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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)

Here is a prioritized list of classical music (inclusively defined) recommendations put together by members of the Talk Classical discussion forum and the (now defunct) Amazon.com classical music discussion forum.

Naturally, these recommendations represent the knowledge and tastes of the people who have helped build it. We do not claim that it is the official canon of art music, or that it is anything like an objective ranking of the greatness of each work!

However, to the best of our knowledge, nothing else like this exists -- no other list of prioritized recommendations including all genres of classical music, no other list as helpful to an old veteran looking for a surprise as to a newbie just familiarizing herself with the canon.


You can also view the list as an unranked, alphabetical list (though it may not be up-to-date). You can also see some simple statistical information here.

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Our project is ongoing, and we'd be very happy for you to add your own voice!

You can change our list in three ways:

1. The main way is to participate in the threads with titles like, "The first tier," "The second tier," and so on. You can find them in the polls sub-forum. Usually we have several going on at a time, but in order to avoid confusion, please don't bump the threads that have timed out!

2. The second way is to add new works to the list. If you want to recommend a work that is not already on our list, just post it in this thread. You can add up to 5 new works per day. All newly added works begin on the lowest tier, but they can move up from there.

One final way that you can contribute is simply by letting me know if you see errors in the list, such as incorrect dates, misspellings, and so on. You can do that in this thread, or if you prefer you can PM me.

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People might disagree with your votes, and you might disagree with theirs, but please be patient and persistent. Your participation will make our list better. We value everyone's participation.

If you are disappointed that a work you champion is not getting more community support, feel free to advocate for it, telling us why we should support it. Advocacy for a work will always be both more welcome and more productive than advocacy against a work.

Please be polite. Obviously we have different tastes and we don't all know the same things; we do not all agree about how strongly various works should be recommended, how great or important they are, or anything else.

The point is to learn from each other and help each other, to have a good time exploring music together.

Special thanks to Trout, who has maintained this list for years and years, and did a heck of a lot of work compiling recording recommendations, and to mmsbls, who has agreed to edit the posts in our thread when needed.

And thanks to all the people who have contributed in various ways to this project over the years! I personally have learned a lot from it, and I'm sure others have as well. I hope this will be helpful to people for many years to come, and I hope we continue to refine it as we all learn more about this amazing tradition.
 
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#29 ·
Our votes on the 13th tier selected the following works...

To move up to the 12th tier:
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) [1941]
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620 [1791]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3 in C, op. 26 [1921]
Prokofiev: Symphony #5 in B-flat, op. 100 [1944]
Ravel: String Quartet in F [1903]
Schubert: Symphony #9 in C, D. 944 "Great" [c. 1827]
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto #1 in E-flat, op. 107 [1959]
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93 [1953]
Tallis: Spem in alium [c. 1570]

To remain on the 13th tier:
Brahms: String Sextet #1 in B-flat, op. 18 [1860]
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor, WAB 108 [1890]
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 in F, op. 96 "American" [1893]
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16 [1868]
Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 in A, op. 90 "Italian" [1834]
Saint-Saëns: Symphony #3 in C minor, op. 78 "Organ" [1886]

To move down to the 14th tier:
Dvořák: Symphony #8 in G, op. 88 [1889]
Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 in A minor, op. 56 "Scottish" [1842]
 
#31 · (Edited)
Our votes on the 27th tier selected the following works...

To move up to the 26th tier:
Bartók: Violin Concerto #2 in G, Sz. 112, BB 117 [1938]
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #31 in A-flat, op. 110 [1822]
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem), op. 5 [1837]
Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne [1923-30]
Dvořák: Symphony #7 in D minor, op. 70 [1885]
Janáček: Sinfonietta [1926]
Mahler: Rückert Lieder [1902]
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor, op. 67 [1914]
Schubert: String Quartet #15 in G, D. 887 [1826]
Sibelius: Symphony #6 in D minor, op. 104 [1923]

To remain on the 27th tier:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #26 in E-flat, op. 81a "Les Adieux" [1812]
Chopin: Piano Concerto #1 in E minor, op. 11 [1830]
Dohnányi: Piano Quintet #2 in E-flat minor, op. 26 [1914]
Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, opp. 46 & 72 [1878, 1886]
Fauré: Nocturnes [c. 1875-1921]
Haydn: String Quartets, op. 33 "Russian" [1781]
Haydn: Symphony #45 in F-sharp minor "Farewell" [1772]
Magnard: Symphony #4 in C-sharp minor, op. 21 [1913]
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto #1 in G minor, op. 25 [1831]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Festival Overture, op. 36 [1888]

To move down to the 28th tier:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #1 in G minor, op. 13 "Winter Daydreams" [1866]
 
