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Need help w/ making a Classical music cd

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heffe734

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Hey guys,

I'm trying to make a nice two cd compilation of classical music...got any ideas for which songs or pieces i should put in. I'm asking for you help because i don't know many pieces by name and composer....except a few like vivaldi four seasons (spring) and canon in d and stuff like that. Your input is greatly appreciated....thanks.

Also...do any of you guys happen to know the piece that is played in the flash portion of the bellagio website? Can't find that song anywhere...Thanks ---- (EDIT: I found it = Vivaldi Winter)


Edit: I have no knowledge of the periods and even the composer....sorry...i guess you can say i'm a newb to classical music... Any periods fine...just gimme some input on your top three i guess...thanks again for the help.
🙂

Edit: Geesh...thanks for the overwhelming response...keep'em coming!
 
dvorak symphony #9 is pretty popular, i also like der titan by mahler and if you are open to opera, verdi's othello is my favorite. if you want scary you could put orff's carmina burana.
 
What genres are you going for? Also what periods? Without knowing what you like/want, it'd be easy to list hundreds and hundreds of works.
 
Andres Segovia - Leyenda .....was suggested to me by someone, pretty good.


I have a thing for piano pieces....so most of the stuff I have are piano concertos and wahtever. Piano = GOOD.

Good luck w/ your cd. 🙂
 
Mussorgsky - Grand gate at Kiev
Ticheli - Blue Shades
Anything Bach
Holst - The Plants... esp. Jupitor and Mars
 
Since you're a newb, here are a few suggestions:
Bach: English Suites, French Suites, Partitas, Brandenberg Concertos, and pretty much anything else you can find.
Mozart: Everything is good, though my personal favorite is Symphony No. 40.
Beethoven: Symphonies 3, 5, 7, and 9. They're all good, of course. Piano Sonatas 8 ("Pathetique"), 14 ("Moonlight"), 21 ("Waldstein").
Chopin: Any of the Polonaises and Mazurkas.
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, Piano Concerto in A minor Opus 16.
Smetana: Ma Vlast (especially The Moldau).
Rachmaninov: Any piano concerto.
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4, 5, 6. 1812 Overture. Anything from The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty or Swan Lake.
Dvorak: Symphonies 8 (also called 4) and 9 (as mentioned already).
Dukas: Sorceror's Apprentice.
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Die Walkure, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Parsifal, and pretty much everything else.
Mahler: Anything, including ALL of his symphonies.
Bruckner: Symphonies 4, 7, 8.
Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust, Symphony Fantastique.
Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.
Schubert: Ave Maria, Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished").
Brahms: Symphonies 1, 2, and 3.
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances Suites 1-3, The Birds, Pines of Rome, Fountains of Rome.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade.
Verdi: La Traviata, Il Trovatore, Aida, La Forza del Destino.

Those are off the top of my head. Of course there are tons of other composers and works to check out. I left off a lot of 20th century composers, mainly because the majority of music from the "Contemporary" period takes a lot of dedicated listening to appreciate.
 
F. Liszt -- Liebestraum No. 3, La Campanella
F. Chopin -- Barcarolle op. 60
C. Debussy -- Clair de Lune
 
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