# Help me make my Spotify classical playlists? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [October 9, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984 "2022-10-09T19:32:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/1 "2022-10-09T19:32:02Z")
Heya, classical music enthusiasts! I’m looking to set up several classical music playlists and I was looking for some input on them. I’m looking for say 50 to 100 or so “tracks” (I know, I know) in each one, with a good variety of things that are very familiar and things that should be more familiar. Feel free to list your favorites under each category. Also feel free to recommend your favorite recording available on Spotify if you want. I’ve set forth my category with a couple of starter items: Modern Era classical: Holst: Mars, Venus, Jupiter Ravel: Bolero Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 1 Order: O Fortuna Baroque era: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 2, 3, Air on a G String Handel: Hallelujah Chorus, water music in D Alla hornpipe Pachelbel: Canon in D Vivaldi: Classical era: Haydn: Trumpet Concerto Finale Allegro Mozart: Symphony No. 40 mvt. I Beethoven: Bagatelle No. 2, Symphony No. 6 Mvt. I, Moonlight Sonata, Violin Concerto Mvt III Rondo Schubert: Symphony No. 8 I-II, Opera: Bizet: Quand je vous aimerai Puccini: Nessun Dorma, O mio babbino caro, Un bel du vedremo, chi il bel sogno do Doretta, vissi d’arte Verdi: La Donna è mobile, Libiamo ne’lieti calici Rossini: Barber of Seville Largo Al factotum Romantic era: Mendelssohn: Frühlingslied Rossini: William Tell Overture Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 4 Mvt. III, La Campanella, caprice No. 24 Grieg: Peer Gynt Morning, Anitra’s Dance, In the Hall of the Mountain King Brahms: Hungarian Dances 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16, Russians: Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebees, Scheherazade (I-IV) Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition Promenade Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty Waltz, Piano Concerto No. 1 Allegro Khatchaturian: Sabre Dance Borodin: Polovtsian Dances: General dance Allegro, Introduction Andante Renaissance era: I know almost nothing about this era, so I’m open to suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/2 "2022-10-09T19:34:29Z")
I don’t know from eras, and I’m not an expert on classical music, but Gabriel Faure’s “Sicilienne” Op. 60 is my favorite classical piece, and I want it played at my funeral. Get one for piano and cello. And be sure you get all _three_ movements of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Movement 3 is fantastically manic. Get you some Rhapsody in Blue, too. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/3 "2022-10-09T21:18:23Z")
For the Bee, Moonlight is nice, but what you really want is the Hamerklavier. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/4 "2022-10-09T21:55:46Z")
Russian: Prokofiev Symphony No1 (“Classical”) (Preferably all, definitely 4th mvt) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/5 "2022-10-09T22:06:43Z")
I have one on Spotify. PM me if you want me to share it with you. Highlights that have not already been mentioned (unless I missed 1 or 2) include Debussy: Claire de Lune; Deux Arabesques Whitacre: Lux Aurumque Holst: Neptune, the Mystic (first song with a fade out) Satie: Trois Gymnopedies Faure: Requiem In Paradisum Vaugh Williams: A Lark Ascending (might be my favorite) Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor #85, 3rd Movement Adagio Hoppe: Long Ago Telemann: Concerto in G minor, 3rd Movement Largo Chopin: Etude in A-flat major #25 “Aeolean Harp” ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/6 "2022-10-10T14:36:56Z")
I see BBC Radio3 has set one up on Spotify, but you can also explore their archive: > **[Essential Choices (BBC Radio 3)](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/21IhSo7xyubXDLbQzJV3P5)** > > Essential Choices (BBC Radio 3) · Playlist · 480 songs · 2.6K likes > **[Experience Classical - BBC Archive](https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/experience-classical)** > > A digital experience to help discover classical music, with over 600 audio recordings all performed by the BBC Orchestras and Choirs and works by over 150 composers. Categories including Composers, Instruments, Discovery, Moods, and over 400 radio... For personal favourites: Bach - Erbarme Dich (St Matthew Passion) Schlummert Ein (from Cantata Ich Habe Genug) - I like particularly Lorraine Hunt Lieberson’s recording Vivaldi - Cum Dederit R. Strauss - Four Last Songs Sibelius - Symphonies, particularly 2 and 5 Debussy - La Mer Cësar Franck - Violin Sonata and Symphony Stravinsky - Rite of Spring Prokoviev - 1st and 5th Symphonies Shostakovich - 1st Symphony and 2nd Piano Concerto Elgar - Cello Concerto; Introduction and Allegro Bax - Tintagel Vaughan Williams - Symphonies 2, 4, 5; Tallis Fantasia Britten - Four Sea Interludes (I’d better stop there) ---