#35 ·
Our votes on the 95th tier, part 1, selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 93rd tier:
Anonymous: Codex Las Huelgas [c. 1300]
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #19 in G minor, op. 49/1 [1795-8]
Biber: Missa Bruxellensis [c. 1700]
Chin: Piano Concerto [1997]
Dennehy: That the Night Come [2010]
Gallus: Opus musicum, including "O magnum mysterium" [1587]

To move up 1 to the 94th tier:
Adams: Grand Pianola Music [1982]
Adams: Violin Concerto [1993]
Aho: Symphony #12 "Luosto" for 2 orchestras [1994]
Avshalomov: Hutongs of Peking [1931]
Bach, J. C.: Keyboard Concertos, op. 7
Barber: Medea [1946]
Barrios: La Catedral [1921]
Bartók: Allegro barbaro, Sz. 49 [1911]
Bartók: Kossuth, Sz. 21, BB. 31 [1903]
Bax: Violin concerto [1938]
Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte (To the Distant Beloved), op. 98 [1816]
Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), op. 126 [1824]
Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs) [1908]
Berlioz: Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, op. 15 [1840]
Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem [2012]
Britten: Cello Suite #1, op. 72 [1964]
Browne: O Maria Salvatoris mater
Bruch: String Quartet #2 in E, op. 10 [1860]
Cornysh: Salve regina [by 1502]
Debussy: Rhapsody for alto saxophone and orchestra [1919]
Dennehy: Stainless Staining [2007]
Dohnányi: Piano Concerto #2 in B minor, op. 47 [1947]
Dufay: Ave Maris Stella [before 1505]
Farrenc: Symphony #1 in C minor, op. 32 [1842]
Fauré: Mélodies (2), op. 46, including "Clair de lune"
Franck: Trois Chorals for organ [1890]

To remain on the 95th tier:
Alfonso X: Cantiga de Santa Maria 417 "Nobre don e muy preçado" [13th cent.]
Andre: ...22, 13... [2004]
Arensky: Suite #1 for 2 Pianos in F, op. 15 [1890]
Arne: Artaxerxes [1762]
Arnold: Symphony #1, op. 22 [1949]
Atterberg: Symphony #4 in G minor, op. 14 "Sinfonia Piccola" [1918]
Babbitt: Composition for Twelve Instruments [1948, 1954]
Beethoven: Violin Sonata #10 in G, op. 96 [1812]
Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict, op. 27 [1862]
Berlioz: Les francs-juges overture, op. 3 [1825]
Billone: Sgorgo Y., N., & Oo. [2012, 2013]
Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus [1986]
Bliss: Cello Concerto [1970]
Boyce: Symphonies (8), op. 2 [c. 1760]
Brahms: Canons (13), op. 113 [by c. 1891]
Brahms: Songs (5), op. 49, including "Wiegenlied" ("Brahms's Lullaby") [1868]
Chabrier: Suite pastorale [1888]
Chávez: Symphony #6 [1962]
Dittersdorf: Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses [1783]
Dufay: Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys [1427]
Dukas: La Péri [1912]
Enescu: Orchestral Suite #3 in D, op. 27, "Villageoise" [1938]
Enescu: String Quartet #2 in G, op. 22/2 [1951]
Farrenc: Symphony #2 in D, op. 35 [1845]
Fauré: Pleurs d'or, op. 72 [1896]
Fujikura: Sparking Orbit for electric guitar and electronics [2013]
Gade: Echoes of Ossian, op. 1 [1841]
Gade: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 25 [1852]

To move down 1 to the 96th tier:
Bargiel: Fantasia #1 in B minor, op. 5 [1851]
 
#38 ·
Alright, so I’ve got a proposal, and it’s one that can be totally ignored but I think it would really be beneficial to the project. How about placing the voting threads in the main Classical Music Discussion forum rather than Polls and Games? There’s honestly only about 15 people who routinely visit the games section and vote, so that’s hardly representative of the Talk Classical Community. I think a lot of people honestly don’t even know about the existence of this amazing project because of this, and I have a feeling that they would gladly participate if they did, not to mention the fact that it would then truly be a good sample of the community that was voting rather than just the same 15-20 members every time. I’m sure you have a rationale for not doing this, but just offering a suggestion:)
 
#39 ·
Alright, so I've got a proposal, and it's one that can be totally ignored but I think it would really be beneficial to the project. How about placing the voting threads in the main Classical Music Discussion forum rather than Polls and Games? There's honestly only about 15 people who routinely visit the games section and vote, so that's hardly representative of the Talk Classical Community. I think a lot of people honestly don't even know about the existence of this amazing project because of this, and I have a feeling that they would gladly participate if they did, not to mention the fact that it would then truly be a good sample of the community that was voting rather than just the same 15-20 members every time. I'm sure you have a rationale for not doing this, but just offering a suggestion:)
Thank you for that suggestion.

