antiqua CDX-79603 (Recorded and released in 1997). Works by:
- Tarquinio Merula (1594-1665)
- Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
- Biagio Marini (1597-1665)
- Carlo Farina (1600-1649)
- Giovanni B. Vitali (1632-1692)
- Marco Uccellini (1603-1680)
- Dietrich Buxtehude (ca. 1637-1707): "Membra Jesu Nostri"
& Johann Rosenmüller (1619-1684): "Sinfonia XI" - with
Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano, Accademia Strumentale Italiana - Naxos 8.553787
(Recorded in 1995. Released in 1997)
- "Music for Strings in the Republic of Venice (1615-1630)" - Divox Antiqua
CDX-79707 (Recorded in 1997. Released in 1998). Works by:
- Giovanni Rovetta (1595-1668)
- Francesco Turini (1589-1656)
- Giovanni Battista Fontana (?-1630)
- Dario Castello (16th/17th century)
- Biagio Marini (1597-1666)
- Giovanni Picchi (1572-1643)
- Giuseppe Scarani (16th/17th century)
- Adriano Banchieri (1568 - 1634) - "Festino nella sera del giovedì grasso" -
Naxos 8.553785 (Released in 1998)
- Giacomo Carissimi (1605 - 1674) : "Jonas, Dives malus, Beatus Vir" - with
soli, Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano (Director: Diego Fasolis - Arts Music 47513
(Released in 1998)
- Claudio Monteverdi: "Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria" - Director: Alan Curtis -
Nuova Era CD 7103 (3 CDs. Released in 1998)
- Cecilia Bartoli - "Live in Italy" - London 2LH 455-981 (Released in 1998)
- Francesco Durante (1684-1755) : "Lamentationes Jeremiæ Prophetæ; Vespro
Breve" - with soli, Coro della Radio Svizzera, Lugano (Director: Diego Fasolis - Arts
Music 47522-2 (Recorded in 1995/6. Released in 1998)
- J.S Bach - "Mass in B minor" - Arts Music 47525 (2 CDs. Released in 1999)
- Vivaldi : "Concerto Stravagante" - Divox Antiqua - CDX-59803 (a compilation of
previous Divox Antiqua releases) (Released in 1999)
- Vivaldi: "Concerti della Natura" - "La Tempesta di Mare" (RV 253),
"La Notte" (RV 104), "Il Gardellino" (RV 90), "La Caccia"
(RV 362), "Il Rosignulo" (RV 335a), "La Pastorella" (RV 95),
"Alla Rustica" (RV 151) - Erato 8573-80225-2 (Recorded in 1999. Released in
2000.)
- Agostino Steffani (1654-1728) : "Suites Théatrales" - Divox Antiqua CDX-79811
(Recorded in 1998. Released in 2000.) Overtures, chaconnes, and airs from:
- Henrico Leone (1688)
- I Trionfi del Fato (1695)
- Niobe Regina di Tebe (1688)
- Amor vien dal Destino (1709)
- "Concerti Veneziani - String music of the Venetian Republic, 1690-1710 : Erato
8573-85356-2 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2000.) Works by:
- Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
- Carlo Antonio Marini (1670/1- ca. 1717)
- Marc'Antonio Ziani (ca. 1653-1715)
- Giorgio Taglietti (1660-1718?)
- Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
- Luigi Taglietti (1668-1715?)
- "Follie all' Italiana" : Erato 8573-85775-2 (Recorded in 2000. Released
in 2001.) Works by:
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
- Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
- Andrea Falconiero (1585/6-1656)
- Bernardo Storace (17th century)
- Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi (17th century)
- Maurizio Cazzati (1620-77)
- Francesco Corbetta (1615-81)
- Giovan Battista Vitali (1632-92)
- Antonio Caldara (ca. 1670-1736)
- Giovanni Reali (ca. 1681-1751)
- Vivaldi: "The Early Concertos for Violoncello Obligato" (from the
collection of Rudolf Franz Erwein von Schonbron; 1677-1754); RV 422, 407,
416, 402, 420, 423 - Warner Classics 0927425322 (Recorded in 2000.
Released in 2002)
- "Harmonie veneziane (1660-1690 String Music of the Venetian
Republic)": works by Cavalli, Rosenmüller, Legrenzi, Ziani, C. Fedeli "Saggion"
- Erato 0927-49143-2 (Recorded in 2001. Released in 2003.)
