Listening List Summer 2019

• Maurice Ravel - Bolero
• Gustav Holst - The Planets (try Jupiter to start)
• Johannes Brahms - Hungarian Dances (#5 is probably the best known)
• Anton Dvorak - Slavonic Dances
• George Gershwin - An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue
• Ludwig van Beethoven Symphonies - (try the fourth movement of Symphony #5: Allegro, Presto)
• Georg Frideric Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks, Hallelujah Chorus
• W.A. Mozart - Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, Turkish March
• Sergei Prokofiev - For the Love of Three Oranges, Peter and the Wolf
• Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube (you might find a bunch of good orchestral video selections, including this under Andre Rieu)
• Fryderyk Chopin - Heroic Polonaise, Revolutionary Etude, Polonaise Op. 3 (piano and cello)
• Peter Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto (especially the last movement!)
• Antonio Vivaldi - Winter or Spring from The Four Seasons