Recommended Listening for Each Instrument
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Here is a list of pieces that you should listen to. Listening to music is part of becoming an excellent musician. If you have iTunes, you can search for all of this music. Have fun and let me know what you think!
Flute
Peter and the Wolf (Bird)
Bach Flute Sonatas
Stars and Stripes Forever (Piccolo solo toward the end)
Any recording by James Galway, Jean Pierre Rampal, Carol Wincenc, Hubert Laws (Jazz)
Clarinet
Peter and the Wolf (Cat)
Mozart Clarinet Concerto (Any of them)
Dixieland Recordings
Any Recordings by Richard Stolzman, Ricardo Morales, Anthony McGill, Stanley Drucker, Benny Goodman (Jazz), Artie Shaw (Jazz)
Saxophone
"Old Castle" from Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky
Concerto by Glazunov
Sonata by Creston
Now's the Time by Charlie Parker
Any Recording by Claude DeLangle, Marcel Mule, Timothy McAllister, Marshall Taylor, Charlie Parker (Jazz), John Coltrane (Jazz), Sonny Rollins (Jazz), Gerry Mulligan (Jazz), Chris Potter, (Jazz)
Trumpet
Haydn Trumpet Concerto
Hummel Trumpet Concerto
Dvorak - New World Symphony - Last Movement
Copland - Fanfare for a Common Man
Any recording by Wynton Marsalis (Jazz/Classical), Miles Davis (Jazz), Phil Smith (Classical) Maynard Ferguson (Jazz/Fusion), Empire Brass, Canadian Brass, Tower of Power (Funk)
French Horn
Peter and the Wolf (Wolf!)
Mozart Horn Concerti
Richard Strauss Horn Concerti
Mahler Third Symphony (Opening)
Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel
Any recording by Barry Tuckwell, Dennis Brain, Dale Clevenger, Eric Ruske, Empire Brass, Canadian Brass
Trombone/Baritone
Stars and Stripes Forever
Bruckner 8th Symphony Last Movement
Holst - The Planets - Mars
Any recording by Joe Alessi, Nitzan Haroz, Blair Bollinger (Bass Trombone), Empire Brass, Canadian Brass, JJ Johnson (Jazz), Bill Watrous (Jazz), Frank Rosolino (Jazz)