- Vivaldi: "Concerti per fagotto e oboe" - with Hans Peter Westermann
(oboe) and Sergio Azzolini (bassoon) - Opus 111/Naïve OP30379 (Recorded
in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- Vivaldi: "Concerti per flauto & flautino, archi e basso continuo" -
with Dorothée Oberlinger (recorder) - Accent A330 (Recorded in 2004.
Released in 2005.)
- Vivaldi: "Il Progetto Vivaldi" - concerti for violoncello (RV 401,
410, 413, 418, 424) - with Sol Gabetta - Sony-BMG/RCA Red Seal (Recorded
in 2006. Released in 2007.)
Les Sonnades -- disbanded
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1995 -- by David Bruno (baroque flute), Beverly Au (viola
da gamba), and Bradley Brookshire (harpsichord)
- Description :
- The name is a variant spelling from sonade, or the French rendition of the
Italian sonata.
- A chamber music ensemble of period instruments exploring mainly the French triosonata
repertoire of the first half of the 18th c.
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- c/o David Bruno
302 W 102nd St Apt. 4
New York, NY 10025
- Telephone : (212) 662-7626
- E-mail: dbruno@el.net
- Home city/country : New York City, New York
- Members :
- David Bruno (baroque flute)
- Janet Hathaway (baroque flute)
- John Moran (violoncello/basse de violon)
- Beverly Au (viola da gamba)
- Bradley Brookshire (harpsichord)
Sonnerie
(formerly referred to as Trio Sonnerie)
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1982 -- by Monica Huggett, Mitzi Meyerson, and Sarah
Cunningham
- Description : Hailed by critics as "the Beaux Arts Trio of the
baroque". The ensemble is named after Marin Marais' work titled: La Sonnerie de
Sainte Geneviève du Mont de Paris. (See Ensemble Sonnerie
as well.)
- WWW :
- Contact information :
http://www.sonnerie.org.uk
- Home city/country : London, UK
- Members :
- Current members:
- Monica Huggett (violin)
- Emilia Benjamin (violin , viola, and viola
da gamba)
- Alison McGillivray (violoncello, viola da gamba)
- Joseph Crouch (violoncello)
- Matthew Halls (keyboard)
- Past members:
- Mitzi Meyerson (harpsichord) performed with Trio Sonnerie from 1982 to
1993.
- Sarah Cunningham (viola da gamba)
- William Carter
(theorbe, baroque guitar, lute)
- Gary Cooper (harpsichord)
- Discography :
- COUPERIN: Concerts Royeaux ASV Gaudeamus GAU 101
- LECLAIR: Sonatas ASV GAU 106
- BACH: Sonatas ASV GAU 107
- BUXTEHUDE: Trio Sonatas ASV GAU 110
- The Art of the Recorder ASV GAU 113
- WA Mozart: "Flute Quartets" with Claire Guimond, baroque flute -
Early-Music.com EMCCD 7754 (Recorded
in 2001.)
- Handel: "Trio Sonatas, Op. 2" - with Wilbert Hazelet, traverso - Avie
Records
AV0033 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003.)
- "The World's First Piano Concertos" - with David Owen Norris, square
pianos - Avie AV0014 (Recorded in 2002. Released in 2003.)
- JC Bach - Concerto in E flat Op.7 No.5 (1770)/ Concerto in
G Op.7 No.6 (1770)
- Carl Friedrich Abel - Concerto in B flat Op.11 No.2 (1774)
- JC Bach, arr. Mozart - Concerto in D K107 (1772) from
Sonata Op.5 No.3 (1766)
- Philip Hayes - Concerto in A major (1769)
- James Hook - Concerto in D, [Op.1] No.5 (1770)
- Heinrich Ignaz Franz Von Biber (1644-1704): The Mystery Sonatas for
violin (scordatura) and continuo -
- Vol.1, Sonatas 1-9 - Gaudeamus
CDGAU350 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2004.)
- Vol. 2, Sonatas 10-16 - Gaudeamus CDGAU351 (Released in 2005.)
- Handel: Organ Concerto, Opus 4 - with Matthew Halls, organ - Avie
Records AV2055 (Recorded in 2003. Released in 2005.)
- JS Bach: "Violin Concertos" - Monica Huggett, violin - Gaudeamus
CDGAU356 (Released in 2006.)
