This is the list of Compositions used in a regular Introduction to Classical Music, The Cambridge Book of Music by Stanley Sadie and Alison Latham. All the listed compositions are explained in detail and presented on CDs accompanying the book (quality recordings). The compositions are (far) more then ten and in chronological order (except the first which explains the orchestra). The book has been a great help to me, I admire (being a teacher myself) its didactic impact. Naturally there are gaps, the book is very pro-British (some heavyweights such as Verdi, Bruckner and others are missing among the compositions on CD) but I made a lot of "friends" among the presented compositions (especially Brittens haunting Elegy - a masterpiece!) and I heartily recommend the package as a fine help for beginners in classical music. 1) Benjamin Britten: The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra, op. 34 2) Guiot de Dijon: Chanterai por mon corage 3) Perotin: Viderunt omnes, Beginning 4) Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame, Kyrie I 5) Francesco Landini: Ecco la primavera 6) John Dunstable: O rosa bella 7) Guillaume Dufay: Ce moys de may 8) Josquin Desprez: Nymphes des bois 9) Orlando di Lasso: Alma redemptoris mater 10) Giovanni Pierlugi da Palestrina: Missa brevis, Kyrie 11) Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon XIII, septimi e octavi toni 12) Luca Marenzio: I must depart all hapless 13) William Byrd: Ave verum corpus 14) Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending 15) John Bull: Coranto Alarm 16) John Dowland: I must complain 17) Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo, Act 2, Extract (The Messenger Scene) 18) Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Act 3, When I am laid in earth 19) Jean-Philippe Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie, Closing of Act 4 20) Antonio Vivaldi: Violine Concert a-minor, op. 3, Nr. 6 21) Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concert Nr. 4, G-Major 22) Johann Sebastian Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part I, Prelude and Fugue in c-minor 23) Georg Friedrich Handel: Acis and Galatea, Love in her eyes sits playing 24) Georg Friedrich Handel: Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus 25) Joseph Haydn: Symphony Nr. 104 in D-Major, First Movement 26) Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in C-Major, op. 76, Nr. 3, Second and Third Movements 27) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, Act 1, Trio 28) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concert in G-Major, KV 453, First Movement 29) Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphonie Nr. 3 in E flat-Major, Eroica, op. 55, First Movement 30) Franz Schubert: String Quartet in C-Major, D 956, First Movement 31) Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Im wunderschonen Monat Mai 32) Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in g-minor, op. 67, Nr. 2 33) Hector Berlioz: Overture Carneval romain (Roman Carnival) 34) Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Prelude 35) Johannes Brahms: Symphonie Nr. 1 in c-minor, op. 68, First Movement 36) Pjotr Iljitsch Tschajkovskij: Symphonie Nr. 4 in f-minor, op. 36, First Movement 37) Gustav Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde, Der Trunkene im Fruhling 38) Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op. 28 39) Claude Debussy: Prelude a Lapres-midi dun faune 40) Arnold Schonberg: Pierrot lunaire, Mondestrunken 41) Anton Webern: Six Bagatelles for String Quartet op. 9, Nr. 4 42) Igor Stravinsky: Symphonie in C, First Movement 43) Bela Bartok: Concert for Orchestra, First Movement 44) Charles Ives: Three Places in New England, Nr. 2 Putnams Camp, Reading, Conneticut 45) Benjamin Britten: Serenade op. 31, Elegy 46) Olivier Messiaen: Vingt regards sur lEnfant Jesus, Nr. 18 Regard de lonction terrible 47) Karlheinz Stockhausen: Gesang der Junglinge, Beginning Robert Peters [log in to unmask]