Apart from nursery rhymes and tradicional melodies, here is a list of some pieces of "classical" music that you can listen to with your child/children:
- 4 Seasons (A. Vivaldi)
- Brandemburg Concertos (J. S. Bach)
- Symphony no. 41 "Jupiter" (W. A. Mozart)
- Symphonies no. 5 and no. 9 "Ode to Joy" (L. van Beethoven)
- Concert for piano and orquesta no. 5 "Emperor" (L. van Beethoven)
- The carnrval of the animals (C. Saint-Säens)
- Hungarian Rhapsodies, for piano (F. Liszt)
- Hungarian Dances (J. Brahms)
- Eslavonic Dances (A. Dvorak)
- Symphony no. 9 "From the new world" (A. Dvorak)
- The Planets (G. Holst)
- Pomp and Circumstance (E. Elgar)
- Peer Gynt Suites (E. Grieg)
- Ma mère l'oie (M. Ravel)
- Peter and the Wolf (S. Prokofiev)
- Romeo and Juliet (S. Prokofiev)
- Jazz Suites (D. Shostakovich)
- The young person's guide to the orchestra (B. Britten)
- The Nutcracker, The Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty Ballets (P. I. Tchaikovsky)
- The Rite of the Spring (I. Stravinsky)
- Petrouschka (I. Stravinsky)
- 24 Caprices for solo violin, op. 1 (N. Paganini)
- Variations on a theme by Paganini (W. Lutoslawski)
- Grandes Études de Paganini (F. Listz)
- Prelude, Fugue and Riffs (L. Bernstein)
- Rhapsody in Blue (G. Gershwin)
I didn't follow a specific order, the list starts with Baroque music and finish in XX century music (maybe I tried to show the items in chronological order, but not very strict) .
To begin with, I think it serves the purpose. In the future, I'll make a second list, with further recommendations.
A good thing about all the pieces I've collected here is that you can "use" them to introduce "classical" music while learning other facts: about a year's weather (Vivaldi), about the universe (Mozart, Dvorak or Holst), about fairy tales (Ravel, Tchaikovsky or Prokofiev), about animals (Saint-Säens), about the instruments in an orchestra (Britten or Prokofiev), about jazz (Shostakovich, Bernstein o Gershwin)...
I think all these pieces are a wonderful tool to create a global learning environment at home! All of them are easily available on the net, you just have to google the titles and YouTube will show you several recordings or live performances.
I hope you'll find this post useful! If your have any suggestions, please, feel free to write me!
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