Classical Music for Dummies
Introduction
This article is a rewrite of Basic
Repertoire List for Building a Library of Classical Recordings with pointers
to short MP3's of the works mentionned so you can hear what they sound like
before ordering the CD if you like them.
Medieval (before 1450)
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- ALFONSO X "El Sabio" - Cantigas de Santa Maria
- CICONIA, Johannes - Motets, Virelais, Ballate and Madrigals
- GREGORIAN CHANT - Chants
- HILDEGARD von Bingen - Symphoniae (Responsoria,
Antiphons, Sequences)
- LANDINI, Francesco - Viralai, Madrigals and Ballata
- MACHAUT, Guillaume de - Notre-Dame Mass; Chansons
- PEROTIN - Sequences
- VITRY, Philippe de - Chansons and Motets
- WOLKENSTEIN, Oswald von - Ballads and Songs
Renaissance (1450-1600)
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- AGRICOLA, Alexander - Chansons; Sacred Choral Music
- ALLEGRI, Georgio - Miserere mei, Deus
- ARCADELT, Jacob - Madrigals
- BRUMEL, Antoine - Mass "Et ecce terra motus" (Earthquake Mass)
- BUSNOYS, Antoine - Sacred Choral Music (In hydraulis, etc.)
- BYRD, William - Consort Music (Fantasias, In Nomines, etc.);
Keyboard Music (Pavans and Galliards); Sacred
Choral Music (Mass in 4 Parts, etc.)
- CABEZON, Antonio de - Organ Music
- DES PREZ, Josquin - Masses (Pange Lingua,
Ave Maris Stella, etc.); Motets (Ave Maria gratia plena, etc.)
- DOWLAND, John - Ayres, Lute Music; Lachrimae for Viol Consort; Hymns,
Chansons
- DUFAY, Guillaume - Masses (Missa Se la face ay pale, etc.); Motets
(Alma redemptoris mater, etc)
- GABRIELI, Giovanni - Canzoni for Brass
Choirs
- GESUALDO, Don Carlo - Madrigals; Tenebrae Responsories
- GIBBONS, Orlando - Church Music (Anthems and Services); Fantasias for
Viol Consort
- GOMBERT, Nicholas - Sacred Choral Music
- ISAAC, Heinrich - Sacred Choral Music
- JANEQUIN, Clément - Chansons
- LA RUE, Pierre de - Requiem
- LASSUS, Orlandus - Madrigals; Motets;
Requiem
- MONTEVERDI, Claudio - Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda;
La Favola d' Orfeo (opera); L'Incoronazione di
Poppea (opera); Madrigals; Masses; Vespro della Beata
Vergine
- MORALES, Christobal de - Masses (Requiem, etc.)
- OCKEGHEM, Johannes - Requiem; Masses
(Missa Prolationum, etc.); Chansons
- PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da - Motets; Hodie Christus
natus est (Christmas Mass); Masses (Missa Papae Marcelli,
etc.)
- PEÑALOSA, Francisco de- Sacred Choral Music (Masses, Motets)
- PHILIPS, Peter - Motets; Keyboard Music
- PRAETORIUS, Micheal - Terpsichore
- SWEELINCK, Jan Pieterszoon - Keyboard Music
- TALLIS, Thomas - Sacred Choral Music
(Spem in alium, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Masses)
- TAVERNER, John - Festal Masses (Gloria Tibi Trinitas, O Michael,
Corona Spinea)
- TYE, Christopher - Sacred Choral Music; Consort Music
- VICTORIA, Tomás Luis de - Motets; Masses (O Magnum Mysterium, etc);
Requiem "Officium defunctorum"
- WEELKES, Thomas - Sacred Choral Music; Renaissance Music Collections
Baroque (1600-1750)
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- ABEL, Carl Friedrich - Symphonies Op. 7
- ALBINONI, Tomaso - Adagio in G minor; Concertos a cinque Op.
