Ok, heres a list I compiled of the most popular classical pieces that I'm sure everyone has heard before from adverts to movies and such.

Dance of the hours - Ponchielli
Violin concerto no.1 in E minor RV. 269 "Spring" - Vivaldi
Sabre Dance - Khachaturian
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana - Orff
funeral march of a marionette - Gounod
In The Hall of the Mountain King - Grieg
Les Pâtineurs waltz op. 183 "The Skaters" - Waldteufel
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 - Liszt
Piano Sonata No. 2 Marche funèbre: Lento Op.35 "funeral March" - Chopin
Waltz in D flat major Op. 64 "Minute Waltz" - Chopin
"Hallelujah" from The Oratorio "Messiah" - Handel
"The Toreadors" from Carmen Suite no.1 - Bizet
"Habanera" from Carmen Suite no.2 - Bizet
Largo al factotum (Aria) from the opera "The Barber of Seville - Rossini
Overture to the opera "The Barber of Seville" - Rossini
Overture to William Tell - Rossini
Anvil Chorus from "Il trovatore" - Verdi
La donna è mobile from "Rigoletto" - Verdi
Dies Irae from Verdi's Requiem - Verdi
Infernal Gallop or "can-can" from "Orpheus in the underworld" - Offenbach
Rondeau from masterpiece theatre - Mouret
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major BWV 1066-1069 "air on a G string" - Bach
Radetzky March - Strauss 1st
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka - Strauss 2nd
An der schönen blauen Donau op. 314 "Blue Danube" - Strauss 2nd
Lullaby (better known as The Cradle song) - Brahms
Hungarian Dance no.5 - Brahms
Palladio i, Allegretto - Karl Jenkins
Sous le dôme épais "flower Duet" - Delibes
"Ode to joy" Symphony no.9 - Beethoven
Piano sonata no.14 op. 27 Movements 1&3 "Moonlight" - Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C Minor Op. 67 Allegro con brio - Beethoven
Bagatelle in A minor WoO 59 "Fur Elise" - Beethoven
String Quintet In E Major 3rd mvt or Minuet for strings - Boccherini
Funiculi, Funicula - Denza
The Flight of the Bumblebee - Korsakov
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Dukas
A Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
Dance of the sugar plum fairy (Nutcracker Suite) - Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
Dance of the reed flutes (Nutcracker Suite) - Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet fantasy Overture - Tchaikovsky <-- Fall in love theme.
Also sprach Zarathustra - Richard Strauss
Adagio For strings op. 11 - Barber
Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini (Variation no. 18) - Rachmaninov
Peter and the Wolf - Prokofiev
Pomp and Circumstance - Elgar <-- Graduation theme
Ride of the Valkyries - Wagner
Bridal chorus from Lohengrin - Wagner <-- Here comes the bride
Symphony no. 40 in G minor Kv 550 Molto Allegro - Mozart
Serenade for strings in G major Kv 525 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" - Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 21 In C Kv 467 Andante - Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 11 In A, Rondo Alla Turca Kv 331 - Mozart
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart
Dies Irae from Requiem in D minor - Mozart
"Vengeance of Hell stirs within my heart" from The Magic Flue - Mozart
Canon In D - Pachelbel
The Stars And Stripes Forever - Sousa

And done. That must be the longest list I've ever done.   But trust me. Every single piece listed up, you've heard before but never knew the names.  Layman's classical if you will. 
If anyone wants, I can add descriptions to any of the listed pieces above so that others can identify them easier. Just quote the name of the piece and I'll reply with the description of where you might have heard it.

I spent like an hour to compile that list.
Ok firstly: The most notable part of the william Tell Overture is the Finale. I've got the file though.

Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, forgot to mention that the 1st March is refered to as "graduation theme"

Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini (by Rachmaninov) is a set of 24 Variations, your recording is from Classicat? Its still done from variation 1 till 24, but in 1 shot as in 1 .mp3 file.

A little summer night music? are you reffering to A little night music? because that would be Eine kleine Nachtmusik. 1st and 2nd movement are pretty popular.

Darn it, I completely forgot about Bach's Toccata and Fugue and Waltz of the flowers.

I would highly suggest you to put all of the listed pieces above, 2cds or not. All of them are absolute essentials. If you need help getting the unbolded pieces, I can because I have every file listed. But if you really don't want to add all of them, just tell me how many files you want inside your CD and I'll try to narrow it down to the given number.

Ok I completely understand your situation now. Since you're even giving the CD for free thats Good! Take your time, because what you'll want to do is to add the finest music into that 1 cd.

The first movement and second movement of Eine Kleine Nachmusik will do, since both are literally heard everywhere.

"Ode to joy", I got an exerp of the famous choral part, its a few minutes long so don't worry about that. its 3.21 minutes long and weighs 5.25mb I can and will send it to you if you want.

