#feel free to reblog since i spent literally like 3 hours doing this hfkdjhfdklhjdfklhfjdkhldh or something

[erniebilko]

classical music reqs

@ub9​ i’ll put my ABSOLUTE FAVORITES in bold, and DROP EVERYTHING LISTEN NOW are bold AND italics! but these are all in general FAVES. also if you can’t tell lmao... i’m partial to romantic and 20th century!!! dfgfdhh

baroque: 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcgArAqfJXU J.S. Bach, Mass in B Minor, Agnus Dei 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdNBgyC88o J.S. Bach, Erbarme Dich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, When I Am Laid In Earth (jessye norman is.... a goddess btw plz watch vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMeldEoy5FQ A. Scarlatti, Griselda, In voler 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2j-frfK-yg J.S. Bach, Air (On the G String)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTPiZup0QmM Vivaldi, Violin Concerto in A minor (just listen to that violin sing!!!!)

classical period: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyjVCbTo5F0 Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHSPT6LRDx4 Mozart, Don Giovanni, Commendatore scene (CHILLING... watch this rapist get his just desserts!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7Nhn1H7Zs Mozart, Così fan tutte, Un’aura amorosa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grVHXLY5cM8 Mozart, Piano Sonata in F Major, 1st movement 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45DAuXYSIs Mozart, Symphony no. 40 in G minor (quintessential mozart sound honestly)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU0Ubs2KYUI Haydn, Symphony no. 88, 4th movement (honestly i just love watching leonard bernstein be silly up there)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJgRZlbkO38 Beethoven, Piano Trio in c minor

https://youtu.be/J12zprD7V1k?t=19s Beethoven, Symphony no. 7, 2nd movement

https://youtu.be/dvPMXuU35QI?t=11s Beethoven, Symphony no. 9, 2nd movement

https://youtu.be/kdB0roPqg7Q?t=1m41s Beethoven, Fidelio, “O Welche Lust”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnrHf7p0jM Schubert, “Unfinished” Symphony no. 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeKgNMKcUng Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VqK088TF4 Schubert, An die Musik

https://youtu.be/lT_b_MWrJQU Schubert, Ave Maria

romantic: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkU8ULGs4aE Schumann, Symphony no. 4 (ONE OF MY FAVES........)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGO6wyHFClo Schumann, Dichterliebe, Im wunderschönen Monat Mai

https://youtu.be/EGRqIGOAPcE?t=54s Brahms, Symphony no. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px2anxg3Tjk Brahms, Wie bist du meine Königin

https://youtu.be/HSNAy0ML-cg Brahms, Hungarian Dances no. 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nP0gqKmWuY Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 3 (beautiful...;_;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxp3IQ6pxYs Chopin, Mazurka in f# minor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R_9K9vvdus Chopin, Etude in c# minor (EXCITING)

https://youtu.be/3y1TUkQ0oVs Chopin, Les sylphides waltz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIackkOX2BU CHOPIN, PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 (the piano at 1m30s is beautiful enough to make me start SOBBING)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWerj8FcprM Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto no. 1 (sigh... obligatory tchaikovsky include)

https://youtu.be/Znaac5QFNxY Bruckner, Symphony no. 7, 2nd movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEPERXpOqiU Mahler, Symphony no. 1, 3rd movement (wait for the klezmer.. it makes me go fucking wild)

https://youtu.be/urWIADgIgUg Mahler, Symphony no. 2, LISTEN TO THE WHOLE THING BEFORE YOU DIE!!!! 

https://youtu.be/1AwFutIcnrU?t=1m23s Mahler, Symphony no. 3, my personal favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOMu1oKAouE Mahler, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Rheinlegendchen (SOOOOOOO CUUUUUUTE)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-9IvuEkreI Bellini, Norma, Casta Diva (absolutely.......... gorgeous...) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F4G5H_TTvU Verdi, Nabucco, “Va, pensiero” (this is considered an iconic anthem of the italian unification)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT92QQyRfT0 Verdi, Rigoletto, Caro nome (;____;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3RaYSzOQv0 Bizet, Carmen, Seguidilla (grace bumbry is... an angel)

https://youtu.be/wFIRGzDZxgQ?t=7s Offenbach, Tales of Hoffmann, Barcarolle (lesbian anthem...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-P183jzdfw Sibelius, Violin Concerto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8mKsNTh4Kw Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 2, 3rd movement (one of the most iconic musical moments of all time.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_iPn1GbUUU Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G4NKzmfC-Q Smetana, Ma Vlast, Smetana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX52fGwrG20 Dvorak, Slavonic Dances no. 2 (one of my faves)

https://youtu.be/PAzEo7Zb-hU Ravel, Feria

https://youtu.be/iZj7LHhIVuc Ravel, Valses nobles et sentimentales, no. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYNlYMvFA5U Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNlXrdJFTAM Ravel, Bolero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vCOksQ-XRk Duparc, La vie anterieure

20th century:

https://youtu.be/L18b3UQQ49I?t=27s De Falla, Danza Ritual de Fuego

https://youtu.be/pV4I12TNBR8?t=14s De Falla, Nana 

https://youtu.be/Dz83qLp29DE?t=2m18s De Falla, Asturiana

https://youtu.be/cH2PH0auTUU?t=15s Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi0ENw-JlUI Gershwin, American in Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVsszW7Nds Holst, The Planets (venus and saturn are my faves)

https://youtu.be/QCbAsGQwz40?t=7s Korngold, Violin Concerto 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcvxzRcBm-A Achron, Hebrew Melody (if you’re jewish..... listen to this especially)

https://youtu.be/aiteau_jNz4 Issay Dobrowen, Sonata-Skazka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-k_loiBYI8 Khachaturian, Masquerade Suite

https://youtu.be/BWHmBf--Jcg?t=1m20s Khachaturian, Gayane, Ayshe’s Dance (LISTEN TO THIS IT CHANGED ME)

https://youtu.be/zLJmU8KQ88w Khachaturian, Gayane, Lullaby (You Will Cry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKXUby45s5k Shostakovich, Jazz Suite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSm2tQwLuPg Prokofiev, Cinderella

https://youtu.be/5qTaeF9x8wk Adams, Nixon in China (FAVE, but it’s not for everybody)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoNrwiePomk Cage, Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, VI. Sonata 5 (A BOP)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI-TWpEgGTM Ligeti, Études, No. 9, Vertiges