User:JackofOz/Timeless Tunes for Tuneless Times

This is an ever-expanding list of tunes that will never die.

When I say "tunes", I mean tunes, not necessarily entire works. The basic criterion is that it's something that's uplifting to the spirit, and that you can whistle (ok, I know you can whistle Beethoven's entire Choral Symphony, but let's get serious).


 * Heinrich Baermann - Adagio in D flat for clarinet and piano (long misattributed to Wagner)
 * William Bolcom - Ghost Rag No. 1
 * Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
 * Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 - finale
 * Bruch - Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola & orchestra, Op. 88
 * Delius - Florida Suite - 1st movement
 * Dvořák - Romance in F minor for violin & orchestra
 * Dvořák - Silent Woods, B. 182
 * Elgar - Spanish Serenade
 * Elgar - Nimrod from Enigma Variations
 * Gluck - Aria Unser Dummer pöbel meint from The Pilgrims to Mecca (Mozart wrote variations on it, and Tchaikovsky orchestrated the variations as the final movement of Mozartiana)
 * Gluck - Aria Che faro senza Euridice from Orfeo
 * Godowsky - Alt Wien from "Triakontameron"
 * Gounod - '"Kyrie" from the St Cecilia Mass
 * Handel - Hornpipe from Water Music
 * Handel - For Unto Us a Child is Born from Messiah
 * Haydn - Kyrie Eleison from Missa Solemnis in B flat (Harmonie Messe)
 * Elena Kats-Chernin - Russian Rag
 * Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid, Liebesfreud
 * Hamish MacCunn - Overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood - main theme
 * Moszkowski - main theme from Polonaise in D, Op. 17, No. 1
 * Mozart - Ave verum corpus, K. 618
 * Mozart - Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola & piano, K.498 ‘Kegelstatt’ - final movement
 * Randy Newman - Dexter's Tune from the film Awakenings - the saddest piece of music ever written
 * Piazzolla - Le Grand Tango
 * Puccini - Duet "Hai ben raggione" from Il tabarro
 * Rachmaninoff - Vocalise
 * Saint-Saëns - "Softly awakes my heart" from Samson and Delilah
 * Franz Schmidt - The theme on which Variations on a Hussar Song is based
 * Schubert - Piano Sonata in C major, D. 840 "Reliquie" - Andante (C minor)
 * Schubert - Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D.898 - 1st movement
 * Schubert - slow movement from String Quintet in C, D. 956
 * Schubert - The Shepherd on the Rock, D. 965
 * Scriabin - Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
 * Sibelius - Canzonetta from Kuolema
 * Richard Strauss - Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
 * Richard Strauss - Zueignung
 * Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
 * Tchaikovsky - Amid the din of a ball, Op. 38/3
 * Tchaikovsky - Song of the Forests, Op. 47/5
 * Verdi - Ingemisco from Requiem
 * Verdi - Aria Ah si, ben mio coll'essere from Il trovatore
 * Villa-Lobos - Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No. 5
 * Villa-Lobos - Song of the Black Swan
 * Wagner - "The Entry of the Guests" from Tannhäuser
 * Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
 * Wolf - Italian Serenade