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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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Bach (possibly attributed Bach, C.P.E.): Sonata in G minor, BWV 1020 [18th century]
Chopin: Écossaises (3), op. 72/3 [1826]
Haydn: Piano Sonata #38 in F, Hob. XVI/23 [1773]
Mozart: Piano Sonata #12 in F, K. 332 [1783]
Schumann, C.: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 7 [1835]
Schumann: Allegro in B minor, op. 8 [1831]
Sibelius: Impromptus (6), op. 5 [1893]
 
#1,142 ·
A long, long time ago (ending on June 18) we voted on the 63rd tier. I've never published the results of that until today. Here they are:

Our votes on the 63rd tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 61st tier:
Prokofiev: Symphony #6 in E-flat minor, op. 111 [1947]

To move up 1 to the 62nd tier:
Arensky: String Quartet #2 in A minor, op. 35 [1894]
Bach: Cantata #211 "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" (Coffee Cantata) [c. 1734]
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore [1832]
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]
Dvořák: Symphonic Variations, op. 78 [1877]
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Liszt: Faust Symphony, S.108 [1857]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto [1970]
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica" [1938]
Messiaen: L'Ascension [1933]
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81 [1949]
Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto #1 in D, op. 19 [1917]
Raff: Symphony #5 in E, op. 177 "Lenore" [1872]
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58 [1909]

To remain on the 63rd tier:
Alfonso X: Cantiga de Santa Maria 100 "Santa Maria, strela do dia" [13th cent.]
Berwald: Symphony #3 in C "Sinfonie Singulière" [1845]
Carter: Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei [1996]
Delius: Florida Suite [1887]
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Messiaen: Poèmes pour Mi [1937]
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor [1921]
Mozart: Piano Quartet #1 in G minor, K. 478 [1785]
Mozart: String Quartet #14 in G, K. 387 "Spring" [1782]
Mozart: String Quartet #15 in D minor, K. 421 [1783]
Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann) [1881]
Rameau: Castor et Pollux [1737]
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Schoenberg: String Quartet #1 in D minor, op. 7 [1905]
Schuman: Symphony #3 [1941]
Stravinsky: Les Noces (The Wedding) [1923]
Ten Holt: Canto Ostinato [1976]
Zelenka: Lamentations of Jeremiah, ZWV 53 [1722]

To move down 1 to the 64th tier:
Glass: Aguas da Amazonia [1999]

That was a hard-fought tier, too, at both ends but especially at the bottom end. The +1 votes made a lot of difference.
 
#1,143 ·
Our votes on the 122nd, tier, part 5 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 119th tier:
Schumann: Gedichte (Kerner Lieder) (12), op. 35 [1840]
Schumann: Romances (3), op. 28 [1839]
Shchedrin: The Sealed Angel [1988]
Shostakovich: Piano Sonata #2 in B minor, op. 61 [1943]
Smyth: Mass in D [1891]
Still: In Memoriam: The Colored Soldiers Who Died for Democracy [1943]
Stravinsky: Concerto in D "Basle" [1946]
Szymanowski: Piano Sonata #3, op. 36 [1917]
Turnage: Three Screaming Popes [1989]
Tüür: Architectonics III "Postmetaminimal Dream" [1990]
Vallet: Le Secret des Muses [1615-6]
Varèse: Octandre [1924]
Villa-Lobos: Cello Concerto #2 [1953]
Walton: String Quartet #2 in A minor [1947]
Zemlinsky: Clarinet Trio in D minor, op. 3 [1896]
Zemlinsky: Psalm 13, op. 24 [1935]

To move up 1 to the 121st tier:
Schäfer, D.: Piano Quintet in D-flat, op. 5 [1901]
Schnittke: Piano Sonata #1 [1987-8]
Schoenberg: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte, op. 41 [1942]
Schubert: Fierrabras, D. 796 [1823]
Schubert: Symphony #1 in D, op. 82, D. 82 [1813]
Strauss, R.: Brentano Lieder, op. 68 [1918]
Strauss, R.: Songs (6), op. 56, including "Frühlingsfeier" [1906]
Tallis: Mass for 4 Voices [mid-16th century]
Tchaikovsky: The Maid of Orleans [1879]
Vasks: Credo [2009]
Ventadorn: Ab joi et ab joven m'apais [12th cent.]
Victoria: Missa Vidi speciosam [1592]
Viotti: Violin Concerto #22 in A minor [1792-7]
Wagenaar: Sinfonietta, op. 32 [1917]
Żeleński: Piano Quartet in C minor, op. 61 [c. 1907]

