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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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#983 · (Edited)
I think I might have made a bit of a mistake on the count for the 107th tier, but it'll be okay. Fixing it would mean moving fewer works up, and I suspect that might not be the more popular decision! We'll just have a few too few works on the 107th tier until the next time we do the 108th, and a few too many on the 106th until the next time we do it.

So anyway:

Our votes on the 107th tier, part 1 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 105th tier:
Abelard: Planctus David super Saul et Ionatha [or "Jonatha" or "Jonathan"] "Dolorum solatium" [12th century]
Agricola: Missa in myne zyn [c. 1500]
Anonymous, French: Codex Montpellier [c. 1250-1300]
Anonymous: Codex Calixtinus [early 12th century]
Arcadelt: Primo libro de madrigali (Book I) [1539]
Bach: Cantata #170 "Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust" [1726]
Bax: Harp Quintet [1919]
Binchois: Triste plaisir et douloureuse joie [by 1434]
Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor, H. 125 [1913-7]
Campra: Messe de Requiem [after 1723]
Cardoso: Missa Miserere mihi Domine [17th century]
Cardoso: Requiem [17th century]
Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi à 7 [1550]
Clemens non Papa: Pater Peccavi [1554]
Coleridge-Taylor: Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, op. 10 [1906]
Compère: Missa Galeazescha [c. 1474]
Corelli: Trio Sonatas (12), op. 3 [1689]

To move up 1 to the 106th tier:
Abel: Symphonies, op. 7 [1767]
Abelard: O quanta qualia [between 1130 and 1142]
Adams: China Gates [1977]
Akses: Violin Concerto [1972]
Allegri: Missa Che fa oggi il mio sole [17th cent.]
Andreae: Piano Trio #2 in E-flat, op. 14 [1908]
Anonymous (compiled by Hermann Pötzlinger): The Mensural Codex of St. Emmeram [15th century]
Arnold: Symphony #2, op. 40 [1953]
Arriaga: Symphony in D [1824]
Atterberg: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 7 [1913]
Avraamov: Symphony of Factory Sirens [1922]
Bach: Cantata #29 "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir" [1731]
Bach: Cantata #75 "Die Elenden sollen essen" [1723]
Bantock: Omar Khayyám [1909]
Beach: Romance for Violin and Piano, op. 23 [1893]
Beethoven: Piano Trio #3 in C minor, op. 1/3 [1795]
Beethoven: Rondo a capriccio in G, op. 129 "Rage Over a Lost Penny" [1795]
Bloch: Baal Shem, B. 47 [1923]
Brahms: Piano Sonata #1 in C, op. 1 [1853]
Brahms: Songs (4), op. 96, including "Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht" and "Wir wandelten, wir zwei zusammen" [1884]
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, op. 64 [1960]
Britten: Piano Concerto, op. 13 [1938; rev. 1945]
Buxtehude: Cantata "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr", BuxWV 41
Buxtehude: Violin Sonata in G minor, op. 2/3; BuxWV 261 [1696]
Cage: Fontana Mix [1958]
Carter: Piano Concerto [1964]
Carver: Missa Dum sacrum mysterium [c. 1510]
Casella: Symphony #3 (Sinfonia), op. 63 [1939-40]
Castillon: Piano Concerto in D, op. 12 [1871]
Charpentier: Les plaisirs de Versailles [1682]
Debussy: Images Oubliées [1894]
Delius: The Song of the High Hills [1911]

To remain on the 107th tier:
Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas, op. 57 [1957]
Cage: Dream [1948]
Cage: Suite for Toy Piano [1948]
Caplet: Le Miroir de Jésus [1923]
Cui: Preludes (25), op. 64 [1903]

To move down 1 to the 108th tier:
Aperghis: Avis de Tempête [2004]
Copland: Dance Symphony [1930]
 
