Listening choices for Independent Listening Report #1
Albinoni – Adagio for Strings and Organ
(1671-1750)
Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerti (all 6)
(1685-1750) Cantata No. 80
St. Matthew Passion
Concerto for two violins
Suite for Orchestra, No. 3 in D (“Air”)
Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
“Sheep May Safely Graze”
Contrapunctus IX
Barber, Samuel - Adagio for Strings
(1910-1981)
Bartok Mysterious Mandarin
(1881-1945) Concerto for Orchestra (except Mvt. 2)
Beethoven Symphonies (All except No. 5)
(1770-1827) Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
Concerto in D for violin
Piano Sonatas
Piano Trio “Archduke”
Fur Elise
Fidelio (Opera, Overture)
Leonore Overture
Egmont Overture
Prometheus Overture
Missa Solemnis
Berlioz Symphony Fantastique (all but IV, “March to the Scaffold”)
(1803-1869) Requiem
Bernstein Candide Overture
(19 - 2007) On the Waterfront (Suite)
Bizet Carmen (Opera, Suite)
(1838-75) L’Arlesienne Suites (except No. 2, “Farandole”)
Brahms Symphonies (4)
(1833-97) Academic Festival Overture
Piano Concerti No. 1 and 2
Violin Concerto in D
Concerto in A for Violin and Cello “Double”
German Requiem
Intermezzos for Piano
“Nanie” for Chorus and Orchestra
Prelude on “Lo How a Rose E’r Blooming” (transcribed for orchestra)
Chamber music
Chopin Ballades
(1810-49) Nocturnes
Waltzes
Mazurkas
Etudes (except Op. 9, No. 2 and Op. 10, No. 12 “Revolutionary”)
Copland Appalachian Spring (except for No. 7: Theme and Variations on “Simple Gifts”)
(1900-1990) Rodeo
Billy the Kid
Concerto for Clarinet
Debussy Clair de Lune
(1862-1918) La Mer
Dukas Sorcerer’s Apprentice
(1865-1935) Procession of the Nobles
Dvorak Symphonies (except No. 9 “From the New World”, Mvt. 1)
(1841-1904) Cello Concerto
Serenade in E Major
Slavonik Dances
Faure Requiem
(1845-1924)
Gershwin An American in Paris
(1898-1924) Porgy and Bess (Opera)
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite, Op. 46
(1843-1907) Piano Concerto in A Minor
Grofe Grand Canyon Suite
(1892-1972)
Handel Messiah (except “Ev’ry Valley” and “Hallelujah”)
(1685-1759) Water Music
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Organ Concerto
Haydn, F.J. Symphonies (104!) (except No. 94, Mvt. 2 “Surprise”)
(1732-1809) Trumpet Concerto in Eb
Horn Concerto No. 2 in D
The Creation (oratorio)
Holst The Planets
(1874-1934) Suite in Eb for Band
Honneger Pacific 231
(20th C)
Khachaturian Violin Concerto
((1903-1978) Sabre Dance Suite
Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 in Bb
Hungarian Rhapsodies (6 )
Les Preludes
Mahler Symphonies (10)
Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Symphonies (5)
Elijah (Oratorio)
Hebrides Overture (Fingal’s Cave)
Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors (Christmas Opera)
Mozart Piano Concerti (27)
Symphonies (42+)
Requiem
String Quartets
Flute Quartets
Piano Quintet
Horn Quintet in Eb
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibitiion (Ravel orchestration)
Pachelbel Canon in D
Prokoviev Peter and the Wolf
Simple Symphony
Puccini Operas (Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, The Girl of the Golden West, Tosca)
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ravel Bolero
Pavane pou une infant defunte
Respighi Pines of Rome
Festivals of Rome
Fountains of Rome
Church Windows
Rimsky-Korsakov Scherherazade
Flight of the Bumblebee
Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals
Symphony No. 3 “Organ”
Sibelius Symphonies (5)
Finlandia
Schubert Symphonies (8)
String Quartets
Mass in C
Sousa Marches
Still Afro-American Symphony, Mvts. 1, 2, 4)
Any chamber works
Strauss, Johann Waltzes (Blue Danube, Voices of Spring)
Strauss, Richard Also Sprach Zarathustra
Til Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Ein Heldenleben
Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite
Firebird
Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky Symphonies (6)
1812 Overture
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty
Nutcracker (except “Dance of the Reed Pipes”)
Serenade for Strings
Capriccio Italien
Capriccio Espaniol
Vaughn Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
Rhosymedre
Folk Song Suite (Wind Band)
Variations on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Sea Symphony
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Gloria
Wagner Overtures to Operas:
The Flying Dutchman, Tannhauser, The Ring Cycle, Die Meistersinger, Parsifal
Siegfried Idyll
Walton Serenade to Music
Crown Imperial March
Belshazzar’s Feast
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