I've definitely thought about it, and maybe I'll do that someday, but the main consideration is that there are people who don't like anything like this, regardless of whether we call it a game or a poll or a project or anything else, and for now they can avoid them simply by not going to that sub-forum. If we do the threads in the main forum, they'll have to see them, and I anticipate that there'll be considerably more sturm und drang over this than we've already seen -- especially if we do more than two or three threads at a time. In the polls sub-forum it's no problem even to have seven or eight going at once, but that certainly wouldn't be tolerated on the main board.

The reverse is also true. I can't speak for anyone, so of course I may be wrong about this, but it seems to me that some of the people who are active in the polls sub-forum feel a kind of camaraderie there, and so some people might be disappointed if we stopped doing our threads there.

Weighing it all up, I think you're right that doing the threads in the polls sub-forum probably means we have less participation, but at least for now it seems to me that it is the right public relations approach.

My compromise measures have been to put this thread on the main board, and to encourage people to make reference threads here and in other sub-fora (like the opera sub-forum). Hopefully that will enable at least a few more people who would like to participate to find out about it.

This has been going on (in various forms) for over ten years now, and I dare to hope it will go on at least as long again. (To be honest, I'd even like to think that if something unfortunate happened to me so that I were unable to continue creating the threads and editing the document, someone else would take it up.) Over that time we've had ... perhaps hundreds (?) ... of participants, and so I hope we'll have hundreds more, perhaps not all at once but over the long term.
 
#43 ·
Our votes on the 53rd tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 51st tier:
Chopin: Piano Sonata #3 in B minor, op. 58 [1844]
Puccini: Turandot [1926]

To move up 1 to the 52nd tier:
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 [after c. 1730]
Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48 [1911-17]
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #12 in A-flat, op. 26 "Funeral March" [1801]
Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia [1880]
Brahms: Serenade #1 in D, op. 11 [1857]
Debussy: Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra, L 73 [1890]
Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit [1976]
Gabrieli: Sacrae Symphoniae [1597 and 1615]
Haydn: Symphony #92 in G "Oxford" [1789]
Lassus: Penitential Psalms (Psalmi Davidis poenitentiales) [1584]
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage (Years of Pilgrimage), Troisième année (S.163) [1883]
Mozart: Symphony #25 in G minor, K. 183 [1773]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #1 in D-flat, op. 10 [1912]
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #10, op. 70 [1913]
Sibelius: En Saga, op. 9 [1892]

To remain on the 53rd tier:
Brahms: Piano Sonata #3 in F minor, op. 5 [1853]
Brahms: Tragic Overture, op. 81 [1880]
Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke [1591]
Falla: El Amor Brujo [1915]
Glière: Harp Concerto in E-flat, op. 74 [1938]
Grieg: String Quartet #1 in G minor, op. 27 [1878]
Handel: Solomon, HWV 67 [1748]
Haydn: Symphony #83 in G minor "The Hen" [1785]
Janáček: Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 "From the Street" [1905]
Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite [1941]
Magnard: Symphony #3 in B-flat minor, op. 11 [1896]
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 5 [1605]
Mozart: Symphony #35 in D, K. 385 "Haffner" [1782]
Mozart: Violin Concerto #3 in G, K. 216 [1775]
Poulenc: Sextet for Piano and Winds [1932]
Reich: Different Trains [1788]
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) [1816]
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, op. 28 [1863]
Schubert: Klavierstücke (3 Piano Pieces), D. 946 [1828]
Schubert: Piano Sonata #15 in C, D. 840 "Reliquie" [1825]
Weber: Der Freischütz, op. 77 [1821]
Webern: Pieces (5) for Orchestra, op. 10 [1913]

To move down 1 to the 54th tier:
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in E, K. 380 "Cortège" [18th cent.]
 
#44 ·
In about a week we'll start a new cycle on the 2nd tier, and a few days after that we'll do the third tier. Maybe we'll do those two on the main board just for fun. Get some controversy going. But even if we do that, we'll do the fourth and lower tiers on the polls sub-forum.
 
#46 ·
If there's a significantly higher response than usual to the 2nd and 3rd tiers on the main board - and I suspect there will - I'd say keep going with the highest tiers, at least if you're doing them as polls. As for the other tiers, I can see why the whole process of allocating points is off-putting to many, but I think you and everyone else who's put so much work into the project over the years have earned the right to post it all on the main board.
 
#53 ·
Our votes on the 111th tier have moved the following works....

