You have heard the saying, "music calms the animal within", well in that vain in my rushed and hurried world I am purposefully inserting more moments of calm and more moments of beauty.
One of the ways I am doing that is by listening to great music. I found a great list of classical music to calm the beast. Two things are happening, I am becoming more familiar with great music and I am also becoming more calm (at least for moments).
See if you can find anything interesting here.
Classical CD Guide — Top 10 Orchestral Works to Start Your Classical Music Collection
Top 10 Essential Orchestral Works
1 Stravinsky: Rite of Spring — Igor Stravinsky
A scandalous ballet.
2 Handel: Water Music — Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
How to get in the good graces of a king.
3 Ravel: Bolero; Debussy: La Mer — Herbert von Karajan
Orchestral landscapes and seascapes.
4 Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites — Mstislav Rostropovich
The Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies, and much more.
5 Mozart: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" — Bruno Walter
The famous serenade hides a mystery.
6 Holst: The Planets — Charles Dutoit
Music that’s out of this world.
7 Copland: Applachian Spring — Leonard Bernstein
The American master’s Simple Gift to posterity.
8 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade — Valery Gergiev
Musical storytelling from the Arabian Nights.
9 Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra — Fritz Reiner
Swan song for a man of many talents.
10 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, American in Paris — Leonard Bernstein
The fusion of Jazz and Classical.
