Need help finding classical music for ds (quite specific)

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Elgar Pomp and Circumstance/Enigma Variations?
Holst Planets

Beethoven - Pastoral thingy. The one used in Fantasia with the early My Little Ponies and fairies etc - it's definately gentle and bucolic .

Vaughn Williams LArk Ascending Fantasia on Greensleeves Folk Song Suite

Does it have to be English? How about Mozart's piano concerto 21?

percy grainger

Samuel Coleridge Taylor

what about modern film music? John Williams stuff? Harry Potter? Titanic?

Rachmaninov 2nd piano concerto - my kids love that!

Elgar enigma variations

Walton film suites (Henry V, Richard III, any Walton really!)

oh yes Walton
do you know I am very amused by the idea of your ds listening to Percy Grainger
he might also like marching band music but can't help you with that....

BUtterworth - The Banks of Green Willow for a really bucolic nostalgic thingy

rousing Dambusters things - a CD of military band music might be just the thing, with Where Eagles Dare, Dambusters, 633 Squadron etc.
there are quite a few RAF/Army band CDs of this kind of stuff

Not English but what about Montagues and Capulets from Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet.

Also Barber's Adagio for Strings.

Pachelbel Canon in D.

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& yes Walton -Crown Imperial etc.
more pastoral English stuff - Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves, Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Brigg Fair, Elgar - Sospiri

and if he likes rousing folk song thingies, then the Henry Wood Fantasia on Folk Songs (the one from the last night of the Proms) and some Malcolm Arnold Dances (there are sets of Scottish ones, English ones, Cornish ones etc.)

Nutcracker suite -most kids know that

Carnival of animals -most of these short peices have been used as adverts so ch tend to have heard them even if they don;t 'know' them.

Music from Fantasia

Mozart -someone said - is fab as quite simle harmonies that child love.

I would give opera a miss though my ds alwasy says 'mummy I don't like that lady/man singing' he's 3.7!

William Tell Overture.

All of Pomp and Circumscion

The Brindisi (Drinknig Song) from La Traviata - imagine kids would love to sway around to that one.

Oh yes, you also want some Sousa marches pruni (straight face during Liberty Bell please), maybe some Strauss waltzes, a lot of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (especially the Great Gate of Kiev), and maybe some Offenbach and G & S.
I wonder if he might also like some of the Brandenburg Concertos.
Oooh, and also

Anvil Chorus from Nabucco, the March from Aida...I normally loathe Verdi but I think it has its place

Finally, you might want to try him on this if you can find it in your local library. It's been really popular with the dcs and the Oxford Concert Party are fab. Some of them are also music therapists and IMO this record somehow demonstrates their innate understanding of children's musical preferences. It's mostly world music - a great introduction to Astor Piazzolla for example.

and to really scare him, Orff's Empress Fortuna!

Or that nutter Respighi's I pini di Roma pan

Peter and the Wolf?
The Toy Symphony?

OK, it's not strictly classical but how about this cos it's lovely and we're listening to it lots at the moment:
Children's Favourites 74 Original Hits from the Classic Radio Show

Lots of orchestral music you'd recognise with some old fashioned nostalgia, like The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson, and Puffin Billy.

Peaches has reminded me about this lovely gem of British light musisc

I was going to suggest that CD Marina!
but I forgot to

It's a cracker isn't it Mrs JC. Nice to see that local boys Hyperion are still hanging in there after that punishing lawsuit

If we're talking Orff what about Gassenhauer - lovely tune.

Agree re. Sans Saens as well.

I bought a lovely range from Naxos for DS which has things like Peter and the Wolf, Carnival of the Animals, 1001 Nights etc. read by people like Jonny Morris, Bernard Cribbins and Dame Edna in between the music. DS is only 18m though so will dance to the music but not really into the stories yet.