Up 4 tiers to the 107th tier:
Bach, C. P. E.: Flute/Keyboard Concerto in D minor, Wq. 22 [1747]
Bach: Cantata #29 "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir" [1731]
Bax: Harp Quintet [1919]
Beethoven: Rondo a capriccio in G, op. 129 "Rage Over a Lost Penny" [1795]
Blow: An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell [1696]
Boulez: Incises [1994, rev. 2001]
Boulez: Piano Sonata #3 [1955-7, 1963]
Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor, H. 125 [1913-7]
Chin: Double Concerto for piano, percussion and ensemble [2002]
Corelli: Trio Sonatas (12), op. 3 [1689]
Dowland: Lute music [early 17th century]
Dufay: Salve flos Tusce gentis [1435 or 1436]
Dufay: Se la face ay pale [15th cent.]
Dvořák: Legends, op. 59 [1881]
Dvořák: Requiem [1890]
Dvořák: String Quintet #2 in G, op. 77 [1875]
Farrenc: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in E-flat, op. 44
Fauré: Cello Sonata #2 in G minor, op. 117 [1921]
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 5 [1611]
Glass: Metamorphosis [1988]
Glinka: Trio Pathétique in D minor [1832]
Gorecki: String Quartet #1 "Already it is dusk" [1988]
Gubaidulina: Stimmen... Verstummen... [1986]
Josquin: Mille regretz [16th century]
Koechlin: Piano Quintet, op. 80 [1908-21]
Korngold: String Sextet in D, op. 10 [1914-16]
Lutosławski: Chain 3 for orchestra [1986]
Lutosławski: Symphony #2 [1966-67]
Mendelssohn: Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), op.27 [1835]
Mendelssohn: Songs (6), op. 34, including "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges" [1834-37]
Mendelssohn: String Quartet #5 in E-flat, op. 44/3 [1838]
Messiaen: Fête des belles eaux [1937]
Myaskovsky: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 44 [1938]
Palestrina: Missa Pro defunctis [1591]
Penderecki: Symphony #6 "Chinese Poems" [2008-2017]
Saariaho: Cinq reflets de "L'Amour de loin" [2001]
Schmidt: Symphony #1 in E [1896-1899]
Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, op. 39 [1938]
Schubert: An Sylvia, D. 891 [1826]
Schumann: Fantasiestücke (3), op. 73 [1849]
Schütz: Cantiones sacrae, SWV 53-93 [1625]
Schütz: Symphoniae Sacrae I [1629]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #5 in B-flat, op. 92 [1952]
Takemitsu: The Dorian Horizon [1966]
Vasks: Viola Concerto [2014]
Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto in F minor [1954]
Weinberg: Symphony #3, op. 45 [1949]
Wellesz: String Quartet #3, op. 25 [1918]
Wuorinen: String Sextet [1989]
Zemlinsky: String Quartet #3, op. 19 [1924]

Up 3 tiers to the 108th tier:
Andre: ... auf ... III [2007]
Arnold: Clarinet Concerto #2, op. 115 [1974]
Atterberg: Piano Quintet [1928]
Bartók: Rhapsody, op. 1, Sz. 26 [1904]
Billone: ITI KE MI [1995]
Brahms: Ballades and Romances (4), op. 75, including "Edward" [1877-78]
Bruch: Romanze in F Op. 85 [1911]
Byrd: Gradualia [1605, 1607]
Carter: String Quartet #4 [1986]
Clemens non Papa: Pater Peccavi [1554]
Copland: 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson [1950]
Dean: The Lost Art of Letter Writing [2006]
Delibes: Les filles de Cadix [1874]
Dowland: In darkness let me dwell [published 1610]
Dvořák: Gyspsy Songs, op. 55, including "Songs My Mother Taught Me" [1880]
Fauré: Sicilienne in G minor for Cello and Piano, op. 78 [1893]
Fung: Piano Concerto "Dreamscapes" [2009]
Glass: Symphony #9 [2011]
Glazunov: String Quartet #3 in G, op. 26 "Quatuor Slave" [1886-8]
Gombert: Media vita in morte sumus [1539]
Handel: Organ Concerto #13 in F, HWV 295, "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" [1739]
Howells: String Quartet #3 "In Gloucestershire" [1916-20]
Isaac: Missa Virgo prudentissima [c. 1507]
Jongen: String Quartet #2, op. 50 [1916]
La Rue: Magnificats [c. 1500]
Lassus: Missa super Osculetur me [c. 1582]
Liszt: Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe, S.107 [1882]
Locke: The Tempest [1674]
MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie [1990]
Manoury: Jupiter for flute and live electronics [1986-1987; rev. 1992, 1996]
Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos in E [1823]
Mozart: Piano Sonata #17 in B-flat, K. 570 [1789]
Mozart: Piano Sonata #18 in D, K. 576 [1789]
Mozart: Variations (12) on "Ah vous dirai-je, Maman" [1780-82?]
Nono: "Hay que caminar" soñando [1989]
Nono: No hay caminos, hay que caminar... Andrej Tarkowskij [1987]
Poulenc: Mélancolie [1940]
Prokofiev: Quintet in G minor, op. 39 [1924]
Salieri: Requiem in C minor [1804]
Saygun: Viola Concerto, op. 59 [1977]
Schnittke: Concerto for Piano (Four Hands) and Chamber Orchestra [1988]
Schubert: Der Zwerg, D. 771 [1822]
Schubert: Ganymed, D. 544 [1817]
Stanford: Requiem, op. 63 [1896]
Takemitsu: Archipelago S. [1993]
Telemann: Concerto for Recorder and Viola da gamba in A minor, TWV 52:a1 [c. 1750]
Vivaldi: La Cetra, op. 9 [1727]
Vivaldi: Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV 630 [1735]
Webern: Songs (5), op. 4 [1909]
Yoshimatsu: Threnody for Tokii [1981]
Zemlinsky: Der Zwerg (The Dwarf) [1922]

