Here's a large list of some lesser known classical pieces. Along with some more known ones as well. I jumped and skipped some SUPER OBVIOUS classical pieces. Oh, and they're mostly grim and dark pieces, and some of my favorites. I poorly pieced them together. So blah. Here.
Note, some URL's do not work.
Chopin's Nocturne in F Minor Opus 55 Number 1
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4lUf9ukIdU[/url] [/media]
Mikhail Glinka's Nocturne in F Minor "La Separation"
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRHJsDWXgCY[/url] [/media]
Lacrimosa (You know this as well), of course. And Moonlight Sonata (Eh, you should know), as well. Same with Clair De Lune ([media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXl4y6D-QI[/url] [/media]), and Chopin's Nocturne Opus 9 Number 2 ([media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk[/url] [/media]).
Chopin's Etude Opus 10 Number 12
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VjFKLC[/url] ... re=related [/media]
Mozart's Requiem Introitus One Solti
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb3bwGb0glQ[/url] [/media]
Shostakovich 5th and 13th Symphony (fifth below)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogJFXqYEYd8[/url] [/media]
Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 (Okay, kinda unoriginal)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E[/url] [/media]
Liszt's Liebustraum
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6hdDOFtW64[/url] [/media]
Chopin's Minute Waltz (Also unoriginal)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q82qUpRfGI[/url] [/media]
Carl Orff O Fortuna (Very unoriginal)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0i9uWNDvDg[/url] [/media]
Comptine D'un Autre Ete by Yann Tierson (Kinda modern, oh well, and cliche, and not classical)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_JfNlNSTk[/url] [/media]
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MzHqkNBwo[/url] [/media]
Ludovico Einaudi's Divenire (Also modern, but composer not bad, not classical)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAI2doCUbNc[/url] [/media]
Bach's Checonne
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNXlslzL8EY[/url] [/media]
Chopin's Nocturne Number 10 Opus 32 #2 As-duuri
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDht_OQ_aZE[/url] [/media]
Peer Gynt's Suite No. 1: The Death of Ase
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7OVEqH43AI[/url] [/media]
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D 1st Movement Part 1-2
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GN8Tr9tl2o[/url] [/media]
Camille Saint-Saens The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvh4zEKG2zs[/url] [/media]
Erik Satie Gymnopedie
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBiPQKK1upk[/url] [/media]
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc[/url] [/media]
Ravel's Bolero
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4J5j74VPw[/url] [/media]
Modest Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_98452AxFI[/url] [/media]
A Night on Bald Mountain (By Modest, like above)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_0GekZl7YA[/url] [/media]
Adagio For Strings, Opus 11
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O666kGBEvF0[/url] [/media]
WAIT, NO
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMz8fKkG2g[/url] [/media]
Andante (Piano Concerto 21) by Mozart
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df-eLzao63I[/url] [/media]
Camille Saint-Saens, Danse Macabre
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM[/url] [/media]
Dies Irae by Verdi
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TFIA0kE8TQ[/url] [/media]
Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzf0rvQa4Mc[/url] [/media]
Flight of the Bumblebee by Korsakov
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41DykcpgRg[/url] [/media]
Flower Duet (very bad video below)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXUy-mQ0-E[/url] [/media]
Habanera from Camren by Bizet
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtDDgmaLZ8E[/url] [/media]
Hungarian Dance Number 5 by Brahms
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwRKZ1a167Q[/url] [/media]
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKHQ36NOxzk[/url] [/media] (alt)
Hungarian Dance Number 2 by Liszt
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goeOUTRy2es[/url] [/media]
Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWL8Y-qsJg[/url] [/media]
Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZBD7AGQA2g[/url] [/media]
Montagues and Capulets by Profokiev
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RFq7cOVDF0[/url] [/media] (Starting at 2:50, ending at 3:20)
Mozart Symphony No. 40 (Kinda cliche)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l45DAuXYSIs[/url] [/media]
Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_7loz-HWUM[/url] [/media]
Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner (Yeah, let's throw Apocalypse Now into this)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek[/url] [/media]
Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto Number 1
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8381Z3O_xU[/url] [/media]
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG83EmwJpo8[/url] [/media] (Movement 3)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD8HDta7Z_4[/url] [/media]
Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Bach (CLICHE)
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWLqHDtVfo[/url] [/media]
Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3ELt0zPLg[/url] [/media]
And not this:
[media] [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF1iZH1F40s[/url] [/media]
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Love Shostakovich's 5th, especially the Allegro non Troppo.
I love Rhapsody in blue. and Hungarian Rhapsody 2
I wouldn't say any of those bar maybe one or two are unknown. Things like K626 are so well known it's absurd.
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