Les Sonneurs
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : 1989
- Description : To present Renaissance wind band music on period instruments in a
historical context, with and without vocalists. Les Sonneurs have performed
throughout much of Quebec and Ontario, appearing at a number of summer festivals, and have
also performed in parts of the eastern U.S. (they were invited to perform at the American
Musicological Society's 1995 convention in New York).
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- c/o Peter Christensen
1111 rue Emma
Longueuil, Quebec J4J 3A2
Canada
- Telephone : 514 679 3708
- E-mail : czpc@musica.mcgill.ca
- Home city/country : Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Members :
- Peter Christensen (sackbuts, recorders)
- Jean-Marc Gras (dulcian, recorders)
- Douglas Kirk (cornettos, recorders, shawm)
- Dominique Lortie (sackbuts)
- Dan Stillman (dulcian, sackbut, recorders, shawms)
- Discography: Les Sonneurs have recorded concerts for the CBC and Radio
Canada both alone and with groups like The Toronto Consort, The Purcell Consort, and The
Studio de Music Ancienne de Montréal.
Sonores Antiqui
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1967 -- by Olli Ruottinen
- Description : Perform music from the Middle Ages up through the 18th century.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Vantaa, Finland
- Members (all members are multi-instrumentalists) :
- Roy Asplund
- Kimmo Hakasalo
- Teppo Tuominen
- Arto Juusela
- Herman Rechberger
La Soranza
- Director : Arno Paduch
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : ?
- Members : ?
- Discography : Rosenmüller - Dixit Dominus (and other sacred works) - with
Trinity Baroque and Wiesbaden Boys Choir - Amati 9501
Sotto Voce
- Director : Franklin Lei
- Year ensemble formed :
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Berkley, California & Hong Kong
Sounds Baroque
Southern California Early Music Consort
- Director : Thomas Axworthy
- Year ensemble formed : 1970
- Description : Performances of live event early music, esp.
concerning dance music of the period.
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- SCEMC
c/o Thomas Axworthy
11057 Valley View Ave.
Whittier, CA 90604
USA
- Telephone : 562/946-4001
- FAX : 562/946-4081
- E-mail : scemc@earthlink.net
- Home city/country : Los Angeles, California, USA
- Members :
- Thomas Axworthy - soprano shawm, bass dulcian, recorders, etc.
- Stephanie Gudeman - alto shawm, recorders, etc.
- Ronald Glass - sackbut, recorders, etc.
- John Cather - sackbut, cornetto, trumpet, recorders
- David Bown - percussion
- John Magnussen - percussion
Southwest Baroque Players
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Spatium Harmoniae
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 2001 -- by Yamato Hasumi
- Description : Baroque trio
- WWW : http://www.spatium.de.ms
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Germany
- Members :
- Chiharu Abe (Baroque violin)
- Yamato Hasumi (lute)
- Sonja Kemnitzer (harpsichord, organ)
The Spirit of Gamba
- Director : none
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : The sole Finnish band performing with only viols.
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : Helsinki, Finland
The Spirit of Gambo
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1984
- Description : A viola da gamba consort playing renaissance and
baroque music. The Spirit of Gambois is the name the
English composer Tobias Hume gave to one of his works in his Musicall humors, a
publication of music for the viol (1605).
- WWW :
http://www.thespiritofgambo.nl/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Franklinstraat 27
2562 CA Den Haag
The Netherlands
- Telephone/FAX : +31 (0)70-3646994
- E-mail :
info@thespiritofgambo.nl
- Home city/country : The Hague, The Netherlands
- Members :
- Freek Borstlap (viol)
- Elin Soderstrom (viol)
- Ivanka Neeleman (viol)
- Geesje Liedmeier (viol)
- Jan Van Outryve (lute)
Spiritus Novus
- Director : Naoki Ueo (harpsichord)
- Leader : Penelope Spencer
- Year ensemble formed : 1995 -- by Penelope Spencer, Naoki Ueo, and a group of
graduates from the Early Music department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague
(Netherlands).
- Description : The ensemble was originally conceived with the principal goal of
researching and performing music from the 17th century South German School of violin
virtuoso/composers around J.H. Schmelzer and H.I.F. Biber, and also lesser-known composers
of the period such as the Dutch composer, C. Hacquart. Spiritus Novus (SN) has now
expanded its repertory to include 18th century music, and performs regularly in flexible
formations ranging from the trio (violin and harpsichord with viola da gamba) to a small
baroque orchestra including woodwinds. The bulk of SNs repertory and research however, is
still centered on the original theme of the 17th century German school of composers.
- WWW : http://www.spiritusnovus.com/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- Elandstraat 14,
2513GR
Den Haag (The Hague)
The Netherlands
- Telephone : ?
- FAX : ?
- E-mail : naopen@yahoo.co.jp
- Performance management : (for concert bookings)
- Nederlands Impresariaat: tel # 31 (0) 20 5730300 (Amsterdam, NL)
- Home city/country : The Hague, The Netherlands
- Members : SN's basic formation comprises two violins, viola, violoncello, and
harpsichord. However, SN has now built up a diverse repertory of music spanning the 17th
and 18th centuries, and performs regularly in flexible formations ranging from the trio
(violin and harpsichord with viola da gamba) to a small baroque orchestra including
woodwinds.
The Splendid Century
- Leaders : Nedra Eileen Bickham (transverse flute), Ruth McKay (harpsichord)
- Year ensemble formed : 1998
- Description : The ensemble's name was inspired by that period in France during
the reign of Louis XIV - "the Sun King" (1643-1715). The ensemble's focus
is on both splendid and rare chamber music of the 18th century, with special attention
given to the music of France, Germany, Austria, and Italy - up to the pre-classic
creations of C.P.E. Bach and his contemporaries.
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- 42 Electric Avenue #2
Somerville, MA 02144
USA
- Telephone : (617) 628-2647 (c/o Nedra Eileen Bickham)
- E-mail : nedbickham@aol.com or nebick@mit.edu
- Home city/country : Boston, Massachusetts
- Members :
- Nedra Eileen Bickham (transverse flute)
- Diana Brewer (baroque violin, viola)
- Anne Crawford (baroque violin)
- Harold Lieberman (baroque viola)
- Annika Pfluger (baroque 'cello)
- Paul Johnson (viola da gamba)
- Ruth McKay (harpsichord)
- Robert Asprinio (lute and theorbo)
Sprezzatura
- Directors : Evelyn Tubb
(soprano) and Michael Fields (lute)
- Year ensemble formed : ? -- by Evelyn Tubb and Michael Fields
- Description : the ensemble's name comes from an antique Italian term suggesting
spontaneity, expressiveness and an easy, unselfconscious display of virtuosity.
- WWW : http://www.landini.org/sprezzatura/
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : UK
- Members : ?
- Concert schedule : ?
Spuyten Duyvil
- Co-directors : Beverly Au & Webster Williams
- Year ensemble formed : 1992
- Description : Viola da gamba duo, frequently performing with guest artists. The
ensemble's name derives from Anglicized Dutch, meaning "in spite of the devil,"
-- a water passage between Manhattan and the Bronx.
- WWW : http://www.polyphony.com/spuyten/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : New York City, New York
- Members:
- Beverly Au (viola da gamba)
- Webster Williams (viola da gamba)
Squair Mile Consort of Viols
- Director : ?
- Year ensemble formed : 1992
- Description : Dedicated to the great music composed for the viola da gamba (viol)
from the 16th to the late 17th century.
- WWW : http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/presto/squairmile/
- Contact information :
- Home city/country : Edinburgh & Glasgow, Scotland
- Members :
- Vickie Hobson (treble and tenor viols)
- Rebecca Rowe (treble and tenor viols)
- Mark Summers and Ken Thomson (tenor and bass viols)
- Thomas Munck (alto and bass viols)
- John Fifer (bass viol)
- Rosie Sweetnam (soprano)
Stadler Trio
- Director: Eric Hoeprich
- Year ensemble formed : 1986
- Description : A bassett horn ensemble. Formed specially
to perform the numerous works by Mozart for three basset horns (low-pitched,
alto clarinets very popular in the late 18th century).
- WWW :
http://www.kempisoft.com/stadler/
- Contact information : ?
- Home city/country : ?
- Members :
- Eric Hoeprich (e-mail:
eric_jane@csi.com)
- Albert Gumí (has replaced Alf Hörberg)
- Carles Riera (e-mail:
criera@infosys.es)
(NOTE: Robert Sebesta has also performed with the ensemble)
- Discography :
- Mozart: "Basset Horn Bon-Bons" - Divertimento in F, KV 439b No.2;
Notturno, KV 346; Notturno, KV437; Notturno, KV 436; Adagio in B flat, KV
411; Notturno, KV 346; Notturno, KV 438; Notturno, KV 549; Adagio in F, KV
410
- Mozart: "Divertimenti" (nos. 1, 3, 5, and Harmoniemusik from "Le nozze di
Figaro") - Glossa GCD 920602
- "Mozart & Contemporaries" : works by WA Mozart, Salieri, Stadler,
Druschetzky, Soler, and Nudera - Glossa GCD 920603 (Recorded in 1998; Released in 1999)
Staffordshire Youth Recorder & Renaissance Ensemble
- Director : Terence Carter (pipe and tabor, bass viol and windcap
instruments)
- Year ensemble formed : ?