5; Concertos for Oboe Op. 7 and 9
- ARNE, Thomas Augustine - Keyboard Concertos; Symphonies
- BACH, Johann Sebastian - Art of the Fugue
BWV 1080; Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051; Cantatas (BWV 4, 78,
82, 140, 202); Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue for Harpsichord BWV 903; Concertos
for Harpsichord(s) (BWV 1052, 1056); Concertos
for Violin BWV 1041, 1042; Concerto in d for 2
Violins BWV 1043; Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for Organ BWV 542;
Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord BWV 988; Inventions
for Harpsichord BWV 772-801 3-Part Invention #1, BWV 787; Italian Concerto
for Harpsichord BWV 971; Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata BWV 147);
Magnificat BWV 243; Mass in B minor BWV 232; Musical
Offering BWV 1079; Organ Music (Choral Preludes, Toccatas and Fugues); Partitas
for Harpsichord BWV 825-830; Passacaglia and Fugue in
C minor for Organ BWV 582; St. Matthew Passion BWV 244; Sonatas and
Partitas for Violin BWV 1001-1006; Sonatas and Partita for Flute and Continuo
BWV 1030-1035, 1013; Suites for Cello BWV 1007-1012; Suites for Harpsichord
(English and French) BWV 806-817; Suites for Orchestra
BWV 1066-1069; Toccatas for Harpsichord BWV 910-916; Trio Sonatas
BWV 525-530 and 1036-1040; Toccata and Fugue in D minor
for Organ BWV 565; Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 846-893
- BIBER, Heinrich Ignaz - Battalia; Sonatas
"Rosary" for Violin and Continuo; Sonatas "Fidicinium
Sacro-Profanum"
- BOYCE, William - Symphonies Op. 2
- BUXTEHUDE, Dietrich - Organ Music (Chorales)
- CHARPENTIER, Marc-Antoine - Musique de theatre; Sacred Music (Masses,
motets, etc.)
- CORELLI, Arcangelo - Concerti Grossi Op. 6;
Sonatas Op. 5; Trio Sonatas Op. 1-4
- CORRETTE, Michel - Organ Concertos Op. 26
- COUPERIN, François - d'Apotheose de Corelli; d'Apotheose de Lully;
Concerts Royaux; Les Gouts-renuis ou Nouveaux;
Les Nations; Pièces de Clavecin (Nightingale in Love
work)
- DELALANDE, Michel Richard - Caprices (Symphonies for the King)
- D'ANGLEBERT, Jean-Henri - Pièces de Clavecin
- FASCH, Johann Friederich - Sonatas (Trio and Quadro)
- FISCHER, Johann Caspar - Pieces de clavessin
- FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo - Instrumental Canzoni; Harpsichord/Organ
Music (Toccatas, Variations)
- FROBERGER, Johann Jakob - Works for Harpsichord
- GAY and PEPUSCH - Beggar's Opera
- GEMINIANI, Francesco - Concerti Grossi Op. 3 and 7
- GOLDBERG, Johann Gottlieb - Concertos for Harpsichord
- GRIGNY, Nicolas de - Organ Music
- HANDEL, George Frideric - Acis and Galatea (oratorio); Arias;
Concerti Grossi Op. 3; Concerti Grossi Op. 6; Concertos
for Organ Op. 4 and 7; Concerto for Organ "Cuckoo and Nightingale";
Harmonious Blacksmith for Harpsichord; Messiah (oratorio);
Operas (Flavio, Tamerlano); Royal Fireworks Music ( I - II - III
- IV - V - VI); Solomon (oratorio); Sonatas for Flute or Recorder and Harpsichord;
Suites for Harpsichord; Susanna (oratorio); Trio Sonatas Op. 2 and 5; Water
Music
- HEBDEN, John - Concertos Op. 2a
- JENKINS, John - Consort Music (Fantasias, Ayres, Pavans, etc.)
- LAWES, William - Chamber Music (Consort Setts, Fantasia-Suites, etc.)
- LECLAIR, Jean Marie - Concertos for Violin; Sonatas for Flute or Violin
- LOCATELLI, Pietro - Concertos for Violin Op. 3 and 7; Sonatas for Flute
Op. 2; Sonatas for Violin Op. 6
- LOCKE, Matthew - Anthems; Chamber Music (Consorts)
- LOEILLET, Jean Baptiste - Sonatas for Recorder and Harpsichord
- LULLY, Jean Baptiste - Atys (opera)
- MANFREDINI, Francesco - Concerto Grosso Op. 3 #12 "Christmas"
- MARAIS, Marin - Suites and Pieces for Viola
da Gamba
- MARCELLO, Alessandro - Concerto for Oboe; Concertos "La Cetra"
- MUFFAT, Georg - Concerti Grossi; String Sonatas "Armonico Tributo";
Suites "Florilegium" I and II; Toccatas "Apparatus Musico-Organisticus"
- PACHELBEL, Johann - Canon and Gigue in D Major Canon in D; Hexachordum
Apollinis for Harpsichord or Organ; Organ Music (Choral
Preludes, Fantasias, etc.)
- PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista - Stabat Mater; La
Serva padrona
- PURCELL, Henry - Anthems; Dido and Aeneas
(opera); Fantasies; Trio Sonatas for Strings and
Continuo
- QUANTZ, Johann Joachim - Concertos for Flute
- RAMEAU, Jean Philippe - Ballet Music; Les Indes Galantes for
harpsichord; Pièces de Clavecin; Pièces de Clavecin
en Concerts; Zoroastre (Lyrique Tragedy)
- ROMAN, Johan Helmich - Sinfonias; The Drottningholm Music; The Golovin
Music
- SCARLATTI, Alessandro - Concerti Grossi
- SCARLATTI, Domenico - Sonatas for Harpsichord
Sonata
- SCHÜTZ, Heinrich - Sacred Works (Symphoniae Sacrae, Motets, etc.)