#986 ·
Our votes on the 95th tier, part 1 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 93rd tier:
Agricola: Fortuna Desperata [probably before 1480]
Aho: Theremin Concerto "Eight Seasons" [2011]
Anonymous, Bavarian Manuscript: Carmina Burana [13th cent.]
Babadjanian: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor [1952]
Barber: Capricorn Concerto, op. 21 [1944]
Ciconia: Una panthera [c. 1400]
Clemens non Papa: Missa Pro Defunctis [16th cent.]
Fauré: Mélodies (2), op. 46, including "Clair de lune" [1887]
Giordano: Andrea Chénier [1896]
Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, op. 8 [1912; rev. 1915]
Kagel: Music for Renaissance Instruments [1966]
Kapsberger: Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto [1611]
Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae, op. 93 [1941]
Kuhnau: Biblical Sonatas [1700]
Lindberg: Aura (In memoriam Witold Lutosławski) [1994]
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis à 8 [1621]

To move up 1 to the 94th tier:
Bach, Johann Christian: Keyboard Concertos, op. 7 [1770]
Barber: Prayers of Kierkegaard [1954]
Bax: Piano Quartet in One Movement [1906]
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #19 in G minor, op. 49/1 [1795-8]
Bloch: Concerto Grosso #2 [1952]
Bloch: Violin Sonata #2 "Poème mystique" [1924]
Boieldieu: Harp Concerto in C [c. 1801]
Browne: O Maria Salvatoris mater (from the Eton Choirbook) [c. 1490]
Browne: Stabat iuxta Christi crucem [probably 1502]
Charpentier: Messe de minuit pour Noël, H. 9 [c. 1694]
Cherubini: Missa Solemnis #2 in D minor [1811]
Cornysh: Salve regina [by 1502]
Dufay: Missa Ecce ancilla Domini [probably early 1460s]
Frescobaldi: Il Primo libro di Toccate e Partite d'Intavolatura di Cimbalo [1615; rev. 1637]
Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione [1938]
Hummel: Septet #2 in C "Military", op. 114 [1829]
Josquin: Missa de Beata Virgine [c. 1510]
Karłowicz: Violin Concerto in A, op. 8 [1902]
La Rue: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) [c. 1506?]

To remain on the 95th tier:
Adams: Grand Pianola Music [1982]
Arnold: Symphony #4, op. 71 [1960]
Balakirev: Symphony #1 in C [1898]
Bartók: Kossuth, Sz. 21, BB. 31 [1903]
Beethoven: Bagatelles (6), op. 126 [1824]
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi [1830]
Bloch: Violin Sonata #1 [1920]
Boulez: Livre pour cordes [1968, rev. 1988]
Britten: Curlew River, op. 71 [1964]
Bruckner: Symphony #1 in C minor [1866]
Cherubini: Mass #11 in A "For the Coronation of Charles X" [1825]
Dennehy: Stainless Staining [2007]
Dufay: Ave Maris Stella [before 1505]
Dupré: Symphonie-Passion, op. 23 [1924]
Finzi: Intimations of Immortality, op. 29 [1950]
Handel: Theodora, HWV 68 [1750]
Haydn: Symphony #91 in E-flat [1788]
Ives: Psalm 90 [1924]
Janáček: Mládí (Youth) [1924]
Josquin: Missa L'ami Baudichon [probably before 1479]
Klami: Kalevala Suite, op. 23 [1943]
Koechlin: Paysages et Marines, op. 63 [1916]

To move down 1 to the 96th tier:
Handel: La resurrezione, HWV 47 [1708]
Ives: 114 Songs [1922]
Liszt: Orpheus, S.98 [1854]
 
#989 ·
So I just added up the top 60 tiers (which have the top 1000 works), giving a work 125 points on tier 1, 124 points on tier 2, and so on, to find out how highly we rank each composer. This method is of course highly scientific and altogether unquestionable, impeccable, infallible, divine -- nay, let us shrink not from declaring it, in unison with the angels, objective.

