User:JackofOz/Timeless Tunes for Tuneless Times

This is an ever-expanding list of tunes that will never die.

When I say "tunes", I mean tunes, not necessarily entire works. The basic criterion is that it's something that's uplifting to the spirit, and that you can whistle (ok, I know you can whistle Beethoven's entire Choral Symphony, but let's get serious).

• Heinrich Baermann - Adagio in D flat for clarinet and piano (long misattributed to Wagner)
• William Bolcom - Ghost Rag No. 1
• Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
• Brahms - Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 - finale
• Bruch - Concerto in E minor for clarinet, viola & orchestra, Op. 88
• Delius - Florida Suite - 1st movement
• Dvořák - Romance in F minor for violin & orchestra
• Dvořák - Silent Woods, B. 182
• Elgar - Spanish Serenade
• Elgar - Nimrod from Enigma Variations
• Gluck - Aria Unser Dummer pöbel meint from The Pilgrims to Mecca (Mozart wrote variations on it, and Tchaikovsky orchestrated the variations as the final movement of Mozartiana)
• Gluck - Aria Che faro senza Euridice from Orfeo
• Godowsky - Alt Wien from "Triakontameron"
• Gounod - '"Kyrie" from the St Cecilia Mass
• Handel - Hornpipe from Water Music
• Handel - For Unto Us a Child is Born from Messiah
• Haydn - Kyrie Eleison from Missa Solemnis in B flat (Harmonie Messe)
• Elena Kats-Chernin - Russian Rag
• Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid, Liebesfreud
• Hamish MacCunn - Overture The Land of the Mountain and the Flood - main theme
• Moszkowski - main theme from Polonaise in D, Op. 17, No. 1
• Mozart - Ave verum corpus, K. 618
• Mozart - Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola & piano, K.498 ‘Kegelstatt’ - final movement
• Randy Newman - Dexter's Tune from the film Awakenings - the saddest piece of music ever written
• Piazzolla - Le Grand Tango
• Puccini - Duet "Hai ben raggione" from Il tabarro
• Rachmaninoff - Vocalise
• Saint-Saëns - "Softly awakes my heart" from Samson and Delilah
• Franz Schmidt - The theme on which Variations on a Hussar Song is based
• Schubert - Piano Sonata in C major, D. 840 "Reliquie" - Andante (C minor)
• Schubert - Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D.898 - 1st movement
• Schubert - slow movement from String Quintet in C, D. 956
• Schubert - The Shepherd on the Rock, D. 965
• Scriabin - Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28
• Sibelius - Canzonetta from Kuolema
• Richard Strauss - Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier
• Richard Strauss - Zueignung
• Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
• Tchaikovsky - Amid the din of a ball, Op. 38/3
• Tchaikovsky - Song of the Forests, Op. 47/5
• Verdi - Ingemisco from Requiem
• Verdi - Aria Ah si, ben mio coll'essere from Il trovatore
• Villa-Lobos - Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No. 5
• Villa-Lobos - Song of the Black Swan
• Wagner - "The Entry of the Guests" from Tannhäuser
• Wagner - Siegfried Idyll
• Wolf - Italian Serenade