/mu/ Core Classical Pieces

Traditional sounding stuff;

Bach - Cello Sonatas, Chaconne for Violin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQLXRTl3Z0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPWQjjOxjMs
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoTCS9AZRSQ
Mahler - Symphonies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDsxm2nZHPI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zvfh_mjPLlQ
Martinů - 1st Symphony, Concerto for Double String Orchestra, Piano and Timpani
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9sqT-2f7S4
Janáček - String Quartet No.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc-DZWoU52E
Grieg - Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak, String Quartet No.1, Death of Ase
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJi_rb9D8I4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZZkxLY9uqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV0qfPuPKZ4
Schubert - Symphony No.8 "Unfinished"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mnrHf7p0jM
Bruckner - Symphony No. 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMC26fx8zc
Nielsen - Little Suite for Strings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIhufkXFtEE
Rued Langgard - Symphony No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCS8hUZXJ-g


Modern stuff that might blow your mind;

Psathas - Omnifenix, Abhisheka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gG0j-35Mgk&list=PLA874AE4E911D1479&index=4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHI2xyyH-CU
Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HilGthRhwP8
Grisey - Partiels
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB8UiPc2FwY
Bartók - String Quartet No. 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMWaaaWFQo
Xenakis - Mycenae Alpha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yztoaNakKok
Rautavaara - Piano Concerto No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmIy-zHG528
Schnittke - Gogol Suite, Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHamoW_O5hY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaSapuxsS90
Lera Auerbach - Symphony No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpRr-tTEpfw
Schönberg - 5 Pieces for Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehhRCtrHAx8
Murail - Gondwana
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4EIx0XzPzg
Ives - Symphony No. 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giVXGrjqUeI
Haas - String Quartet No.7 with electronics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDiCfbTwMDE


Modern stuff that actually sounds nice;

Pärt - Summa for Strings, Fratres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzSlmWQuHFw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em66qzGfC1I
Anthony Ritchie - Symphony No. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogELM2QdQA0
Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du6M96E8KyE
Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610xovNQU-w
Glass - Melodies for Saxophone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWYtZohMWc
de Castro-Robinson - The Glittering Hosts of Heaven
https://vimeo.com/68986729
Saariaho - Circle Map
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPnNZydMYEI
John Adams - Doctor Atomic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fJRoKlCroU
"Wonders are Many - The making of Doctor Atomic. "
http://kickass.to/wonders-are-many-the-making-of-doctor-atomic-t6708850.html
Scott - Entrada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14jPvnWhdNM


Beautiful Music from Bygone Ages;

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mrVZHPikqM
Thomas Tallis - the Lamentations of Jeremiah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbczcKGgcwM
Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wVaD2_RmO8
Coventry Carol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da6nOl3cXT8
Biber - Partita VII for two Viole d'Amore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP9JZupq8BY
Josquin des Prez - Missa Pange lingua
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SH3drDXE8M
 Zelenka - Six sonatas for 2 oboes, bassoon & continuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL3cISqjyyw
Telemann - Viola Concerto in G major
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6_Li6m7cVA


Truly Epic Masterpieces;

Bach - St Mattew Passion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW1ftEd7_5E
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3217H8JppI
Dvořák - Symphony No. 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9RT2nHD6CQ
Haydn - Missa in angustiis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2N2rYczZTM
Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BryIQ9QpXwI
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tristan und Isolde, Parsifal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkzuAdQgSN8
Pärt - Lamentate
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGQ4lswR-3k


Piano Pieces;

Ligeti - White on White (Piano Etudes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbtO-NCSA14
Chopin - Nocturnes, Fantasie Impromptu, Ballades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa0Z6g1XJkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5po_Z7YEs
Arensky - Etude Op. 25, no. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=229sLFw-UPc
Ravel - Jeux d'eau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2MUpflIkKM
Debussy - Images Oubliees , Arabesques, Clair de Lune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3UEcQvX-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28Qi4jLtigc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY
Satie - Gnossienne No. 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8356FxUT20
Pärt - Fur Alina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8as_BN5h5YQ
Schumann - Novelletten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQKoDoVb-OM
Kagel: An Tasten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy8X0JlQW2Y
'Different' Piano pieces;
Auerbach - Prelude No.4 in E Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rjf9USjtaM
Conlon Nancarrow - Study for player piano No. 37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFz2lCEkjFk
Ives - Three Quarter-Tone Pieces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izFgt2tZ0Oc
Hindemith - Ludus Tonalis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhBszP13L4


Chamber Music;