To remain on the 122nd tier:
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in C, K 132 [18th century]
Schmitt: À Tour d'Anches, op. 97 [1939-43]
Schumann: Novelettes (8), op. 21 [1838]
Sciarrino: Luci mie traditrici [1996-1998]
Scott: Piano Concerto #1 in C [1914]
Sheng: Nanking! Nanking! [1999]
Shore: Cello Concerto "Mythic Gardens" [2012]
Sibelius: Pieces (5) for Piano, op. 75 [1914]
Skempton: Lento [1990]
Sköld: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 40 [1941]
Soper: IPSA DIXIT [2010-16]
Spohr: Clarinet Concerto #1 in C minor, op. 26 [1808-9]
Spohr: Symphony #6 in G, op. 116 "Historical" [1839]
Stanchinsky: Canon-Preludes (4) for piano [1913-14]
Stanford: Piano Trio #2 in G minor, op. 73 [1899]
Stockhausen: Refrain [1959]
Stockhausen: Telemusik [1966]
Strauss, J. II: Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) [1885]
Strauss, R.: Songs (2), op. 44, including "Notturno" [1899]
Suk: String Quartet #2, op. 31 [1911]
Tansman: Symphony #5 in D [1942]
Thieriot: Clarinet Quintet in E-flat [1897]
Thompson: Frostiana: Seven Country Songs [1959]
Thuille: Sextet for Piano and Winds in B-flat, op. 6 [1888]
Toch: Symphony #2, op. 73 [1953]
Tormis: Laulusild (Bridge of Song) [1981]
Vaughan Williams: Sir John in Love [1928]
Victoria: Missa Laetatus sum [1600]
Vinci: Catone in Utica [1728]
Volans: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments [1995]
Wallen: Cello Concerto [2007]
Webern: Das Augenlicht, op. 26 [1935]
Weir: The Welcome Arrival of Rain [2002]
Weiss: Lute Sonata in A, Weiss SW 12 [by 1750]
Wert: Il Settimo Libro de Madrigali [1581]
Whitacre: Cloudburst [1995]
Wolfe: Lad [2007]
Wölfl: Piano Sonata in C minor, op. 25 [1805]

To move down 1 to the 123rd tier:
Sheng: H'un (Lacerations): In memoriam 1966-76 for orchestra [1988]
 
#1,144 ·
Our votes on the 34th tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 32nd tier:
Falla: Noches en los Jardines de España (Nights in the Gardens of Spain) [1915]

To move up 1 to the 33rd tier:
Bach: Cantata #4 "Christ lag in Todes Banden" [probably 1707]
Bach: Cantata #80 "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott" [1731]
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, op. 46 [1880]
Byrd: Mass for 5 Voices [c. 1595]
Chopin: Mazurkas [1825-1849]
Chopin: Piano Sonata #2 in B-flat minor, op. 35 "Marche funèbre" [1839]
Dvořák: String Quintet #3 in E-flat, op. 97 "American" [1893]
Fauré: Pavane in F-sharp minor, op. 50 [1887]
Janáček: String Quartet #1 "Kreutzer Sonata" [1923]
Ravel: La Valse [1920]

To remain on the 34th tier:
Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, op. 67 [1907]
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri, BuxWV 75 [1680]
Debussy: Arabesques (2) for piano, L 66 [1888-91]
Debussy: Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra, L 116 [1910]
Fauré: Élégie for Cello and Orchestra, op. 24 [1880]
Fauré: La Chanson d'Ève, op. 95 [1910]
Feldman: Rothko Chapel [1971]
Haas, G. F.: limited approximations [2010]
Martinů: Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano, and Timpani, H. 271 [1938]
Satie: Gymnopédies [1888]
Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings [1979]
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, op. 42 [1942]
Shostakovich: Symphony #11 in G minor, op. 103 "The Year 1905" [1957]
Stravinsky: Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks" [1938]
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, op. 49 [1880]
Webern: Movements (5) for String Quartet, op. 5 [1909]

To move down 1 to the 35th tier:
Stockhausen: Gruppen [1957]
 
#1,145 · (Edited)
My apologies! I'd miscalculated the results because I'd forgotten that I'd adjusted the count from each tier to be 10 works up 2 tiers and 10 works up 1 tier. Here are the correct results:

Thanks to a set of interesting ties, our votes on the 93rd tier, part 3 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 91st tier (there is no change here):
Giordano: Andrea Chénier [1896]
Glass: Glassworks [1982]
Glass: String Quartet #3 "Mishima" [1985]
Gubaidulina: Fachwerk [2009]
Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 [1740]
Haydn: Symphony #7 in C "Le Midi" [1761]
Higdon: Violin Concerto [2008]
Josquin: De Profundis Clamavi [1521]
Josquin: Missa Gaudeamus [1480s]
Kapsberger: Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto [1611]
Krenek: Lamentatio Jeremiae Prophetae, op. 93 [1941]
La Rue: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) [c. 1506?]
Lindberg: Aura (In memoriam Witold Lutosławski) [1994]
Liszt: Christus, S.3 [1866]

To move up 1 to the 92nd tier:
Haas, G. F.: Hyperion [2006]
Handel: Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122 [1710]
Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione [1938]
Ives: String Quartet #1 "From the Salvation Army" [1896]
Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag [1899]
Kuhnau: Biblical Sonatas [1700]
Langgaard: String Quartet #2, BVN 145 [1918; rev. 1931]
Lobo: Missa pro defunctis à 8 [1621]

To remain on the 93rd tier:
Ginastera: Piano Sonata #1, op. 22 [1952]
Glass: Symphony #4 "Heroes" [1996]
Griffes: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, op. 8 [1912; rev. 1915]
Gubaidulina: String Quartet #4 [1993]
Handel: Agrippina, HWV 6 [1709-10]
Haydn: Symphony #52 in C minor [1771-2]
Hindemith: String Quartet #4, op. 22 [1921]
Holst: First Suite for Military Band in E-flat, op. 28/1 [1909]
Janáček: Idyll for String Orchestra [1878]
Kagel: Music for Renaissance Instruments [1966]
Liszt: Fantasia and Fugue on the Chorale "Ad nos salutarem undam", S.259 [1850]
Liszt: Via Crucis, S.53 [1879]

To move down 1 to the 94th tier (no change here either):
Hovhaness: The Prayer of Saint Gregory [1946]
 
#1,150 ·
Our votes on the 48th tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 46th tier:
Poulenc: Gloria [1959]

To move up 1 to the 47th tier:
Brahms: String Quartet #3 in B-flat, op. 67 [1876]
Chausson: Symphony in B-flat, op. 20 [1890]
Copland: Clarinet Concerto [1949]
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess [1935]
Glazunov: Symphony #5 in B-flat, op. 55 [1895]
Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 82 [1904]
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Eurydice) [1762, 1774]
Gounod: Faust [1859]
Haydn: Mass #13 in B-flat, Hob. XXII/13 "Schöpfungsmesse" ("Creation Mass") [1801]
Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro [1594]
Mahler: Symphony #10 in F-sharp [1910]
Medtner: Sonata Romantica in B-flat minor, op. 53/1 [1930]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #17 in G, K. 453 [1784]
Shostakovich: Symphony #14, op. 135 [1969]
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat (The Soldier's Tale) [1918]
Takemitsu: Requiem for String Orchestra [1957]
Taneyev: Piano Quartet in E, op. 20 [1906]

To remain on the 48th tier:
Dohnányi: Piano Concerto #1 in E minor, op. 5 [1898]
Haydn: Symphony #88 in G [1787]
Hummel: Piano Quintet in E-flat, op. 87 [1800]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #19 in F, K. 459 [1784]
Mozart: Trio for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano in E-flat, K. 498 "Kegelstatt" [1786]
Rameau: Les Indes Galantes [1736]
Sibelius: Night Ride and Sunrise, op. 55 [1908]
Vaughan Williams: Piano Quintet in C minor [1903]

To move down 1 to the 49th tier:
Mozart: String Quartet #17 in B-flat, K. 458 "The Hunt" [1784]
 
#1,151 ·
Our votes on the 121st tier, part 1 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 119th tier:
Adams: City Noir [2009]
Albinoni: Concerti a Cinque, op. 7 [1715]
Alkan: Preludes (25), op. 31 [1847]
Andrée: Piano Trio in #2 G minor [1887]
Anonymous: Codex Engelberg 314 [14th century]
Arne: Trio Sonatas [1757]
Bach, C. P. E.: Sinfonias, Wq. 182 [1773]
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto #6 in F, BWV 1057 (transcription of BWV 1049)
Bartók: Rhapsody #2 for Violin and Orchestra, Sz. 90 [1928, rev. 1944-5]
Beethoven: Adelaide, op. 46 [1795]
Beethoven: Romance #2 in F for Violin and Orchestra, op. 50 [1798]
Beethoven: The Ruins of Athens [1811]
Benjamin, G.: Palimpsests [1998-2002]
Berio: points on the curve to find... [1974]
Bowen: Piano Trio in E minor [1946]
Brahms: Begräbnisgesang, op. 13 [1858-9]
Brahms: Songs (4) for female chorus, two horns and harp, op. 17 [1860]
Buxtehude: Cantata "Gott hilf mir", BuxWV 34 [17th century]
Carter: Dialogues [2003]
Chausson (completed by Indy): String Quartet in C minor, op. 35 [1898-9]
Cherubini: Marche funèbre [1820]
Ciconia: O rosa bella [early 15th century]
Corigliano: Violin Concerto "The red violin" [2003]
Couperin, A. L.: Pièces de Clavecin [1751]
Dove: Piano Quintet [2009]
Dunstable: Missa Da gaudiorum premia [1420?]
Dunstable: Salve scema sanctitatis [15th century]
Duparc: Au pays où se fait la guerre [1869-70]
Dvořák: Piano Trio #2 in G minor, op. 26 [1876]