Up 2 tiers to the 109th tier:
Anglebert: Pièces de Clavecin [c. 1689]
Anonymous: Messe de Barcelona [13th cent.]
Babbitt: Occasional Variations for synthesized tape [1971]
Benjamin, G.: Lessons in Love and Violence [2015-17]
Billone: Equilibrio.Cerchio [2014]
Billone: OM.ON [2015]
Birtwistle: The Cry of Anubis [1994]
Boccherini: Cello Concerto #1 in E-flat, G. 474 [1770 or before]
Bortniansky: Sacred Concertos [1799]
Boulanger, L: Clairières dans le ciel [1915]
Bowen: Phantasy Quintet [1932]
Brahms: Songs (6), op. 85, including "In Waldeseinsamkeit" [1878-82]
Busnois: Gaude coelestis Domina [15th century]
Campion: Two Bookes of Ayres [1613]
Clementi: Piano sonata in F sharp minor, op. 25 no. 5 [1790]
Corigliano: Violin Concerto "The red violin" [2003]
Diamond: String Quartet #2 [1943-4]
Duruflé: Dances (3) for orchestra, op. 6 [1932]
Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof [c. 1644-56]
Fauré: Mélodies (2), op. 43, including "Noël" and "Nocturne" [1885]
Flotow: Martha [1847]
Foerster: Symphony #3 in D, op. 36 "Život" [1895]
Foote: String Quartet #2 in E, op. 32 [1893]
Gernsheim: String Quartet #2 in A minor, op. 31 [1875]
Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra [1931]
Gluck: Don Juan [1761]
Goldsmith: Christus Apollo [1970]
Gossec: Grande Messe des Morts [1760]
Hahn: Le rossignol des lilas [1913]
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74, "Eternal source of light divine" [1712]
Harbison: Piano Trio #2 [2003]
Harrison, L.: La Koro Sutro [1971]
Hartmann: Symphony #3 [1948-49]
Hartmann: Symphony #6 [1951-53]
Hartmann: Symphony #8 [1960-62]
Hayashi: Viola Concerto "Elegia" [1995]
Henze: Royal Winter Music [1975-6, 1979]
Honegger: String Quartet #3, H. 114 [1937]
Hosokawa: Renka I-III [1986-90]
Janáček: Amarus [1897, rev. 1901, 1906]
Joachim: Violin Concerto #2 in D minor, op. 11 "In the Hungarian Manner" [1857]
Kancheli: Life without Christmas, including "Night Prayers" [1990-95]
Kerll: Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis [1689]
Larsson: Symphony #2 in E minor, op. 17 [1937]
Lecuona: Suite Andalucía, including "Malagueña" [c. 1927]
Lekeu: String Quartet in G [1888]
Liszt: Deux Légendes, S.175 [1863]
Marais: Pièces de Viole, Book 2, including "Couplets de Folies" [1701]
Medtner: Sonaten-Triade, op. 11 [1904-7]
Milhaud: Symphony #5, op. 322 [1953]
Mosonyi: String Sextet [1844]
Nyman: In Re Don Giovanni [1977]
Nyman: The Piano [1992]
Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater [15th century]
Ó Riada: Hercules Dux Ferrariae [1957]
Parry: Songs of Farewell [1916-8]
Pärt: Symphony #3 [1971]
Penderecki: Symphony #8 "Lieder der Vergänglichkeit" [2004-2005]
Persichetti: String Quartet #2 [1944]
Purcell: Ten Sonatas in Four Parts [1680]
Raff: String Quartet #1 in D minor, op. 77 [1855]
Reger: Symphonic Fantasy and Fugue, op. 57 "Inferno" [1901]
Röntgen: Bassoon Sonata in A-flat minor [1929]
Rore: Madrigals for 5 voices [1542]
Saariaho: Grammaire des rêves (The Grammar of Dreams) [1988]
Sallinen: String Quartet #3 "Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March" [1969]
Sallinen: Symphony #8 "Autumnal Fragments" [2001]
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in C, K 132 [18th century]
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in A, K 322 [18th century]
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in B-flat, K 545 [18th century]
Schubert: Deutsche Messe, D. 872 [1827]
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro for horn (or cello or violin) and piano, op. 70 [1849]
Sheng: H'un (Lacerations): In memoriam 1966-76 for orchestra [1988]
Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra (Jazz Suite #2) [after 1956]
Sibelius: Pieces (5) for Piano, op. 75 [1914]
Takemitsu: Orion and Pleiades [1984]
Telemann: Essercizii musici [1739-40]
Telemann: Overture in B flat, TWV 55:B5, "The Nations"
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D, TWV 51: D7
Toch: String Quartet #10, op. 28 "auf den Namen 'Bass' " [1920]
Vaughan Williams: Ten Blake Songs [1957]
Vierne: Cello Sonata in B minor, op. 27 [1910]
Visée: Pièces de Théorbe et de Luth [1716]
Weber: Andante e Rondo Ungarese, op. 35 [1813]
Weinberg: Symphony #21, op. 152 "Kaddish" [1991]
Wolfe: Fire in my mouth [2018]
Xenakis: ST/4, 1-080262 [1956-1962]