Right, onto Chopin. I'd say that the Minute waltz is more popular and its only >1 minute long which means its takes up little space compared to Fantasie Impromptu which should be bigger in size since it's longer.

Moonlight sonata, The 1st movement will do. nevermind the third, drop it.
Mozart's Dies Irae should be a small file too since its 1 minute or so, so I'd say it should still be ok to add it. (but you know me, I love Mozart.)

If you need any of the files just WLM me and I'd be glad to send you the files.

Hey If you run out of CDs i can spare some. 

You can add Fantasie Impromtu if you want, jus try to minimize the bitrate to save space, 128 minimum so it won't sound like crap.

Most people will only look for the choral part of "ode to joy" I'd say don't bother with the rest of it. (Eventhough i like to listen to the whole thing) we're trying to save space right? 

Go for the 2 minute excerp of Toccata and Fugue since you need all the space you can get so you can add even more mp3s.   + most people tend to get abit bored when they listen to long pieces.

I'll be around for a long time. long holiday for me!   

I'd say go for the swan lake scene, Since its part of a suite which means shorter time and less space taken.

Don't worry about the Romeo and juliet overture, I have the excerp of the love theme . only 1.93Mb 

Ooh I like that piece, its very relaxing, should have added to my soft music list..

But I don't think many have heard of this piece, I recommend you not to put it into your cd,but its you who has the last say.

Ok here goes the story:

Albinoni was from a war torn country (can't remember which one Bosnia, Czech, one of those). He was a musician but in his country, there wasn't muych opportunity for music as the life span there was really short. People were hungry and impoverished. Therefore food was a priority.

One day, at the market quare, when the bakery was distributing food to the people in his area, the enemy started shelling (Mortar) the town, the crowd was quite big thus, many people were killed.

Albinoni's love for music made him took his cello (i think) and a chair, and he sat in the middle market square, amidst mortar fire, and played Adagio in G Minor. He channelled his sorrow and pain and suffering of his countrymen and his country into the song.

And miraculously, amidst the shelling, he was not hurt at all.

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8, 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice - January 17, 1751, Venice, Republic of Venice)

Er no.. i did not get that from wikipedia..

I got this story when i was in my foundation year.. It was doing a summary on the article about him..

So i made an even shorter summary coz those are what i can remember about him hehe

You were able to fit 70mp3 files into 1 cd? impressive. I think 70 is already alot of files, enough just burn it. or you could increase the bitrate of the mp3s to a higher bitrate say:320kb/s.

How much space do you have left in the cd?

Alamak.. haha, nevermind. Lets not make the same mistake for the 2nd cd.
I will list down some great pieces to put into the 2nd one by tommorow. If you still want to make a 2nd cd that is. 

Interesting selection. 
I'd like to suggest the following:

Grande Polonaise Brillante Proceder An Andante Spianato Op. 22 b - Chopin (from the Pianist)
Nocturne No.2 In E Flat, Op. 9 - Chopin
Kyrie Eleison (Great mass in C Minor Kv. 427) - Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A Kv. 209 - Mozart
Piano Concerto No.1 - Tchaikovsky
Harpsichord Concerto No.5 in F minor BWV 1056 - Bach
Liebestraum No. 3 in A Flat - Liszt
Consolation in E - Liszt
Consolation in D Flat - Liszt
Sonata for cello and piano in G minor op. 19 Andante - Rachmaninov
Prelude in G minor No.5 op. 23 - Rachmaninov

Ok, I might not be posting here for quite awhile, got things to do. Anyway good luck with promoting Classical to your friends.

oh sure...i'll compile it n post it up here in a few days time..currently abit busy.. oh yeah...one more song dat i'm looking for.from the same phone..its fantasie..piano kind of tune...

Fantasie? I'm going to take a wild guess. Try searching for Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu.

Vangelis:
Blade Runner OST

hi,

want to ask you all SIFU SIFU !

1st, dun marah me !   

because I want to find a song but dun know what the name ~ 

it appear on alot of movie but forgot the movie name also ~ 
it sound like classic ROME Symphony, usually those sound appear on

'kan cheong' scene 1 ~  sound like want to stab u from behind 1 ~

Everytime listen that sound also syok 1 ~ feel like stabing my boss.

lasty, wan to sory la~ me dun know much bout the music but this 1 i think

I enjoy very much 1 ~

BTW, I like john williams orchestra - Jaws , ET, starwars

Info About Vangelis:Vangelis at Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangelis

Eep I just found this thread. Dunno if anyone listed it for you yet.

Which song are you referring too? I know 2 of the classical song they played in ep2 is:-

Allegro from Beethoven's Sonata for Piano and Violin in F major, Op. 24 "Spring"
[performed for Mine's violin test]

Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
[performed by A Orchestra]

neway, bout nodame song, someone made a torrent of all the original classic song (full ver. i think) in a batch that has been used in that anime. nice one but i think they left out Rhaspsody of something (cant remember the title, but the one played when Nodame dressed as a Mongoose).