Library recommended by Dr. Richard E. Rodda

* = Short List

Adams, John ---- Harmonielehre
Albinoni, Tomaso ---- Adagio
Arensky, Tomaso ---- Tchaikovsky Variations
Bach, C.P.E. ---- Concerto for Flute in D minor
---- Symphony No. 10, W. 182/2
Bach, J.C. ---- Symphony, Op. 18, No. 1
Bach, J.S. ---- Brandenburg Concerto No. 1
---- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2*
---- Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
---- Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
---- Brandenburg Concerto No. 5*
---- Brandenburg Concerto No. 6
---- Concerto for Flute, Violin & Clavier
---- Concerto for Piano No. 1
---- Concerto for Violin No. 1 in A minor
---- Concerto for Violin No. 2 in E major*
---- Magnificat
---- Mass in B minor*
---- St. Matthew Passion*
---- Suite for Orchestra No. 1
---- Suite for Orchestra No. 2
---- Suite for Orchestra No. 3 (audio)*
---- Suite for Orchestra No. 4
---- Toccata & Fugue in D minor
Barber, Samuel ---- Adagio for Strings*
---- Concerto for Violin*
---- Knoxville 1915
---- School for Scandal
Bartók, Béla ---- Concerto for Orchestra*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 3*
---- Concerto for Violin No. 2
---- Divertimento
---- Miraculous Mandarin
---- Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta
Beethoven, Ludwig van ---- Concerto for Piano No. 1
---- Concerto for Piano No. 2
---- Concerto for Piano No. 3
---- Concerto for Piano No. 4 (audio)*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 5*
---- Concerto for Violin*
---- Coriolan Overture*
---- Egmont
---- Fidelio Overture
---- Leonore Overture No. 3*
---- Missa Solemnis
---- Symphony No. 1
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Symphony No. 5 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 6, "Pastorale" (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 7*
---- Symphony No. 8
---- Symphony No. 9, "Chorale"*
Berg, Alban ---- Concerto for Violin*
---- Lyric Suite for Orchestra
Berlioz, Hector ---- Benvenuto Cellini Overture
---- Corsaire Overture
---- Harold in Italy
---- Rákóczy March
---- Requiem
---- Roman Carnival Overture*
---- Romeo and Juliet
---- Symphony Fantastique (audio)*
Bernstein, Leonard ---- Candide Overture*
---- Chichester Psalms
---- On the Waterfront
---- Serenade
---- West Side Story Dances*
Bizet, Georges ---- Carmen Suites*
---- Symphony No. 1
Bloch, Ernest ---- Concerto Grosso No. 1
---- Schelomo
Boccherini, Luigi ---- Concerto for Cello in B-flat
Borodin, Alexander ---- Polovetsian Dances*
---- Symphony No. 2
Brahms, Johannes ---- Academic Festival Overture*
---- Alto Rhapsody
---- Concerto for Violin (audio)*
---- Concerto No. 1 for Piano
---- Concerto No. 2 for Piano*
---- German Requiem*
---- Haydn Variations*
---- Hungarian Dances
---- Serenade No. 2
---- Symphony No. 1*
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 3 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Tragic Overture
Britten, Benjamin ---- Les Illuminations
---- Peter Grimes excerpts
---- Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
---- Simple Symphony
---- Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
---- War Requiem*
---- Young Person's Guide*
Bruch, Max ---- Concerto for Violin No. 1*
---- Scottish Fantasy
Bruckner, Anton ---- Symphony No. 3
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Symphony No. 7
---- Symphony No. 8*
Canteloube, Joseph ---- Songs of the Auvergne
Chabrier, Emmanuel ---- España
Chausson, Ernest ---- Poème for Violin
Chávez, Carlos ---- Symphony No. 2, "India"
Chopin, Frédéric ---- Concerto No. 1
---- Concerto No. 2*
Copland, Aaron ---- Appalachian Spring*
---- Billy the Kid
---- Concerto for Clarinet
---- El Sálon México*
---- Fanfare for the Common Man*
---- Lincoln Portrait
---- Music for Movies
---- Music for the Theater
---- Old American Songs*
---- Orchestral Variations
---- Quiet City
---- Rodeo*
---- Symphony No. 3
---- Tender Land Suite
Corelli, Arcangelo ---- Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 8*
Corigliano, John ---- Concerto for Clarinet
---- Pied Piper Fantasy
Danielpour, Richard ---- First Light
Debussy, Claude ---- Danses sacrée et profane
---- Ibéria
---- Images for Orch.*
---- La Mer
---- Nocturnes
---- Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun*
Delius, Frederick ---- On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Diamond, David ---- Rounds for String Orchestra
Dohnányi, Ernst von ---- Variations on a Nursery Tune
Druckman, Jacob ---- Aureole
Dukas, Paul ---- Sorcerer's Apprentice*
Duruflé, Maurice ---- Requiem
Dutilleux, Henri ---- Symphony No. 2
Dvorák, Antonín ---- Carnival Overture*
---- Concerto for Cello*
---- Scherzo Capriccioso
---- Serenade for Strings
---- Serenade in D minor
---- Symphonic Variations
---- Symphony No. 5
---- Symphony No. 7
---- Symphony No. 8*
---- Symphony No. 9 (audio)*
Elgar, Edward ---- Concerto for Cello
---- Enigma Variations*
---- Pomp & Circumstance Marches*
---- Symphony No. 1
---- Symphony No. 2
Enesco, Georges ---- Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1
Falla, Manuel de ---- El Amor Brujo
---- La Vida Breve
---- Nights in the Gardens
---- Three-Cornered Hat*
Fauré, Gabriel ---- Masques et Bergamasques
---- Pavane
---- Pelleas
---- Requiem*
Franck, César ---- Le Chasseur maudit
---- Symphony Variations
---- Symphony (audio)*
Gershwin, George ---- American in Paris*
---- Concerto in F
---- Cuban Overture
---- Porgy and Bess ---- Symphonic Picture*
---- Rhapsody in Blue*
Ginastera, Alberto ---- Estancia
---- Variaciones Concertantes
Glazunov, Alexander ---- Concerto for Violin
Glinka, Mikhail ---- Kamarinskaya
---- Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Gluck, Christoph Willibald von ---- Orfeo excerpts
Gorecki, Henryk ---- Symphony No. 3
Gould, Morton ---- American Salute
Grieg, Edvard ---- Concerto for Piano
---- Holberg Suite
---- Norwegian Dances
---- Peer Gynt*
Griffes, Charles Tomlinson ---- Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan
Grofé, Ferdé ---- Grand Canyon Suite
Handel, George Frideric ---- Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 08
---- Concerto for Harp, Op. 4, No. 6
---- Fireworks Music (audio)*
---- Messiah*
---- Water Music*
Hanson, Howard ---- Song of Democracy
---- Symphony No. 2
Harbison, John ---- Symphony No. 1
Harris, Roy ---- Symphony No. 3
Haydn, Franz Joseph ---- Concerto for Cello in C*
---- Concerto for Cello in D
---- Concerto for Trumpet*
---- Creation
---- Mass, "Lord Nelson"
---- Seasons*
---- Seven Last Words
---- Symphony No. 7, "Noon"
---- Symphony No. 31, "Hornsignal"
---- Symphony No. 45, "Farewell"
---- Symphony No. 82, "The Bear"
---- Symphony No. 88 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 92, "Oxford"
---- Symphony No. 94, "Surprise"*
---- Symphony No. 96, "Miracle"
---- Symphony No. 100, "Military"
---- Symphony No. 101, "Clock"
---- Symphony No. 102
---- Symphony No. 104, "London"*
Hindemith, Paul ---- Concert Music for Brass & Strings
---- Mathis der Maler Symphony*
---- Nobilissima Visione
---- Schwanendreher
---- Symphonic Metamorphosis
Holst, Gustav ---- Planets*
Honegger, Arthur ---- King David
---- Pacific 231
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 4
Hovhaness, Alan ---- Mysterious Mountain
Humperdinck, Engelbert ---- Hansel & Gretel ---- Prayer and Dream mime
Ibert, Jacques ---- Divertissement
---- Escales
Ives, Charles ---- Set No. 2 for Orch.
