Poster Feel Good Playlist

Listen: Here are your choices for feel-good classical music

What piece of classical music do you turn to when you need a break to calm and reset your day? We recently asked you to submit your favorite feel-good music. Here are your suggestions. Listen now!

Playlist No. 1

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Feel Good Playlist 1 - 2024

Aaron Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man (selected by Patricia S.)

John Philip Sousa: Washington Post March (selected by Brother Dave)

Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 8, 4th movement (selected by Janet L.)

Percy Grainer: Lincolnshire Posy (selected by Janet M.)

Arvo Pärt: The Beatitudes (selected by Rick P.)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral), 2nd movement (selected by Dennis C.)

Victor Herbert: Irish Rhapsody (selected by Philip K.)

Michael Torke: Bright Blue Music (selected by Sally N.)

Maurice Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess (Selected by Karolyn R.)

Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 (selected by Diana G.)

Playlist No. 2

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Feel Good Playlist 2 - 2024

Antonio Vivaldi: Autumn from The Four Seasons (selected by Stephan R.)

Edvard Grieg: Morning Mood from Peer Gynt (selected by HunterH.)

Percy Grainger: Children’s March (selected by Charles A.)

Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique), 3rd movement (selected by Corbett A.)

Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau (selected by William M.)

Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 1 (selected by Mary L.)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending (selected by Charlie B.)

Franz Schubert: Die Forelle (The Trout) (selected by Yev A.)

Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel (selected by Phil R.)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade: The Young prince and the Young Princess (selected by Charles L.)

Playlist No. 3

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Feel Good Playlist 3 - 2024

Camille Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 Organ, 4th movement (selected by Mary P.)

Modest Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina: Prelude (Dawn over the River Moscow) (selected by Barbara B.)

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana: O Fortuna (selected by David F.)

Frederic Chopin: Nocturne No. 2 (selected by Emily U.)

Max Richter: On the Nature of Daylight (selected by Melanie R.)

Claude Debussy: Claire de Lune (selected by Pete D.)

Traditional Scottish: The Skye Boat Song (selected by Virgil N.)

Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture (selected by Randy S.)

Dan Forrest: Requiem for the Living: Sanctus (selected by Amy A.)

Dominick Argento: Walden Pond: The Pond (selected by Naomi S.)

Edvard Grieg: Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (selected by Rebecca B.)

Gustav Holst: “Jupiter” from The Planets (selected by Julia M.)

Playlist No. 4

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Feel Good Playlist 4 - 2024

Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide (selected by Curtis F.)

Maurice Durufle: Ubi Caritas (selected by Kay P.)

Eric Coates: Dance of the Orange Blossoms (selected by Philip N.)

Gabriel Faure: Reqiuem: In Paradisum (selected by Lois B.)

Ennio Morricone: The Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe (selected by Audrey S.)

Josef Suk: Toward a New Life (selected by Paulette B.)

Ola Gjeilo: Homebound (selected by Millie P.)

Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto, 3rd movement (selected by Rhonda S.)

Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio, 2nd movement (selected by Debra H.)

Karl Goldmark: Rustic Wedding Symphony: Wedding Dance (selected by Dean S.)

J.S. Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 (selected by David R.)

George Frideric Handel: Cis and Galatea: Happy We! (selected by Bradley G.)

Playlist No. 5

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Feel Good Playlist 5 - 2024

J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (selected by Stephen T.)

Johann Strauss, Jr.: By the Beautiful Blue Danube (selected by Fritz G.)

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2, 4th movement (selected by Susan M.)

John Williams: The Cowboys: Overture (selected by Kathryn K.)

Sergei Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije: Troika (selected by Neil S.)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight): 1st movement (selected by Ethan S.)

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (selected by Mark H.)

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 (Classical), 4th movement (selected by Gregory A.)

Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D (selected by Linda B.)

Aaron Copland: “Variations on a Shaker Melody” from Appalachian Spring: (selected by Patricia M.)

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