- SEIXAS, Jose Antonio - Sonatas for Harpsichord
- SOLER, Padre Antonio - Concertos for 2 Organs; Fandango; Sonatas
for Harpsichord
- STANLEY, John - Organ Concertos Op. 10; String Concertos Op. 2; Voluntaries
for Organ
- TARTINI, Giuseppe - Concertos for Violin; Sonata for Violin "Devil's
Trill"
- TELEMANN, Georg Philipp - Concertos (oboe, flute, violin, viola,
etc.); Essercizii musici; Fantasias for Oboe or Flute; Musique
de Table; Paris Quartets; Sonatas for Flute, Oboe and Continuo; Suite
in A minor for Flute and Strings; Sonatas for Recorder and Harpsichord;
Water Music Suites ("Hamburg Tides")
- TORELLI, Giuseppe - Concertos
- VIVALDI, Antonio - Four Seasons; Concertos
(for violin, bassoon, cello, oboe, flute, etc.); Gloria; Sonatas
for Flute or Oboe and Continuo Op. 13; Sonatas for Cello and Continuo Op.
14
- WASSENAER, Unico Wilhelm - Concertos Armonici
- WEISS, Sylvius Leopold - Lute Suites and Sonatas
- ZELENKA, Jan Dismas - Trio Sonatas
Classicism (1750-1820)
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- BACH, Carl Philipp Emanuel - Magnificat; Concerto for 2 Harpsichords
Wq. 46; Concertos for Cello Wq. 170-172; Concertos
for Flute Wq. 166-169; Concertos for Oboe Wq. 164 and 165; Hamburg Concertos
Wq. 43; Sonatas for Flute and Continuo; Sonatas for Keyboard;
Symphonies Wq. 174, 175, 178-183
- BACH, Johann Christian - Concertos for Keyboard Opp. 1, 6 and 7; Overtures;
Quintets for Flute, Oboe and Strings Op. 11; Symphonies Op. 3
- BACH, Wilhelm Friedemann - Concertos for Keyboard and Orchestra; Keyboard
Music (Sonatas, Polonaises, Fugues); Sinfonias
- BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van - Concertos for Piano
(1-3, 4, 5); Concerto for Violin Op. 61; Concerto
for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 56; Diabelli Variations for Piano
Op. 120; Eroica Variations for Piano Op. 35; Fidelio Op. 72 (opera); Missa
Solemnis Op. 123; Overtures (Leonore, Coriolan, Egmont. etc.); Quartets
#7-16 (8, 14); Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 16; Serenade and
Trios for Strings Op. 3, 8 and 9; Sextet for Winds Op. 71; Sonatas
for Piano (All, especially 8, 14, 21, 23,
29); Sonatas for Cello and Piano (1-5); Sonatas
for Violin and Piano (5, 9); Symphonies (1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9); Trios
for Piano and Strings (#7 "Archduke")
- BELLINI, Vincenzo - Norma (opera); I Puritani (opera); La Sonnambula
(opera)
- BOCCHERINI, Luigi - Concertos for Cello; Quintets
for Guitar and Strings (3, 4, 5, 6); Quintets
for Strings; Symphonies
- BOIELDIEU, François-Adrien - Concerto for Harp
- CIMAROSA, Domenico - Concerto for Oboe in C Major
- DANZI, Franz - Quintets for Winds
- DITTERSDORF, Karl Ditters von - Concerto for Contrabass; Symphonies
"Metamorphoses"
- FIELD, John - Concertos for Piano (7); Nocturnes
- GLUCK, Christoph Willibald - Iphigénie en Tauride (opera); Orfeo ed
Euridice (opera)
- HAYDN, Franz Joseph - Concertos in C and D for Cello Hob VIIb:1
and 2; Concertos for Horn Hob VIId:3 and 4; Concertos for Keyboard; Concerto
in E flat for Trumpet Hob VIIe:1; The Creation (oratorio); Mass #10
("Paukenmesse"); Mass #11 ("Nelson"); Quartets
Op. 71, 74, 76 and 77 (76/3 "Emperor");
The Seasons (oratorio); Sonatas (miscellaneous) for Piano; Symphonies
(6-8, 45, 88, 94, 100,
101, 103, 104); Trios
for Flute and Strings (various); Trios for Piano and Strings (various)
- HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk - Concertos for Piano; Septets for Piano, Winds
and Strings; Sonatas for Piano
- KROMMER, Franz - Wind Concertos; Wind Serenades
- MERCADANTE, Giuseppe - Concertos for Flute
- MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus - Arias (opera and concert arias) Queen
of the Night aria from The Magic Flute; Concerto for Clarinet K. 622; Concertos
for Flute, K.313 and 314; Concertos for Horn K.