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 3
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Three Places in New England*
---- Unanswered Question
---- Variations on "America"
Janácek, Léos ---- Sinfonietta
---- Slavonic Mass
---- Taras Bulba
Kabalevsky, Dmitri ---- Comedians
Kalinnikov, Vasily Sergeyevich ---- Symphony No. 1
Khachaturian, Aram ---- Gayne
Kodály, Zoltán ---- Dances of Galanta
---- Háry János Suite*
---- Peacock Variations
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang ---- Concerto for Violin
Lalo, Edouard ---- Symphony Espagnole
Larsen, Libby ---- Parachute Dancing
Liadov, Anatoly ---- Baba Yaga
---- Enchanted Lake
---- Russian Folk Songs
Liszt, Franz ---- Concerto No. 1*
---- Concerto No. 2
---- Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
---- Les Preludes (audio)*
---- Mephisto Waltz No. 1
---- Tasso
Lutoslawski, Witold ---- Concerto for Orchestra
---- Symphony No. 3
MacDowell, Edward ---- Concerto No. 2 for Piano
Mahler, Gustav ---- Das Lied von der Erde
---- Kindertotenlieder
---- Symphony No. 1 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 2*
---- Symphony No. 3
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Symphony No. 5
---- Symphony No. 6
---- Symphony No. 7
---- Symphony No. 8
---- Symphony No. 9*
---- Symphony No. 10
---- Wayfarer Songs
Martin, Frank ---- Concerto for Seven Winds
Martinu, Bohuslav ---- Symphony No. 4
Mendelssohn, Felix ---- Concerto for Piano No. 2
---- Concerto for Violin*
---- Elijah
---- Hebrides Overture*
---- Midsummer Night's Dream*
---- Symphony No. 3, "Scottish" (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 4, "Italian"*
---- Symphony No. 5, "Reformation"
Messiaen, Olivier ---- Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
Milhaud, Darius ---- Création du Monde
---- Le Boeuf sur le Toit
---- Suite Provençale*
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus ---- Abduction Overture
---- Ave verum corpus
---- Concerto for Piano No. 9
---- Concerto for Piano No. 20*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 21*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 22
---- Concerto for Piano No. 23 (audio)*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 24
---- Concerto for Piano No. 25
---- Concerto for Piano No. 26
---- Concerto for Piano No. 27*
---- Concerto for Bassoon
---- Concerto for Clarinet*
---- Concerto for Flute & Harp
---- Concerto for Flute No. 1
---- Concerto for Horn No. 4
---- Concerto for Oboe
---- Cosi fan tutte Overture
---- Don Giovanni Overture*
---- Eine kleine Nachtmusik*
---- Exsultate, jubilate
---- Impresario Overture
---- Magic Flute Overture*
---- Marriage of Figaro Overture*
---- Mass in C minor, "Great"
---- Requiem*
---- Serenade No. 7, "Haffner"
---- Serenade No. 9, "Posthorn"
---- Serenade No. 10, K. 361
---- Sinfonia Concertante for Strings, K. 364
---- Sinfonia Concertante for Winds, K. 297b
---- Symphony No. 25
---- Symphony No. 29
---- Symphony No. 31, "Paris"
---- Symphony No. 35, "Haffner"
---- Symphony No. 36, "Linz"
---- Symphony No. 38 "Prague"*
---- Symphony No. 39
---- Symphony No. 40 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 41*
Mussorgsky, Modeste ---- Khovantshchina excerpts
---- Night on Bald Mountain
---- Pictures at an Exhibition, arr. Gorchakov
---- Pictures at an Exhibition, arr. Ravel*
Nicolai, Otto ---- Merry Wives Overture
Nielsen, Carl ---- Masquerade Overture
---- Symphony No. 4
Offenbach, Jacques ---- Gaîté Parisienne
Orff, Carl ---- Carmina Burana*
Pachelbel, Johann ---- Canon
Paganini, Johann ---- Concerto No. 1
---- Concerto No. 2
Pärt, Arvo ---- Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Penderecki, Krzysztof ---- Threnody
Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista ---- Stabat Mater
Piston, Walter ---- Incredible Flutist
Ponchielli, Amilcare ---- Dance of the Hours
Poulenc, Francis ---- Concerto Champetre
---- Concerto for Organ
---- Concerto for Two Pianos
---- Gloria*
---- Suite Française
Prokofiev, Sergei ---- Alexander Nevsky*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 1