To move up 1 to the 120th tier:
Aho: Contrabassoon Concerto [2005]
Alfvén: Bergakungen, op. 37 [1916-23]
Aulin, T.: Violin Concerto #3 in C minor, op. 14 [1896]
Babbitt: Reflections [1974]
Bacewicz: Concerto for String Orchestra [1948]
Balakirev: Grande Fantaisie on Russian Folksongs [1852]
Bazzini: La Ronde des Lutins, op. 25 [1852]
Beamish: Viola Concerto #2 "The Seafarer" [2001]
Beethoven: Ah! perfido, op. 65 [1796]
Beethoven: Andante Favori, WoO 57 [1804]
Berger, W.: Clarinet Trio in G minor, op. 94 [1903]
Billone: Muri IIIb for string quartet [2010]
Bliss: Checkmate [1937]
Boccherini: Cello Concerto #1 in E-flat, G. 474 [1770 or before]
Boulez: Domaines [1961-8]
Brahms: Motets (2), op. 74, including "Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?" [1863,77]
Burgon: Nunc dimittis [1979]
Busoni: Sarabande and Cortège (Two Studies for Doktor Faust), op. 51 [1919]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Les Guitares bien tempérées, op. 199 [1962]
Chadwick: String Quartet #4 in E minor [1896]
Chaminade: Piano Trio #1 in G minor, op. 11 [1880]
Chavez: Sinfonia de Antigona (Symphony #1) [1933]
Cherubini: Symphony in D [1815]
Connesson: Flammenschrift [2012]
Daugherty: Fire and Blood [2003]
Diamond: String Quartet #2 [1943-4]
Dutilleux: Oboe Sonata [1947]

To remain on the 121st tier:
Aguila: Conga for orchestra, op. 43 [1994]
Alvars: Harp Concerto in G minor, op. 81 [1842]
Arauxo: Facultad Organica [1626]
Arnell: Symphony #5 "The Gorilla" [1955-57]
Arutiunian: Trumpet Concerto in A-flat [1950]
Asencio: String Quartet in F "Homenaje a los cinco" [1932]
Atterberg: Ballad without words, op. 56 [1958]
Auster: Piano Concerto in G, op. 18 [1952]
Babbitt: Concerti for Orchestra [2004]
Babbitt: Occasional Variations for synthesized tape [1971]
Benda, F: Flute Concerto in E minor [18th century]
Berio: Sequenza II for harp [1963]
Berio: Sequenza III for solo voice [1966]
Bernstein: On the Town (including the Three Dance Episodes) [1944]
Billone: OM.ON [2015]
Birtwistle: The Cry of Anubis [1994]
Boccherini: Symphony #28 in D, op. 43, G. 521 [c. 1790]
Bodley: Symphony #2 "I Have Loved the Lands of Ireland" [1980]
Bonis: Flute Sonata in C-sharp minor, op. 64 [1904]
Bosmans: Piano Concertino [1928]
Boulez: Le visage nuptial [1947, rev. 1951 and 1989]
Braga Santos: Symphonic Overture #2 "Lisboa", op. 11 [1947]
Braga Santos: Symphonic Overture #3 "To Elisa de Sousa Pedroso" [1954]
Brahms: Sets (2) of Variations, op. 21 [c. 1853-7]
Britten: Soirées Musicales, op. 9 [1936]
Busoni: Sonatina Seconda [1912]
Cardew: Thälmann Variations [1974]
Carreño, I.: Margariteña, Glosa sinfónica [1954]
Carwithen: Concerto for Piano and Strings [1948]
Chaminade: Piano Trio #2 in A minor, op. 34 [1886]
Chopin: Rondo à la mazur in F, op. 5 [1826]
Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto [1792]
Clyne: The Violin [2014]
Coates, G.: Symphony #15 "Homage to Mozart" [2005]
Corigliano: The Mannheim Rocket [2000]
Creston: Saxophone Concerto, op. 26 [1941]
Damase: Flute Concerto [1992]
Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway [2015]
Davies: Symphony #5 [1994]
Dean: Vexations and Devotions [2005]
Diepenbrock: Hymne An die Nacht [1899]
Ding: Long March Symphony [1962]
Dohnányi: Cello Sonata in B-flat minor, op. 8 [1899]
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda [1835]
Dove: Tobias and the Angel [1999]
Draeseke: Quintet for Piano, Strings and Horn in B-flat, op. 48 [1888]
Dunhill: Symphony in A minor [1916]
Duruflé: Dances (3) for orchestra, op. 6 [1932]
Dusapin: Wenn du dem Wind for mezzo-soprano and orchestra [2014]

