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T: (38 notes)
Germaine Tailleferre: Concertino for harp and orchestra
Germaine Tailleferre: String Quartet
Germaine Tailleferre: Piano Trio
Toru Takemitsu: String Quartet no. 1: A Way A Lone
Toru Takemitsu: Requiem for Strings
Taru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea
Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium
Aino Tamberg: Trumpet Concerto no. 1, op. 42
Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Concerto
Tan Dun: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon – film music
Tan Dun: The First Emperor – opera
Tan Dun: Out of Peking Opera
Sergei Taneyev: Piano Quintet in g minor, op. 30
Francisco Tárrega: Caprico Arabe
Francisco Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Giuseppe Tartini: Trumpet Concerto in D
Giuseppe Tartini: Violin Sonata in g minor, "Devil's Trill"
John Tavener: Song for Athene
John Tavener: Wake Up and Die
Peter Tchaikovsky: (many listings – see below)
Pavel Tschesnokoff: Salvation is Created
Georg Phillip Telemann: (many listings – see below)
Ambroise Thomas: Hamlet – opera
Ambroise Thomas: Mignon – opera
Ambroise Thomas: Raymond Overture
Virgil Thomson: The Plow that Broke the Plains
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Randall Thompson: Frostiana
Randall Thompson: The Testament of Freedom
Ludwig Thuille: Piano and Wind Sextet in B-flat, op. 6
Stevan Tickmayer: After Gould –
Goldberg Variations with Schoenberg in the Background
Michael Tippett: Variations on Sellinger’s Round
Henri Tomasi: Trumpet Concerto
Federico Moreno Tórroba: Concierto Ibérico
Federico Moreno Tórroba: Suite Castellana
Paolo Tosti: art songs
Joan Tower: Fanfares for the Uncommon Woman
Joan Tower: Island Prelude
Joan Tower: Sequoia
Joaquin Turina: (many listings – see below)
Jeff Tyzik: Ellington Portrait
Peter Tchaikovsky: (41 notes)
Andante Cantabile
Capriccio italien, op. 45
Piano Concerto no. 2 in G, op. 44
Piano Concerto no. 3 in E-flat, op. 75
Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
1812 Overture, op. 49
Festival Coronation March
Francesca da Rimini, op. 32
Elegy, from Hamlet, op. 67a
Manfred Symphony, op. 58
Marche Slav, op. 31
Nocturne in c-sharp minor, op. 19, no. 4
The Nutcracker, op. 71 – ballet
Eugene Onegin – opera
Eugene Onegin – Waltz and Polonaise
Pezzo capriccioso, op. 62
String Quartet no. 1 in D, op. 11
The Queen of Spades – opera
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
The Seasons, op. 37a
Serenade for Strings in C, op. 48
Sextet in D, op. 70, “Souvenir of Florence”
Sleeping Beauty – ballet
Orchestral Suite no. 1 in d minor, op. 43
Orchestral Suite no. 2 in C, op. 53, “Suite Caractéristique”
Orchestral Suite no. 3 in G, op. 55
Orchestral Suite no. 4 in G, op. 61, “Mozartiana”
Song: None but the Lonely Heart, op. 6, no. 6
Souvenir d’un lieu cher, op. 42
Swan Lake – ballet
Symphony no. 1 in g minor, op. 13, “Winter Dreams”
Symphony no. 2 in c minor, op. 17, “Little Russian”
Symphony no. 3 in D, op. 29, “Polish”
Symphony no. 4 in f minor, op. 36
Symphony no. 5 in e minor, op. 64
Symphony no. 6 in b minor, op. 74, “Pathetique”
The Tempest, op. 18
Piano Trio in a minor, op. 50
Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33
The Voyevode
Georg Philipp Telemann: (8 notes)
Flute and Bassoon Concerto in F major
Viola Concerto in G major
Horn Concerto in D major
Two-Horn Concerto in E-flat, from Tafelmusik, Part II
Don Quixote Suite
Overture in C, “Hamburger Ebb und Fluth”
(Hamburg Ebb and Flow – Water Music)
Paris Quartets
Tafelmusik
Michael Torke: (5 notes)
Bright Blue Music
December
Ecstatic Orange
Javelin
Tahiti
Joaquin Turina: (7 notes)