---- Concerto for Piano No. 3*
---- Concerto for Violin No. 1
---- Concerto for Violin No. 2*
---- Love for Three Oranges
---- Lt. Kijé Suite*
---- Peter and the Wolf*
---- Romeo and Juliet*
---- Scythian Suite
---- Symphony No. 1, "Classical"*
---- Symphony No. 5*
---- Symphony No. 7
Purcell, Henry ---- Abdelazer
---- Chacony in G minor
---- Fairy Queen
---- Funeral Music
Rachmaninoff, Sergei ---- Concerto for Piano No. 2*
---- Concerto for Piano No. 3
---- Isle of the Dead
---- Paganini Rhapsody
---- Symphony No. 2 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 3
---- Symphonic Dances*
Ravel, Maurice ---- Alborada del Gracioso
---- Barque sur l'ocean
---- Boléro*
---- Concerto for the Left Hand
---- Concerto in G*
---- Daphnis et Chloé*
---- Introduction and Allegro
---- La Valse
---- Menuet Antique
---- Mother Goose*
---- Pavane
---- Rapsodie espagnole
---- Shéhérazade (song cycle)
---- Tombeau de Couperin*
---- Tzigane
---- Valses Nobles
Reger, Max ---- Variations on Theme of Mozart
Respighi, Ottorino ---- Ancient Airs*
---- Birds ----
---- Botticelli Pictures
---- Fountains of Rome
---- Pines of Rome*
---- Roman Festivals
Revueltas, Silvestre ---- Sensemaya
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai ---- Antar
---- Capriccio Espagnole*
---- Le Coq d'Or Suite
---- Procession of the Nobles
---- Russian Easter Overture
---- Scheherazade*
---- Tsar Saltan Suite
Rodrigo, Joaquin ---- Concierto de Aranjuez*
---- Fantasia para un Gentilhombre
Rorem, Ned ---- Lions
Rossini, Gioacchino ---- Barber of Seville Overture*
---- Cenerentola Overture
---- L'Italiana in Algeri Overture
---- La Gazza Ladra Overture
---- Scala di Seta Overture
---- Semiramide Overture
---- Signor Bruschino Overture
---- Sonata for Strings No. 1
---- Tancredi Overture
---- William Tell Overture (audio)*
Rouse, Christopher ---- Infernal Machine
---- Symphony No. 1
Roussel, Albert ---- Bacchus et Ariane
Ruggles, Carl ---- Men and Mountains
Saint-Saëns, Camille ---- Carnival of the Animals
---- Concerto for Piano No. 2
---- Concerto for Piano No. 4
---- Concerto for Violin No. 3
---- Danse macabre*
---- Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso
---- Rouet d'Omphale
---- Samson & Dalila ---- Bacchanale
---- Symphony No. 3*
Sarasate, Pablo de ---- Carmen Fantasy
Schnittke, Alfred ---- Concerto for Piano & Strings
Schoenberg, Arnold ---- Bach ---- Chamber Symphony No. 1, Op. 9
---- Orchestral Pieces, Op. 16
---- Survivor from Warsaw
---- Verklärte Nacht
Schubert, Franz ---- Mass No. 2 in G
---- Rosamunde
---- Symphony No. 5
---- Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished" (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 9, "Great"*
Schuller, Gunther ---- Studies on Klee
Schuman, William ---- New England Triptych
---- Symphony No. 5 (for Strings)
Schumann, Robert ---- Concerto for Piano*
---- Manfred Overture
---- Symphony No. 1
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 3, "Rhenish"*
---- Symphony No. 4 (audio)*
Schwantner, Joseph ---- A Sudden Rainbow
Scriabin, Alexander ---- Poem of Ecstasy
Sessions, Roger ---- Black Maskers
Shostakovich, Dmitri ---- Concerto for Cello No. 1
---- Concerto for Piano No. 1
---- Concerto for Violin No. 1*
---- Festive Overture
---- Symphony No. 1
---- Symphony No. 5*
---- Symphony No. 7
---- Symphony No. 9
---- Symphony No. 10*
---- Symphony No. 13
---- Symphony No. 14
---- Symphony No. 15
Sibelius, Jean ---- Concerto for Violin*
---- Finlandia*
---- Karelia Suite
---- Swan of Tuonela
---- Symphony No. 1
---- Symphony No. 2*
---- Symphony No. 3
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Symphony No. 5*
---- Symphony No. 6
---- Symphony No. 7
---- Tapiola
---- Valse Triste
Smetana, Bedrich ---- Bartered Bride Overture & Dances
---- Ma Vlast (audio)*
Still, William Grant ---- Symphony No. 3
Strauss, Johann Jr. ---- Artist's Life
---- Blue Danube*
---- Fledermaus Overture*
---- Gypsy Baron Overture
---- Kaiser Waltz
---- Perpetum Mobile
---- Pizzicato Polka
---- Tales of the Vienna Woods
---- Thunder and Lightning
---- Voices of Spring