To move down 1 to the 122nd tier:
Dobrzyński: Piano Concerto in A-flat, op. 2 [1824]
 
#1,152 ·
Our votes on the 93rd tier, part 4 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 91st tier:
Lutosławski: Chain 2 - Dialogue for violin and orchestra [1985]
Maderna: Quadrivium [1969]
Manchicourt: Missa Veni sancte spiritus [16th century]
Marais: Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris [1723]
Massenet: Manon [1882]
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata #1 in B-flat, op. 45 [1838]
Messiaen: Messe de la Pentecôte [1950]
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 [1773]
Murail: Winter Fragments [2000]
Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas [late 16th cent.]
Prokofiev: String Quartet #1 in B minor, op. 50 [1931]
Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem [probably 1550s]

To move up 1 to the 92nd tier:
Lully: Armide, LWV 71 [1686]
Martinů: Oboe Concerto, H. 353 [1955]
Mondonville: Grands Motets [1740s]
Mozart: Idomeneo, K. 366 [1781]
Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas [1553]
Palestrina: Missa Ut re mi fa sol la [1561-2]
Pärt: Für Alina [1976]
Rautavaara: Angels and Visitations [1978]
Saariaho: Flute Concerto "L'aile du songe" (The Wing of the Dream) [2001]

To remain on the 93rd tier:
Mahler: Das Klagende Lied [1878-80]
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Strings in D minor [1823]
Messiaen: Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité [1969]
Mozart: Violin Sonata #18 in G, K. 301 [1778]
Nørgård: Symphony #6 "Når alt kommer til alt (At the End of the Day)" [1999]
Palestrina: Il Primo Libro di Madrigali [1596]
Pejačević: Piano Trio in C, op. 29 [1910]
Penderecki: De Natura Sonoris (On the nature of sound) Nos. 1, 2, & 3 [1966, 1971, 2012]
Peterson-Berger: Frösöblomster I, op. 16 [1896]
Rautavaara: Flute Concerto, op. 63 "Dances with the Winds" [1975]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony #3 in C, op. 32 [1873; 2nd version 1886]
Roussel: Symphony #4 in A, op. 53 [1934]
Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio #1 in F, op. 18 [1863]

To move down 1 to the 94th tier:
Pärt: Symphony #4 "Los Angeles" [2008]
 
#1,155 ·
Our votes on the 80th tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 78th tier:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #16 in G, op. 31/1 [1802]
Enescu: Octet for strings in C, op. 7 [1900]
Haydn, M.: Requiem in C minor "Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo" [1771]
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto #1, op. 35 [1916]
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, op. 24 [1878]

To move up 1 to the 79th tier:
Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine [1986]
Arnold: Guitar Concerto, op. 67 [1959]
Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 [1725]
Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations and Fugue in E-flat, op. 35 [1802]
Bomtempo: Requiem in C minor, op. 23 [1820]
Boulanger, L.: Psalm 130 "Du fond de l'abîme" [1917]
Copland: Billy the Kid [1938]
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #2 in C minor, op. 43 [1950]
Dvořák: Rusalka, op. 114 [1900]
Enescu: Symphony #3 in C, op. 21 [1918]
Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto [2002]
Machaut: Douce dame jolie [14th century]
Messiaen: Livre d'Orgue [1952]
Poulenc: Flute Sonata [1957]
Schnittke: Concerto for Mixed Chorus (Choir Concerto) [1985]
Schumann: Piano Sonata #2 in G minor, op. 22 [1838]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #11 in F minor, op. 122 [1966]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #9 in E-flat, op. 117 [1964]
Victoria: Missa O quam gloriosum [1583]
Warlock: The Curlew [1922]