#1: Beethoven
#2: Bach
#3: Brahms
#4: Mozart
#5: Haydn
#6: Schubert
#7: Shostakovich
#8: Debussy
#9: Schumann
#10: Ravel
#11: Dvorak
#12: Mahler
#13: Bartok
#14: Sibelius
#15: Prokofiev
#16: Chopin
#17: Tchaikovsky
#18: Fauré
#19: Vaughan Williams
#20: Mendelssohn
#21: Strauss (R)
#22: Stravinsky
#23: Scriabin
#24: Schoenberg
#25: Liszt
#26: Handel
#27: Ligeti
#28: Wagner
#29: Saint-Saens
#30: Barber
#31: Webern
#32: Rachmaninoff
#33: Berg
#34: Bruckner
#35: Elgar
#36: Grieg
#37: Janacek
#38: Nielsen
#39: Ives
#40: Hummel
#41: Josquin
#42: Verdi
#43: Messiaen
#44: Berlioz
#45: Schnittke
#46: Copland
#47: Franck
#48: Dohnanyi
#49: Bruch
#50: Finzi
#51: Boulez
#52: Monteverdi
#53: Gershwin
#54: Puccini
#55: Chausson
#56: Martinu
#57: Byrd
#58: Glazunov
#59: Rimsky-Korsakov
#60: Poulenc
#61: Medtner
#62: Gubaidulina
#63: Mussorgsky
#64: Weber
#65: Smetana
#66: Ockeghem
#67: Bloch
#68: Bizet
#69 (tie): Borodin, Hindemith
#71: Takemitsu
#72: Pärt
#73: Respighi
#74: Cage
#75: Britten
#76: Honegger
#77: Falla
#78: Adams
#79: Nono
#80: Lassus
#81: Lutoslawski
#82: Bax
#83: Enescu
#84: Vivaldi
#85: Atterberg
#86: Glass
#87: Gesualdo
#88: Rodrigo
#89: Tallis
#90: Kodaly
#91: Biber
#92: Vasks
#93: Crumb
#94: Machaut
#95 (tie): Lalo, Satie
#97: Haas
#98 (tie): Albeniz, Dufay
#100: Hildegard
#101 (tie): Dutilleux, Magnard
#103: Zemlinski
#104: Granados
#105 (tie): Perotin, Rameau, Reich
#108: Abrahamsen
#109 (tie): Purcell, Stockhausen
#111: Feldman
#112: Villa-Lobos
#113: Cherubini
#114 (tie): Moeran, Taneyev
#116 (tie): Bridge, Victoria
#118: Reger
#119: Alkan
#120 (tie): Penderecki, Suk, Varese
#123: Xenakis
#124: Carter
#125 (tie): Gounod, Khachaturian
#127: Saariaho
#128 (tie): Gliere, Hahn
#130: Walton
#132: Donizetti, Scarlatti (D)
#133 (tie): Holst, Palestrina
#135: Alwyn
#136: Gorecki
#137: Canteloube
#138: Szymanowski
#139 (tie): Corelli, Dowland
#141: Durufle
#142: Buxtehude
#143: Beach
#144 (tie): Allegri, Grofé
#146 (tie): Berio, Orff
#148 (tie): Arensky, Dukas
#150: Sculthorpe
#151 (tie): Rautavaara, Rzewski
#153 (tie): Ornstein, Wolf
#155: Langgaard
#156 (tie): Pettersson, Schmidt
#158: Scelsi
#159 (tie): Korngold, Milhaud, Myaskovsky
#162: Gluck
#163 (tie): Brumel, Revueltas, Zelenka
#166 (tie): Antheil, Bernstein, Murail
#169 (tie): Caldara, Glinka, Rott, Schutz
#173 (tie): Bliss, Busoni, Charpentier, Gabrieli
#177: Rebel, Romitelli, Ruggles
#180 (tie): Crawford Seeger, Rossini
#182 (tie): Furrer, Telemann
#184 (tie): Butterworth, Couperin, Ginastera, Weinberg
#188 (tie): Moszkowski, Sarasate
#190 (tie): Gombert, Hovhaness, Pachelbel, Paganini, Riley, Rubinstein
#196 (tie): Gernsheim, Grisey, Lauridsen, Nancarrow
#200 (tie): Babbitt, CPE Bach, Hanson, Lekeu, Rochberg, Ropartz, Taverner, Wieniawski

So I guess that just about settles that.
 