- Description : Young people from Staffordshire between the ages of
12 and 18. The groups mission is to introduce to young people the world of
early and renaissance music through learning to play the instruments of the
time and learning the dances of the period. Also to perform to as wide an
audience as possible in venues suited to the period of the music.
- WWW :
http://fp.tcarter.f9.co.uk/
- Contact information :
- Postal address :
- c/o Terence Carter (SYRRE)
Staffordshire Performing Arts, The Green
STAFFORD. ST17 4BJ
UNITED KINGDOM
- Telephone : 01785 278278
- E-mail : terrycarter@beeb.net
- Home city/country : Stafford, UK
La Stagione Armonica
- Director : Sergio Balestracci / Carlo Rebeschini
- Year ensemble formed : 1991
- WWW :
http://www.stagionearmonica.it/
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- Via E. Filiberto, 47
35100 Padova
ITALY
- Phone: 049-5855003
- Mobile: 348-3050471
- Fax: 049-9774028
- E-mail: info@stagionearmonica.it
- Home city/country : Italy
- Members :
- vocalists
- Sergio Balestracci (flauto dritto)
- Guido Balestracci (viola da gamba)
- Paola Frezzato (bassoon)
- Pietro Prosser (theorbe and chitarrone)
- Daniele Roi (harpsichord)
- Discography :
- Giovanni Bononcini (1670-1747): "Divertimenti da Camera" - Tactus 672702
(Recorded and released in 1999.)
- Reissued as part of "Cantate e Divertimenti da Camera" - Brilliant
Classics 93349 (2 CDs)
- "Music from the 1600's" : works by MONTEVERDI: Gloria; Litany of the Blessed
Virgin; CAVALLI: Alma Redemptoris; GRANDI; Speciosa; Hodie Nobis De Caelo; LEGRENZI:
Humili Voce; ROVETTA: Confitebor; Schola Marciana - RIVO ALTO 9819
- Claudio Monteverdi: "Salve Sancta Parens" (includes Messa a 4 da cappella;
Magnificat II a 6 voci) - Symphonía SY 00181 (Recorded in 2000. Released in 2001.)
- Tomás Luis De Victoria [1550-1611] - Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae (Rome, 1585) ("The Passion
of Our Lord") - Tactus TC 552901 (Recorded in 1999. Released in 2001.)
- Luigi Merci (ca 1695 - ca 1750): "Sei sonate per flauto - op. 1
(1718)" - Tactus TC 691302 (Released in 2002.)
- Victoria: Officium Defunctorum, 1603 - Symphonía SY 01190 (Released in
2003.)
- Mateo el Viejo Flecha (1481-1553): "Ensaladas"; Antonio de
Cabezón: Diferencias - CPO SACD 777
070-2 (Recorded in
2003. Released in 2005.)
- Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686-1768): "Notturni per i Defunti" -
with Monica Piccinini (soprano), Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Dolce &
Tempesta (ensemble), Stefano Demicheli (director) - Fuga Libera FUG 526 (Recorded
in 2006. Released in
2007.)
- Director : Michael Schneider (recorder)
- General Manager: Hajo Bäß
- Year ensemble formed : 1988 -- by Michael Schneider
- Description : Originated from the ensemble, Camerata
Köln. In addition to the well-known masterpieces, La Stagione Frankfurt
focuses on the rediscovery of hidden musical treasures. Following the artistic
motto "The unheard-of heard again", Michael Schneider informs his choice of
repertoire by in-depth research into the instrumental, operatic, and sacred
music of the Baroque and Classical periods.
- WWW : http://www.lastagione.de
- Contact information :
- Postal address:
- c/o Hajo Bäß
Huppichterother Str.27a
D-51588 Nümbrecht
GERMANY
- Tel. +49 2293 3911
- E-mail: la.stagione@web.de
- Home city/country : Frankfurt, Germany
- Discography