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Pieces of classical music I’ve listened to

Since the middle of March 2019, I’ve been discovering my deep love of classical music. Since I already don’t know what I’ve listened to so far, I will keep track of all the pieces from now on here.

Renaissance

Girolamo Frescobaldi

  • Toccate e partite d’intavolatura, Libro 1: No. 29, Cento partite sopra passacagli

Baroque

Johann Sebastian Bach

  • BWV 529
  • BWV 812
  • BWV 910
  • BWV 911
  • BWV 912
  • BWV 914
  • BWV 965
  • BWV 1046
  • BWV 1052
  • BWV 1055
  • BWV 1058
  • BWV 1080
    • Fugue No. 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

  • Bassoon Concerto in D Minor, RV 481

Classical period

Ludwig van Beethoven

  • Piano Sonata No. 14 in C# major, Op. 27 No. 2, “Moonlight”

Joseph Haydn

  • Symphony #39
  • Symphony #45 in F sharp minor, “Farewell”
  • Symphony #46 in B major
  • Symphony #52 in C minor
  • Symphony #59 in A major, “Fire”
  • Symphony #63 In C, “La Roxelane”
  • Symphony #93 In D, H 1_93
  • Symphony #94 In G, ”Surprise”

Johann Baptist Wanhal

  • Symphony in C major “Sinfonia Comista”, Bryan C11
  • Symphony in D major, Bryan D4
  • Symphony in D minor, Bryan D1
  • Symphony in G minor

John Marsh

  • Symphony No.1 in Bb major
  • Symphony No. 4 in F major
  • Symphony No.6 in D major
  • Symphony No.7 in Eb major, “La Chasse”

Josef Mysliveček

  • Divertimento in A major

Romanticism

Josef Miroslav Weber

  • Septet for clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, violin, viola, cello, „From My Life“

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

  • Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op.18
  • Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13, I. Grave – Allegro ma non troppo

Franz Schubert

  • Symphony No.3 in D major, D.200
  • Symphony No. 5 in Bb major, D.485

Antonín Dvořák

  • String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”
  • Serenade for winds, Op. 44
  • No. 1 in C major: Presto (Furiant), Op. 46
  • No. 2 in E minor: Allegretto scherzando (Dumka), Op. 46

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

  • Islamey
  • Piano Sonata in B flat minor

Modest Petrovich Mussogorsky

  • Night On Bald Mountain
  • Songs and Dances of Death
  • Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 (first sentence, London Symphony Orchestra, Predrag Gosta)
  • Pictures at an Exhibition (performed by Evgeny Kissin)
  • Pieces for piano
    • Memories of childhood. Kids Games
    • Passionate impromptu
    • In the village
    • On the southern coast of Crimea
    • Seamstress
    • Minx
    • Near the southern coast of Crimea, Kayaks
    • Polka
    • Thought
    • Memories of childhood, Nanny and I
    • Thinking
    • Memories of childhood – the first sentence
    • Tear

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin

  • Prince Igor
  • In the Steppes of Central Asia
  • Polovtsian dances with Chorus

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Overture On Three Russian Themes, in D major, Op. 28
  • The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship

César Cui

  • Suite #2 in E Major, Op. 38 in 4-hand arrangement for piano

Bedřich Smetana

  • Moldau in 4-hand arrangement for piano

Modernism

Béla Bartók

  • String Quartet no. 1, Op. 7
  • String Quartet no. 3, Sz. 85
  • Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
  • Orchestral Suite No. 1, BB 39 (first two sentences)

Dmitri Shostakovich

  • String Quartet No. 8
  • Symphony No. 7 (also known as the “Leningrad symphony”; heard live)
  • Symphony No. 10
  • Piano Concerto No. 2, Op.102

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

  • The Rite of Spring: Part One
  • Petrushka Suite (1947 version)
  • The Soldier’s Tale

Leoš Janáček

  • On an Overgrown Path
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 2

Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov

  • Piano Concerto No. 1 Op. 14
  • Zavod

Gavriil Nikolayevich Popov

  • Chamber Symphony in C major, Op. 2

Gideon Klein

  • Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello in arrangement for chamber orchestra by Vojtěch Saudek, also known as Partita

Pavel Haas

  • Sinfonia, orchestrated by Zdeněk Zouhar
  • Wind Quintet, Op. 10
  • String Quartet No. 3, Op. 15

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