Great Classical Music

  Here is a suggested CD that has many of these pieces on it. But you’ll need to buy the Peter and the Wolf and Carnival of the animals separately. Here’s a good CD of both of those!

All of these pieces are good for listening! But in case you are in a particular mood...

Air on the G String — J. S. Bach

Polovtsian Dances, Prince Igor — Borodin

The Four Seasons, spring, summer, winter — Antonio Vivaldi

Adagio for Strings — Samuel Barber

Symphony No. 9, 1st movement — Dvorak

Romeo and Juliet Fanatasy Overture — Tchaikovsky

Clair de lune — Debussy

Nocturnes or Preludes — Chopin

Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43 (the 18th Variation is everyone's favorite) — Rachmaninoff

Gymnopedies (3) for Piano — Eric Satie

Canon in D — Pachabel

Peer Gynt Suite: Dawn — Grieg

Exciting...

Flight of the Bumblebee — Rimsky-Korsakov

Bolero — Ravel

The Barber of Seville, overture — Rossini

Symphony No. 5 in c minor — Beethoven

Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1, In the Hall of the Mountain King — Edward Grieg

Etudes — Chopin

Piano Concerto in F — Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue — Gershwin

Entry of the Gladiators (Einzug der Gladiatoren), march for orchestra, Op. 68 — Fucik

William Tell Overture: Finale — Rossini

Gayaneh (Sabre Dance) — Aram Khachaturian

Majestic...

The Planets, Mars — Gustav Holst

Sprach Zarathustra — Richard Strauss

1812 Overture (Festival Overture for Orchestra in Eb Major, Op. 49, Finale) — Tchaikovsky

Entertaining...

Carnival of the Animals — Saint-Saens

Peter and the Wolf — Prokofiev

The Cat and the Mouse — Bernstein

Caucasian Sketches (Procession Of The Sardar) — Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov

These are fun too!

Water Music (Music for the Royal Fireworks) — G. F. Handel

Eine kleine Nachtmusik — Mozart

Symphony No. 40 in G minor: l. Molto Allegro — Mozart

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra In A Minor Op. 16: Allegro molto moderato — Grieg

Variations on "Ah, vous dirai -je maman" (Twinkle Twinkle Little Star) K. 265—Mozart