Donato Semeraro

The Messa di Gloria (Mass of Glory) is among the most beautiful works that the not yet thirty-year-old Rossini composed in the fruitful period in which he worked in Naples (the years of 'La donna del...

For Symphonic Band.

Cesare Andrea Bixio composed Mamma, one of the most well-known Italian classic songs, for lyrics by Bruno Cherubini. The song owes its fame in part to the typical Italian melody, but even more to the...

Agustín Lara (Tlacotalpan 1900 - Città del Messico 1970), compositore di origine messicana, fu anche interprete di canzoni e bolero, considerato tra i più popolari del suo tempo....

Dedicada al trompetista Nilo Caracristi por su 50 cumpleaños, está estructurada en dos movimientos: la Balada, lenta y romántica, y la Salsa, alegre y rítmica, con influencias sudamericanas y caribeña...

Questa celebre aria del noto compositore rinascimentale Giulio Caccini (1550-1618), uno degli iniziatori del melodramma, è qui proposta arrangiata per voce (soprano o tenore) e banda o, in alte...

Coppélia, a ballet in two acts and three scenes, was premiered at the Opéra National in Paris on 25 May 1870. Despite its early success, performances were interrupted because of the Franco-Prussian Wa...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) was a close friend of Heinrich Joseph Baermann. Baermann was undisputedly the best clarinettist of his day and performed concerts throughout Europe together wit...

The Russian Easter Overture is a symphonic overture by the renowned Russian teacher and composer Nicolaj Rimskij-Korsakov (1844-1908), especially well-known for his skills in orchestration. Composed b...

Anima Mediterranea (Mediterranean Soul) is a composition by Donato Semeraro for clarinet in G (also called Turkish clarinet) and wind band. As an alternative to the clarinet in G, the solo part can be...

In the wide-ranging repertoire of medieval music, we often witness a musical development known as contrafactum, whereby sacred texts are adapted to profane melodies. This is the case of Fulget Dies, i...

This piece sees the author leafing through the pages of memories and employing music as the vehicle to describe some of those moments. In particular, he tells of his adolescence, with its alternating...

The importance of the muses in ancient mythology was paramount: they represented the supreme ideal of the arts, of which they were the protectors. Terpischori was one of the nine muses and she guarded...

The composition recalls the sense of adventure and excitement travelling by stream train: the loudspeaker announcing the departure from the station; the laboured struggle of the engine to gradually pi...

This piece sees the author leafing through the pages of memories and employing music as the vehicle to describe some of those moments. In particular, he tells of his adolescence, with its alternating...

Among the many songs composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Mattinata (Morning Serenade) is undoubtedly the most famous. Written in 1904 for the amazing voice of the Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso, it is on...