To remain on the 80th tier:
Adams: The Chairman Dances [1985]
Alfven: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 39 "Fran Havsbandet" [1918]
Bach, C. P. E.: Sinfonias, Wq. 183 [1776]
Bach: Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013 [1717-1723?]
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #4 in E-flat, op. 7 [1798]
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato's Symposium [1954]
Brian: Symphony #1 in D minor "The Gothic" [1927]
Cage: Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra [1951]
Chávez: Symphony #2 "Sinfonía India" [1936]
Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis, L 90 [1898]
Dutilleux: Piano Sonata [1948]
Froberger: Tombeau on the Death of M. Blancrocher in C minor, FbWV 632 [mid-17th century]
Ginastera: Harp Concerto, op. 25 [1965]
Glazunov: Piano Concerto #2 in B, op. 100 [1917]
Haydn: Piano Sonata #53 in E minor Hob. XVI/34 [1778 or earlier]
Janáček: Violin Sonata [1914]
Juon: Rhapsodie (Piano Quartet #1 in D minor), op. 37 [1907]
Koechlin: Les heures persanes (Persian Hours), op. 65 [1919]
Kreisler: Liebesleid [1905]
Kurtág: Stele, op. 33 [1994]
Ligeti: String Quartet #1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes" [1954]
Martinů: Piano Trio #2 in D minor, H. 327 [1950]
Medtner: Piano Quintet in C [1949]
Pergolesi: Septem verba a Christo [1736]
Poulenc: Stabat Mater [1950]
Prokofiev: Symphony #4, op. 47/112 [1929/1947]
Raff: Piano Quartet #2 in C minor, op. 202/2 [1876]
Rautavaara: Symphony #3 [1960]
Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds) [1928]
Saariaho: Notes on Light [2006]
Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio #2 in E minor, op. 92 [1892]
Sauer: Piano Concerto #1 in E minor [1895]
Schumann: Stücke (5) im Volkston (Five Pieces in a Popular Style) for cello and piano, op. 102 [1849]
Scriabin: Preludes [1889-1914]
Sibelius: Luonnotar, op. 70 [1913]
Stravinsky: Three Movements from Petrushka [1921]
Taneyev: Piano Trio in D, op. 22 [1908]
Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra [1896]
Various: Medici Codex [1518]
Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder [1858]
Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), op. 65 [1819]
Wellesz: Symphony #5, op. 75 [1956]
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch [1891, 1896]

To move down 1 to the 81st tier:
Martinů: Cello Sonata #1, H. 277 [1939]
 
#1,158 ·
Our votes on the 21st tier selected the following works...

To move up to the 20th tier:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27/2 "Moonlight" [1801]
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, op. 24 [1861]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491 [1786]
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, op. 71 [1892]
Wagner: Parsifal [1882]

To remain on the 21st tier:
Bach: Harpsichord Concerto #1 in D minor, BWV 1052 [c. 1738]
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 [c. 1704?]
Bach: Violin Concerto #2 in E, BWV 1042 [before 1737]
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, op. 120 [1823]
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3 in C minor, op. 37 [1803]
Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation), Hob.XXI/2 [1798]
Janáček: On an Overgrown Path [1911]
Kodály: Sonata for Solo Cello, op. 8 [1915]
Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu [1910]

To move down 1 to the 22nd tier:
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, K. 452 [1784]
 
#1,159 · (Edited)
Our votes on the 93rd tier, part 5 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 91st tier:
Sallinen: Songs of Life and Death, op. 69 [1995]
Scarlatti, A.: Stabat Mater [1724]
Schubert: Du bist die Ruh, D. 776 [1823]
Schubert: Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, D. 877 [1826]
Schulhoff: Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra [1923]
Schumann, C.: Piano Trio in G minor, op. 17 [1846]
Schumann: Heine Liederkreis, op. 24 [1840]
Schumann: Myrthen, op. 25, including "Widmung" [1840]
Schumann: Piano Trio #3 in G minor, op. 110 [1851]
Schumann: String Quartets, op. 41 [1842]
Takemitsu: Quotation of Dream [1991]
Vasks: Cello Concerto (#1) [1994]
Weinberg: Symphony #10 in A minor, op. 98 [1968]

To move up 1 to the 92nd tier:
Shostakovich: String Quartet #12 in D-flat, op. 133 [1968]
Stanford: Symphony #3 in F minor, op. 28 "Irish" [1887]
Strauss, R.: Songs (8) from "Letzte Blätter", op. 10, including "Zueignung" and "Allerseelen" [1885]
Stravinsky: Threni [1958]
Tippett: A Child of Our Time [1941]
Volkmann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 33 [1858]
Wolf: Goethe-Lieder, especially "Ganymed" [c. 1875]