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I’ll definitely have to look into all of these suggestions! (Patrick London: no need to stop!) ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2022, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984/8 "2022-10-10T16:03:20Z")
Mozart. I recommend some of the piano concertos, especially the performances by Murray Perahia with the English Camber Orchestra. K 453 / 17th and K488 / 23rd are my favorites. The last part of the 3rd movement of K 453 has to be what inspired Falco 😀. Vivaldi. The four seasons concertos. If you go for any contemporary classical, I recommend Jennifer Higdon’s Piano Trio / Voices / Impressions album. ---
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I could go on and on about this, but here’s some suggestions: The classical playlist I use to “chill” to includes: _Spiegel im Spiegel_ - Arvo Part _Good Night, Day_ - Johann Johannsson _And Birds Are Still…_ - Takashi Yoshimatsu _Quartet for the End of Time_, “Louange a L’eternite de Jesus”, mvt 5 - Olivier Messaien _Unfold_ - Skuli Sverrisson _Dream_ - John Cage _Glassworks: Opening_ - Philip Glass _Gymnopedie No. 1_ - Erik Satie _Rothko Chapel 5_ - Morton Feldman _3 Pieces in Old Style_: “No.1 Aria” - Kryzysztof Penderecki _Sospiri, Op 70_ - Edward Elgar _Sonata for Piano 4 Hands_: “II. Andante” - Gyorgy Ligeti _Suite for Symphonic Strings_: “2: Chorale: ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’” - Lou Harrison There’s a lot more to that, but you get the general idea. Apologies for leaving off all the diacriticals but you don’t need them to find the works anyway. I would recommend a medieval list to include works by Machaut, Dufay, Josquin des Prez and Hildegard von Bingen but I appreciate not everyone likes that sort of stuff. But make sure your Renaissance list includes “If Ye Love Me” by Thomas Tallis. It’s lovely. And as a specific work, do have a listen to Florence Price’s _String Quartet No 2 in A Minor_ (all four movements). Glorious stuff. ---
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A great Romantic-era piece that I think should be better known is Josef Suk’s Scherzo Fantastique. It’s beautiful and also very catchy. ---
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Forget one for your Russian list: the Keith Jarrett recordings of Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues are brilliant. If you want a particular one to try to start off, the Prelude/Fugue in A Minor (no 7) is particularly nice but honestly, it’s a great collection all around. Shostakovich and Jarrett both understand how to bring jazz sensibilities to classical music without diluting it. ---
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> [@Jaycat.again](#): > > For the Bee, Moonlight is nice, but what you really want is the Hamerklavier. What you _really_ want is his _32nd sonata_. His final word on the form, 25 minutes, a world in itself. ---
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> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Sibelius - Symphonies, particularly 2 and 5 Definitely! Besides Mozart, I have a special fondness for Sibelius. For those two symphonies the middle parts tend to get a bit unfocused, but to start with listen to the first 8 minutes and last 10 minutes of each… epic stuff. Also by Sibelius is the Karelia Suite, Valse Triste, and of course Finlandia. ---
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Ah, don’t get me started. I’m a big believer in piano music, symphonies and operas. Spotify is great for finding what you like. So here goes with my list. **Piano** - Mozart’s 21st and 24th Piano Concerti. - Beethoven’s 3rd and 4th Piano Concerti. - Chopin’s Nocturnes - Debussy Piano stuff (much of his orchestral work was written for piano first, but sometimes vice versa) As for Renaissance stuff, are you talking about your previously-mentioned Baroque era music? **Romantic Era** HUGE fan of the Russians. All of Tchaikovsky’s Ballets, not to mention his symphonies, are great. I also like Rimsky-Korsakov (Scheherazade-the tale of the 1001 nights). Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. I also like Dvorak a lot, not just his symphonies (7th, 8th, and 9th = New World), Slavonic Dances, but also his various suites, including the outstanding Violin Concerto / Romance (awesome). Verdi & Wagner (see below) **Modern** I am also a big fan of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana (which I take to be your “Order…O Fortuna”). The whole thing is great, not just the opener / closer (the O Fortuna chorus). Much of the stuff in between those bookends is outstanding…there’s spring awakening music, dance music, tavern music, music about romance, then a glorious finale. **Mahler** I’m a HUGE Mahler fan (I place him under “modern.”) His core work are a collection of songs, which later on make their appearance in his symphonies. Frequently he features solo singers in his symphonies, such as (my favorite of all time) the 4th symphony. His 4th symphony is a musical description (world building?) of a wonderland, with a “child” (soprano) describing their idea of heaven, in the 4th and final movement. The other movements move the story up to that description. It’s all breathtakingly beautiful. (For an entry point, I might start with the restful (ruhevoll) third movement.) Then there’s his 6th symphony. It’s taken me fully 20 years to appreciate it fully. It’s been my obsession for the last 5 years. It’s often called his “tragic” symphony, in that the hero “dies” at the end. The journey there is the closest thing to a thriller, as in a novel or action movie, I’ve ever heard in music. You’re on the edge of your seat, things are hurtling along, looks like we’re gonna make it … will we make it? If you ever want an idea of what I mean, just listen to the first 30 seconds of the last movement. Big, energetic crescendo at the start, fading into a spooky, hairs-rising-on-the-back-of-your-neck feeling, and they’re just getting started. Mahler was a genius at orchestrating sound effects, as it were, and you get a full taste of it here. And the _Andante Moderato_ of the 6th is probably the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard. However, I keep coming home to his core songs and song cycles. They’re memorable, artistic, frequently ok with just a soloist and one piano, or maybe a (frequently small) orchestra. It’s the essence of Mahler. Just wonderful songs: Des Knaben Wunderhorn; Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen; Kindertotenlieder (yes). If you just spent a few months listening to these songs, your mind would be filled with new musical landscapes and magic pathways you could visit whenever you want. Maybe his biggest work is his mighty 8th symphony, just two movements, with chorus singing throughout the first movement, and something very operatic happening in the second, with stage directions, soloists, chorus, children’s chorus, and at the end, during the shimmering, glowing finale, just when you though things couldn’t get more intense, we get a (very loud) pipe organ joining in the heavenly wall of sound. Opera Speaking of opera, do you like any of it? If you’re relatively new, then I’d recommend anything by Mozart as a nice place to start: - Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) - Marriage of Figaro - Don Giovanni - Cosi fan tutte Also big opera favorites that pretty much everyone likes: - Carmen (by Bizet) - Lakme (Delibes) Verdi: Contemporary of Wagner (see below); extremely melodic, dramatic, but without being schmaltzy. Great stuff, I’m a big fan of La Traviata and Otello. See the movies by Zeferelli about these two operas, definitely worth seeing. Puccini: Another fan favorite. My best friend’s mom is a lifelong fan of the opera La Boheme, which is pretty much La Traviata, but by Puccini, not Verdi. On the heavier side: Richard Wagner. Caution, if you start liking this music, you might get captured by / obsessed with the Ring Cycle. It’s kind of like the Lord of the Rings, but 16 hours of musical theater. Wagner’s music is probably the origin of most modern classical music, particularly applied to movies, in that he was great at orchestrating live action stuff. Wagner hugely influenced Mahler; Mahler heavily influenced the immigrant composers for golden-age Hollywood, and the rest is history. There’s a definite sense of mirror reflection going on here: Wagner took an ancient world, Nordic myth involving heroes, dragons, magic swords and a ring of power, and created _the_ standard for operas and movie music that followed. Then in 2001, Howard Shore orchestrated the LOTR movie (based on the original sword and sorcerer literature) using the most authentic Wagnerian music style yet used for a movie. ---
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You guys are amazing! I have a lot of listening to do. ---
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I’d like to add a couple of Grieg pieces that I like better than _Peer Gynt_. His Piano Concerto is a favorite of mine: [Leif Ove Andsnes Plays Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 - YouTube](https://youtu.be/liFdIN2vUr4?t=42) And so is his Holberg Suite: [Grieg - Holberg Suite (Complete Score) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFEBTbNs4yk) As for Violin Concertos, I would add Mendelssohn’s and Bruch’s. I see that @K364 didn’t suggest the lovely Mozart piece that his username references, the Sinfonia Concertante? Two of my Dvorak favorites are “In Nature’s Realm” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEaGQhT0\_QQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEaGQhT0_QQ) and the instrumental version of “Song to the Moon” from _Rusalka_: [Joshua Bell - Dvorak - Song to the Moon from Rusalka - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-q42ev-CHA) And Vivaldi’s _Ombra Mai Fu_, vocal or instrumental: [Ombra Mai Fu Cécilia Bartoli - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdeOyrLHdSg) [Ombra mai fu - instrumental - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv5MjKYOotM&ab_channel=JeanneGroenenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdeOyrLHdSg) Happy listening! ---
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> [@K364](#): > > and of course Finlandia For the centenary of Finland’s independence, there was a really stirring performance of the [full choral version by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus at the last night of their Proms series](https://youtu.be/fE0RbPsC9uE) - and in Finnish (as is their chief conductor)! I see I didn’t mention Brahms - Clarinet Quintet, Piano Quintets, String Sextets, Symphonies, German Requiem and the late piano Intermezzi (op. 117/118/119). Schubert: Octet, string quartets (especially Death and the Maiden), symphonies (esp. the Unfinished) Mendelssohn: Octet, Scottish and Italian Symphonies Renaissance - try Tallis (Spem in Alium), Hildegard of Bingen, Marin Marais (Sonnerie de Ste Geneviève). Rameau’s a bit later than Renaissance, but try [Les Boréades](https://youtu.be/I25l_RrxUQY) ---
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Here are some of my absolute favourites. If possible, it is better to listen to the whole piece but I’ve selected isolated movements that can work as some sort of “greatest hits” with the Roman numerals indicating movements or parts. **Dowland** - _Lachrimae_ **Monteverdi** - _Lamento della Ninfa_ **Purcell** - _A New Ground in e minor_ **Bach** - Keyboard : _The Well-Tempered Clavier - Book I n°1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 15, 18, 24_ - Cello : _Cello Suites 1 - I, 5 - V and 6 - I_ - Flute : _Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 - III Presto_ - Vocal / Choral : _Saint Matthew Passion - I Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen, XXXVIII Erbarme dich, LXVIII Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder_, _Cantata 109 - I Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben_ **Pergolese** - _Stabat Mater - I Stabat Mater dolorosa_ **Schubert** - _Winterreise n°1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 24_ - _Schwanengesang n°4, 8_ - _Piano sonata n°20 - II_ **Beethoven** - _Piano sonatas n°14 Moonlight - I, n°15 Pastoral - II, n°32 - I and II_ - _String quartet n°14 - VII_ and _Grosse Fuge_ - _Symphony n°7 - II_ **Chopin** - _Nocturnes n° 1, 2, 6, 9, 13, 15, 19_ - _Préludes n°4, 6, 15, 20_ - _Impromptu, op. 51_ - _Mazurka, op. 63/3_ - _Waltz, op. 64/2_ **Brahms** - _Cello sonata n°1 - I_ - _Symphony n°1 - I_ - _Symphony n°4 - I_ - _Piano Concerto n°1 - I_ - _Piano pieces op. 118/2, 3 and 6_ - _Clarinet quintet - I_ **Debussy** - _Six Épigraphes Antiques for two pianos_ - _Préludes for piano - Book I Voiles, Des Pas sur la Neige, Book II Brouillards, Feuilles Mortes, Bruyères, La Terrasse des Audiences du Clair de Lune, Ondine_ - _Images for piano - Book II Cloches à travers les Feuilles_ - _Syrinx for solo flute_ - _String quartet - II_ **Prokofiev** - _Romeo and Juliet - XIII Dance of the Knights and XLIX Dance of the Girls with Lilies_ - _Piano sonatas n°2 - I and n°8 - I_ - _Sinfonia-concertante for cello and orchestra - I_ - _Symphony n°7 - I_ **Ligeti** - _Lux Aeterna_ - _Lontano_ **Dutilleux** - _Tout Monde Lointain - I Énigme_ ---
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You need more Romantic era piano work. Chopin is the man. Nocturne E Flat Major Op.9 #2 is a good start: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/tV5U8kVYS88/maxresdefault.jpg "Chopin Nocturne E Flat Major Op.9 No.2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV5U8kVYS88) Then you’ve got to kick it up a notch with some Liszt. Concerto #2 is a good start: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Zuhzdr1lJzY/maxresdefault.jpg "Khatia Buniatishvili - Liszt Piano Concerto no. 2 - L'Orchestre de Paris - Andrey Boreyko") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuhzdr1lJzY) ---
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For the Renaissance, a couple of motets from the big names: Palestrina, “Sicut Cervus” is glorious. I sang it in choir 30 years ago and it’s one of the most memorable, richly textured pieces out there: [Motets for 4 Voices, Book 2: Sicut cervus - YouTube](https://youtu.be/M58DoXf1FPw) And the haunting “O Magnum Misterium” by Tomas de Victoria, [Victoria - O magnum mysterium - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dn7HgiT2QY) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-make-my-spotify-classical-playlists/972984.md?page=2)