Help me make a classical music playlist

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I find I know and love many classical pieces of music but I never remember most of the names when I want to listen to it!

What would go on your playlist?

I'll start:
Edward Elgar - Nimrod

Elgar's cello concerto. Specifically, played by Jacqueline duPre if you can find it. The most stunning piece of music ever.

Also Mozart's clarinet concerto. The 2nd movement in particular is lovely.

You have great taste 😂

Eric Satie's Gymnopedie is wonderfully soothing and quite beautiful.
My absolute favourite for a long wallow is Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. Just gorgeous.

Lotti Crucifixus
Bach's 5th French Suite
Corelli Christmas Concerto
Mozart Overture to Marriage of Figaro

Cantique de Jean Racine by faure

Karl Jenkins - Palladio
Karl Orff - Gassenhauer
Jean Sibelius - Karelia Suite

Some drama…
O Fortuna Carl Orff (ok it’s a cantata)
Romeo and Juliet Prokofiev

Eric Satie's Gymnopedie is wonderfully soothing and quite beautiful.

I could hardly disagree, could I 😀

Most people go for No.1 but he wrote three.

Allegri Miserere Mei
Vivaldi Four Seasons - summer is my favourite, i love the aggression

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Schubert string quintet in C
Veni Creator Spiritus

I also love more modern composers, particularly Michael Nyman and Debbie Wiseman.

I have no classical music knowledge but there used to be a violinist who busked at Charing Cross Station on the main concourse around 5 or 6 years ago.
He played something so beautiful I welled up everytime I heard it. I don't know what it was, and wish I did know! Sorry to derail this, but thought here's the knowledgeable people who might know?!

O Fortuna from Carmina Burana - Orff.
Beethoven's 1st piano concerto.
Mozart's piano concerto 21 in C Major.
Hallelujah Chorus - Handel.
Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu.
Verdi - Anvil Chorus.
Rossini - Thieving Magpie overture.

And - more recent, but Gilbert and Sullivan is great fun.

Sibelius- Finlandia, Karelia Suite, 5th symphony

Mozart - Clarinet concerto

Elgar - Cello concerto, violin concerto

Shostakovich - Piano concerto number 2

Beethoven - 5th piano concerto and Symphony number 5

Bach - cello prelude number one, water music

Wagner - tannhauser overture

Dvorak - New World Symphony

Bruch - violin concerto

Chopin - everything

Bruch - violin concerto

And his Kol Nidrei.

Adagio for strings, beautiful and my favourite

He wrote a wonderful jaunty saucy little tune called Je Te Veux

Warlock - Capriol Suite
Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in C major
Sibelius - Finlandia

Plus almost everything upthread!

Gershwin - Piano Concerto in F (Probably my favourite piece of all time!)
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Overture
Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no.2
Mozart - Requiem
Debussy - La Mer

Aram Khachaturian, The Masquerade Suite
Aram Khachaturian, Spartacus
Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet
Shostakovich, The Gadfly
Shotskovich, Jazz Suite No.2
Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore
Handel, Sarabande
Handel, Lascia ch'io pianga
Strauss II, Die Fledermaus

I giorni and Nuvole Bianche by ludivico einaudi

Cavalleria Rusticana by Mascagni

Adagio for Strings

I remember singing this with my school choir. It's beautiful.

Bruch’s violin concerto
Mendelssohn -violin concerto
Rimsky Korsakov- Scheherazade
Borodin- Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky- Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninov - piano Concerto 2
Pachabel’s Cannon
The Water Mill - Ronald Binge
Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Rodrigo- guitar concerto
Schindler’s List - John Williams (for me hauntingly beautiful)

Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves by Nabokov.

Not quite Mozart or Beethoven but I love some of Ronald Binge's classics. The Watermill and Elizabethan Serenade