THE CLASSICAL MUSIC SINFONIAS (In
Progress...)
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Classical Music Glossary op. = opus Level
2: Intermediate Listeners THE
CLASSICAL MUSIC SINFONIAS
WEEK
COMPOSER AND OPUS TITLE
TOTAL LISTENING TIME (approx. minutes)
1
John Adams:
Harmonium
AND Chairman
Dances AND
Short Ride in a Fast Machine
2
Bach
C.P.E.:
Hamburg Symphonies (any 2) AND
Flute Concerto (any 1)
3
Boccherini:
Symphonies op.12 (any 2) AND
Oboe Quintet
op. 55 AND Cello
Concerto (any 1 from
G.475 or
G.476 or
G.479 or
G.480 or
G.482 or
G.573)
4
Borodin:
Symphony 2 AND
In the Steppes of Central Asia AND
Polovtsian
Dances
5
6
Buxtehude:
Trio Sonatas op. 1 (any
4) AND
La Capricciosa BuxWV 250 OR
Choral Partita BuxVW 179
7
8
Mendelssohn:
Symphony 1
op. 11 (1824) AND
Symphony 5
op. 107 (Reformation) [NOT the string symphonies]
9
10
11
Delius:
Piano
Concerto AND
In a summer garden
AND
Five Piano Pieces
AND
Violin Sonata 3
12
Frescobaldi:
Fiori Musicali
(selections, total 30') AND
Harpsichord Works (any, total 30')
13
Haydn:
Symphony no 104
AND
Trumpet Concerto
AND
String Quartet op. 76/4
'Sunrise'
14
Glazunov (or Glasunov):
The Seasons op. 67
AND Symphony no 1
15
16
Corelli;
12 Concerto Grossi op. 6 (any 3) AND
Trio Sonatas (any 5)
17
18
Grieg:
Piano Concerto
op. 16 AND Lyric Pieces (any, total 30')
19
Locatelli:
Concerto grosso op. 1 no 8 (Christmas Concerto) and any other three
concertos from
op. 1 AND any three flute sonatas from
op. 2.
20
Ibert:
Flute Concerto
AND Concertino da
Camera AND Escales
AND Histoires
21
Janacek:
Sinfonietta
AND
String
Quartet no 1 AND Pohadka
22
23
Kodaly:
Concerto for
Orchestra AND
Dances of Galanta
AND Hary Janos Suite
24
Chopin:
Piano Sonata no 3
AND
Fantaisie-Impromptu AND selections from
Polonaise,
Nocturnes,
Preludes
25
26
Ligeti:
Lux aeterna
AND
Cello Concerto AND
Melodien for orchestra
AND Etudes for piano (any 2)
27
28
Locatelli:
Concerto grosso op. 1 (any 3)
AND L'arte del violino (violin concertos) op. 3 (any 2)
29
30
de Falla:
Nights in the gardens of Spain AND
Concerto for Harpsichord
AND
Cuatro piezas españolas/Four Spanish Pieces
31
32
Massenet:
Piano Concerto
AND Thaïs Méditation
AND
Le Cid Ballet Music
33
34
Milhaud:
Scaramouche
for piano duo AND
Symphony
no 1 AND Le bœuf sur le toit op 58
35
Paganini:
24 Caprices
Op. 1 (any 12) AND
Violin Concerto no 2 (including
movement iii, "La Campanella")
36
Poulenc:
Piano Concerto
FP 146 AND
Trois Mouvements perpétuels AND
Clarinet Sonata
AND Flute
Sonata AND
Oboe sonata
37
38
Prokofiev:
Symphony no 1
“Classical” AND
Symphony no 3
39
40
41
Ravel:
Miroirs AND
Gaspard de la
nuit AND Jeux d'eau
42
Rimsky-Korsakov:
Symphony no 2 AND
Piano Concerto AND
Le Coq d'Or Suite
43
Saint-Saens:
Piano
Concerto no 2 AND
Clarinet Sonata AND
Piano Concerto no 4
44
Satie:
Gnossienne 1 to 6
AND Gymnopédie 1 to 3 AND
Nocturnes 1 to 5 AND
Trois Sarabandes
45
Scarlatti Domenico:
Harpsichord Sonatas (any 15 including K9, K27, K87, K141, K159, K208,
K380, K466)
46
Schnittke:
Suite in the
Old Style AND
String Quartet no 3 AND
Concerto
for Piano and Strings
47
48
Schubert:
6 Moments Musicaux
D780, Op. 94 AND
Piano Quintet D667 'The
Trout'
49
50
Poulenc:
Concerto for
two pianos AND
Organ Concerto AND
Concert champêtre
51
Scriabin:
Symphony no 2
AND Piano Concerto op. 20
52
53
54
Skalkottas:
Five Greek
Dances AND
Piano Concerto no 2 AND
Octet
55
56
Stravinsky: Capriccio
for piano and orchestra AND The Firebird
57
Takemitsu: All in
Twilight AND In the Woods AND Litany AND Nostalghia
58
Telemann: Any concertos
for oboe or recorder or trumpet or horn or viola or flute
59
Varese: Ionisation AND
Amériques AND Poème électronique AND Déserts
60
Vaughan-Williams:
Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
Schoenberg: Five Orchestral Pieces AND Drei Klavierstücke Op. 11 AND
Piano Concerto
68
69
70
Torelli: Trumpet
