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Recommended Listening
Below is a list of recommended listening. This is only a small sampling of some of the great music out there. The truth is that any listening is good listening. I encourage you all to branch off this list and explore new music with your children regardless of composer, artist or genre. Happy Listening!!!
Cello solo
J.S. Bach -6 Suites for Cello Solo
Gaspar Cassado - Suite for Solo Cello
Cello and Piano
Johannes Brahms - Sonata No. 1 and No. 2
Sergei Prokofiev - Sonata in C Major, Op. 119
Robert Schumann - Fantasy Pieces
Igor Stravinsky - Suite Italienne
Claude Debussy - Sonate
Manuel De Falla - Suite Populaire Espagnole
Cello and Orchestra
Antonin Dvorak - Concerto in b minor
Edward Elgar - Concerto
Joseph Haydn - Concerto in D Major and C Major
Edouard Lalo - Concerto in d minor
Robert Schumann - Concerto in a minor
Chamber Music
Johannes Brahms - Clarinet Trio in A minor Op. 114
Johannes Brahms - Trio in B major
Johannes Brahms - Sextet No. 1 and No. 2
Antonin Dvorak - String Quartet “American”
Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op. 12 and Op. 13
Felix Mendelssohn - Piano trio in d minor
Maurice Ravel - Sonata for Violin and Cello
Maurice Ravel - Piano Trio
Maurice Ravel - String Quartet,
Arnold Schoernberg - “Verklerte Nacht”
Franz Schubert - Piano Trio in Bflat
Franz Schubert - Cello Quintet
Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Trio No. 1
Orchestra/Opera/Ballet
Sergei Prokofiev - Peter and The Wolf
W.A. Mozart - The Magic Flute
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Complete Symphonies
Johannes Brahms - Complete Symphonies
Ricahrd Strauss - "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 1
Paul Dukas - “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”
Mussorgsky - “Night on Bald Mountain” and “Pictures at an Exhibition”
Carl Orff - “Carmina Burana”
Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapdsody on a theme of Paganini
Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
Fun CDs
Soul of the Tango: The Music of Astor Piazzolla (Yo Yo Ma)
Appalachian Journey and Appalachia Waltz (Yo Yo Ma, Ed Meyer, Mark O’Conner)
Ojos Negros (Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner)
Obrigado Brazil (Yo Yo Ma)
All Albums by Turtle Island String Quartet
Recommended Artists
Jacqueline Du Pré
Yo-Yo Ma
Mistlav Rostropovich
Steven Isserlis
All of this music is available on Itunes or Amazon.com. |
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