The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works

Game Plan and Preliminaries

Vivaldi — The Four Seasons

Bach — Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Bach — Violin Concerto in E Major

Haydn — Symphony No. 104

Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor

Mozart — Symphony in C Major, “Jupiter”

Beethoven — Symphony No. 3

Beethoven — Piano Concerto No. 4

Beethoven — Symphony No. 9

Schubert — Symphony No. 9

Mendelssohn — “italian” Symphony

Schumann — Symphony No. 3

Brahms — Symphony No. 4

Brahms — Violin Concerto

Tchaikovsky — Symphony No. 4

Tchaikovsky — Violin Concerto

Bedrich Smetana — Má Vlast

Dvorák — Symphony No. 8

Dvorák — Concerto for ’Cello

Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade

Richard Strauss — Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Mahler — Symphony No. 5

Rachmaninoff — Symphony No. 2

Debussy — La Mer

Stravinsky — The Rite of Spring

Ives — Three Places in New England

Holst — The Planets

Copland — Appalachian Spring

Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5

Shostakovich — Symphony No. 10

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