Brandenburg Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach
6 recordingsTop Choice: Benjamin Britten / English Chamber Orchestra
Orchestral Works
Explore the finest recordings of orchestral masterworks, from baroque suites to modern tone poems.
Orchestral Suites
Johann Sebastian Bach
3 recordingsTop Choice: Neville Mariner / Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
The Art of the Fugue & A Musical Offering (Orchestrated)
Johann Sebastian Bach
1 recordingTop Choice: Karl Münchinger / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
2 recordingsTop Choice: Thomas Schippers / New York Philharmonic
Concerto for Orchestra
Béla Bartók
4 recordingsTop Choice: Antal Doráti / London Symphony Orchestra
Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Béla Bartók
5 recordingsTop Choice: Antal Doráti / London Symphony Orchestra
Overtures (Complete Sets)
Ludwig van Beethoven
3 recordingsTop Choice: Kurt Masur / Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Egmont Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
2 recordingsTop Choice: Ferenc Fricsay / Berlin Philharmonic
Coriolan Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven
1 recordingTop Choice: Wilhelm Furtwängler / Berlin Philharmonic
Hungarian Dances
Johannes Brahms
1 recordingTop Choice: Claudio Abbado / Vienna Philharmonic
Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man, Rodeo & Billy the Kid
Aaron Copland
1 recordingTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
Arcangelo Corelli
1 recordingTop Choice: Trevor Pinnock / The English Concert
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Claude Debussy
5 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
La mer
Claude Debussy
6 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Slavonic Dances
Antonín Dvořák
3 recordingsTop Choice: George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra
Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
3 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Hallé Orchestra
Serenade for Strings & Introduction and Allegro for Strings
Edward Elgar
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Sinfonia of London
Peer Gynt (Suites & Incidental Music)
Edvard Grieg
4 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks (Couplings)
George Frideric Handel
3 recordingsTop Choice: Rafael Kubelik / Berlin Philharmonic
Water Music
George Frideric Handel
2 recordingsTop Choice: Hermann Scherchen / Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Music for the Royal Fireworks
George Frideric Handel
2 recordingsTop Choice: Frederick Fennell / Cleveland Symphonic Winds
Concerti Grossi, Op. 6
George Frideric Handel
3 recordingsTop Choice: Andrew Manze / Academy of Ancient Music
Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Weber
Paul Hindemith
2 recordingsTop Choice: George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra
The Planets
Gustav Holst
4 recordingsTop Choice: Charles Dutoit / Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Sinfonietta
Leoš Janáček
2 recordingsTop Choice: Raphael Kubelik / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Les préludes
Franz Liszt
2 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Incidental Music) & Hebrides Overture
Felix Mendelssohn
1 recordingTop Choice: Peter Maag / London Symphony Orchestra
Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordingsTop Choice:
Serenade No. 10 'Gran Partita'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordingsTop Choice: Edo de Waart / Netherlands Wind Ensemble
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel) & A Night on the Bare Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
2 recordingsTop Choice: Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Modest Mussorgsky
3 recordingsTop Choice: Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Pachelbel's Canon, Albinoni's Adagio & Baroque Miniatures
Various Composers
1 recordingTop Choice: Karl Münchinger / Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Romeo and Juliet (Complete Ballet)
Sergei Prokofiev
2 recordingsTop Choice: Lorin Maazel / Cleveland Orchestra
Peter and the Wolf
Sergei Prokofiev
2 recordingsTop Choice: Mario Rossi / Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Daphnis et Chloé (Complete Ballet)
Maurice Ravel
5 recordingsTop Choice: Pierre Monteux / London Symphony Orchestra
Boléro
Maurice Ravel
3 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Maurice Ravel
2 recordingsTop Choice: Pierre Monteux / London Symphony Orchestra
Roman Trilogy (Pines, Fountains, Festivals)
Ottorino Respighi
2 recordingsTop Choice: Arturo Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra
Scheherazade
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
9 recordingsTop Choice: Kirill Kondrashin / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Overtures
Giacomo Rossini
2 recordingsTop Choice: Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Carnival of the Animals & Danse Macabre
Camille Saint-Saëns
2 recordingsTop Choice: Charles Dutoit / London Sinfonietta (Carnival) / Philharmonia Orchestra (Danse)
Finlandia, Valse Triste & The Swan of Tuonela
Jean Sibelius
1 recordingTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Tapiola
Jean Sibelius
4 recordingsTop Choice: Lorin Maazel / Vienna Philharmonic
Má vlast (My Homeland)
Bedřich Smetana
4 recordingsTop Choice: Jiří Bělohlávek / Czech Philharmonic
Waltzes and Polkas
Johann Strauss II
2 recordingsTop Choice: Willi Boskovsky / Vienna Philharmonic
Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony)
Richard Strauss
4 recordingsTop Choice: Rudolf Kempe / Staatskapelle Dresden
Also sprach Zarathustra
Richard Strauss
5 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Don Quixote
Richard Strauss
5 recordingsTop Choice: Pierre Fournier
Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life)
Richard Strauss
4 recordingsTop Choice: Eugene Ormandy / Philadelphia Orchestra
Metamorphosen
Richard Strauss
5 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Don Juan & Til Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Richard Strauss
4 recordingsTop Choice: George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra
Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration)
Richard Strauss
4 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) & Petrushka
Igor Stravinsky
8 recordingsTop Choice: Antal Doráti / Detroit Symphony Orchestra
L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird)
Igor Stravinsky
2 recordingsTop Choice: Antal Doráti / London Symphony Orchestra
1812 Overture
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1 recordingTop Choice: Antal Doráti / Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Ballet Suites (The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2 recordingsTop Choice: Mstislav Rostropovich / Berlin Philharmonic
The Nutcracker (Complete Ballet)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
3 recordingsTop Choice: Artur Rodziński / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sleeping Beauty (Complete Ballet)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2 recordingsTop Choice: Andre Previn / London Symphony Orchestra
Swan Lake (Complete Ballet)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1 recordingTop Choice: John Lanchbery / Philharmonia Orchestra
Romeo and Juliet (Fantasy Overture)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2 recordingsTop Choice: Claudio Abbado / Boston Symphony Orchestra
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis & Fantasia on Greensleeves
Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Sinfonia of London
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 recordingsTop Choice: Iona Brown
Orchestral Music from the Operas
Richard Wagner
3 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic