Online Extra: Best Classical Music

Here is a list of some classical essentials, as recommended by Tami VanDusen with the TaVaci School of Performing Arts.

ADDINSELL

Warsaw Concerto

BACH, J.S.

Violin Concerto #1 A Minor

Violin Concerto #2 E

Double Violin Concerto

Brandenburg Concertos

Organ – Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Orchestral Suite No 2, 3

Mass in B Minor

St. Matthew Passion

BARBER

Adagio for Strings

School for Scandal Overture

BARTOK

Concerto for Orchestra

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

BEETHOVEN

Symphony #3 (Eroica)

Symphony #5

Symphony #6 (Pastoral)

Symphony #7

Symphony #9

Piano Concerto #4

Piano Concerto #5 (Emperor)

Violin Concerto in D

Piano Sonata #8 (Pathetique)

Piano Sonata #14 (Moonlight)

Piano Sonata #23 (Appassionata)

Piano Sonata #29 (Hammerklavier)

Fur Elise

BERLIOZ

Symphonie Fantastique

Romeo and Juliet

Damnation of Faust

Roman Carnival Overture

Song Cycle: Les nuits d’ete

Les Troyens: Royal Hunt and Storm

BIZET

Symphony #1 in C

L’Arlesienne Suites #1, #2

Carmen Suite #1, #2

BORODIN

Symphony #2 in B Minor

In the Steppes of Central Asia

Polovtsian Dance (from Prince Igor)

BRAHMS

Symphony #1 in C Minor

Symphony #2 in D

Symphony #3 in F

Symphony #4 in E Minor

Piano Concerto #1 in D Minor

Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat

Violin Concerto in D

Violin & Cello Concerto in A Minor

Academic Festival Overture

Tragic Overture

Hungarian Dances #1-21

Variations on a Theme by Haydn

German Requiem (Klemperer)

BRITTEN

Young Persons’ Guide to the Orchestra

BRUCH

Violin Concerto #1

Violin Concerto #2

BRUCKNER

Symphony #4 in E-flat

Symphony #7 in E

Symphony #8 in C Minor

Symphony #9 in D Minor

CHABRIER

Espana

CHOPIN

Piano Concerto #1 in E-minor

Piano Concerto #2 in F Minor

Ballade #1 in G minor

Sonata #2in B-flat Minor for Piano

Andante Spiniato & Grand Ponolaise

Fantaisie in F Minor for Piano

Polonaises: Op 40 No 1 (Military)

Op. 53 in A-flat (Heroic)

Etudes, Op 10, Op 25

Nocturnes: Op 9, Op 37

Waltzes: Op. 64

COPLAND

Fanfare for the Common Man

Rodeo

Appalachian Spring

DEBUSSEY

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

La Mer

Danse

Nocturnes I, II, III

Clair de lune

DEFALLA

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Three Cornered Hat Ballet

DELIBES

Coppelia Ballet Music

Sylvia Ballet Music

Lakme (famous duet)

DVORAK

Symphony #7

Symphony #8

Symphony #9 (New World)

Violin Concerto in A Minor

Carnival Overture

Slavonic Dances

Humoresque

Romance for Violin and Orchestra

Cello Concerto in B Minor

String Serenade in E Major

ELGAR

Enigma Variations

Pomp & Circumstance Marches

FRANCK

Symphony in D Minor

Symphonic Variations for Piano & Orchestra

GERSHWIN

Rhapsody in Blue

American in Paris

Porgy & Bess

GORECKI

Symphony #3 (Sorrowful Songs)

GRIEG

Piano Concerto in A Minor

Peer Gynt Sutes #1 & #2

Holberg Suite

Lyric Pieces

Ich liebe Dich (vocal)

GLINKA

Russian & Ludmilla Overture

GLUCK

Dance of the Blessed Spirits

GROFE:

Grand Canyon Suite

HANDEL

Water Music

Royal Fireworks Music

Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 (No 6-7)

The Messiah

HAYDN

Symphony #94 in G (Surprise)

Symphony #100 in G (Military)

Symphony #101 in D (Clock)

Symphony #103 in E-flat (Drum Roll)

Symphony #104 in D (London)

Oratorio: The Creation

String Quartet Op. 76 #4 (Sunrise)

Concerto in E-flat Trumpet & Orchestra

HOLST

The Planets Suite

JANACEK

Sinfonietta

KHACHATURIAN

Gayeneh (Sabre Dances)

Spartacus

LALO

Symphony Espagnole for Violin

LISZT

Piano Concerto #1 in E-flat

Symphonic Poems:

#2 (Tasso)

#3 (Les Preludes)

Hungarian Rhapsodies for Piano

Sonata in B Minor for Piano

Liebestraume (Love’s Dream)

Mephisto Waltz #1

MAHLER

Symphony #1 in D

Symphony #4 in G

Symphony #5

Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)

Songs of a Wayfarer (vocal)

Youth’s Magic Horn (vocal)

MASSANET

Thais-Meditation

MENDELSSOHN:

Symphony #3 in A Minor (Scotch)

Symphony #4 in A (Italian)

Symphony #5 in D Minor (Reformation)