Up 1 tier to the 110th tier:
Abel: Piano Concertos, op. 11 [1774]
Adès: Polaris [2010]
Alkan: Petits préludes sur les huit gammes du plain-chant [1859]
Alnæs: Symphony #1, op. 7 [1897-8]
Alwyn: Fantasy Waltzes [1954]
Artyomov: Requiem to the Martyrs of Longsuffering Russia [1988]
Babbitt: Reflections [1974]
Babbitt: String Quartet #5 [1982]
Benjamin, G.: Palimpsests [1998-2002]
Boeck: Symphony in G [1895]
Bolcom: Canciones de Lorca [2006]
Bolcom: Piano Concerto [1976]
Borodin: Petite Suite [c. 1870-85]
Bortkiewicz: Preludes (10), op. 33 [1926]
Boulanger, L.: Vieille prière bouddhique [1914-17]
Brahms: Sets (2) of Variations, op. 21 [c. 1853-7]
Brahms: Songs (5), op. 107, including "Mädchenlied" [1886-88]
Busoni: Sarabande and Cortège (Two Studies for Doktor Faust), op. 51 [1919]
Busoni: Sechs Tonstücke (Six Tone Pieces) [1916]
Carter: Dialogues [2003]
Carter: String Quartet #5 [1995]
Carver: Missa Dum sacrum mysterium
Casken: The Dream of the Rood [2008]
Chadwick: String Quartet #4 in E minor [1896]
Cherubini: Marche funèbre [1820]
Cherubini: String Trio No. 1 [1809]
Coates, G.: Symphony #10 "Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins" [1989]
Coates, G.: Symphony #15 "Homage to Mozart" [2005]
Dalbavie: Sinfonietta [2005]
Davies: Symphony #5 [1994]
Dean: Hamlet [2017]
Dean: Vexations and Devotions [2005]
Dennehy: Elastic Harmonic [2005]
Dietrich: Symphony in D minor, op. 20 [1869]
Dobrzyński: Piano Concerto in A-flat, op. 2 [1824]
Dunhill: Symphony in A minor [1916]
Dusapin: Aufgang (Ascent) [2011]
Dusapin: Passion [2008]
Dvořák: Nocturne (Intermezzo) in B, op. 40 [1875]
Eben: The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart [2002]
Elgar: Chanson de Nuit [1899]
Eötvös: Windsequenzen [1975; rev. 1987, 2002]
Fairouz: Native Informant [2011]
Fernström: Symphony #6, op. 40 [1938]
Foulds: Cello Sonata, op. 6 [1905/27]
Françaix: Tema con Variazioni for clarinet and piano [1974]
Fuchs: Piano Concerto in B-flat minor, op. 27 [1880]
Fučík: Florentiner Marsch, op. 214 [1907]
Gigout: Pieces (10) for Organ [1890]
Gipps: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 34 [1948]
Gordon: Rushes [2012]
Gordon: Trance [1995]
Gordon: Van Gogh [1991]
Granados: Allegro de Concierto, op. 46 [1903]
Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra [1918]
Grisey: Tempus ex machina [1979]
Guerrero: Ave virgo sanctissima [1566]
Haas, G. F.: Nacht (Night) [1996; rev. 1998]
Hadley: Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 50 [1904]
Hägg: Piano trio in G minor, op. 15 [1896]
Harris: Symphony #11 [1967]
Hartmann: Miserae [1934]
Hartmann: Symphony #4 [1947-48]
Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions [2005]
Hill: Viola Concerto in A minor [1940]
Hillborg: Cold Heat [2010]
Hiller: Piano Concerto #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 69 [1843]
Hindemith: Oboe Sonata [1938]
Hindson: Pulse Magnet [2001]
Hirose: Shakuhachi Concerto [1976]
Hoddinott: Symphony #4, op. 70 [1970]
Holbrooke: Horn Trio in D minor, op. 28 [c. 1904, rev. 1906-12]
Honegger: String Quartet #2, H. 103 [1936]
Hosokawa: Cloudscape [2000]
Hovhaness: Symphony #24, op. 273 "Majnun" [1973]
Hummel: Piano Sonata #6 in D, op. 106 [1824]
Hurlstone: Bassoon Sonata in F [1904]
Hygons: Salve Regina (from the Eton Choirbook) [c. 1500]
Ibert: Concertino da Camera [1935-6]
Jacob: Horn Concerto [1951]
Jolivet: Concerto for Ondes Martenot and Orchestra [1947]
Josquin (but perhaps misattrib.): Missa Mater Patris [15th century]
Kodály: Theatre Overture, K. 13 [before 1928]
Koželuch: Sinfonia Concertante for Trumpet, Piano, Mandolin and Double Bass in E-flat, P II:1 [1798]
Kurtág: Pieces (9) for Solo Viola [1994]
Laks: String Quartet #3 [1945]
Lang, D: Cheating, Lying, Stealing [1993]
Lang, D: Death Speaks [2012]
Lang, D: Mystery Sonatas [2014]
Lees: Horn Concerto [1964]
Lekeu: Piano Trio in C Minor [1889-91]
Lerdahl: Time after Time [2000]
Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Violin and Viola [2007]