Brahms - Cello Sonata in E Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-6B8_Jj-o
Mendelssohn - String Quartets, Piano Trio No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4yzZy-9Ps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8ZpId8QhVs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpnWqB9YiE
Vaughan Williams - Phantasy Quintet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf34-mLQYvs
Sonatas for Violin & Piano (Mozart, Ravel)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfdS_c5vKZ4
Beethoven - String Quartets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrZBG2wfg5o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkUsrlDLch8
Shostakovich - String Quartet No 8, in C Minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5ohobcKb8
Rodion Shchedrin - Dans le style d'Albeniz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afrrsBWjIXMRodion
Haydn - String Quartets, Trios
http://www.mediafire.com/listen/dpxgj9b34xaan8t/Haydn+Piece.mp3
Schubert - String Quartet in G Major
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6B_YFry2og
Fauré - Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFkBk7hEPhQ
Ornstein - Piano Quintet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijhDi-PDfLk
Medtner - Piano Quintet in C major
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOp7ntD9dQ4
Schumann - Romances for Oboe and Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOGvHTXY2Us


Masses, Requiems and Choral Music;

Bach - Mass in B minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7TVM8m95Y
Zelenka - Missa Omnium Sanctorum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZNYtML_Zrg
Mozart - Requiem in D minor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPlhKP0nZII
Vierne - Missa Solemnis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zjlRHP0tjk
Ockeghem - Missa Prolationum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWLsLAujZzI
Dufay - Missa Se La Face Ay Pale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOS81FeXGUY
Monteverdi - Lamento d'Arianna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkDyNzPUQbo
Gesualdo - Tenebrae Factae sunt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Q_5G5LMS0


Lieder and Songs;

Schubert - Der Erlkönig, Der leiermann, Schwanengesang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XP5RP6OEJI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pze4NxCOjg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZLImpT0C0
Schumann - Der Nussbaum, Widmung, Dichterliebe, Abends am Strand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpInZ7ZVsbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QpChVbsPm8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMPl_EDqQX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZAURj-KApc
Fauré - Après un rêve, Clair De Lune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oq4iEhRpAcY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mjy3Fw5GJY
Monteverdi - Lamento Di Arianna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZc2npAmQXM
Poulenc - Les chemins de l'amour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex-IxBQndqM
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuOzlPA5hek
Valentin Silvestrov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZCQjOG1vsk


Vocal Music;

Russian Sacred:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn9JkJHRiZ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIPQnf9yqzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zen_c32Assk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPw7uRh6hrM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hwELsSesvE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxQ_B3Wpzg
Russian Orthodox;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77GebvPh8as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH1s8PcDBEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxEai48IRA
Bulgarian;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esvdSie_H4c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_gm0j1H1kc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dROdWDsKOhI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W72E3_MuJ0M
Traditional;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqccaYkr0E8


Opera;

Mozart - Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK1_vm0FMAU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP-o-hBTelI
Rossini - The Barber of Seville
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZUcNP41nc
Puccini - Tosca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnO7FBS1akI
Purcell - Dido and  Aeneas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30Idh9ySHa8
Verdi - La Triviata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3N2tYOXm4E
Strauss - Salome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FUpvZp9QYM
Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSFFR9lSVJc
Britten - Peter Grimes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCU6kT2_bRs
Janáček - Jenufa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyQj78cKEWE


Bach Appreciation; (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685 - 1750)

Orchestral Suite in Bb Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w26Qkm4wbGk
Passacaglia in C minor for Organ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F51uHpH3yQk
Violin/harpsichord sonatas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJkziAWjyYk
Die Kunst Der Fuge
http://youtu.be/YqXZtGyFyDo
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3631464
St Matthew Passion (Excerpt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBeXF_lnj_M


Russian Appreciation;

Rachmaninoff - Pianoconcerto no.2 op.18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOihjqO9w
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kijé
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFRTsfBFpSo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1scluzlPz0
Tchaikovsky - The Seasons, Swan Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0izjJYHuiy4
Rimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQNymNaTr-Y
Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN2j-5ZB3ZQ
Shostakovich - Symphonies No. 8 and  15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tfNHBHhiU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNh6WWEYnBU
Arensky - Piano Concerto in F minor op. 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR2kRY5eFAY


Bartók Appredciation;  (Béla Bartók, 1881 - 1945)

Mikrokosmos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yczXBN_ZOg
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9LWHEf0VFo
String Quartets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMWaaaWFQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_p3o-QWAA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khUtfWRRbDk
The Miraculous Mandarin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwegVm1q5w