---- Wiener Blut
---- Wine, Women & Song
Strauss, Johann Sr. ---- Radetzky March
Strauss, Richard ---- Alpine Symphony
---- Also sprach Zarathustra*
---- Bourgeois Gentilhomme
---- Death and Transfiguration
---- Don Juan*
---- Don Quixote
---- Ein Heldenleben*
---- Four Last Songs
---- Metamorphosen
---- Rosenkavalier
---- Salome ---- Dance of the Seven Veils
---- Serenade, Op. 7
---- Till Eulenspiegel (audio)*
Stravinsky, Igor ---- Apollo
---- Concerto for Piano and Winds
---- Dumbarton Oaks Concerto
---- Fairy's Kiss ---- Divertimento
---- Firebird*
---- Orpheus
---- Petrushka (audio)*
---- Pulcinella
---- Rite of Spring*
---- Scherzo à la Russe
---- Soldier's Tale
---- Symphony in Three Movements
---- Symphony in C
---- Symphony of Psalms*
Suppé, Franz von ---- Overtures
Szymanowski, Karol ---- Symphony No. 3
Tavener, John ---- The Protecting Veil
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich ---- 1812 Overture*
---- Capriccio Italien
---- Concerto for Piano No. 1*
---- Concerto for Violin*
---- Eugene Onegin excerpts
---- Francesca da Rimini
---- Manfred Symphony
---- Marche Slave
---- Nutcracker*
---- Rococo Variations
---- Romeo and Juliet (audio)*
---- Serenade for Strings
---- Sleeping Beauty*
---- Souvenir de Florence
---- Suite No. 3
---- Suite No. 4
---- Swan Lake*
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 3
---- Symphony No. 4*
---- Symphony No. 5 (audio)*
---- Symphony No. 6*
Telemann, Georg Philipp ---- Concerto for Viola in G
---- Don Quixote
---- Suite in A minor
Thomas, Ambroise ---- Mignon Overture
Thomson, Virgil ---- Symphony on a Hymn Tune
Tippett, Michael ---- Fantasia on Corelli
---- Suite for Prince Charles
---- Symphony No. 4
---- Triple Concerto
Torke, Michael ---- Bright Blue Music
Tower, Joan ---- Silver Ladders
Turina, Joaquín ---- Oracion del Torero
Varèse, Edgard ---- Intégrales
Vaughan Williams, Ralph ---- Fantasia on Christmas Carols
---- Fantasia on Greensleeves
---- Flos Campi
---- Lark Ascending
---- Serenade to Music
---- Symphony No. 2
---- Symphony No. 5*
---- Tallis Fantasia (audio)*
---- Wasps Overture
Verdi, Giuseppe ---- Forza del Destino Overture
---- La Traviata ---- Act III Prelude
---- Nabucco Overture
---- Requiem*
---- Vespri Siciliani Overture
Villa-Lobos, Hector ---- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2
---- Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Vivaldi, Antonio ---- Concerto for Two Trumpets
---- Concerto for Guitar, R. 93
---- Concerto for Bassoon in B-flat, P. 401
---- Concerto for Cello in B minor, R. 424
---- Concerto for Violin, Op. 3, No. 8
---- Concerto for Four Violins, Op. 3, No. 10
---- Four Seasons (audio)*
---- Gloria, R. 589
Wagner, Richard ---- Das Rheingold ---- Entry of the Gods
---- Die Meistersinger ---- Prelude*
---- Die Walküre ---- Ride of the Valkyries*
---- Flying Dutchman ---- Overture
---- Götterdämmerung ---- Dawn & Rhine Journey*
---- Götterdämmerung ---- Immolation Scene
---- Götterdämmerung ---- Siegfried's Funeral Music
---- Lohengrin ---- Preludes
---- Parsifal ---- orchestral selections
---- Rienzi ---- Overture
---- Siegfried Idyll
---- Tannhäuser ---- Overture & Bacchanale
---- Tristan ---- Prelude & Liebestod*
---- Wesendonck Songs
Walton, William ---- Belshazzar's Feast*
---- Concerto for Cello
---- Concerto for Viola
---- Crown Imperial
---- Façade
---- Henry V
---- Partita for Orchestra
---- Symphony No. 1
Warlock, Peter ---- Capriol Suite
Weber, Carl Maria von ---- Concertino for Clarinet
---- Der Freischütz Overture
---- Euryanthe Overture
---- Invitation to the Dance
---- Oberon Overture*
---- Symphony No. 2
Webern, Anton ---- Bach ---- Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6
---- Passacaglia, Op. 1
---- Symphony Op. 21
Weill, Kurt ---- Three Penny Opera
Weinberger, Jaromír ---- Schwanda the Bagpiper ---- Polka & Fugue
Wolf, Hugo ---- Italian Serenade
Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno ---- Secret of Suzanne Overture
Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe ---- Concerto Grosso (1985)
---- Prologue and Variations