My Classical Month Listening List
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Whahhh classical music listening month is over and I am SAD, Y’ALL. BUT! (1) Next month is listening to BROADWAY, so it’s definitely not all bad news! Aaaand… (2) I’ve got a full list of what I listened to for you! Like I said at the beginning of the month, I picked two pieces for each day of the month: one from what is called “the canon” (aka, the stuff that gets played all the time) and one that should be “canonized” (especially lots of works by people who aren’t cis-het-dead-white-guys).
I had the most incredible time listening this month, so I hope you will enjoy starting (or continuing!) your classical music listening journey with these amazing works!
NOT (CURRENTLY!) IN THE CANON
Symphony No. 1, Florence Price
Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, Joan Tower
Nonet in F Minor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sinfonia (For Orbiting Spheres), Missy Mazzoli
Suite de “La Remambaramba”, Amadeo Roldán
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Clara Schumann
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Ian Cusson
Entr'acte, Caroline Shaw
Piano Trio op. 11, Fanny Mendelssohn
Dog Breath Variations, Frank Zappa
Violin Concerto, Jennifer Higdon
Frontispiece, Unsuk Chin
Swing Symphony, Wynton Marsalis
Black Swan, Bright Sheng
Throughline, Nico Muhly
Grand Pianola Music, John Adams
Glass Houses, Ann Southam
Efflorescence, Keiko Devaux
Winter Music, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang
Lyric for Strings, George Walker
The Rhyme of Taigu, Zhou Long
Violin Concerto No. 1, Magnus Lindberg
Gaelic Symphony, Amy Beach
Yoshiyahu, James Lee III
Piano Trio, Reena Esmail
The Midnight Hour, Anna Clyne
Solace, Jocelyn Morlock
Il divertimento barocco, Ana Sokolović
De profundis, Raminta Šerkšnytė
Tabla Concerto, Dinuk Wijeratne
WORKS FROM THE CANON
Rhapsody in Blue, Gershwin
Firebird, Stravinsky
Cello Suite No. 1, Bach
Symphony No. 5, Shostavokich
Symphony No. 40, Mozart
Sonata Op. 106, Beethoven
Symphony No. 8, Schubert
La mer, Debussy
Pines of Rome, Respighi
Pictures at an Exhibition, Mussorgsky
Souvenir de Florence, Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto, Grieg
“The Trout” quintet, Schubert
Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2, Chopin
Symphonie Fantastique, Berlioz
String Quartet op. 76 no. 3, Haydn
Don Juan, Strauss
Violin Concerto, Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 2, Mahler
2nd Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff
Violin Concerto, Brahms
Adagio for Strings, Barber
The Four Seasons, Vivaldi
Cello Concerto, Elgar
Piano Sonata in B Minor, Liszt
Concerto for Orchestra, Bartok
String Quartet Op. 96, Dvorak
Goldberg Variations, Bach
Appalachian Spring, Copland
Symphony No. 9, Beethoven
