# Help me with a classical music project **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354 "2006-01-17T13:38:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/1 "2006-01-17T13:38:53Z")
I want to put together a CD, mostly because I feel like it, _possibly_ as a future tool in the fight against musical ignorance of overexposed pieces followed by _other_, better music that composer also wrote. For example: Vivaldi Four Seasons: Spring Four Seasons: Winter Bach That goddamned minuet Something good (from one of the Passions?) Etc. So please suggest some well-known and overrated pieces and alternatives šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/2 "2006-01-17T14:41:57Z")
For the second Bach you could use the aria (opening theme) from the Goldberg Variations, or something from Art Of Fugue. Beethoven: Fur Elise and Sonata Opus 101, first movement Brahms: Hungarian Dance #5 and Opus 118, #2 Chopin: Waltz Opus 18, Barcarolle Opus 60 Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusic, Symphonia Concertante for Violin & Viola, K364 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/3 "2006-01-17T14:52:47Z")
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Symphony #4 Ravel Bolero Tombeau de Couperin Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Piano Concerto #3 Beethoven 5th Symphony Archduke Trio ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/4 "2006-01-17T18:16:20Z")
Prokofiev Piano Concerto #3 šŸ˜‰ Sixth symphony Beethoven 6th symphony 4th symphony Ravel Mother Goose suite Scheherazade Britten Young Personā€™s Guide to the Orchestra Sinfonia da Requiem ---
**Author:** ![Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Stark\_Raven\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stark_Raven_Mad)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/5 "2006-01-17T19:08:36Z")
For Mozart, try Lacrimosa from his Requiem. Sends shivers down my spine everytime. For a more dramatic Lacrymosa, try Verdiā€™s. Sibeliusā€™ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor is freaking fantastic, especially Maxim Vengerovā€™s rendition (be patient - thereā€™s a fantastic couple of bars that repeat themselves throughout the first movement). From Leoncavallo, Vesti la giubba, from his Pagliacci. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/6 "2006-01-17T19:21:05Z")
> [@Stark Raven Mad](#): > > Sibeliusā€™ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor is freaking fantastic, especially Maxim Vengerovā€™s rendition Vengerovā€™s got nothing on Oistrakhā€™s performances ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2006, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/7 "2006-01-17T21:00:52Z")
Debussy (piano) Clair de lune The rest of Suite Bergamesque Images I & II Debussy (orchestral) Prelude to the afternoon of a faun Nocturnes Holst The Planets Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, third group Hymn of Jesus ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2006, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-a-classical-music-project/340354/8 "2006-01-18T01:37:06Z")
Hey, these are good šŸ™‚ May I ask, though, that you keep your well-known music suggestions to ā€œthings the average yutz would have heard without making any effort whatsoever to acquaint themselves with classical musicā€ and not ā€œmusic that anyone who knows anything about classical will have heardā€?