To remain on the 93rd tier:
Sanz: Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española [1674]
Say: Symphony #2, op. 38 "Mesopotamia" [2011]
Saygun: Anadolu'dan (From Anatolia), op. 25 [1945]
Schmitt: La Tragédie de Salomé, op. 50 [1907]
Sorabji: Opus Clavicembalisticum [1930]
Still: Symphony #1 in A flat, "Afro-American" [1930]
Tchaikovsky: Hamlet, op. 67 [1889, 1891]
Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli [1953]
Varèse: Hyperprism [1923]
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel [1901-4]
Vaughan Williams: String Quartet #1 in G minor [1909]
Verdi: Macbeth [1847]
Weber: Bassoon Concerto in F, op. 75 [1811; rev. 1822]
Weiss: Lute Sonata in A minor, Weiss SW 29 "L'Infidèle" [1719]

To move down 1 to the 94th tier:
Scelsi: Ko-Tha "Three Dances of Shiva" [1967]
 
#1,160 ·
Our votes on the 49th tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 47th tier:
Brahms: Cello Sonata #2 in F, op. 99 [1886]

To move up 1 to the 48th tier:
Bach: Cantata #198 "Lass, Fürstin, lass noch einen Strahl" [1727]
Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus (The Earthquake Mass) [before 1520]
Debussy: Études (12), L 136 [1915]
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande, L 88 [1902]
Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80 [1898]
Haas, G. F.: in vain [2000]
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième année: Italie (S.161) [1837-49]
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse (S.160)
Martinů: Symphony #6, H. 343 "Fantaisies symphoniques" [1953]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #7 in F-sharp minor, op. 108 [1960]

To remain on the 49th tier:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #24 in F-sharp, op. 78 "À Thérèse" [1809]
Chopin: Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante, op. 22 [1834]
Dvořák: String Quartet #10 in E-flat, op. 51 "Slavonic" [1879]
Finzi: Eclogue for piano and string orchestra, op. 10 [1956]
Martinů: String Quartet #6, H. 312 [1946]
Mozart: String Quartet #17 in B-flat, K. 458 "The Hunt" [1784]
Ockeghem: Missa Mi-Mi [15th century]
Saariaho: Cendres [1998]
Schoenberg: Variations for Orchestra, op. 31 [1928]
Webern: Variations for Orchestra, op. 30 [1940]
Zelenka: Trio Sonatas, ZWV 181 [c. 1721]

To move down 1 to the 50th tier:
Revueltas: Sensemayá [1937]
 
#1,163 ·
Our votes on the 121st tier, part 2 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 119th tier:
Eastman: Crazy Ni**er [c. 1980]
Eötvös: Intervalles-Intérieurs [1981]
Fairouz: Native Informant [2011]
Fauré: Mélodies (2), op. 43, including "Noël" and "Nocturne" [1885]
Fauré: Mélodies (2), op. 83 [1894]
Flotow: Martha [1847]
Froberger: Suite #18 (Partita) in G minor, FbWV 618 [mid-17th century]
Gershwin: Variations on "I Got Rhythm" [1934]
Glière: Symphony #2 in C minor, op. 25 [1907-08]
Guerrero: Ave virgo sanctissima [1566]
Guerrero: Missa Sancta et immaculata [1566]
Handel: Chandos Anthems, HWV 246-256 [1717-18]
Handel: Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne, HWV 74, "Eternal source of light divine" [1712]
Haydn: Sinfonia Concertante in B-flat, Hob. I/105 [1792]
Haydn: String Quartets, op. 71 [1793]
Hildegard von Bingen: O Euchari [12th century]
Hindemith: Octet [1957-8]
Holst, I.: String Quartet "Phantasy" [1928]
Hummel: Piano Trio #1 in E flat, op. 12 [c. 1803]
Hygons: Salve Regina (from the Eton Choirbook) [c. 1500]
Isaac: Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen [c. 1485]
Isaac: Missa paschalis a 6 [probably between 1508 and 1517]
Joachim: Violin Concerto #2 in D minor, op. 11 "In the Hungarian Manner" [1857]
Josquin: Stabat Mater dolorosa [1498]
Juon: Piano Quartet #2 in G, op. 50 [1912]
Kabalevsky: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 54 [1956]
Krommer: Concerto for Two Clarinets in E-flat, op. 91 [c. 1815]