412, 417, 447 and 495; Concertos for Piano (7-19, 20,
21, 23, 24, 25, 27); Concertos for Violin (#3-5); Cosí fan tutte
(opera); Divertimenti #1-3, K. 136-138 and #10, K. 247; Don
Giovanni (opera); Exsultate, Jubilate (motet); Idomeneo (opera);
La Clemenza di Tito (opera); Magic Flute (opera); Marriage
of Figaro (opera) Overture; Mass in C minor "The Great"; Opera
Overtures; Quartets for Flute and Strings; Quartet for Oboe and Strings
K. 370; Quartets for Strings (8-13,
14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23);
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings K. 581; Quintet
for Piano and Strings; Quintets for Strings (K.
515, 516, 593 and 614); Requiem K. 626 Confutatis; Serenade #6 "Serenata
notturna" K. 239; Serenade #7 "Haffner"
K. 250; Serenade #9 "Posthorn" K. 320; Serenades
#10 "Gran Partita", 11 and 12 for Winds; Serenade #13 "Eine
kleine Nachtmusik" K. 525 ( I - II - III - IV); Sinfonia
Concertante for Violin and Viola K. 364; Sonatas for Piano (8, 11,
13, 15); Sonatas for Violin (K. 296 and 454); Symphonies
(29, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41);
Trio for Strings K. 563; Trios for Piano and Strings
- ROSSINI, Gioacchino - Barber of Seville (opera) Overture; L'
Italiana in Algeri (opera); Overtures; Semiramide
(opera)
- SCHOBERT, Johann - Chamber Music
- STAMITZ, Carl - Octets for Winds; Quartet in E flat for Woodwinds Op.
8 #2
Romanticism (1810-1910)
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- ADAM, Adolphe-Charles - Giselle (ballet)
- ALBENIZ, Isaac - Ibéria for Piano; Rapsodia espanola Op. 70 for Piano
and Orchestra; Suite espanola Op. 47 for Piano
- ALKAN, Charles-Valentin - Piano Music (Preludes, Impromptus, Études,
Concerto, etc.)
- AUBER, Daniel-François - Overtures
- BERLIOZ, Hector - Damnation of Faust Op. 24; Harold in Italy
for Viola and Orchestra Op. 16; L'enfance du Christ Op. 25; Overtures (Rob
Roy, King Lear, La Corsaire, etc.); Requiem Op. 5; Symphonie
fantastique Op. 14; Les Troyens (opera)
- BERWALD, Franz - Chamber Music (Piano Trios, Piano Quintet); Symphonies
(1-4)
- BIZET, Georges - Carmen (opera); Suites:
L'Arlesienne and Carmen
- BOITO, Arrigo - Mefistofele (opera)
- BORODIN, Alexander - Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances; Quartets
(1, 2); Symphony #2
- BRAHMS, Johannes - Alto Rhapsody for Alto, Male Chorus and Orchestra
Op. 53; Academic Festival Overture Op. 80; Concertos
for Piano (1, 2); Concerto
for Violin Op. 77; Concerto for Violin and Cello Op. 102; Ein Deutsches
Requiem (German Requiem) Op. 45; Hungarian Dances for Piano or Orchestra;
Piano Music (Fantasias Cappricio Op 116 #3, Intermezzos, Ballades, Waltzes
Waltz Op. 39 #1, Rhapsodies, etc.); Quartets for Strings (1-3); Quartets
for Piano and Strings (1-3); Quintets for Strings; Quintet
for Clarinet and Strings Op. 115; Quintet for Piano and Strings Op.
34; Serenades for Orchestra (1,2); Sextets (1,2);
Sonatas for Cello and Piano; Sonatas for Viola or Clarinet Op. 120; Sonatas
for Violin and Piano; Symphonies (1, 2, 3,
4); Tragic Overture Op. 81; Trio for Clarinet and Strings Op. 114;
Trios for Piano and Strings (1, 2, 3); Trio for
Horn, Violin and Piano Op. 40; Variations on a Theme
by Haydn Op. 56a
- BRUCH, Max - Concerto for Violin #1 Op. 26;
"Kol Nidrei" for Cello and Orchestra Op. 47; Symphonies
(1-3)
- BRUCKNER, Anton - Quintet for Strings; Symphonies
(1-3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
- CARULLI, Ferdinando - Works for Flute and Guitar (Serenades, Duos, etc.)
- CHABRIER, Emmanuel - Espana
- CHARPENTIER, Gustave - Louise (opera)
- CHAUSSON, Ernest - Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet Op.
21; "Poeme" for Violin and Orchestra Op. 25; Symphony Op. 20
- CHOPIN, Frédéric - Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Op.
