The Core Knowledge Music Collection includes compact discs with recordings of many of the musical works specified in the Core Knowledge Sequence. For grade 7, this 2-CD set continues from grade 6 the idea of classifying Western music by periods, focusing on works from the later Romantic period. Featured composers include Brahms, Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Grieg, and Tchaikovsky.

This 2-CD set includes:

• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (fourth movement)
• Berlioz: selections from Symphonie Fantastique
• Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (for piano)
• Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
• Dvorak: selections from Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)
• Grieg: selections from Peer Gynt
• Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture