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African-American spirituals
Bach: "A Mighty Fortress is Our God"
Bach: Cantata No. 161, Chorus No.5 "Wenn es meines Gottes Wille"
Bach: "Dona Nobis Pacem" from the Mass in B minor
Bach: Fantasia in G
Bach: Organ Preludes and Fugues
Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue for Organ (Adagio)
Bach: Sleepers Awake
Bach: St. Matthew Passion (opening chorale)
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 1
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
Beethoven: Ode "To Joy" from Symphony No. 9
Beethoven: Hammerklavier Piano Sonata **
Beethoven: Great Fugue
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Berlioz: Requiem
Bernstein: "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Bernstein: Symphony No. 1, "Jeremiah"
Franz Biebl: "Ave Maria"
Ian Bostridge
Brahms: "A German Requiem"
Brahms: "A German Requiem" (in English)
Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Bruckner: "Te Deum"
Chant: Media vita in morte sumus
Chopin: Etude in A-flat major, Op. 25, No. 1 "Aeolian"
Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat
Classical Spanish guitar music
Copland: "Quiet City"
Copland: "A Lincoln Portrait"
Copland: Symphony No. 3
Copland: Simple Gifts" from Appalachian Spring
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
David Daniels
David Diamond: Symphony No 4
Maurice Durufle: "Requiem"
Dvorák: "Requiem"
Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
John B. Dykes: “Eternal Father, Strong to Save” (Navy Hymn)
Elgar: "Nimrod" from the Enigma Variations
Elgar: "Sospiri"
Jonathan Elias: The Prayer Cycle
Fauré: "Requiem"
Fauré: "In Paradisum" from Requiem
Glass: "Move to Dungkar" from Kundun
Henryk Gorécki: Symphony No. 3
Handel: Choruses and Arias from "Messiah" ("He Shall Feed His Flock," "I Know My Redeemer Liveth," "Hallelujah")
Handel: "Xerxes"
Hanson: Andante from the Symphony No. 2
Hanson: Symphony No. 3
Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3
Honegger: Pastorale d’Ete
Alan Hovhaness: The Prayer of St. Gregory **
Hovhaness: Aria from "Haroutiun"
Faith Hill: "There Will Come a Day"
Mississippi John Hurt
Holst: "The Planets"
Herbert Howells: "Take Him Earth for Cherishing"
Henri Littolff: Concerto Symphonique (scherzo)
Jazz
J.J. Johnson: "Lament"
Kodaly: "Ave Maria" (for women’s choir)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Mahler: Symphony No. 10
Martinu: Memorial to Lidice
Mascagni: Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana"
Massenet: Meditiation from “Thais”
Mozart: "Ave Verum Corpus"
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (2nd movement)
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
Mozart: "Laudate Dominum" from Solemn Vespers of the Confessor
Mozart: "Requiem" ("Lacrimosa")
Arvo Part: "Te Deum"
Part: "Spiegel Im Spiegel"
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (2nd movement)
Prokofiev: "Alexander Nevsky"
Puccini: "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
Puccini: "La Boheme"
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (2nd movement)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (2nd movement)
Ravel: "L'Enfant et les Sortileges"
Ravel: "Mother Goose" Suite
Django Reinhardt
Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez (2nd movement)
Rutter: "Requiem"
Satie: Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes
Alfred Schnittke: Psalms of Repentance
Schumann: Symphonies
Shostakovich: Trio, Op. 67
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8
Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 14 and 15
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 (last 2 movements)
Sibelius: "Finlandia"
Paul Simon: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Smetana: "The Moldau"
Sousa: Marches
Strauss: Four Last Songs
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Hermann Suter: "Le Laudi di San Francesco d’Asissi"
Tavener: "Song for Athene"
Tchaikovsky: "1812" Overture
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: "Nutcracker"
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Vaughan Williams: "London" Symphony (slow movement)
Vaughan Williams: "The Lark Ascending"
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 3
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Wagner: "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde
Wagner: Overture to Tannhaeuser