A Basic Classical Music Collection      (* indicates more popular works)

I. Instrumental: (music for solo or a few instruments)

Bach:  Organ Music: Toccata and Fugue in d*; Fantasia and Fugue in g;  Passacaglia and Fugue in c*; Wacht auf

                     Goldberg Variations for keyboard*

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas: #8 "Pathetique"; #14 "Moonlight"*; #21 "Waldstein"; #23 "Appassionata"*

           Violin Sonatas #5 "Spring"*; #9 "Kreutzer";     Trio #7 "Archduke"*;        Septet

Brahms: Cello sonatas #1-2;        Clarinet quintet*

Chausson: Concerto for piano, violin and string quartet

Chopin: 24 Etudes: #3 "Tristesse"*; #5 "Black Key"; #6, #12 "Revolutionary"*; #13 "Shepherd boy"; #21 "Butterfly"; #23 "Winterwind"

           21 Nocturnes: #2*; #5; #15; 19 Waltzes: #1 "Grande waltz brilliante"*; #2; #6 "Minute"; #7; #11; 26 Preludes: #15 "Raindrops";        4 Ballades: #1; #3*;  7 Polonaises: #3 "Military"*; #6 "Heroic"*; #7 ;         51 Mazurkas: #5; #23

           Andante spianato et grande polonaise brilliante;         Fantasie-Impromptu*

Debussy:Piano Pieces: Clair de Lune*; La fille aux cheveaux de lin*; La cathedrale engloutie; Feux d'artifice

Dvorak: String quartet #12 "American"*

Franck: Violin Sonata*

Liszt: 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies: #2*; #6; #12*; #15 "Rakoczi March"

           Liebestraum #3*; Consolation #3*; Les jeux d'eau a la Villa d'Este

           Sonata in b

Mendelssohn: Octet for strings

Mozart: 18 Piano Sonatas: #8*; #11*; #12; #13; #14*; Fantasia in c*        Clarinet Quintet*

           Serenade for 13 wind instruments;         Serenade for 5 strings "Eine kleine Nachtmusik"*

Rossini: String Sonatas #1, #3, #5

Schubert: Piano Quintet "Trout"*                     String Quartet #14 "Death and Maiden"

Shostakovich: Piano Quintet        String Quartet #8

Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat, ballet*

Tchaikovsky: Piano trio

II. Concertos: (solo or a few instruments with orchestra)

Bach: Double Violin Concerto*

Bartok: Piano Concertos #1; #2; #3*      Violin Concerto #2

Beethoven: Piano Concertos #3; #4; #5 "Emperor"*             Violin Concerto*

Bloch: Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for cello and orchestra*

Brahms: Piano concertos #1-2     Violin concerto*      Double concerto for violin, cello and orchestra

Bruch: Violin concerto #1*           Scotch Fantasy for violin and orchestra

Chausson: Poeme for violin and orchestra*

Dvorak: Cello concerto*

Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain, for piano and orchestra

Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, for piano and orchestra*

Glazunov: Violin concerto

Grieg: Piano concerto*

Haydn: Cello concertoes #1-2      Trumpet concerto*

Khatchaturian: Violin concerto

Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, for violin and orchestra*

Liszt: Piano concerto #1*; #2      Totentanz, for piano and orchestra

Mendelssohn: Violin concerto in e*

Mozart: 27 Piano concertos #20*; #21*; #23*; #24; #25      Violin concertos #3*; #4; #5

           Horn concertos #1-4          Bassoon concerto    Clarinet concerto* Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola*

Paganini: Violin concertos #1*; #2*

Prokofiev: Piano concerto #3*     Violin concerto #2

Rachmaninoff: Piano concerto #2*; #3              Paganini Rhapsody for piano and orchestra*

Ravel: Piano Concerto in g*;       Piano Concerto for left hand

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra*;     Fantasia para un gentilhombre for guitar and orchestra

Saint-Saens: Piano Concertos #2; Violin Concerto #3*;          Cello Concerto

           Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for violin and orch.*

Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, for violin and orch.*

Schumann: Cello Concerto;          Piano Concerto*

Shostakovich: Cello concerto #1;            Piano concerto #1*;

Sibelius: Violin concerto*

Strauss, R.: Don Quixote, tone poem for cello, viola and orchestra*

Szymanowski: Violin concerto #1

Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto #1*;          Violin concerto*

Vaughm-Williams: The Lark Ascending for violin and orch.*

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, four concertos for violin and orch.*

III. Orchestral:

Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra*;          Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Beethoven: Overtures: Leonora #3*; Fidelio; Coriolan; Egmont

Berlioz: Overtures: Le carnaval romain*; Le Corsaire; Benvenuto Cellini

Bizet: L'Arlesienne suites #1-2*

Borodin: Prince Igor: Overture and Polovtsian dances* ;    In the Steppe of Central Asia, a music picture*

Brahms: Tragic overture*; Acadamic Festival Overture; Haydn Variations

Chabrier: Espana*

Copland: Appalachian Spring, ballet*;   El salon Mexico*

Debussy: La Mer* ;          Prelude a l'apre-midi d'un Faun*  ;     Nocturnes

Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier*

Dvorak: Overture Carnaval*; Scherzo Capriccioso; Symphonic Variations

Elgar: Enigma Variations

Falla: El amor brujo, ballet*;      The three cornered hat, ballet

Glinka: Russlan and Ludmila Overture*

Grieg: Peer Gynt, incidental music*

Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite*

Handel: Water music* ;     Royal Firework music*

Holst: The Planets*

Janecek: Sinfonietta* ;        Taras Bulba

Khachaturian: Gayaneh suite

Kodaly: Hary Janos suite*

Liszt: Les Prelude

Mendelssohn: A mid-summer night's dream, incidental music*

Mussorgsky: Night on a bare mountain*;        Pictures of a Exhibition, (orch. Ravel)*

Prokofiev: Lt. Kiji suite*;            Romeo and Juliet, ballet*

Ravel: Bolero*; Alborado del gracioso; Pavane pour une infante defunte; Rapsodie espagnole; La Valse; Daphnis and Chloe, ballet

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances

Respighi: Pines of Rome*; Fountains of Rome*; Roman Festivals

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherzade*

Rossini: Overtures: Guillaume Tell*; Il Barbiere di Siviglia; La scala di   Sieta*; La gazza ladra*; L'Italiana in Algeri;

 Il signor Bruchino; Semiramide

Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals*; Danse macabre*

Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht

Shostakovich: The Age of Gold suite

Sibelius: Symphonic Poems: En Saga; Finlandia*; Pohjola's Doughter;   Topiola*; Valse triste

           Four Legends: Lamminkainen and Maidens of Saari; The Swan of Tuonela*; Lemminkainen in Tuonela; Lemminkainen's Return

Smetana: Ma Vlast: Vyserad; Vltava*; From Bohemia's woods and fields*;Tabor; Blanik;      The Bartered Bride Overture

Strauss, J.: Waltzes: The Blue Danube*; Emperor's Waltz; Vienne Blood; Voice of the Spring; Roses of the South;  Tales from Vienna Woods

Strauss, R.: Tone Poems: Don Juan*; Till Eulenspiegel; Ein Heldenleben; Also sprach Zarathustra*; Death and Transfiguration

Stravinsky: Firebird, ballet;        Petrushka, ballet;    The Rite of Spring, ballet*

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, fantasy overture*;  Francesca da Rimini;  Serenade for strings*

           Swan Lake, ballet*;          Sleeping Beauty, ballet;      Nutcracker, ballet*

Vaugham Williams: Tallis Fantasia*;      English Folksongs Suite

IV. Symphonies

Beethoven: 9 Symphonies: #3 "Eroica"*, #5*, #6 "Pastoral"*, #7, #9 "Choral"*

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique*

Bizet: Symphony in C

Borodin: Symphony #2

Brahms: Symphonies #1-4

Bruckner: Symphonies #4 "Romantic", #7, #9

Dvorak: Symphonies #7, #8, #9 "From the New World"*

Franck: Symphony in d

Haydn: Symphonies #6-8 (le Matin, le Midi, le Soir); Symphonies #95 "Surprise"; #96 "Miracle", #100 "Military";

                     #101 "Clock"*; #103 "Drumroll"; #104 "London"*

Mahler: 9 Symphonies: #2 "Resurrection", #4, #5*, #9

Mendelssohn: Symphonies #3 "Scotch", #4 "Italian"*

Mozart: Symphonies #39, #40, #41 "Jupiter"*

Prokofiev: Symphonies #1 "Classical"*, #5

Rachmaninoff: Symphony #2*

Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 "Organ"

Schubert: Symphonies #8 "Unfinished"*, #9

Schumann: Symphony #1 "Spring"*, #3 "Rhenish"

Shostakovich: Symphonies #1, #5*, #9, #10, #14

Sibelius: Symphonies #1, #2*, #4, #5, #7

Tchaikovsky: Symphonies #4, #5, #6 "Pathetique"*

Vaugham-Williams: Symphonies #2 "London"*, #5

V. Vocal and choral

Bach: Mass in B minor, St. Mathew Passion

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis*

Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette, dramatic symphony;  La damnation de Faust, dramatic legends;  Requiem*;  Les nuits d'ete, song cycle*

Brahms: Ein Deutsch Requeim

Britten: War Requiem;       Serenade for tenor, horn and strings*

Faure: Requiem*

Handel: Messiah*

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass*

Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn ;       Kindertotnelieder; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen;           Das Lied von der Erde*

Mozart: Requiem*

Orff: Carmina Burana*

Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky*

Ravel: Scheharazade, for soprano and orchestra*

Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunare

Schubert: Lieder: Der Erlkonig*; Die Forelle*; Heidenroslein; Auf dem Wasser zu singen; Du bist die Ruh; Sei mir gegrusst; Ganymed; An die Musik*; An Sylvia; Gretchen am Spinnard*; Die junge         Nonne; Litane; Seligkeit; Der Musensohn; Fischerweise; Standchen*; Der Tod und das Madchen; Ave Maria*; Wiegenlied*

           Die schone Mullerin, song cycle*;          Winterreise, song cycle*;  Schwanengesang, song cycle

Schumann: Dichterliebe, song cycle

Strauss,R.: Four last Songs, for soprano and orchestra*

Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalm

Verdi: Requiem*

Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileras #5 for soprano and cellos*

VI. Operas

Bellini: Norma

Berlioz: Les Troyens

Bizet: Carmen*

Britten: Peter Grimes

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor;         L'elisir d'Amore

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

Gounod: Faust*

Handel: Giulio Cesare

Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci*

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana*

Massenet: Manon

Mozart: Don Giovanni*;  Le Nozze di Figaro*; The Magic Flute*;

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov*

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann*

Puccini: Le Boheme*; Tosca*; Madama Butterfly*;    Turandot

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia*

Strauss.R: Salome*; Elektra; Der Rosenkavalier*

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin

Verdi: La Traviata*; Rigoletto*;  Il Travotore; Aida*; Otello*; Falstaff

Wagner: The Flying Dutchman;    Tannhauser; Lohengrin;   Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Tristan und Isolde*

           Das Rheingold; Die Walkure*; Siegfried; Gotterdammerung

Weber: Die Freishutz