Andalusian Scenes
Danzas fantásticas
Piano Quartet in a minor, op. 67
Sinfonia Sevillana, op. 23
Guitar Sonata, op. 61
Piano Trio no. 1, op. 35
Piano Trio no. 2 in b minor, op. 76
UV: (12 notes)
Viktor Ullmann: Brezulinka – Three Yiddish Songs, op. 53
Viktor Ullmann: Der Kaiser von Atlantis – opera
Viktor Ullmann: String Quartet no. 3
Jay Ungar: Ashokan Farewell
Gregory Vajda: Barbie Blue Overture-Fantasy
Edgard Varèse: Amériques
Ralph Vaughan Williams: (many listings – see below)
Giuseppe Verdi: (many listings – see below)
Pauline Viardot-Garcia: Piano Quartet
Louis Vierne: Organ Symphonies
Heitor Villa-Lobos: (many listings – see below)
Henri Vieuxtemps: violin concerti
Taavo Virkhaus: Symphony no. 6
Antonio Vivaldi: (many listings – see below)
Amadeo Vives: Doña Francisquita – zarzuela
Henk de Vlieger: Tristan und Isolde, an orchestral passion (after Wagner)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: (28 notes)
On Christmas Night – ballet
Concerto Academico
Tuba Concerto in f minor
Concerto Grosso
Dona nobis pacem – cantata
English Folk Song Suite
Fantasia on Greensleeves
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Fantasy on Christmas Carols
Five Mystical Songs
Five Variants of ‘Dives and Lazarus’
Flos Campi for viola, orchestra, and chorus
Folk hymns and folk songs
In the Fen Country
Job: A Masque for Dancing
The Lark Ascending
Norfolk Rhapsody no. 1
Partita for Double String Orchestra
Serenade to Music
Songs of Travel
Symphony no. 1, “A Sea Symphony”
Symphony no. 2, “London”
Symphony no. 3, “Pastorale”
Symphony no. 4 in f minor
Symphony no. 5
Symphony no. 6 in e minor
Symphony no. 7, “Sinfonia Antartica”
The Wasps
Giuseppe Verdi: (17 notes)
Aida – opera
Aida – Triumphal March
Un Ballo un Maschera – opera
Don Carlos – opera
Ernani – opera
Falstaff – opera
La forza del destino - opera
Macbeth – opera
Nabucco – Va pensiero chorus
Otello – opera
String Quartet in e minor
Requiem
Rigoletto – opera
Four Sacred Pieces
La traviata – opera
Il trovatore – opera
I Vespri siciliani – opera
Heitor Villa-Lobos: (8 notes)
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 1
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 2
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 6
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 7
Chôros no. 5
Guitar Concerto
solo guitar music
Antonio Vivaldi: (16 notes)
Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, “Concerto alla rustica”
six Flute Concerti, op. 10
Concerto in D major for lute or mandolin, RV 93
Concerto in B-flat major for violin and cello, RV 547
Concerto in g minor for flute, oboe, and bassoon, RV 103
Concerto in C major, RV 555, for diverse instruments
guitar concerti
oboe concerti
Piccolo Concerto in C major, RV 443
Two-Trumpet Concerto in C major, RV 537
Four-Violin Concerto in b minor, RV580
violin concerti
The Four Seasons
Violin concerto in D major, op. 4, no. 11, from "La Stravaganza"
Gloria in D major
Orlando furioso – opera
WXYZ: (34 notes)
Richard Wagner: (many listings – see below)
Emil Waldteufel: Les Patineurs (Skater’s Waltz)
George Walker: Lyric Piece for Strings
Sir William Walton: (many listings – see below)
Robert Ward: The Crucible – opera
Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite
Elinor Remick Warren: Suite for Orchestra
Huw Watkins: Coruscation and Reflection
Franz Waxman: Carmen Fantasy
Frederick Weatherly: songs
Carl Maria von Weber: (many listings – see below)
Anton Webern: (many listings – see below)
Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins – stage work
Kurt Weill: Street Scene – opera
Kurt Weill: Three-Penny Opera – opera
Jaromir Weinberger: Schwanda the Bagpiper – polka and fugue
