Essential Classical Music playlist

Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor, WoO 59 "Für Elise"

John Ogdon

The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto in E Major, Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 "Spring": I. Allegro

Itzhak Perlman

Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G Major, K. 525 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik': I. Allegretto

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan

Carmen, WD 31, Act 1: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Carmen, Chorus)

Lorin Maazel

Giazotto: Adagio For Strings And Organ In G Minor

Eduard Kaufmann, Walter Prystawski, Festival Strings Lucerne & Rudolf Baumgartner

Einaudi: Experience

Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope & I Virtuosi Italiani

The Ride Of The Valkyries

Lilo Brockhaus, Carlotta Ordassy, Barbro Ericson, Cvetka Ahlin, Helga Jenckel, Liselotte Rebmann, Danica Mastilovic, Ingrid Steger, Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor, S. 244 No. 2 (Arr. in C Minor for orchestra by Karl Müller-Berghaus)

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Willi Boskovsky

Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35: II. The Story of the Kalender Prince (Opening)

Riccardo Muti

Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: II. Lento e Largo - Tranquillissimo

Dawn Upshaw, London Sinfonietta & David Zinman

Adagio for Strings, Op. 11

Leonard Bernstein

8 Slavonic Dances, Op. 46, B. 83: No. 2 in E Minor

Lorin Maazel

Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068: II. Air

Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Boléro (2005 - Remaster)

Herbert von Karajan

Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (opening)

Klaus Tennstedt

Scene 2: Scène (Moderato)

Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre

Flight of the Bumblebee

Isaac Stern

Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BMV 1007: Prelude

Johann Sebastian Bach & Jörg Metzger

Il barbiere di Siviglia: Overture (Remastered)

Fritz Reiner

Symphony No. 5 in C-Sharp Minor: IV. Adagietto. Sehr langsam

Daniel Barenboim

Swan Lake, Op. 20a: No. 1, Scène

David Parry / London Philharmonic Orchestra

Night Piece (Notturno) (1963)

Stephen Hough

Strauss, Johann II : An der schönen blauen Donau Op.314 [Blue Danube Waltz]

Erich Kleiber

Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550: I. Molto allegro

Philharmonia Orchestra & Otto Klemperer

The Nutcracker Op.71 Waltz Of The Flowers

Wiener Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan

Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.64: Allegro molto appassionato

Maria Bachmann, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Libor Pesek

Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor 'Moonlight' Op. 27 No. 2: I. Adagio sostenuto

Mikhail Pletnev

Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 In D Major, Op. 6, MS. 21: 2. Adagio

Viktoria Mullova, Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, B. 178 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco (Live at Philharmonie, Berlin, 1997)

Berliner Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: II. Andante sostenuto

Wiener Philharmoniker & Carlo Maria Giulini

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35: The Sea And Sinbad's Ship

Pierre Monteux

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending, for Violin and Orchestra (Excerpt, Opening)

Sir Adrian Boult

Water Music, Suite No.1 in F Major: IV. Air

Riccardo Muti

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio (Live at Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, 2001)

Claudio Abbado

Le carnaval des animaux, R 125: XIII. Le cygne (feat. Éric Levionnais & Süher Pekinel)

Güher Pekinel

Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

Johann Sebastian Bach & Miklós Spányi

Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Sir Colin Davis

24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major "Raindrop"

Nikolai Lugansky

Cage: In a Landscape

Alexei Lubimov

Manfred, Op. 115: Overture

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2, Andante in E-Flat Major

Arthur Rubinstein

Puccini: Turandot, Act III: Nessun dorma!

Luciano Pavarotti, John Alldis Choir, Wandsworth School Boys Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta

14 Romances, Op. 34: No. 14, Vocalise (Arranged for Violin & Orchestra by Joshua Bell)

Joshua Bell

Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 66

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Borodin: Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

Sir Simon Rattle

Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64, Act 1, Scene 2: No. 13, Dance of the Knights

Sir John Pritchard

3 Gymnopédies: I. Lent et douloureux

Finghin Collins

Aires Bohemios, Op. 20 (Remastered)

Pablo De Sarasate

Prélude from Unaccompanied Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (Excerpt)

Yo-Yo Ma

String Quintet in E Major, Op. 11 No. 5, G. 275: III. Minuetto - Trio (Arr. Woodhouse for String Orchestra)

Sir Neville Marriner

Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: 2. Un bal (Valse: Allegro non troppo)

New Philharmonia Orchestra & Leopold Stokowski