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S: (69 notes)
Kaija Saariaho: L’amour de loin – opera
Kaija Saariaho: Orion
Camille Saint-Saëns: (many listings – see below)
Carlos Salzedo: Scintillation
Pablo de Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, op. 25
Pablo de Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza, op. 22
Pablo de Sarasate: Navarra, op. 33
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, op. 20 (Gypsy Airs)
Erik Satie: Jack in the Box (orchestration by Darius Milhaud)
Erik Satie: Trois Gymnopedies
Domenico Scarlatti: keyboard sonatas
Peter Schickele: A Little Welcome Music
Johann Christian Schickhardt: Concerto in c minor for four treble recorders, op. 19, no. 6
Lalo Schifrin: Tangos Concertantes
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonata a 7, "Battaglia"
Franz Schmidt: Notre Dame – opera
Arnold Schoenberg: (many listings – see below)
Claude-Michel Schönberg: Les Misérables – medley by Robert Lowden
Franz Schubert: (many listings – see separate page)
Erwin Schulhoff: Double Concerto for flute and piano, op. 63
Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
William Schuman: Violin Concerto
William Schuman: New England Triptych
Clara Wieck Schumann: Piano Concerto, op. 7
Clara Wieck Schumann: Four Fugitive Pieces, op. 15
Clara Wieck Schumann: Three Romances, op. 22
Clara Wieck Schumann: Piano Trio in g, op. 17
Clara Wieck Schumann: Var. on a Theme of Robert Schumann, op. 20
Robert Schumann: (many listings – see separate page)
Joseph Schwantner: Chasing Light…
Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World, “Daybreak of Freedom”
Alexander Scriabin: Six Etudes
Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata no. 4 in F-sharp, op. 30
Mátyás Seiber: Four French Folk Songs
Raminta Šerkšnyte: De Profundis
Artie Shaw: Clarinet Concerto
Rodion Shchedrin: Concerto for Orchestra no. 1, “Naughty Limericks”
Howard Shore: The Lord of the Rings – film music
Dmitri Shostakovich: (many listings – see separate page)
Jean Sibelius: (many listings – see separate page)
Alan Silvestri: selections from The Polar Express
Roger Smalley: Footwork
Bedrich Smetana: The Bartered Bride – opera
Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast (My Fatherland)
Bedrich Smetana: String Quartet no. 1 in e, "From My Life"
Bedrich Smetana: Piano Trio in g minor, op. 15
Lille Bror Söderlundh: Concertino for oboe and strings
Antonio Soler: harpsichord sonatas
Stephen Sondheim: A Little Night Music – musical theater
Stephen Sondheim: Sweeney Todd – musical theater
Fernando Sor: guitar pieces
John Philip Sousa: marches
spirituals: general notes
Louis Spohr: Clarinet Concerto no. 2 in E-flat, op. 57
Louis Spohr: Fantasie in c minor for solo harp, op. 35
Louis Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31
Karl Stamitz: Quartet in D major, op. 8, no. 1
Karl Stamitz: clarinet concerti
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: The Blue Bird, op. 119, no. 3
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Clarinet Concerto, op. 80
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: church music
William Grant Still: Afro-American Symphony
William Grant Still: In Darker America
Robert Stolz: Two Hearts in 3/4 Time – concert waltz
Johann Strauss Jr.: (many listings – see below)
Johann Strauss Sr.: Radetzky March, op. 228
Richard Strauss: (many listings – see separate page)
Igor Stravinsky: (many listings – see separate page)
Barbara Strozzi: “Vecchio amante,” op. 1, no. 20 – madrigal
Steven Stucky: DreamWaltzes
Josef Suk: Meditation on Old Bohemian Chorale “St. Venceslas”, op. 35a
Josef Suk: Serenade for Strings in E-flat, op. 6
Josef Suk: Piano Trio in c minor, op. 2
Dia Succari: La nuit du Destin (The Night of Destiny)
Sir Arthur Sullivan: (many listings – see below)
Mike Svoboda: Love Hurts – Carmen Remix
Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto no. 2
Karol Szymanowski: Masques, op. 34
Karol Szymanowski: String Quartet no. 1, op. 37
Karol Szymanowski: String Quartet no. 2, op. 56
Camille Saint-Saëns: (31 notes)
Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, op. 79
Carnival of the Animals
Cello Concerto no. 1 in a, op. 33
Piano Concerto no. 1 in D, op. 17
Piano Concerto no. 2 in g, op. 22
Piano Concerto no. 3 in E-flat, op. 29
Piano Concerto no. 4 in c minor, op. 44