Robert Wendel: A Stephen Foster Overture
Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst
Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
Charles-Marie Widor: Suite for Flute and Piano, op. 34
Charles-Marie Widor: Organ Symphony no. 5 in f minor, op. 42, no. 1 – Toccata
Henryk Wieniawski: Fantaisie brillante on Faust, op. 20
Henryk Wieniawski: Violin Concerto no. 2 in d minor, op. 22
Dag Wiren: Serenade for Strings, op. 11
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade
Hugo Wolf: art songs
Hugo Wolf: Spanische Liederbuch (with texts and translations)
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: The Secret of Susanne – opera
Eugene Ysaÿe: Chant d’hiver, op. 15 (Winter Song)
Carlos Zamora: Tres Visiones de un Sikuris Atacameño
Riccardo Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini – opera
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Capriccio no. 4 in A
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonata no. 1 in F
Alexander von Zemlinsky: The Mermaid
Hans Zimmer: Pirates of the Caribbean – film music
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Concerto for trombone and orchestra
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Piano Trio
Samuel Zyman: Suite for Two Cellos
Richard Wagner: (31 notes)
Faust Overture
The Flying Dutchman – opera
The Flying Dutchman – Overture
Götterdämmerung – opera
Götterdämmerung – Siegfried’s Rhine Journey
Grosser Festmarsch
Lohengrin – Bridal Chorus
Lohengrin – Elsa’s Procession
Lohengrin – opera
Lohengrin – Prelude to Act Three
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – opera
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – orchestral preludes
Parsifal – opera
Parsifal – Good Friday Spell
Parsifal – Transformation Music from Act One
Rienzi Overture
Das Rheingold – opera
The Ring Cycle
Siegfried – opera
Siegfried Idyll
Siegfried Idyll (piano transcription by Josef Rubinstein)
Tannhäuser – opera
Tannhäuser – overture
Tannhäuser – overture and “Abendstern” (piano transcriptions by Franz Liszt)
Tristan und Isolde – opera
Tristan und Isolde – Prelude and Liebestod
Tristan und Isolde – Liebestod (piano transcription by Franz Liszt)
Die Walküre – opera
Die Walküre – Ride of the Valkyries
Die Walküre – Magic Fire Music (piano transcription by Hugo Wolf)
Wesendonck Lieder
Sir William Walton: (10 notes)
Belshazzar's Feast – oratorio
Crown Imperial
Viola Concerto
Violin Concerto
Facades
Henry V – film music
Sonata for Strings
Symphony no. 1
Symphony no. 2
Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
Carl Maria von Weber: (16 notes)
Andante e Rondo ungarese, op. 35
Clarinet Concertino in E-flat, op. 26
Horn Concertino in e minor, op. 45
Bassoon Concerto in F major
Clarinet Concerto no. 1 in f minor, op. 73
Clarinet Concerto no. 2 in E-flat major, op. 74
Euryanthe Overture
Der Freischűtz – opera
Invitation to the Dance
Oberon Overture
Peter Schmoll Overture
Clarinet Quintet in B-flat major, op. 182
The Ruler of the Spirits Overture, op. 27
Symphony no. 1 in C major
Symphony no. 2 in C major
Flute Trio in g minor, op. 63
Anton Webern: (6 notes)
Five Movements for String Quartet, op. 5
Passacaglia, op. 1
Five Pieces for Orchestra, op. 10
Six Pieces for Orchestra, op. 6
Im Sommerwind
Symphony, op. 21
John Williams: (11 notes)
Air and Simple Gifts
Tuba Concerto
Escapades for saxophone and orchestra (after Catch Me if You Can)
The Five Sacred Trees – bassoon concerto
Liberty Fanfare
Lincoln – film music
Memoirs of a Geisha – film music
Olympic Fanfare and Theme (1984)
Schindler’s List – theme
Star Wars – selections
Summon the Heroes – music for the 1996 Summer Olympics
