25 MORE Essential Classical Pieces You Should Know | Ep68

The Musician Toolkit with David Lane

This is a follow-up to Episode 17 from last year, where this podcast introduced 25 pieces of classical music, not necessarily the best or most acclaimed pieces, but 25 that you should know even if classical music is not your genre of focus. Even after 25 more pieces, there are so many that were left out, but this plus the previous episode in this series will give you 50 pieces you should know no matter your genre as a musician.

Previous episodes mentioned:

Part 1 of this series

Listening Approach for Classical vs Non Classical Music

This episode uses excerpts from the following pieces in this order:

Pieces:
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from “The Nutcracker” (Tchaikovsky) - London Philharmonic
Concerto for 2 Violins (Bach) - Issac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, New York Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta
Music for Stringed Instruments, Percussion, & Celesta (Bartok) - Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph Von Dohnányi
Sonata Op. 27, No. 2 “Moonlight” (Beethoven) Daniel Barenboim
Suite No. 1 from Carmen (Bizet) Lamoureux Concert Associations Orchestra, Antal Dorati
Etudes Op. 12 (Chopin) Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Sorceror’s Apprentice (Paul Dukas), Cincinnati Symphony, Jesús López-Cobos
Pomp and Circumstance No. 1 (Edward Elgar) - English Symphony Orchestra, William Boughton
String Quartet Op 76, No. 3 “Emperor” (Haydn) - Kodály Quartet
Symphony No. 4 “Italian” (Mendelssohn) - Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Serenade: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart) - I Musici
Carmina Burana (Orff) - London Symphony, Andre Previn
Canon in D (Pachelbel) - London Baroque
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) - London Symphony, Andre Previn
William Tell Overture (Rossini) - National Symphony, Riccardo Chailly
Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) - George Prêtre
Stars and Stripes Forever (Sousa) - US Marine Band
On the Beautiful Blue Danube Walzes (J Strauss Jr) - Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan
The Firebird (Stravinsky) - Phiharmonia, Robert Craft
Overture to Romeo and Julet, 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) - Russian National, Mikhail Pletnev
Why Fumeth in Fight (Tallis) - Chappelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (Vaughan Williams) - London Philharmonic, Leonard Slatkin
The Four Seasons, Op. 8 mp 1-4, (Vivaldi) - I Musici
Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner) - London Philharmonic, Adrian Boult
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 and Bridal Chorus - Vienna Philharmonic, Rudolf Kempe

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