#1,046 · (Edited)
So I just added up the top 60 tiers (which have the top 1000 works), giving a work 125 points on tier 1, 124 points on tier 2, and so on, to find out how highly we rank each composer. This method is of course highly scientific and altogether unquestionable, impeccable, infallible, divine -- nay, let us shrink not from declaring it, in unison with the angels, objective.
I have now done the top 88 tiers (as of 2021 Apr 18), which have the top 2000 works, and the ranking now stands at:

1. Beethoven
2. Bach, JS
3. Mozart
4. Brahms
5. Haydn, J
6. Schubert
7. Shostakovich
8. Debussy
9. Schumann
10. Dvorak
11. Prokofiev
12. Bartok
13. Tchaikovsky
14. Ravel
15. Sibelius
16. Vaughan Williams
17. Stravinsky
18. Mendelssohn
19. Mahler
20. Faure
21. Chopin
22. Rachmaninoff
23. Ligeti
24. Liszt
25. Schoenberg
26. Strauss R
27. Wagner
28. Scriabin
29. Messiaen
30. Barber
31. Handel
32. Saint-Saens
33. Elgar
34. Martinu
35. Nielsen
36. Schnittke
37. Janacek
38. Bruckner
39 (tie). Poulenc, Webern
41. Berg
42. Berlioz
43. Dohnanyi
44. Britten
45. Copland
46. Ives
47. Boulez
48. Lutoslawski
49 (tie). Grieg, Hindemith
51. Hummel
52. Josquin
53. Verdi
54 (tie). Franck, Vivaldi
56. Carter
57. Monteverdi
58. Medtner
59. Bruch
60 (tie). Puccini, Respighi
62. Reger
63. Rimsky-Korsakov
64. Finzi
65. Glass
66 (tie). Cage, Takemitsu
68. Adams, John
69. Glazunov
70. Nono
71. Chausson
72. Gubaidulina
73. Palestrina
74. Honegger
75. Rautavaara
76. Byrd
77. Feldman
78. Dutilleux
79. Webern
80. Rameau
81. Pärt
82. Borodin
83. Smetana
84. Purcell
85 (tie). Gershwin, Ockeghem
87 (tie). Biber, Bloch
89. Enescu
90. Mussorgsky
91. Kodaly
92. Bridge
93. Xenakis
94 (tie). Bax, Reich
96. Lassus
97. Varese
98. Saariaho
99. Raff
100. Atterberg
101. Walton
102. Villa-Lobos
103. Zemlinski
104. Szymanowski
105. Bizet
106. Machau
107. Bach CPE
108 (tie). Dowland, Sculthorpe
110. Khachaturian
111. Myaskovsky
112 Scarlatti D
113. Dufay
114. Suk
115. Stockhausen
116. Moeran
117. Crumb
118. Buxtehude
119. Schutz
121. Victoria
122. Strauss J II
123. Rodrigo
124 (tie). Bernstein, Zelenka
126. Penderecki
127. Falla
128 (tie). Arensky, Boccherini
130. Albeniz
131. Abrahamsen
132 (tie). Babbitt, Berio
134. Holst
135. Magnard
136. Cherubini
137. Gesualdo
138. Arnold
139 (tie). Hahn, Taneyev
141. Donizetti
142. Hovhaness
143. Chin
144. Gounod
145 (tie). Beach, Tallis
147. Vasks
148 (tie). Ginastera, Wolf
150. Couperin
151 (tie). Lalo, Satie
153 (tie). Haas GF, Paganini
155. Hildegard
156. Weinberg
157. Granados
158 (tie). Furrer, Perotin
160. Gernsheim
161. Koechlin
162. Alkan
164 (tie). Corelli, Schuman
166. Balakirev
167 (tie). Alfven, Wellesz
168. Gliere
169. Froberger
170. Rzewski
171. Charpentier
