RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LISTENING TIME

Restful

Bach – Air on the G String; Prelude No. 1 in C

Beethoven – Piano Sonata, Op. 27, No. 2 (“Moonlight”): first movement

– Violin and Piano Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 (“Spring”): first movement

Brahms – Three Intermezzi, Op. 117; Lullaby (song)

Debussy – Suite Bergamasque: Clair de June

Delius – Fantasy, In a Summer Garden; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite I: Morning

Humperdinck (arr. Kempe) – Hansel and Gretel Suite

Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental Music; Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64:second movement

Mozart – Quintet in E-Flat, K. 452 for Piano and Winds: second movement

Respighi – The Pines of Rome; The Fountains of Rome

Schubert – Piano Trio in B-Flat, Op. 99: second movement; Quintet in A for Piano and Strings, Op. 114 (“The Trout”): third and fourth movements

Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on “Greensleeves”

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons: Summer

Thoughtful and Sad

Bach – harpsichord Concerto No. 5: part two

Chopin – Prelude No. 15 in D Flat (“Raindrop”)

Grieg – Peer Gynt Suite I: Asa’s Death

Mahler – Symphony No. 2 in C Minor: fourth and fifth movements

Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor: second movement

Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals: The Swan

Schubert – Symphony in B Minor (“Unfinished”): second movement

Lively and Happy

Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra: second movement

Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61: third movement; Symphony No. 6 in F (“Pastoral”): fifth movement

Bizet – L’Arlésienne Suite: March and Theme

Borodin – Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances

Brahms – Rhapsodies, Op. 79

Britten – Simple Symphony for Strings, Op. 4: first and second movements

Copland – Appalachian Spring (ballet): Rodeo

Schubert – Ecossaise, Op. 189

Schumann – Carnaval, Op. 9

Interesting and Stimulating

Bach – 48 Preludes and Fugues (any); Organ Toccata and Fugue in D Minor

Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61: first movement; Symphony No. 3 in E Flat (“Eroica”): last movement

Debussy – La fille aux cheveux de lin; Prelude à l’apres-midi d’un faune

Elgar – Enigma Variations, Op. 36

Haydn – Symphony No. 101 in D: second movement

Mendelssohn – The Hebrides: Overture

Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet (Ballet): Cushion Dance

Purcell – The Indian Queen: Trumpet Overture

Rimsky-Korsakov – The Flight of the Bumble Bee

Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals: The Elephant; The Lions

Schumann – Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54: first movement from Your Baby Needs Music, by Barbara Cass-Beggs