The List

(Pictured above is my 5th grade class that I told you about - I took the picture so I'm not in it)

Here is the list of 20 Classical Music selections I think you must hear:

1. Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies No. 8 and 9 (“From the New World”)
2. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
3. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos No. 1 and 2
4. Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto
5. Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
6. Modest Mussorgsky/arr. Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
7. Sergei Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 “Haffner”
9. Ludwig von Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
10. Richard Wagner: Preludes to Acts I and III of Lohengrin
11. Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
12. Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 1
13. Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
14. Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
15. Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
16. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
17. Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
18. Pjotr Ilich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
19. Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”
20. Giuseppi Verdi: Requiem

I have also created a .pdf file for those who might want to print it out, take notes, or whatever. I will post that as soon as I figure out how to best do that!