172. Dukas
173. Telemann
174. Butterworth
175 (tie). Arriaga, Rossini
177. Milhaud
178. Schmidt
179 (tie). Bliss, Gabrieli
181 (tie). Albinoni, Korngold
183. Murail
184. Langaard
185 (tie). Leifs, Revueltas, Taverner
188 (tie). Busoni, Rheinberger
190. Gluck
191. Glinka
192. Farrenc
193 (tie). Pachelbel, Rubinstein
195 (tie). Kancheli, Riley
197 (tie). Pergolesi, Spohr
199 (tie). Kabalevsy, Offenbach
201 (tie). Kurtag, Yoshimatsu
203 (tie). Piazzolla, Stenhammar
205. Alwyn
206. Delius
207 (tie). Gorecki, Indy
209 (tie) Canteloube, Vierne
211. Warlock
212. Tavener
213. Durufle
214. Lindberg
215 (tie). Allegri, Grofe
217 (tie). Grainger, Orff
219. Martin
220. Pierne
221. Andriessen, Kalinnikov
223. Wuorinen
224 (tie). Fibich, Ornstein, Tveitt
227 (tie). Richter, Tubin
229. Pettersson
230. Scelsi
231 (tie). Brumel, Godowski
233. Antheil
234 (tie). Caldara, Rott
236 (tie). Rebel, Romitelli, Ruggles
239. Crawford Seeger
240 (tie). Moszkowski, Sarasate
242. Gombert
243 (tie). Grisey, Lauridsen, Nancarrow
246 (tie). Hanson, Lekeu, Rochberg, Ropartz, Wieniawski
251 (tie). Harvey, Ketelbey, Leoncavallo, Partch
255 (tie). Bowen, Casella, Tyberg
258 (tie). Alfonso, Berwald, Ten Holt
261 (tie). Bantock, Bellini, Braga Santos, Gras, Howells, Kraus
267 (tie). Abel, Adam de la Halle, Ibert, Wiren
271 (tie). Adams JL, Beatriz de Dia, Chabrier, Corigliano, Field, Mascagni, Ysaye
278 (tie). Golijov, Hartmann
280. Mompou
281 (tie). Clarke, Dhomont, Humperdinck, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Jongen, Shebalin, Tartini
288 (tie). Beppe, Lucier, Norman
291 (tie). Frescobaldi, Lawes, Praetorius, Reimann, Sousa
296 (tie). Caccini, Paderewski, Rihm, Tye, Young
301. Susato
302 (tie). Andreae, Pelecis, Reicha
305 (tie). Adam, Rorem
307 (tie). Birtwistle, Harris, Locatelli
310 (tie). Anderson, Browne, Bryars, Jolivet, Lachenmann, Lyadov, Mathieu, Nyman, Scharwenka, Shchedrin, Zimmerman
321 (tie). Bacewicz, Duparc, Ireland, Kernis, Obrecht, Ries, Saygun, Weill, Widor
330 (tie). Boulanger (L), Brian, Kreisler, Sauer, Tarrega
335 (tie). Bomtempo, Chavez, Haydn (M), Juon, Leonin, Norgard, Reubke, Roussel, Striggio, Suppe
345 (tie). Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Moncayo, Teixeira
348 (tie). Ades, Erkin, Ostertag, Vine
352 (tie). Bull, Gottschalk, Lieberson, Zimmerli
356 (tie). Billone, Clementi, Massenet, Neuwirth, Roman, Shankar, Waldteufel
363 (tie). Ge, Goldmark, Hure, Monn, Mouton, Wylkynson
369 (tie). Addinsell, Crusell, Dennehy, Gautier de Coincy, Lehar, MacDowell, Morales, Mosolov, Piston, Popov, Rangstrom, Rontgen, Schuller, Sheppard, Willan
384 (tie). Boito, Carpenter, Cavalli, Ciurlionis, Heinichen, Landini, Mondonville, Schmitt