22; Concertos for Piano (1, 2); Krakowiak Op. 14; Piano
Music (Ballades, Études, Nocturnes , Preludes, Scherzi, etc.); Sonata
for Cello and Piano Op. 65; Sonatas for Piano (2, 3); Les Sylphides (Ballet
arranged by Douglas from Chopin’s Piano Music); Variations on "La ci
darem la mano" Op. 2
- CILEA, Francesco - Adriana Lecouvreur (opera)
- CRUSELL, Bernhard Henrik - Concertos for Clarinet; Quartets for Clarinet
and Strings
- DEBUSSY, Claude - Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)
for Piano; Études for Piano; Images for Piano;
Images for Orchestra (including Ibéria); La Mer (Symphonic
Sketches) for Orchestra; L'Isle joyeuse for Piano; Nocturnes for
Orchestra and Chorus; Pelléas et Mélisande (opera); Prélude
à l'après-midi d'un faune; Preludes for Piano; Quartet for Strings;
Sonata for Cello and Piano; Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp; Sonata for
Violin and Piano
- DELIBES, Léo - Coppelia (ballet suite); Lakme (opera); Sylvia (ballet
suite)
- DELIUS, Frederick - Brigg Fair (English Rhapsody); On Hearing the First
Cuckoo in Spring On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; Tone Poems
- DONIZETTI, Gaetano - Lucrezia Borgia (opera); Lucia di Lammermoor (opera);
La Fille du Regiment (opera); Don Pasquale (opera)
- DUKAS, Paul - Sorcerer's Apprentice
- DVORÁK, Antonín - Carnival Overture Op. 92; Concerto
for Cello Op. 104; Concerto for Piano Op. 33; Concerto for Violin
Op. 53; Quartets (10, 11, 12, 14);
Quartets for Piano and Strings; Quintets for Piano
and Strings; Rusalka (opera); Serenades for Orchestra; Slavonic Dances;
Symphonies (7, 8, 9
"New World"); Trios for Piano and Strings (1-3,
4)
- ELGAR, Edward - Concerto for Cello Op. 85;
Concerto for Violin Op. 61; Enigma Variations Op. 36; Pomp and Circumstance
Marches Op. 39; Symphonies (1, 2)
- ERKEL, Ferenc - Bank Ban (opera)
- FALLA, Manuel de - La Vide Breve (opera); El Amor brujo (ballet); Nights
in the Gardens of Spain for Piano and Orchestra; Three-Cornered Hat Dances
- FAURÉ, Gabriel - Chamber Music w/ Piano (Quartets
and Quintets); Pavane for Orchestra Op. 50; Pelléas et Mélisande
for Orchestra Op. 80; Piano Music (Barcarolles and Nocturnes); Requiem Op.
48; Songs
- FRANCK, César - Organ Music (Chorales); Quintet
for Piano and Strings; Sonata for Violin and Piano;
Symphonic Poems (Le Chasseur Maudit, Les Eolides, Psyche, etc.); Symphonic
Variations for Piano and Orchestra; Symphony in D minor
- GADE, Niels - Chamber Music (Quartets, Quintets, Octet, etc.); Symphonies
- GILBERT and SULLIVAN - Mikado; Pirates of Penzance
- GIORDANO, Umberto - Andrea Chenier (opera)
- GIULIANI, Mauro - Concertos for Guitar and Strings; Music for Flute
and Guitar
- GLAZUNOV, Alexander - Quartets (2, 4, 7); Quintet; Raymonda (ballet);
The Seasons (ballet); Symphonies (4, 5, 7)
- GLIÈRE, Reinhold - Symphonies (1, 2)
- GLINKA, Mikhail - A Life For The Tsar (opera); Russlan and Ludmilla
Overture
- GOUNOD, Charles - Faust (opera); Petite Symphonie for 9 Wind Instruments;
Roméo et Juliette (opera)
- GRANADOS, Enrique - Goyescas for Piano;
Spanish Dances for Piano
- GRIEG, Edvard - Concerto for Piano Op. 16;
Lyric Pieces for Piano; Peer Gynt Suites
- HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert - Hansel and Gretel (opera)
- D'INDY, Vincent - Symphony on a French Mountain Air
- LALO, Édouard - Concerto in D minor for Cello; Symphony in G minor;
Symphonie españole for Violin and Orchestra
- LEHÁR, Franz - Merry Widow (opera)
- LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero - Pagliacci (opera)
- LISZT, Franz - Annees de Pelerinage for Piano; Concertos
for Piano (1, 2); Hungarian Rhapsodies; Les Préludes
for Orchestra; Mephisto Waltz for Piano; Paganini Études for Piano;
Sonata in B Minor for Piano; Totentanz for Piano
and Orchestra; Transcendental Études for Piano
- MacDOWELL, Edward - Concertos for Piano
- MASCAGNI, Pietro - Cavalleria Rusticana (opera)
- MASSENET, Jules - Le Cid (ballet suite); Operas (Manon, Esclarmonde,
Werther)
- MENDELSSOHN, Felix - Andante and Rondo Capriccioso
for Piano; Concertos for Piano; Concerto for Violin
Op. 64; Elijah (oratorio); Midsummer Night's Dream
(incidental music); Octet for Strings Op. 20; Quartets for Strings;
Quintet for Strings #2 Op. 87; Sonatas for Organ (1, 6); Songs Without Words
for Piano Op. 30 #4; Symphonies (3, 4,
5); Trios for Piano, Violin and Cello
- MEYERBEER, Giacomo - L'Africaine (opera); Les Huguenots (opera); Les
Patineurs (ballet); Les Prophète (opera)
- MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz - Piano Music (Etincelles, Virtuoso Études, etc.)
