Classical Corner
Resources
- Classical Net - contains a variety of classical reviews, articles, recommendations, and biographies. Their "Basic Repertoire" lists are excellent listening guides
- Presto Classical - a site dedicated to cataloging and selling thousands of classical recordings. Great for searching award-winning interpretations
- Deutsche Grammophon - an important classical music label. The website includes recordings, news, biographies, concerts, and much more
- MusOpen - free, quality music books, sheet music, and more
- ClassicFM - a useful classical resource and digital radio
- Digital Dream Door - a list of the greatest classical composers and their magnum opi. The site includes a variety of lists spanning various genres
- The Most Underrated Composers - a reddit (/r/classicalmusic) discussion of the most underrated classical composers
- Classical CD Guide - a website dedicated to cataloging classical recordings
Recommended Works by Composer
- Bach - Air, Art of the Fugue, Mass in B minor St. Matthew's Passion, Suites for Solo Cello, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Toccata & Fugue in D minor for Organ
- Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarin
- Berlioz - Les Nuits d'Ete, Les Troyens, Symphonie fantastique
- Beethoven - Archduke Trio, Egmont, Piano Concerto No 1, Missa Solemnis, Piano Concerto No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 4, Piano Concerto No. 5, Piano Sonata No. 8, Piano Sonata No. 14, Piano Sonata No. 17, Piano Sonata No. 21, Piano Sonata No. 23, Piano Sonata No. 26, Piano Sonata No. 32, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, Symphony No. 7, Symphony No. 9
- Brahms - Hungarian Dances, Piano Concerto No. 2, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 4
- Copland - Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man
- Chopin - Mazurkas, Nocturnes, Piano Sonata No. 2, Preludes
- Debussy - La Mer, Golliwog's Cakewalk, Images, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, Preludes for Piano, Reverie, Suite Bergamasque
- Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony)
- Gershwin - An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess, Rhapsody in Blue
- Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Messiah, Music for the Royal Fireworks, Water Music
- Haydn - Symphony No. 101, Symphony No. 103
- Janacek - On an Overgrown Path, Sinfonietta, The Cunning Little Vixen, Idyll Suite for Orchestra
- Ives - Central Park in the Dark, Three Places in New England
- Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsodies
- Lutislowski - Cello Concerto, Symphony No. 3, Concerto for Orchestra
- Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde, Symphonies 2, 3, 5, 6, & 9 (honestly can't go wrong with any of them)
- Mozart - Ave verum corpus, Fantasy #2, Piano Concertos, Piano Sonatas, Serenade No. 13, Symphony No. 40, Symphony No. 41, Requiem, Die Zauberflote, Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro
- Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf, Symphony No. 5
- Rachmaninov - All-Night Vigil, The Bells, The Isle of the Dead, Piano Concerto No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 3, Symphonic Dances
- Ravel - Bolero, Daphnis et Chloe, Gaspard de Nuit, Piano Concerto in G Major, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
- Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio españole, Scheherazade, The Flight of the Bumblebee
- Satie - Gnossiennes, Gymnopédies
- Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre, Introduction et Rondo capriccioso
- Scarlatti - Sonatas for Keyboard
- Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande, Verklärte Nacht
- Schubert - Lieder, Piano Quintet in A Major ("The Trout"), Piano Sonata No. 21, Symphony No. 9, Winterreise
- Schumann - Kinderszenen, Kreisleriana, Symphonic Etudes
- Scriabin - Poem of Ecstasy, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 2
- Shostakovich - The Jazz Album, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 5, Syphnony No. 7, Symphony No. 10, Symphony No. 15
- Sibelius - Finlandia, Kullervo, Lemminkäinen Suite, Scene Historique, Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 7, Violin Concerto in D Minor
- Stravinsky - Firebird, Petrushka, Pulcinella, The Rite of Spring, Symphony of Psalms, Les Noces
- Stockhausen - Helikopter-Streichquartett, Kontra-Punkte Op. 1, for 10 Instruments
- Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Marche Slave, The Nutcracker Suite, Piano Concerto No. 1, Sleeping Beauty, Symphony No. 6, Swan Lake, Violin Concerto in D Major
- Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending
- Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Operas
Recommended Interpretors by Genre and Composer
Piano / Harpsicord / Keyboard
- Bartok - Zoltán
- Beethoven - Barenboim, Brendel, Kempff
- Bach - Gilbert (harpsicord), Gould, Gulda, Marriner, Pollini, Richter (piano), Sokolov (piano)
- Brahms - Kempff, Polini
- Chopin - Argerich, Horowitz, Dinu Lipatti, Yundi Li, Pollini, Arthur Rubinstein, Zimmerman
- Debussy - Michelangeli
- Liszt - Gyorgy, Kissin
- Mozart - Gould, Mitsuko Uchida, Murray Perahia
- Rachmaninov - Lugansky, Ashenkazy, Richter, Argerich
- Ravel - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Argerich, Michelangeli, Vlado Perlemuter
- Scriabin - Horowitz, Richter
- Scarlatti - Pogorelić Schiff
- Schubert - Kempff, Lupu, Pollini, Richter
- Schumann - Horowitz
- Rachmaninov - Argerich, Richter
- Tchaikovsky - Argerich
Symphonies, Operas, Concertos & and other Orchestral Works
- Beethoven - Barenboim, Karajan, Kleiber
- Brahms - Abbado, Bohm, Karajan, Kleiber
- Haydn - Dorati
- Ives - Bernstein
- Janáček - Mackerras
- Mahler - Abbado, Barbirolli, Bernstein, Karajan, Klemperer
- Mozart - Abbado, Bernstein, Bohm
- Rachmaninov - André Previn, Simon Rattle
- Ravel - Munch
- Saint-Saëns - Dutoit
- Schubert - Amadeus Quartet, Solti
- Schumann - Karajan
- Scriabin - Muti, Svetlanov
- Schoenberg - Karajan
- Shostakovich - Chailly, Nelsons
- Stravinsky - Boulez
- Tchaikovsky - Dorati, Karajan
- Wagner - Karajan