Piano Concerto no. 5 in F, op. 103
Violin Concerto no. 1 in A, op. 20
Violin Concerto no. 2 in C, op. 58
Violin Concerto no. 3 in b, op. 61
Danse macabre, op. 40
Havanaise, op. 83
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28
Morceau de concert, op. 94 – for horn and orchestra
La Muse et le Poète, op. 132
Phaëton, op. 39
Romance in D-flat, op. 37, for flute and orchestra
Le Rouet d’Omphale, op. 31 (Omphale’s Spinning Wheel)
Samson et Dalila – Bacchanale
Samson et Dalila – opera
Septet in E-flat, op. 65
Bassoon Sonata in G, op. 168
Clarinet Sonata in E-flat, op. 167
Oboe Sonata in D, op. 166
Three sonatas for woodwinds and piano, op. 166-168
Violin Sonata no. 1 in d minor, op. 75
Suite Algérienne, op. 60
Symphony no. 2 in a minor, op. 55
Symphony no. 3 in c minor, op. 78, “Organ”
Variations on a Theme of Beethoven, op. 35
Arnold Schoenberg: (10 notes)
Cello Concerto in D (after Monn)
Chamber Symphony no. 1, op. 9
Friede auf Erden, op. 13 (Peace on Earth)
Gurrelieder
Pelleas und Melisande, op. 5
Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 16
Pierrot lunaire, op. 21
String Quartet no. 1 in d, op. 7
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
Weihnachtsmusik (Christmas Music)
Johann Strauss: (9 notes)
Emperor Waltz
Die Fledermaus – operetta
The Gypsy Baron – operetta
On the Beautiful Blue Danube
Roses from the South Waltz
Tales of the Vienna Woods Waltz
Thunder and Lightning Polka
Voices of Spring Waltz
Wine, Women, and Song Waltz
Sir Arthur Sullivan: (6 notes)
Cello Concerto in D
HMS Pinafore – operetta
The Merchant of Venice – incidental music
The Mikado – operetta
The Pirates of Penzance – operetta
Shakespearean incidental music
Franz von Suppe: (6 notes)
Beautiful Galathea Overture
Boccaccio Overture
Light Cavalry Overture
Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna overture
Pique Dame overture
Poet and Peasant Overture
T: (39 notes)
Germaine Tailleferre: Concertino for harp and orchestra
Germaine Tailleferre: String Quartet
Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Trio
Toru Takemitsu: String Quartet no. 1: A Way A Lone
Toru Takemitsu: Requiem for Strings
Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea
Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium
Aino Tamberg: Trumpet Concerto no. 1, op. 42
Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Concerto
Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – film music
Tan Dun: The First Emperor – opera
Tan Dun: Out of Peking Opera
Sergei Taneyev: Piano Quintet in g minor, op. 30
Francisco Tárrega: Capricho Arabe
Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Giuseppe Tartini: Trumpet Concerto in D
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Sonata in g, “Devil’s Trill”
John Tavener: Song for Athene
John Tavener: Wake Up and Die
Peter Tchaikovsky: (many listings – see separate page)
Nikolai Tcherepnin: Six Pieces for Horn Quartet
Pavel Tschesnokoff: Salvation is Created
Georg Phillip Telemann: (many listings – see below)
Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet – opera
Ambroise Thomas: Mignon – opera
Ambroise Thomas: Raymond Overture
Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Randall Thompson: Frostiana
Randall Thompson: The Testament of Freedom
Ludwig Thuille: Piano and Wind Sextet in B-flat, op. 6
Stevan Tickmayer: After Gould – Goldberg Variations with Schoenberg in the Background
Michael Tippett: Variations on Sellinger’s Round
Henri Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto
Federico Moreno Tórroba: Concierto Ibérico
Federico Moreno Tórroba: Suite Castellana
Paolo Tosti: art songs
Joan Tower: Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman
Joan Tower: Island Prelude
Joan Tower: Sequoia
Joaquin Turina: (many listings – see below)
Jeff Tyzik: Ellington Portrait
Georg Philipp Telemann: (11 notes)
Flute and Bassoon Concerto in F major
Viola Concerto in G major
Horn Concerto in D major
Two-Horn Concerto in E-flat, from Tafelmusik, Part II
Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A
Don Quixote Suite
Suite in F, "Alster Echo"
Overture in B-flat, from Tafelmusik, "Il delirio fantastic"
Overture in C, “Hamburger Ebb und Fluth” (Hamburg Ebb and Flow – Water Music)
Paris Quartets
Tafelmusik
Michael Torke: (5 notes)
Bright Blue Music
December
Ecstatic Orange
Javelin
Tahiti