Liebermann: Concerto for Violin and Piano and String Quartet [1989]
Lindberg: EXPO [2009]
Lindblad: Symphony #1 in C, op. 19 [1831-2]
Manfredini: Concerti Grossi (12), op. 3 [1718]
Martinů: Madrigal sonata, H. 291 [1942]
Matthews: Symphony #9, op. 140 [2016]
McEwen: Where the Wild Thyme Blows [1936]
Mercadante: Flute Concerto #2 in E minor, op. 57 [c. 1819]
Messiaen: La Fauvette des Jardins [1970-2]
Miyoshi: Piano Sonata [1958]
Monk: Atlas [1991]
Monk: Songs of Ascension [2008]
Monteverdi: Missa In illo tempore [1610]
Muhly: Fast Patterns [2016]
Nigg: String Quartet [1981-82]
Norman, L.: Symphony #3 in D minor, op. 58 [1881]
Novák: Pan, op. 43 [1910]
Oswald von Wolkenstein: Frölich geschrai so well wir machen, K 93 [15th century]
Oswald von Wolkenstein: Vil lieber grüsse süsse [15th century]
Pachelbel: Musikalische Ergötzung [1699]
Paganini: Ghiribizzi (43) [c. 1820]
Palmgren: Preludes (24), op. 17 [1907]
Parker: Organ Concerto in E-flat minor, op. 55 [1902]
Parry: And did those feet in ancient time (Jerusalem) [1916]
Pärt: An den Wassern zu Babel [1984]
Pärt: Da pacem Domine [2004]
Pärt: Nunc Dimittis [2001]
Pärt: Solfeggio [1963]
Pärt: Which was the son of... [2000]
Pedersøn: Pratum Spirituale [c. 1620]
Pedro de Escobar: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) [1504]
Peñalosa: Missa Nunca fue pena mayor [1503]
Peterson-Berger: Violin Concerto in F-sharp minor [1915-28]
Pfitzner: Piano Concerto in E-flat, op. 31 [1922]
Raid: Symphony #1 in C minor [1944]
Rangström: Häxorna (The Witches) [1938]
Reich: Runner [2016]
Rheinberger: Stabat Mater in G minor, op. 138 [1884]
Rihm: Dyade [2011]
Rihm: String Quartet #5 "Ohne Titel" (Untitled) [1983]
Riisager: Trumpet Concertino, op. 29 [1933]
Riley: The Harp of New Albion [1986]
Rogier (sometimes attrib. to Morley): Laboravi in gemitu meo [16th century]
Rosetti (Rössler): Bassoon Concerto in B-flat, C 74 [18th century]
Rosetti (Rössler): Horn Concerto in D minor, C 38 [18th century]
Rosetti (Rössler): Horn Concerto in E-flat, C 49 [18th century]
Rubinstein: Cello Sonata #1 in D, op. 18 [1852]
Saariaho: Amers (Sea Marks) [1992]
Sainte-Colombe: Concerts (67) à deux violes esgales [17th century]
Sallinen: Ratsumies (The Horsemen) [1974]
Sallinen: Symphony #2 "Symphonic Dialogue for percussion solo and orchestra" [1972]
Satoh: Violin Concerto [2002]
Schumann, G.: Cello Sonata in E minor, op. 18 [1898]
Schumann: Blumenstück, op. 19 [1839]
Schütz: Il primo libro de madrigali (Italian Madrigals), SWV 1-19 [1611]
Schütz: Kleine geistliche Konzerte, SWV 282-337 [1636, 1639]
Sculthorpe: Small Town for Orchestra [1963/1976]
Sibelius: Malinconia, op. 10 [1911]
Škerjanc: Slavnostna uvertura (Festive Overture) [1932]
Soro: Sinfonía romántica in A [1920]
Spohr: Clarinet Concerto #1 in C minor, op. 26 [1808-9]
Spontini: La Vestale [1805]
Stanford: Songs of the Fleet, op. 117 [1909-10]
Stockhausen: Refrain [1959]
Strauss, J. II: Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) [1885]
Strozzi: Cantate, ariette e duetti, op. 2 [1651]
Tansman: Bric à brac [1935]
Telemann: Fantasias for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2-13 [1733]
Telemann: Overture-Suite for Recorder, Strings and Basso Continuo in A minor, TWV 55:a2
Telemann: Overture-Suite in F, TWV 55:F11, "Alster"
Tippett: Concerto for Orchestra [1962-63]
Toch: Symphony #2, op. 73 [1953]
Traetta: Stabat Mater [c. 1750, rev. 1767]
Tüür: Architectonics III "Postmetaminimal Dream" [1990]
Tüür: Crystallisation [1995]
Urspruch: Cello Sonata in D, op. 29 [1893]
Veress: Hommage à Paul Klee [1951]
Viotti: Violin Concerto #22 in A minor [1792-7]
Vladigerov: Bulgarian Rhapsody (Vardar Rhapsody) [1922; orch. 1928]
Weinberg: String Quartet #4 [1944]
Weinberg: String Quartet #6 [1946]
Weinberg: The Passenger [1968]
Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain [2002]
Wert: Il Settimo Libro de Madrigali [1581]
Wolfe: Lad [2007]
Wuorinen: Genesis [1989]
Wuorinen: New York Notes [1982]
Yashiro: Piano Sonata [1961]
Yun: Gong-Hu [1984]
 
