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stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

sleep (eric whitacre) (added by thelonecomposer)

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

symphony no. 5 mvt. 4 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

marche slave (tchaikovsky) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

vocalise (rachmaninoff) (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

egmont overture (added by shayshay526)

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

jazz suite no. 2 (shostakovich) (added by eternal-cadenza)

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

concierto de aranjuez (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

moto perpetuo (paganini)

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

le tombeau de couperin (added by tropicalmunchakoopas)

carnival of the animals (added by shadowraven45662)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

violin concerto in d minor (sibelius) (added by eternal-cadenza)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

April is the cruelest month. Mostly because it only serves to remind me that I’m another year older and still have nothing to show for it. Part of me wants to go back and do a lot of it all over again. The other half of me is like “fuck that shit.” Eliot also said that “winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow.” And now, with April, with spring, all of the things we tried to bury away are coming to the surface again. I can remember what a bad place I was in at this time last year and I sometimes feel myself slipping back into that. And then I think about it and I realize that it wasn’t just last year: I apparently have a thing for getting the dark and twisties around springtime, because it was like this the year before and then the year before that, I was all jacked up because I was graduating from college…my old roommates can testify to the fact that I was having a near mental breakdown in our kitchen every other night over finishing college (aka impending doom). There are days where I just don’t even want to get out of bed because I feel so useless. And I wonder how it feels to do something worthwhile with your life or how it would feel to actually do something productive with the degree I spent four years and thirty grand on. But I feel that I’ve always been mediocre at best; I’ve never done anything of great importance. I’ve never been the best at anything. I don’t have any extraordinary talents. Most days, I don’t even feel like I have any particular affinity for the thing I actually went to school for in the first place. I sit in my car and wonder what would happen if I ran a red light; I try to remember what things were like before and how I felt before everything went all wrong. I stare at old memories for hours; I would let the nostalgia swallow me up whole if it wanted to. I sit in silence and close my eyes and try to remember how things used to be.

Have you ever tried to remember the first time you did or heard something? Something important to you now? I try and so very often, I can’t do it. How can that be?

I want a re-do on so many of those things that I can hardly remember. I want to try to harder; I want to be better; I want to want to remember so many of the things I have actually retained in my head.

I am so out of patience and strength and good grace…all of the things I need in order to let go of the shit I’m hugging so tightly that it’s about to crack ribs. I’m just tired. And I want things to be the same as they were, but I also want to go some place completely new and start over with no traces of the past.

Everyone:

I’m living for this Gwen love, y’all.