Engage your child (or your inner child) with this 2-disc collection of some of classical music's most widely-recognized pieces.
Disc One:
Copland: “Hoe-Down” from Rodeo
Gershwin: “Andante” from Rhapsody in Blue
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto #2 – 1st movement
Grieg: “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt
Bizet: “Farandole” from L’Arlesienne Suite
Mozart: “Turkish Rondo” from Piano Sonata No. 11
Schubert: March Militaire
Vivaldi: “Spring” from The Four Seasons
Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 7 in c minor
Handel: “Hornpipe in D major” from Water Music
Sousa: Stars & Stripes Forever
Debussy: “Golliwog’s Cakewalk” from Children’s Corner Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 – 2nd Movement
Mussorgsky: “Promenade” from Pictures at an Exhibition
Mussorgsky: “Gnomes” from Pictures at an Exhibition
Copland: “Variations on a Shaker Tune” from Appalachian Spring
Tchaikovsky: “Russian Dance” from The Nutcracker
Tchaikovsky: “Waltz of the Reed Pipes” from The Nutcracker
Offenbach – Rosenthal: “Can Can” from Orpheus in the Underworld
Disc Two:
Prokofiev: “Troika” from Lt. Kije Suite
Rossini: “Finale” from William Tell Overture
Kabalevsky: “Galop” from The Comedians
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94 “Surprise” Second Movement
Felix Mendelssohn: “Scherzo” from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Chopin: Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40, No.1 “Military”
Guiseppe Verdi: “Triumphal March” from Aida
Johann Strauss Jr.: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Benjamin Britten: “Playful Pizzicato” from Simple Symphony
Igor Stravinsky: “Infernal Dance” from The Firebird
Robert Schumann: “The Happy Farmer” from Album for the Young
Holst: “Jupiter” from The Planets
Zoltan Kodaly: “Viennese Musical Clock” from the Hary Janos Suite
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 First Movement
Mozart: Variations on “Ah vous dirai-je, maman”
Produced with support from Naxos
