MUSIC FOR WILLEM

 (Non-exhaustive List of Grampa's Personal Favorites)

GERMAN

Bach

Brandenburg Concerto

Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
Violin Concertos #1 & #2
Piano Concerto

Beethoven

Symphonies #3, #5, #6, #7, #9

Violin Concerto

Piano Concerto #5

Brahms

Academic Festival Overture

Symphony #4

Violin Concerto

Hungarian Dance #5

Mozart

Piano Concertos

Violin Concertos

Für Elise

Symphony #41

Rondo: Alla Turca

Wagner

Instrumentals (various- especially Top Hits from The Ring Cycle, eg, Ride of the Valkyries)

Tannhauser Overture

Schubert

Death and the Maiden

Schumann

Symphony

Straus, Johan

Radetzky

Waltzes (Danube; Skaters’)

Carl Orff

Carmina Burana

Gustav Mahler – 

Symphony #5

Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto E Minor

Fingal's Cave (Hebrides overture)

Liszt

Les préludes

Un Sospiro

Haydn

Symphony No. 94, 'Surprise'

RUSSIAN

Borodin

String Quartet #2 nocturne

Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

Tchaikovsky

Symphonies #4, #5, #6

Violin Concerto

Piano Concerto #1

1812 Overture

Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto #2

Piano Concerto #3

Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini

Khachaturian

Spartacus Ballet - Adagio

Saber Dance

Prokofiev

Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet Ballet)

Shostakovich

Gadfly

Ballet Suites, various

Rimsky-Korsakov

Scheherazade

Flight of the Bumble Bee

Stravinski

Firebird

FRENCH

Chopin

Piano Nocturne #2

Satie

Gymnopedie#1

Debussy

Clair de Lune

Girl With Flaxen Hair

Gabriel Fauré

Pavane for a Dead Princess

Pachelbel

Canon

Offenbach

Tales of Hoffman

Saint-Saens

Carnival of the Animals

Danse Macabre

Berlioz

Harold in Italy

Massenet

Meditation de Thais

Ravel

Bolero

La Valse

BELGIAN

Cesar Franck

Symphony in D Minor

SPANISH

Rodrigo

Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez

Manuel de Falla

Three-Cornered Hat, Ballet

SCANDANAVIAN

Grieg

Peer Gynt

CZECH

Smetana

Moldau

FINNISH

Sibelius

Finlandia

ITALIAN

Verdi and Puccini
            All their Operas
Vivaldi

Four Seasons

Giuseppe Verdi –

Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

Gioachino Rossini

The Barber of Seville: Overture

William Tell Overture

ENGLISH

Samuel Barber

Adagio for Strings

Elgar

Pomp and Circumstance

Hayden (German, too)

Water Music

US

Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

Porgy and Bess - Opera