#54 ·
Our votes on the 95th tier, part 2, selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 93rd tier:
Hummel: Septet #2 in C "Military", op. 114 [1829]
Liszt: Christus, S.3 [1866]
Morales: Missa pro defunctis [1544]
Mozart: Idomeneo, K. 366 [1781]
Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas [late 16th cent.]

To move up 1 to the 94th tier:
Ginastera: Sonata for Guitar, op. 47 [1976; rev. 1981]
Gluck: Alceste [1767]
Granados: Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 49 [1895]
Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, op. 8 [1912; rev. 1915]
Gubaidulina: Fachwerk [2009]
Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 [1735]
Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 [1750]
Koechlin: Seven Stars Symphony, op. 132 [1933]
Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae, op. 93 [1941]
Lang, D.: The Little Match Girl Passion [2007]
Lassus: Susanne un jour [1570]
Lassus: Timor et tremor [1564]
Lindberg: Aura (In memoriam Witold Lutosławski) [1994]
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis à 8 [1621]
Lutosławski: Mi-parti [1976]
MacMillan: Seven Last Words from the Cross [1993]
Marais: Suitte d'un Goût Étranger (Suite in a Foreign Style) [1717]
Mendelssohn: String Quintet #1 in A, op. 18 [1826/32]
Messiaen: Harawi [1945]
Milhaud: Saudades do Brasil [1920]
Mondonville: Grands Motets [1740s]
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria [1640]
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 7 [1619]
Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 [1785]
Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas [1553]
Pärt: Magnificat [1989]
Pärt: Miserere [1992]

To remain on the 95th tier:
Gibbons: The Cries of London [c. 1600]
Ginastera: String Quartet #1, op. 20 [1948]
Ginastera: String Quartet #2, op. 26 [1958; rev. 1968]
Glazunov: Raymonda, op. 57 [1898]
Gomes: Il Guarany (O Guarani) [1870]
Grieg: Elegiac Melodies, op. 34/1 "The Wounded Heart" [1880]
Grieg: Norwegian Dances, op. 35 [1880]
Gubaidulina: Musical Toys [1969]
Hermann of Reichenau: Salve Regina [early 11th cent.]
Hindemith: Trumpet Sonata [1939]
Holmboe: Four Symphonic Metamorphoses [1954-1972]
Ibert: Flute Concerto [1932]
Indy: String Quartet #3 in D, op. 96 [1929]
Janáček: The Makropulos Affair [1926]
Knussen: Symphony #3 [1979]
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7 [1914]
Koechlin: Violin Sonata, op. 64 [1916]
Langgaard: Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play) for string quartet [1918]
Messiaen: Un Sourire ("A Smile") [1989]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #15 in B-flat, K. 450 [1784]
Palestrina: Missa Ut re mi fa sol la [1561-2]
Pejačević: Symphony in F-sharp minor, op. 41 [1918]
Piazzolla: 5 Tango Sensations [1989]
Pierné: Violin Sonata, op. 36 [1900]
Poulenc: Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone [1922; rev. 1945]
Rădulescu: Intimate Rituals, op. 63 [2003]
Rautavaara: Cello Concerto #2 "Towards the Horizon" [2009]
Reger: An die Hoffnung, op. 124 [1912]

To move down 1 to the 96th tier:
Halffter: Sinfonietta in D [1925]
 
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