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Classical Music Listening Suggestions

Updated: Sep 4


Are you interested in listening to more classical music, but not sure where to start? Would you like to engage your child with classical music?


The following playlists are a great introduction to classical music - I've included a wide variety of pieces: relaxing, exciting, seasonal, and more! To make listening easy, each heading is a link to connect you to a Spotify playlist!


Energetic
  • Allegro from Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich

  • Festive Overture Shostakovich

  • Overture to Candide Bernstein

  • Overture to the Bartered Bride Smetena

  • William Tell Overture Rossini

  • Sabre Dance Khachaturian

  • Flight of the Bumblebee – Rimsky-Korsakov

  • 1812 Overture – Tchaikovsky

  • Hoedown from Rodeo – Copland

  • Polovtsian Dances Prince Igor – Borodin

  • Scaramouche – Milhaud

  • No. 1 & No. 8 from Slavonic Dances, Op. 46 – Dvorak

  • Mvt. III from Violin Concerto in E Minor – Mendelssohn

Relaxing
  • Three Gymnopedies for Piano – Satie

  • Adagio for Strings – Barber

  • Largo from Symphony No. 9 Dvorak

  • Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich

  • Sleep Whitacre

  • Peer Gynt Suite, I. Morning Mood – Grieg

  • Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat major, Op. 9 – Chopin

  • Vocalise, Op. 34 – Rachmaninoff

  • Spiegel Im Spiegel – Part

  • Meditation de Thais – Massenet

Famous
  • Symphony No. 5 Beethoven

  • Gran Partita Mozart

  • Carmen Suite – Bizet

  • Cello Suite in G Major – Bach

  • Appalachian Spring - Copland

  • Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra – Britten

Holiday & Seasonal Music
  • Valentine's Day

  • Clair de lune – Debussy

  • The Blue Danube – Strauss

  • 3 Romances, Op. 28, No. 2 – Schumann

  • Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture – Tchaikovsky

  • Easter

  • Easter Oratorio Bach

  • Russian Easter Festival, Overture, Op. 36 – Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Fourth of July

  • Fanfare for the Common Man – Copland

  • Stars & Stripes Forever – Sousa

  • Variations on America – Ives

  • Halloween

  • Danse Macabre – Saint-Saens

  • Night on Bald Mountain – Mussorgsky

  • In The Hall of the Mountain King – Grieg

  • Christmas

  • Nutcracker Suite Tchaikovsky

  • Messiah Handel

Contemporary
  • Slalom Pann

  • Short Ride in a Fast Machine Adams

  • Histoire du Tango Piazzola

  • Black Dog McAllister

  • Trip Lowenstern

  • Five Frogs – Brandon

  • Danzon No. 2 Márquez

  • A Child's Garden of Dreams – Maslanka

  • Blue Shades – Ticheli

  • Strange Humors – Mackey

  • Strum – Montgomery

Programmatic (Tells a Story)
  • Peter and the Wolf – Prokofiev

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice – Dukas

  • Carnival of the Animals – Saint-Saens

  • Syrinx for Solo Flute – Debussy

  • Enigma Variations – Elgar

  • Wings for Solo Clarinet – Tower

  • The Planets – Holst


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