Piano Concerto #1 in G Minor

Violin Concerto in E Minor

Hebrides Overture (Fingals Cave)

Midsummer’s Night Music

Elijah Oratorio

Octet in E flat for Strings

MOZART

Symphony # 40 in G Minor

Symphony #41 in C (Jupiter)

Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor

Piano Concerto #21 in C

Violin Concerto #3 in G

Violin Concerto #5 in A

Clarinet Concerto in A

Serenade for Strings in G (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)

Horn Concertos #1-4

Fantasia in C Minor (Piano)

Requiem Mass

Don Giovanni (Opera)

Marriage of Figaro (Opera)

Magic Flute (Opera)

MUSSORGSKY

Pictures at an Exhibition (piano, or orchestra version by Ravel)

Night on Bald Mountain

OFFENBACH

Tales of Hoffman (Barcarolle, selected arias)

Orpheus in the Underworld

Gaite Parisienne

ORFF

Carmina Burana

PACHELBEL

Canon in D

PAGANINI

Violin Concerto #1 in D Major

PONCHERELLI

Dance of the Hours

PUCCINI

Operas: La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly & Turandot (selected arias from the above)

PROKOFIEV

Symphony #1 (Classical)

Symphony #5

Piano Concerto #3 in C

Violin Concerto #1

Lieutenant Kije Suite

Peter and the Wolf

Love for Three Oranges Suite

RACHMANINOFF

Symphony #2 in E Minor

Piano Concerto #2

Piano Concerto #3

Preludes Op3 #2, Op23 # 2, Op 23 #5

RAVEL

Bolero

Pavane for a Dead Princess

Rapsodie Espagnol (suite for orchestra)

La Valse

RESPIGHI

Pines of Rome

Fountains of Rome

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV

Scheherazade

Capriccio Espagnol

Russian Easter Overture

Flight of the Bumble Bee

ROSSINI

Overtures: William Tell, Italian in Algiers, Barber of Seville, La gazza Ladra, Semiramide

RUBENSTIEN

Melody in F

SAINT-SAENS

Symphony #3 (Organ)

Danse macabre (symphonic poem)

Carnival of the Animals

Piano Concerto #2 in G Minor

Violin Concerto #3

Cello Concerto #1

SCHUBERT

Symphony #8 in B Minor (Unfinished)

Symphony #9 in C (The Great)

Quintet in A (Trout) Piano & Strings

Quartet #14 D Minor (Death & Maiden)

Piano Sonata #21 in B-flat

Wanderer Fantasy

Rosamunde (Ballet Music)

Ave Maria

Song Cycle: Die schone Mullerin

vSongs: Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel, Erlkonig

SCHUMANN:

Symphony #3 in E-flat

Symphony #4 in D Minor

Piano Concerto in A Minor

Traumerei

Manfred Overture

Fantasia in C

Kinderscenen

Carnaval

Fantasiestucke

SHOSTAKOVICH

Symphony #1 in F

Symphony #5 in D Minor

Concerto #1 for Piano & Trumpet

SIBELIUS

Symphony #1 in E Minor

Symphony #2 in D

Violin Concerto in D Minor

Finlandia

Swan of Tuonela

Valse Triste

SMETANA

Ma Vlast (includes Moldau)

Bartered Bride Overture

STRAUSS, Johann

Waltzes (Numerous, including Blue Danube, Roses from South, Tales from Vienna Woods, etc.)

Polkas: (Numerous including Tritsch Tracusch)

Die Fledermaus Overture

STRAUSS, Richard

Tone Poems:

Death & Transfiguration

Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Ein Heldenbelen

Thus Spake Zarathustra

Dance of the Seven Veils

Der Rosenkavalier Suite

STRAVINSKY

Rite of Spring

The Firebird

SUPPE

Light Cavalry Overture

Poet and Peasant Overture

TCHAIKOVSKY

Symphony #4 in F minor

Symphony #5 in E Minor

Symphony #6 in B Minor (Pathetique)
1812 Overture

Capriccio Italien

Piano Concerto #1 in B-flat Minor

Violin Concerto in D

Romeo and Juliet (Overture Ffantasy)

Nutcracker Suite

Swan Lake Suite

Sleeping Beauty

March Slave

VAUGHN WILLIAMS

Symphony #2 (London)

Symphony #5

Fantasia on Greensleeves

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

The Lark Ascending (violin & orchestra)

VERDI

Operas: Aida, Rigoletto, La Traviata. Il Trovatore, La Forzo del destino, Nabucco (orchestral works include overtures and preludes for above)

Requiem

VIVALDI

Four Seasons

Concerto for Two Trumpets

WAGNER

Siefried Idyll

Gotterdammerung: Rhine Journey, Funeral March,
Immolation of Gods

Flying Dutchman: Overture

Lohengrin: Preludes, Acts 1 & 3

Die Meistersinger: Overture, Dance of the Apprentices and
Entry of the Masters

Parsifal: Prelude to Act I

Das Rhinegold: Entrance of Gods in Valhalla

Siegfried: Forest Murmurs

Tannhauser: Overture & Prelude, Act 3

Tristan & Isolde: Prelude to Act I & Liebestod

Die Walkure: Magic Fire Music; Ride of the Valkyries