The fact that Rangstrom and Rontgen are tied confirms the validity of the method.
 
#994 ·
Our votes on the 33rd tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 31st tier:
Beethoven: Violin Sonata #9, op. 47 "Kreutzer" [1803]

To move up 1 to the 32nd tier:
Bach: Cantata #147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" [1723]
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 [1734]
Bartók: String Quartet #5, Sz. 102 [1934]
Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain [1970]
Grieg: Holberg Suite, op. 40 [1884]
Grieg: Lyric Pieces [1867-1901]
Sibelius: Symphony #3 in C, op. 52 [1907]

To remain on the 33rd tier:
Abrahamsen: Let me tell you [2013]
Barber: String Quartet, op. 11; including the Adagio for Strings, op. 11a [1936]
Berg: Lyric Suite [1926]
Chopin: Fantaisie in F minor, op. 49 [1841]
Dufay: Missa Se la face ay pale [c. 1452-8]
Haydn: Mass #11 in D minor, Hob. XXII/11, "Missa in Angustiis", "Lord Nelson Mass" [1798]
Hindemith: Symphony: Mathis der Maler [1934]
Honegger: Symphony #3 "Symphonie Liturgique" [1946]
Ives: Piano Sonata #2 "Concord" [1921]
Ligeti: Lux Aeterna [1966]
Liszt: Les Préludes, S.97 [1854]
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618 [1791]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #22 in E-flat, K. 482 [1785]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #9 in E-flat, K. 271 "Jeunehomme" [1777]
Mozart: String Quartet #19 in C, K. 465 "Dissonance" [1785]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol, op. 34 [1887]
Schubert: Piano Sonata #13 in A, D. 664 [1819]
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #5, op. 53 [1907]

To move down 1 to the 34th tier:
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75 [1680]
 
#997 · (Edited)
Our votes on the 122nd tier, part 4 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 120th tier:
Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen [c. 1485]
Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) [1910, rev. 1912, 1923]
Josquin: Stabat Mater dolorosa [1498]
Korngold: Abschiedslieder, op. 14 [1921]
Le Jeune: Meslanges, Book I [1587]

To move up 1 to the 121st tier:
Hiller: Piano Concerto #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 69 [1843]
Hindemith: Oboe Sonata [1938]
Hindemith: Octet [1957-8]
Holst: Symphony in F, op. 8 "The Cotswolds" [1899-1900]
Honegger: Concerto da Camera [1948]
Hosokawa: Autumn Wind [2011]
Howard: Violin Concerto [2015]
Hummel: Piano Sonata #6 in D, op. 106 [1824]
Hygons: Salve Regina (from the Eton Choirbook) [c. 1500]
Ifukube: Lauda concertata for marimba and orchestra [1979]
Johnston: String Quartet #4 "Amazing Grace" [1973]
Jommelli: La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo [1749]
José, A.: Guitar Sonata [1933]
Joubert: St. Mark Passion, op. 180 [2015]
Kabalevsky: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 54 [1956]
Kalkbrenner: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 61 [1823]
Klami: Symphony #1 in D, op. 29 [1937-8]
Klughardt: Wind Quintet in C, op. 79 [c. 1898]
Kodály: Theatre Overture, K. 13 [before 1928]
Krommer: Concerto for Two Clarinets in E-flat, op. 91 [c. 1815]
Kummer/Schubert, François: 2 Duos Concertans for Violin and Cello [c. 1834]
Lachenmann: Schwankungen am Rand [1974-1975]
Lambe: Stella caali (from the Eton Choirbook) [c. 1500]
Lambert: Concerto for Piano and 9 Instruments [1931]
Lang, D: Cheating, Lying, Stealing [1993]
Lang, D: Mystery Sonatas [2014]
Levina: Piano Concerto #1 [1945]
Levina: Piano Concerto #2 [1975]
Liebermann: Flute Concerto, op. 39 [1992]
Liebermann: Piano Concerto #2 [1992]

To remain on the 122nd tier:
Hill: Viola Concerto in A minor [1940]
Hirose: Shakuhachi Concerto [1976]
Hoddinott: Symphony #4, op. 70 [1970]
Holliger: Gesänge der Frühe [1987]
Honegger: String Quartet #2, H. 103 [1936]
Hosokawa: Cloudscape [2000]
Hurum: Bendik og Årolilja, op. 20 [1923
Hyde: Piano Concerto #1 in E-flat minor [1933]
Ives: Violin Sonata #1 [1903-8]
Jacquet de la Guerre: Céphale et Procris [1694]
Jaëll: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor [1877]
Jodlowski: Dialog/No Dialog [1997]
Jolivet: Cello Concerto #2 [1966]
Jolivet: Flute Concerto #1 [1949]
Juon: Viola Sonata #1 in D, op. 15 [1901]
Kallstenius: A serenade in the summer night, op. 10 [1918]
Kats-Chernin: Wild Swans (ballet and concert suite) [2003]
Kodály: Budavári Te Deum [1936]
Lajtha: String Quartet #10, op. 58 "Suite transylvaine en trois parties" [1953]
Laks: String Quartet #3 [1945]
Lalo: Fantaisie Norvegienne [1878]
Lamothe: La Dangereuse, Haitian merengue for piano [20th century]
Lees: Horn Concerto [1964]
Leshnoff: Double Concerto for Violin and Viola [2007]