- MUSSORGSKY, Modest - Operas (Boris Godounov, Chovantsjina); Night
on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition
- OFFENBACH, Jacques - Gaîté Parisienne; Les
Contes d' Hoffmann (opera); Orpheus in Hades Overture
- PAGANINI, Niccolò - Caprices Op. 1 (24); Concerto for Violin #1 Op.
6; Quartets for Guitar and Strings
- PAINE, John Knowles - Chamber and Piano Music; Symphonies (1, 2)
- PONCHIELLI, Amilcare - Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
- PUCCINI, Giacomo - La Boheme (opera); La
Fanciulla del West (opera); Madame Butterfly (opera);
Manon Lescaut (opera); La Rondine (opera); Tosca (opera);
Turandot (opera)
- RACHMANINOV, Sergei - Concertos for Piano
(1, 2, 3, 4); Études
and Preludes for Piano; Morceaux de Fantasie (Op. 3/2); Rhapsody
on a Theme of Paganini; Sonatas for Piano; Suites for Piano Four
Hands; Symphonic Dances; Symphony #2; Trios for Piano and Strings
- RAVEL, Maurice - Alborada del gracioso for Orchestra; Boléro
for Orchestra; Chansons Medacasses for Soprano and Orchestra; Concerto in
D for Piano (Left Hand); Concerto in G for Piano; Daphnis
et Chloé (ballet); Ma Mere l'Oye (ballet); Piano
Music (Miroirs, Gaspard de la nuit, Le Tombeau de Couperin, etc.);
Pavane pour une infante defunte; Quartet for Stringa;
Rhapsodie españole for Orchestra; Tzigane for
Violin and Orchestra; La Valse for Orchestra; Valses nobles et sentimentales
- REGER, Max - Organ Music; Chamber Music (Violin
Sonatas); Orchestral Music (Concertos Variations);
Piano Music
- REICHA, Anton - Wind Quintets
- RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai - Capriccio españole
for Orchestra; Coq d'Or (ballet suite); Russian Easter Overture;
Schéhérazade (symphonic suite); Symphony #2 "Antar";
Tsar Sultan (ballet suite) Flight of the Bumblebee
- ROUSSEL, Albert - Bacchus et Ariane, Suite 2; Symphony #3
- SAINT-SAËNS, Camille - Carnival of the Animals;
Concertos for Cello; Concertos #2 and 5 for Piano; Danse macabre
for Orchestra; Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for
Violin and Orchestra; Samson et Dalila (opera); Symphony
#3 "Organ"
- SARASATE, Pablo de - Zigeunerweisen for Violin and Orchestra
- SCHUBERT, Franz - Impromptus for Piano
D. 899 and D. 935; Moments musicaux for Piano D. 780; Octet D. 803; Quartets
#12, 13 and #14 "Death and the Maiden"; Quintet for Strings D.
956; Quintet in A "Trout" D. 667; Rosamunde: Incidental
Music D. 797; Sonatas for Piano (D. 664,
959, 960); Sonata "Arpeggione" D. 821; Songs
(Die Schone Mullerin, D. 795 and Schwanengesang, D. 957); Symphonies
(2, 4, 5, 8, 9); Trios for Piano and Strings
D. 898 and 929; Wanderer Fantasie for Piano D. 760
- SCHUMANN, Robert - Carnaval for Piano Op.
9; Concerto for Cello Op. 129; Concerto for Piano
Op. 54; Dichterliebe Op. 48 (song cycle); Kinderscenen
for Piano Op. 15; Kreisleriana for Piano Op. 16; Quartet for Piano
and Strings Op. 47; Quintet for Piano and Strings Op.
