The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music

The 50 Most Essential Pieces of Classical Music

Various Artists
2020
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, KV620 · “The Magic Flute”
SWR Symphonieorchester, Ernest Bour
Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068
Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Bohdan Warchal, Camerata Rhenania, Hanspeter Gmür
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 269, Op.  8/1 · “Spring from The Four Seasons”
Bohuslav Matousek, Janacek Chamber Orchestra, Zdenek Dejmek
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Swan Lake Suite, Op.  20a
RSO Ljubljana, Marko Munih
Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 3 for Violin in E Major, BWV 1006
Aaron Rosand
Johann Pachelbel
Canon and Gigue in D Major, P. 37
Mary Jane Newman, Musica Antiqua New York, Mary Jane Newman, Soloists from Musica Antiqua, New York
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op.  67 · “Fate Symphony”
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bernhard Güller, Süddeutsche Philharmonie
Franz Liszt
Liebesträume, S. 541
Jerome Rose
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
Günter Kehr, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber, Martin Galling
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467, KV467 · “Elvira Madigan”
Helmut Müller-Brühl, Evgeni Koroliov, Kölner Kammerorchester
Antonio Vivaldi
Mandolin Concerto in C Major, RV 425
Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber, Paul Grund
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550, KV550
Ernest Bour, SWR Symphonieorchester
Stanley Myers
The Deer Hunter
Trio Zur
Tomaso Albinoni
Adagio in G Minor, Mi  26
Ilmar Lapinsch, Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO  59 · “Für Elise”
Leonard Hokanson, Evelyne Dubourg
Johann Sebastian Bach
Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208 · “Hunting Cantata”
Musica Antiqua New York, Mary Jane Newman, Soloists from Musica Antiqua New York
Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont, Op.  84
Alexander Titov, St. Petersburg New Philharmonia
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in G Minor, BWV 1000
Klaus Jäckle
Richard Wagner
Die Walküre, WWV86B · “The Valkyrie”
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Semkow
Sergei Rachmaninoff
14 Romances, Op.  34 · “14 Songs”
Viktor Yampolsky, Markus Stocker
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 94 in G Major, Hob.  I/94 · “Surprise”
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg, Leopold Ludwig, North German Radio Orchestra
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture in E‑Flat Major, Op.  49, TH 49
Evgeny Svetlanov, Russian State Symphonic Cappella, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Skripka
Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne No. 2 in E‑Flat Major, Op.  9/2, B.  54/2 · “Murmures de la Seine 2”
Peter Schmalfuss, Frédéric Chopin
Giacomo Puccini
Turandot, SC91
Brno Janáček Opera Orchestra, Jan Stych, Andrej Kucharsky, Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D Minor, K. 626, KV626
Mikhail Glinka Academic Chorus, RSO Ljubljana, Mikhail Glinka, The Leningrad Chorus, Vladislav Tscherneshenko
Gustav Holst
The Planets, H125, Op. 32
José Serebrier, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, Robert Ashley, Melbourne Women's Choir
G. P. Telemann: Viola Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9
Ladislav Kyselák, Capella Istropolitana and Paul Kantschieder
Giuseppe Verdi
Messa da Requiem
Igor Markevitch, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, State Academic Chorus
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5 in C‑Sharp Minor
RSO Ljubljana, Anton Nanut
Johann Sebastian Bach
Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Peter Kooij, Gerd Türk, Masaaki Suzuki, Carolyn Sampson, Bach Collegium Japan, Rachel Nicholls, Robin Blaze
Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op.  64
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Jaime Laredo, Alexander Shelley
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet in B‑Flat Major, Hob.  III/1, Op.  1/1
Dekany String Quartet
Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso No. 8 in G Minor, Op.  6/8 · “Christmas Concerto”
Günter Kehr, Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Garo Admacayan, Jörg Faerber
Antonín Dvořák
Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, B 178, Op.  95 · “From the New World”
RSO Ljubljana, Anton Nanut
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Hob.  VIIb/1
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Roland Keller, László Varga, Jonel Perlea
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K. 331, KV331, K. 300i, KV300i · “Alla Turca”
Walter Klien
Maurice Ravel
Boléro, M.  81
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Samo Hubad
Erik Satie
Gymnopédies
Frank Glazer
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16
Anton Nanut, RSO Ljubljana, Dubravka Tomšič
Jules Massenet
Thaïs
Café Concerto
Johannes Brahms
21 Hungarian Dances, WoO  1
Kosice Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Ehwald
Samuel Barber
Adagio for Strings, Op. 11a · “from String Quartet No. 1”
Andrew Schenck, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Charles Gounod
Méditation sur le 1er Prélude de S. Bach, CG 89a
Mary Jane Newman, Musica Antiqua New York, Amy Butler
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No. 2 in D Major
Rimsky-Korsakov Quartet, Lucerne String Quartet
George Frideric Handel
Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 · “Water Music No. 1”
Slovak Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Prague
Gabriel Fauré
Pavane, Op. 50
A. Robert Johnson, New York Philomusica, Frank Morelli, Humbert Lucarelli, Susan Jolles
Claude Debussy
Suite bergamasque, L.  75, CD 82
Peter Schmalfuss
George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, Jeffrey Siegel

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