Classical Music Corner

Baroque compositions

Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 8 (‘Christmas’)

Handel: Messiah - Behold, a virgin shall conceive/O Thou that tellest good tidings to Zion

Handel: Messiah - Behold, a virgin shall conceive/O Thou that tallest good tidings to Zion.pdf (here is the music sheet of the whole piece)

Handel: Water Music, Suite in F major, HWV 348: Alla Hornpipe

Henry Purcell: Ah, Belinda from Dido and Aeneas

George Frideric Handel: Xerxes - Ombra Mai Fu

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for orchestra No. 3 in D major, Air on the G string (original instruments)

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 1 in F major

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 2 in F major

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 3 in G major

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 4 in G major

Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg concerto No. 5 in D major

Johann Sebastian Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041

Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068

Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor (orchestra)

Vivaldi: Autumn from The Four Seasons

Vivaldi: Autumn from The Four Seasons.pdf (here is the music score of the whole composition)

Vivaldi: Spring (full) from The Four Seasons

Vivaldi: Spring from The Four Seasons.pdf (music sheet)

Vivaldi: Summer (full) from The Four Seasons

Vivaldi: Oboe Sonata - Andante RV 53


Classical compositions

Joseph Haydn: Minuet and Trio from String Quartet in B flat, Op. 50, No. 1

Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 45 "Farewell", I. Allegro Assai

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op. 64 No. 5 in D major "The Lark"

Haydn Symphony No 100, (Military) Movement 3

Haydn: Symphony 100, IV (movement 4) "Military"

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata (Full)

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 (Full)

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - 4th movement, Allegro assai (Choral finale on Schiller's 'Ode to Joy'

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Sonata 'Tempest' performed by Valentina Lisitsa

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Rondo from Horn Concerto No. 4

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem in D minor K626

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro from Piano Sonata in C major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major, Adagio

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Flute Concerto in D major I. Movement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Magic Flute - Queen of the night

Wolgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in G (Serenade No. 13 in G)


Romantic compositions

Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, Act III: Jagerchor

Eduardo di Capua: 'O sole mio' performed by The 3 Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras)

Edward Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 Op. 55

Felix Mendelssohn: Wedding March

Frederic Chopin: Etude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 20 in C#minor, Op. Posth

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 in Eb major, Op. 9

Frederic Chopin: Waltz in D flat major, Op. 64 No. 1

Frederic Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66

Franz Schubert - Serenade

Franz Schubert: Ave Maria performed by Andrea Bocelli

Georges Bizet: Habanera from Carmen performed by Heny Janawati

Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville - Figaro's aria

Giacomo Puccini: Nessun Dorma performed by Andrea Bocelli

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (complete performance) by Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Jacques Offenbach: Doll Song from Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Johann Strauss: Roses from the South

Johann Strauss II: The Beautiful Blue Danube

Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1

Brahms - Academic Festival Overture, Op 80

Leo Delibes: Flower Duet from Lakme

Liszt Ferenc: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Liszt Ferenc: Dante Symphony

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Funeral March from Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition - Promenade1, Gnomes

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite for Orchestra, Op. 35

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Op. 49

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Trepak Russian Dance

Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky - Dance of the Little Swans

Tchaikovsky: Ouverture 1812, Op. 49

Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano

Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana - Intermezzo

Richard Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries

Robert Schumann: Traumerei (Dreaming)


Modern compositions

Claude Debussy: Prelude a "L'apres-midi d'un faune"

Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (piano version)

Claude Debussy: Clair de lune (orchestra version)

Claude Debussy: La cathédrale engloutie, from Préludes Book 1, No. 10

Dmitri Shostakovich: Walts No. 2

George Gershwin: I got rhythm

George Gershwin: Summertime performed by Ella Fitzgerald

George Gershwin: Oh, Lady Be Good (instrumental)

George Gershwin: Oh, Lady Be Good (vocal)

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue on the piano by Emily Bear

Igor Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (1 of 3)

John Cage: 4'33'' (Orchestra and soloist)

Kodaly Zoltan: Hary Janos Suite - Intermezzo

Maurice Ravel: Bolero

Maurice Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte for cello

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez I. movement

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez II. movement

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez III. movement

Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez.pdf (music sheet)

Steve Reich: Six pianos

Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Sergei Prokofiev: Allegro from Symphony No. 1, Classical

Samuel Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Peter Sculthorpe: Third Sonata for Strings ‘Jabiru Dreaming’ (1994)

IGCSE Set work for 2023

Haydn: Symphony No. 100, Hob. I/100 Military: Movements 3 and 4

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Brahms: Academic Festival Overture