44; Songs (Dichterliebe Op. 48 and Liederkreis Opp. 24 and 39); Symphonic
Études for Piano Op. 13; Symphonies (1, 2, 3,
4); Trios for Piano and Strings
- SMETANA, Bedrich - Ma Vlast (A cycle of 6
symphonic poems including "The Moldau"); Bartered Bride:
Overture and Dances; Quartets (1, 2)
- SOR, Fernando - Music for Guitar
- SPOHR, Louis - Concertos for Clarinet; Concertos for Violin; Quartets
and "Double" Quartets for Strings
- STRAUSS, Johann Sr. - Radetzsky March
- STRAUSS, Johann II - Die Fledermaus (opera); Waltzes
- SUPPÉ, Franz von - Overtures
- TCHAIKOVSKY, Peter Ilyitch - Capriccio italien for Orchestra
Op. 45; Concerto #1 for Piano Op. 23; Concerto for Violin
Op. 35; Eugen Onegin (opera); Manfred Symphony Op. 58; Marche slave
for Orchestra Op. 31; Nutcracker Op. 71 (ballet suite);
Overture 1812 Op. 49 1812 Overture; Quartets for Strings; Roméo and Juliet
Fantasy Overture Love Theme; Serenade for Strings Op. 48; Sleeping Beauty
Op. 66 (ballet) Sleeping Beauty; Swan Lake Op. 20 (ballet);
Symphonies (2, 4, 5, 6);
Trio for Piano and Strings Op. 50; Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello
and Orchestra Op. 33
- THOMAS, Ambroise - Mignon: Overture
- VERDI, Giuseppe - Aïda (opera); Falstaff
(opera); Macbeth (opera); Otello (opera); Requiem Mass; Rigoletto
(opera); La Traviata (opera); Il Trovatore (opera)
- WAGNER, Richard - Der fliegende Hollander (opera); Gotterdammerung
(opera):; Rhine Journey and Funeral Music; Lohengrin (opera); Die Meistersinger
(opera); Parsifal (opera): Prelude and Good Friday Music;
Der Ring des Nibelungen (4 opera cycle: Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried
and Gotterdammerung); Siegfried Idyll; Tannhäuser (opera): Overture and
Venusberg Music; Tristan und Isolde (opera): Prelude and Liebestod
- WEBER, Carl Maria von - Concertos and Concertino for Clarinet;
Concertos for Piano; "Grand Duo Concertant" for Clarinet and Piano;
Invitation to the Dance; Overtures; Piano Music;
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
- WOLF, Hugo - Songs (Lied)
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- BARBER, Samuel - Adagio for Strings Op. 11/2; Concerto for Piano Op.
38; Concerto for Violin Op. 14; Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (song cycle);
Sonata for Piano Op. 26; Symphonies (#1 Op. 9 and #2 Op. 19)
- BARTÓK, Béla - Concerto for Orchestra; Concertos for Piano (3); Concertos
for Violin; Dance Suite for Orchestra; Miraculous Mandarin; Music for Strings,
Percussion and Celesta; Piano Music; Quartets (3, * 4, 5); Sonata for Solo
Violin
- BAX, Arnold - Symphonic Poems; Symphonies
- BERG, Alban - Concerto for Violin; Lyric Suite for String Quartet; Wozzeck
(opera)
- BERNSTEIN, Leonard - Chichester Psalms; Mass; West Side Story (ballet
music)
- BLOCH, Ernest - Schelomo
- BRIAN, Havergal - Symphonies
- BRITTEN, Benjamin - Peter Grimes Op. 33 (opera); Serenade for Tenor,
Horn and Strings Op. 31; Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20; War Requiem Op. 66;
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34
- BUSONI, Ferruccio - Concerto for Piano Op. 39; Piano Music (Fantasia
contrappuntistica, etc.)
