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Recommended Listening For the new or interested listener, I have provided a list of my recommendations from the Western Classical Canon of Literature. You will find a media player at the bottom left of the screen. There are selections from this list that you can listen to through this player. Note the minimize bottom on the player; you can minimize the screen after starting a piece playing on the Media Player, then continue browsing the website. Alessandro Scarlatti O Cessate di Piagarmi J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerti, 1-6 Orchestral Suites, 1 & 2 Cello Suites No 2 & No 5 English Suites for Keyboard Double Violin Concerto in D Minor Harpsichord Concerti Mass in B Minor Partita No 2 for Violin Violin Concerto in E Major Samuel Barber String Quartet Adagio for Strings Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio 32 Piano Sonatas, particularly Op. 10, the Waldstein, the Appassionata 5 Piano Concerti 9 Symphonies, particularly no 3, 5, & 7 Quintet for Piano & Winds Johannes Brahms Piano Quartets, 1-3 Piano Pieces (Klavierstucke), Op. 76, 117, 118, 119 2 Rhapsodies for Piano Piano Concerti, 1 & 2 Sonatas for Clarinet (or Viola) & Piano Benjamin Britten War Requiem Les Illuminations Frederick Chopin Ballades & Impromptus Nocturnes Polonaises, particularly ''The Military'' and ''The Heroic'' Etudes Scherzi Piano Trio in G Minor Mazurkas, highly recommended Domenico Scarlatti The 600 Piano Sonatas Claude Debussy Suite bergamasque Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Pelléas et Mélisande String Quartet in G Minor Etudes pour piano (1915) La Mer Images Dvorak String Quartet in A Minor, ''The American'' Symphony No 9 Elgar Enigma Variations Cello Concerto Faure Piano Quartet in C Minor Requiem Franck Piano Quintet in F Minor Violin Sonata in A Major Philip Glass String Quartets, 2-5 Violin Concerto Music from ''Dracula'' Haydn Symphonies, particularly Nos. 31, 44, 45, 46, 49, 87, 89, & 95 Piano Concerti, particularly Nos. 3, 4, 9, and 11 Missa in Angustiis, ''Nelsonmesse'' Piano Sonatas Late String Quartets Gustav Hoslt The Planets Janacek Violin Sonata Zoltán Kodály Missa Brevis Rimski-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 Franz Liszt Symphonic Poems Piano Etudes, Transcendental Piano Consolations, 1-3 De Profundis Nuages gris (piano) 2 Piano Concerti Mahler Symphonies Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy) Songs without Words String Quartets String Octet Piano Quartets, particularly F Minor and B Minor Piano Trios, particularly D Minor Symphonies, particularly no. 4, ''The Italian'' Oratorio: Elijah Gian Carlo Menotti Monica's Waltz The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto Double Piano Concerto in E-Flat Major Horn Concerto No 2 Piano Concerti, particularly Nos. 9, 20, 21, 23, 24 Piano Quartets, G-Minor and E-Flat Major Piano Sonatas, Particularly No 14 in C-Minor Symphonies, Particularly Nos 25, 29, 38, 40, & 41 Violin Concerti, Particularly No 5 in A Major Requiem Mass in C-Minor, ''The Great'' Cosi Fan Tutti Le Noze di Figaro The Abduction from the Seraglio Don Giovani Poulenc Double Piano Concerto Organ Concerto Gloria Four Motets for a Time of Penitence Four Motets for Christmas Mass in G Major Puccini La Boheme Madame Butterfly Il Trittico Purcell Dido and Aeneas Rachmaninoff Etudes-Tableau, particularly C Major, C Minor, E-Flat Minor, A Minor, F-Sharp Minor Four Piano Concerti, particularly Nos 1 & 3 Preludes, particularly B-Flat Minor, D Major, E-Flat Major, G-Flat Major, G-Sharp Minor Sonata for Cello & Piano, Op. 19 Symphonies, particularly No. 2 Maurice Ravel Daphnis et Chloe Suite Gaspard de la Nuit (Piano) Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Piano Concerto in G Major Piano Trio in A Minor String Quartet Violin Sonata Saint-Saens Piano Concerti, particularly Nos 2, 4, & 5 Danse Macabre Organ Symphony Franz Schubert 600 Lieder (Songs) Piano Sonata in C-Minor Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major Piano works, particularly the Impromptus and Moment Musicaux Piano Quintet, ''The Trout'' Symphonies, particularly Nos 3, 4, & 8 Robert Schumann Carnaval for Piano Dichterliebe, Op. 48 Marchenbilder Liederkreis Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major Piano Sonata in F-Sharp Minor Symphonies, particularly no. 3, ''The Rhennish'' Dimitri Shostakovich Cello Sonata Piano Concerti, particularly No 2 String Quartets, particularly No 8 Symphonies, particularly Nos 3, 5, & 8 Preludes & Fugues for Piano Richard Strauss Salome Eine Alpensinfonie Tchaikovsky Ballets, particularly ''Sleeping Beauty'' & ''Nutcracker'' Piano Concerti, particularly 1 & 3 Violin Concerto Symphonies, particularly 5 & 6 Verdi Macbeth Rigoletto Il Trovatore La Traviata Aida Otello Falstaff Villa-Lobos Piano Trio No 1 in C-Minor Vivaldi The Four Seasons Quadriple Violin Concerto Violin Concerti, particularly 7 & 8 Cello Concerti |