To move up 1 to the 120th tier:
Dyson: Symphony in G [1937]
Eben: The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart [2002]
Elgar: The Kingdom, op. 51 [1906]
Ferneyhough: String Quartet #5 [2006]
Foerster: Symphony #3 in D, op. 36 "Život" [1895]
Frumerie: Cello Concerto [1984]
Geijer: Piano Quartet in E minor [1825]
Gernsheim: String Quartet #2 in A minor, op. 31 [1875]
Giannini: Piano Concerto in D minor [1934]
Gilles: Requiem [c. 1700]
Ginastera: Cello Concerto #2, op. 50 [1980]
Glass: Symphony #8 [2005]
Glazunov: String Quartet #4 in A minor, op. 64 [1894]
Gordon: Rushes [2012]
Gordon: Van Gogh [1991]
Greenwood: 48 Responses to Polymorphia [2011]
Grieg: Funeral March in Memory of Richard Nordraak [1866]
Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra [1918]
Guridi: Sinfonía Pirenaica [1945]
Hahn: Le rossignol des lilas [1913]
Hartmann: Symphony #4 [1947-48]
Hartmann E.: Cello Concerto in D minor, op. 26 [1879]
Hasse: Siroe, re di Persia [1733]
Haydn: Symphony #41 in C [1769]
Higdon: blue cathedral [2000]
Hiller: Piano Concerto #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 69 [1843]
Holbrooke: Horn Trio in D minor, op. 28 [c. 1904, rev. 1906-12]
Holst: Symphony in F, op. 8 "The Cotswolds" [1899-1900]
Honegger: String Quartet #3, H. 114 [1937]
Hosokawa: Renka I-III [1986-90]
Howells: Piano Concerto #2 in C, op. 39 [1925]
Ifukube: Lauda concertata for marimba and orchestra [1979]
Janáček: Pohádka (Fairy Tale) [1910, rev. 1912, 1923]
Kernis: String Quartet #2 "Musica Instrumentalis" [1998]
Kokkonen: Cello Concerto [1969]
Korngold: Abschiedslieder, op. 14 [1921]

To remain on the 121st tier:
Eötvös: CAP-KO (piano concerto) [2005]
Escher: Musique pour l'esprit en deuil [1943]
Feldman: Neither [1977]
Feldman: The Possibility of a New Work for Electric Guitar [1966]
Ferneyhough: Firecycle Beta [1969-71]
Ferneyhough: String Quartet #2 [1980]
Fernström: Symphony #6, op. 40 [1938]
Fučík: Florentiner Marsch, op. 214 [1907]
Garayev: Symphony #3 [1964]
Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra [1931]
Goebbels: Surrogate Cities [1994]
Gottschalk: Grande Fantaisie Triomphale sur l'Hymne National Brésilien (op. 69) [1869]
Grisey: Le Temps et l'écume [1988-1989]
Grisey: Tempus ex machina [1979]
Gruber: Zeitstimmung (Time Shadow) [1996]
Hanson: Symphony #5 "Sinfonia Sacra", op. 43 [1955]
Hartmann: Symphony #3 [1948-49]
Hashimoto: Symphony #1 in D [1940]
Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions [2005]
Herzogenberg: Trio for Oboe, Horn, and Piano in D, op. 61 [1889]
Hillborg: Beast Sampler [2014]
Honegger: Concerto da Camera [1948]
Howells: Dances (3) for Violin and Orchestra, op. 7 [1915]
Hummel: Flute Trio ("Adagio, Variations, and Rondo on a Russian Theme") in A, op. 78 [1818]
Hurlstone: Bassoon Sonata in F [1904]
Janáček: Capriccio for piano left hand [1926]
Jenner: Trio for Clarinet, Horn and Piano in E-flat [1900]
Johnson, T.: Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass [1975]
Josquin (but perhaps misattrib.): Missa Mater Patris [15th century]
Kerll: Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis [1689]
Khrennikov: Symphony #1 in B-flat minor, op. 4 [1933-35]
Kilar: Exodus [1981]
Kilar: Piano Concerto #1 [1996]
Kilar: Requiem Father Kolbe [1994]
Kilar: September Symphony [2003]
Kim-Harris and Topel: Deo [2019]
Klami: Symphony #1 in D, op. 29 [1937-8]
Koch: Symphony #5 "Lapponica" [1977]
Kozlovsky: Requiem in E-flat minor [1798]

To move down 1 to the 122nd tier:
Hurwit: Symphony #1 "Remembrance" [2002]
Jones, S.: Roundings: Musings and Meditations on Texas New Deal Murals [2000]
Jones, S.: Symphony #3 "Palo Duro Canyon" [1992]
 
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