- COPLAND, Aaron - Appalachian Spring (suite or complete ballet); Concerto
for Piano; Fanfare for the Common Man; Rodeo (Dance episodes or complete
ballet); El Salon Mexico; Symphony #3
- DAVIES, Peter Maxwell - Strathclyde Concertos
- DURUFLÉ, Maurice - Requiem
- ENESCO, Georges - Oedipe (opera); Roumanian Poem; Roumanian Rhapsodies;
Sonatas for Violin and Piano
- GERSHWIN, George - American in Paris; Porgy and Bess (opera - selections);
Rhapsody in Blue
- GINASTERA, Alberto - Concerto for Piano #1
- GÓRECKI, Henryk - Symphony #3
- HANSON, Howard - Symphonies (1, 2, 3)
- HARRIS, Roy - Symphonies #3 and 5
- HINDEMITH, Paul - Mathis der Maler (symphony); Symphonic Metamorphosis
of Themes by Weber
- HOLST, Gustav - The Planets (suite)
- HONEGGER, Arthur - Pacific 231; Symphonies #3-5
- IBERT, Jacques - Divertissement
- IVES, Charles - Piano Sonatas (#2 "Concord"); Three Places
In New England; Symphonies (1-3)
- Janácek, Leos - Cunning Little Vixen (opera); Glagolitic Mass (Slavonic
Mass); Jenufa (opera); Piano Music; Quartets (1, 2); Sinfonietta; Taras
Bulba
- KHACHATURIAN, Aram - Concerto for Piano; Concerto for Violin; Gayne
(ballet)
- KODÁLY, Zoltán - Hary Janos: Suite; Peacock Variations; Sonata for solo
cello
- MAHLER, Gustav - Kindertotenlieder; Das Lied von der Erde; Symphonies
(1, 2-8, * 9)
- MARTIN, Frank - Concertos; Mass for Double Chorus
- MARTINU, Bohuslav - Concertos (String Quartet, Cello, Violin, Piano,
etc.); Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani; Frescos
of Piero della Francesca; Symphonies
- MENOTTI, Gian Carlo - Amahl and the Night Visitors
- MESSIAEN, Olivier - Organ Music (La Nativité); Quatuor pour la fin du
temps; Turangalîla-Symphony; Vingt Regards for Piano
- MILHAUD, Darius - La Creation du Monde
- MOMPOU, Federico - Cancions y Danzas for Piano (1-6)
- NIELSEN, Carl - Clarinet Concerto Op. 57; Symphonies (1-5)
- ORFF, Carl - Carmina Burana (scenic cantata)
- PISTON, Walter - Incredible Flautist (ballet suite); Symphony #2
- POULENC, Francis - Chamber Music; Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani;
Piano Music; Songs
- PROKOFIEFF, Sergei - Classical Symphony; Concerto #3 for Piano; Concertos
for Violin (1, 2); Lieutenant Kije Suite; Peter and the Wolf; Roméo and
Juliet (excerpts); Sonatas for Piano (2, * 6, * 7, * 8); Symphony #5
- RESPIGHI, Ottorino - Ancient Airs and Dances; Gli Ucelli (The Birds);
Brazilian Impressions; Feste Romane; Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome
- RODRIGO, Joaquín - Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra
- RUBBRA, Edmund - Symphonies
- SATIE, Erik - Piano Music
- SCHMIDT, Franz - Symphony #2
- SCHOENBERG, Arnold - Chamber Symphony No. 1; Five Pieces for Orchestra;
Piano Music; Pierrot Lunaire; String Quartets; Verklärte Nacht
- SCHULLER, Gunther - Chamber Music
- SCHUMAN, William - A Song of Orpheus; Symphonies (3-5, 7, 10)
- SCRIABIN, Alexander - Piano Music (Études, Preludes, Sonatas (5))
- SESSIONS, Roger - Black Maskers Suite; Concerto for Orchestra; Symphonies
- SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri - Concertos for Violin, Cello or Piano; Preludes
and Fugues for Piano Op. 87; String Quartets (8); Symphonies (1, 4, * 5,
6, * 7, 8, * 10, 11, 12, 14)
- SIBELIUS, Jean - Concerto for Violin Op. 47; Finlandia Op. 26; Four
Legends From The Kalevala Op. 22 (including the Swan of Tounela); Symphonies
(1, * 2, 3, 4, * 5, 6, 7)
- SIMPSON, Robert - String Quartets; Symphonies (6, 7, 9)
- STRAUSS, Richard - Alpine Symphony Op. 64; Also Sprach Zarathustra Op.
30 (Symphonic Poem) Also Sprach Zarathustra - beginning; Concertos (Horn,
Oboe); Don Juan Op. 20(Symphonic Poem); Ein Heldenleben Op. 40 (Symphonic
Poem); Electra (opera); Four Last Songs for Soprano and Orchestra; Metamorphosen
(Symphonic Poem); Rosenkavalier (opera); Salome (opera); Till Eulenspiegel
Op. 28 (Symphonic Poem)
- STRAVINSKY, Igor - Apollo (ballet); Concerto "Dumbarton Oaks";
Firebird (ballet suite); l'Histoire du soldat: Suite; Pétrouchka (ballet);
Sacre du printemps; Symphony in C; Symphony of Psalms
- SZYMANOWSKI, Karol - Concertos for Violin (#1); String Quartets
- THOMPSON, Randall - Alleluia
- THOMSON, Virgil - Plow That Broke The Plains (suite)
- TIPPETT, Michael - Child of our Time (oratorio)
- TOURNEMIRE, Charles - Organ Music
- TUBIN, Eduard - Symphonies
- TURINA, Joaquín - Piano Music
- VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph - Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis; Fantasia on
Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending for Violin and Orchestra; Symphonies (3,
4, 5, 6)
- VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor - Bachianas Brasileiras (#4, 5); Chôros; Guitar
Concerto; String Quartets
- WALTON, William - Concertos (for Violin, Viola, Cello); Facade; Belshazzar's
Feast; Symphony No. 1
- WEILL, Kurt - Three Penny Opera
- ZWILICH, Ellen Taaffe - Concerto Grosso
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