Concerto AND any of his concerto grosso AND Sinfonias
71
72
73
74
Schubert: Symphony no 5
AND Symphony no 8 (Unfinished)
75
76
77
78
79
Scnittke: Concerto
grosso no 1 AND Concerto grosso no 2
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
Schoenberg:
Pelleas und Melisande Op. 5 AND 6
Kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 AND Phantasy for violin and piano
91
Schumann:
Cello Concerto AND Fantasie op. 17 AND Piano Concerto
92
93
94
95
Vaughan-Williams: The
Wasps Overture AND The Lark Ascending AND Symphony no 7
96
97
98
99
100
Schubert: Symphony no 9
'The Great'
Back to Level 1: Beginners CHORAL AND OPERA SUGGESTIONS Week
COMPOSER AND OPUS TITLE
TOTAL LISTENING TIME 1
Byrd: (any
of his vocal works)
Glinka:
Ruslan & Ludmila
OR A Life for the Tsar (Ivan Susanin) (opera)
Charpentier:
Médée (opera)
Palestrina:
Stabat Matter AND
Missa Papae Marcelli AND
O magnum mysterium AND
Tu es Petrus
Purcell:
Dido and Aeneas (opera)
Rameau:
Les Indes Galantes (opera)
Verdi:
Un ballo in
maschera (opera)
2 : 10'
DM's Opera Site AND
Opera
Folio AND
WEEKLY LISTENING HOME CONCERT PROGRAM
Internet Archive:
Unlocked Recordings. TIP: search in the box under the number of results with
composer's last name and work (e.g. Beethoven symphony 3).
ArkivMusic (USA)
eclassical (download)
Europadisc (U.K.)
JPC (Germany)
Presto Classical (U.K.
& download)
Classical Archives
iTunes
Idagio
medici.tv (video streaming)
Naxos Music Library
Presto Music
Stage+ (Deutsche Grammophon, audio &
video streaming)
Abbreviations of
Composer Works by Catalogers
WEEKLY
LISTENING HOME CONCERT PROGRAM
Suggested by Demetris Loizos
60'
55'
60'
60'
82'
60'
Glinka:
Jota Aragonesa
AND Kamarinskaya
AND Ruslan & Ludmila
Overture AND
Any other
orchestral/chamber works
60'
65'
Mozart:
The Violin Concerto
No 5 K219 AND
String Quartet no 17 K458 'The Hunt'
60'
Couperin
(François):
Concerts Royaux (any 3)
AND Preludes (any, total 15')
AND
Pieces de
Clavecin (any, total 15-20')
60'
66'
60'
68'
75'
65'
60'
65'
60'
60'
70'
60'
Khachaturian:
Spartacus
Ballet Suite no 2 AND
Piano Concerto
55'
55'
60'
60'
60'
50'
60'
55'
60'
55'
65'
80'
55'
70'
65'
60'
55'
75'
Rameau:
Pièces de
Clavecin en concert (Harpsichord trio sonatas) (any three) AND
Orchestral Suite from any ONE of his operas
(preferably from
Les
Indes galantes)
60'
60'
70'
75'
60'
50'
60'
50'
75'
70'
65'
75'
65'
60'
65'
Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie op. 64
60'
70'
55'
60'
65'
65'
65'
Strauss: Horn Concerto no 2 AND Oboe Concero
55'
Schubert: Four
Impromptus D 899 AND Piano Sonata no 21
75'
60'
Schumann: Symphony no3
AND Symphony no 4
70'
55'
Stravinsky: Petrushka AND The Rite of Spring
60'
60'
Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis AND Symphony No.
2 'A London Symphony'
65'
60'
85'
65'
50'
Continue to Level 3: Advanced
( approx. hours : minutes)
1 : 10'
2
1 : 28'
3
2 : 15' - 2 : 45'
4
Gluck:
Alceste
(opera)
2 : 20'
5
Hildegard Bingen:
O viridissima virga
AND
Ave generosa
AND Any Anthems, Motets, Masses, Vespers
1 : 10'
6
2 : 30'
7
Mussorgsky:
Boris Godunov (opera)
1 : 50' - 2 : 20'
8
Ockeghem:
Missa L'homme Armé
60'
9
Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann/The Tales of Hoffman
(opera)
2 : 55'
10
Haydn: Die Jahreszeiten/The
Seasons (oratorio)
2 : 20'
11
65'
12
1 : 50'
13
1 : 20'
14
3 : 10'
15
Schubert:
Die schöne Müllerin D795 (lieder)
1 : 05'
16
2 : 30'
17
Wagner:
Der Ring
des Nibelungen with (a)
Das Rheingold
(The Rhinegold) AND (b)
Die Walküre (The
Valkyrie) AND (c)
Siegfried
AND (d)
Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods)
2:30'+3:55'+3:50'+4:40'
18
Perotinus (magnus magister,
Perotin):
Beata viscera AND
Viderunt omnes AND
Sederunt principes AND
Alleluia nativitas
50'
19
Puccini:
Turandot (opera)
20
Verdi:
Rigoletto (opera)
1 : 55'
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