To move down 1 to the 123rd tier:
Johnson, D.: November [1959]
Koppel: Concerto #3 for Marimba and Symphony Orchestra [2002]
 
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Our votes on the 107th tier, part 2 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 105th tier:
Dohnányi: Piano Quartet in F-sharp minor [1891]
Dowland: In darkness let me dwell [published 1610]
Dubois: Piano Quintet in F [1905]
Dufay: Salve flos Tusce gentis [1435 or 1436]
Dufay: Se la face ay pale [15th cent.]
Dunstable: Preco Preheminenciae [c. 1416]
Duphly: Pièces de Clavecin [1744-1768]
Dvořák: Gypsy Songs, op. 55, including "Songs My Mother Taught Me" [1880]
Enescu: Decet for winds (Dixtuor à vents) in D, op. 14 [1906]
Eyck: Der Fluyten Lust-Hof [c. 1644-56]
Fauré: Mélodies (3), op. 18, including "Nell" and "Automne" [1878]
Forqueray, A. & Forqueray, J.B.: Pièces de Viole (32) [before 1747]
Glinka: Trio Pathétique in D minor [1832]
Gombert: Musae Jovis
Heinichen: Lamentationes Jeremiae prophetae [1724]

To move up 1 to the 106th tier:
Dupont: La maison dans les dunes [1910]
Dvořák: String Quartet #11 in C, op. 61 [1881]
Dvořák: String Quartet #9 in D minor, op. 34 [1877]
Englund: Symphony #2 "Blackbird" [1948]
Falla: Canciones (7) populares españolas (Seven Spanish Folksongs) [1915]
Farrenc: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in E-flat, op. 44 [1840]
Fauré: Masques et Bergamasques Suite, op. 112 [1919]
Fauré: Mélodies (3), op. 8, including "Au bord de l'eau" [1877-9]
Fayrfax: Missa O quam glorifica [1504]
Finzi: A Young Man's Exhortation, op. 14 [1933]
Foulds: Three Mantras from "Avatara," op. 61b [1930]
Fux: Graduale in Missa Pro Defunctis ("Requiem aeternam"), K 146
Gabrieli: O magnum mysterium [1587]
Garūta: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor [1952]
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 5 [1611]
Ginastera: Pampeana #3, op. 24 [1954]
Glière: Horn Concerto in B-flat, op. 91 [1951]
Goldmark: Piano Quintet #2 in C-sharp minor, op. 54 [1914]
Goldschmidt: Clarinet Concerto [1953-4]
Gossec: Grande Messe des Morts [1760]
Graun: Der Tod Jesu [1755]
Graupner: Passion Cantatas [18th century]
Griffes: Piano Sonata [1918; rev. 1919]
Guerrero: Missa Super flumina Babylonis [16th century]
Guiot de Dijon [attrib.]: Chanterai por mon corage [c. 1215-25]
Handel: Alexander's Feast, HWV 75 [1736]
Handel: Jephtha, HWV 70 [1752]
Handel: Rinaldo, HWV 7 [1711]
Handel: Semele, HWV 58 [1744]
Handel: Trio Sonatas, op. 2 [1733]

To remain on the 107th tier:
Dohnányi: Violin Sonata in C-sharp minor, op. 21 [1912]
Dvořák: Piano Quartet #1 in D, op. 23 [1875]
Enescu: Piano Sonata #1 in F-sharp minor, op. 24/1 [1924]
Fauré: Impromptus [1881 to 1906]
Ferrari: Et si toute entière maintenant [1987]
Ferrari: Presque rien #1 - le lever du jour au bord de la mer [1970]
Févin: Messe de Requiem [c. 1500]
Fujikura: prism spectra [2009]
Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano and Orchestra in F minor, op. 82 [1943]
Haydn: Symphony #80 in D minor [1784]
Haydn: Symphony #89 in F [1787]

To move down 1 to the 108th tier:
Gerhard: Symphony #4 "New York" [1967]
 
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