Spectralist Appreciation;

Grisey - Jour, Contre-jour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd-Kyk0d3fE
Anubis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HhS06TCsKs
Murail - L'esprit des dunes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFncet5VHRs
Les Sept Paroles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqze4mN9V1Y
Tellur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TcbKNm_LIQ
Vampyr!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcylDGz09JM


Czech Appreciation;

Janáček - Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba, On an Overgrown Path
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbncXDimwbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pts9N1iQ_cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOaiD7DHO2o
Dvořák - Cello Concerto, Slavonic Dances, "American" String Quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVKb3DwPFA8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN4z8HjSCI8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxtAHpYIXdU
Martinů - Symphonies, String Quartets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofciLQT2EmE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKekUYNCZhw
http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3803386
Smetana - Bartered Bride, Má vlast, First String Quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDECEofonI4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx7gDjLcwHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjMdxHFtycw
Nelhýbel - Symphonic Movement, Trittico, Trio for Brass, Festivo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgq21pI0tyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUWA3aN_BA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtiIb-o25Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z5wRjFvdUY
Kabeláč - Preludes, Mystery of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOze35rWRFo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxcD0mU9jo
Pavel Haas - String Quartets, Song Cycles, Study for Strings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JCXdd4JW3U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNSZ47DYA8
Fibich - Symphony No.2, Missa Brevis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvopBDj4I9g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03nggDgzFBw
Novák - In the Tatras, Sonata Eroica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItaiZ8NUx8E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxF9YHdv6Wg
Dussek - Piano Concertos, Sonatas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMbWIWtghtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6BAapBkyEg
Tomášek - Requiem in C-minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGPTquV5Oo


Theremin Pieces;

Fauré - Après un rêve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l9YcewEumw
Leon Theremin playing his own instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20o
Martinů - Fantaisie for Theremin, Oboe, Piano, and String Quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIN28gEWJdY
Demonstration and Ave Maria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAQChI7Yq-I


Fucked shit that almost isn't music;

Ferneyhough
Who is this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5Vk90ZTak
His work: String Quartet No. 2, Liber Scintillarum, Lemma-Icon-Epigram, La Terre est Un Homme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMB9239-fmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xANR6U5CLG8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJwxKxJVps4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxbpF_aW4v

Stockhasuen - Kontak, Gesand der Jünglinge, Stimmung
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vjofqA2SNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTtzAmZFtds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hPkJW95jsw

Cage -  Sonatas for prepared piano, Thirteen Harmonies, 4'33"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYsx5Di3bso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODjyyBQtz2w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BowyUXyNud4
4'33" is just silence. 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Silence.

Lachenmann - Pression, Got Lost, Tableau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Gzrake8nI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73Nti4xyWw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vReKjXFZzHA

Ustvolskaya - Piano Sonatas, Octet, Grand Duet for Cello and Piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvELcETEtQg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC8HO2V4RPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTTQNM6u8yY


Organ Pieces;

Vivaldi - Organ Concerto in C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzA9PcIBs0g
Brahms - Prelude and Fugue in G Minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzYHxXWSg7I
Liszt  - Fantasy and Fugue on the Chorale Ad Nos ad Salutarem Undam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbhyFVJP0wA
Vierne - Carillon de Westminster,  Carillon de Longpont
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebKEA3uNz2A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGxyrnr-wGw
Messiaen - L'Ascension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1Qxixombe0
Giovanni Battista Martini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddeWuK2PL60


Classical guitar pieces;

Weiss - Fantasie, Ciacona
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22E_OqBYPl8
Rodrigo - Tres Piezas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oqZ-17m-qU
Duarte - Homage to Antonio Lauro, Op. 83
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ifxfr-OeP7A
Albeniz - Asturias
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEfFbuT3I6A
Dowland, Schubert, Henze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtTFNOkRcac


Early 18thC Keyboard works;

Giustini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGBrbb3pyMU
Galuppi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WlZN3qAQI
Sweelinck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTb7Xu6ahv0
Alberti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpkwBVJ6siw
Anna Bon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkXaPJeI5VE


Documentaries;

Leaving Home (20th Century music with Simon Rattle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSkidzg6TUQ&list=PLDDDC67CC2D034BE6
Bach: A Passionate Life (BBC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOO8IC8_VaY
Sacred Music (Renaissance Vocal music)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmQbWxYZhGA&index=2&list=PLPg0EcjciNGtSebBmvD_CkThj_YJSDrdX