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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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#1,329 · (Edited)
So the list of works to be added when I can get around to it now includes:

Bach: Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127 [1713]
Beethoven: Sextet in E-flat, op. 71 [1796]
Buxtehude: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, BuxWV 210 [c. 1700]
Dench: Piano Sonata [2015-6]
Halffter, C.: String Quartet #7 "Espacio de silencio" [2007]
Holst: Ode to Death, op. 38 [1919]
Reinken: An Wasserflüssen Babylon [before 1700]
Victoria: Missa O Magnum Mysterium [1592]
 
#1,330 ·
So... it seems to me that the project is running out of steam to some extent. We still have participation in the voting threads, but not nearly as much in the low tiers, where most of the works are. We're not adding works at the same clip either.

I'm wondering if anyone has any particularly provocative ways to move us forwards. I'm not sure what the future holds, but the radical transformation of talkclassical has inspired me to wonder about ways to transform our list of recommendations.
 
#1,332 ·
So... it seems to me that the project is running out of steam to some extent. We still have participation in the voting threads, but not nearly as much in the low tiers, where most of the works are. We're not adding works at the same clip either.

I'm wondering if anyone has any particularly provocative ways to move us forwards. I'm not sure what the future holds, but the radical transformation of talkclassical has inspired me to wonder about ways to transform our list of recommendations.
In addition to the suggestions I made previously,

I think the polls for each tier could be open for a longer time period. Unless you already know most of the works in a tier it takes a lot of time to fully absorb and vote on a long list of works. I think it's completely OK to have lots of polls open at the same time. I only managed to vote on some tiers because I anticipated they would come up before they were announced!

The new system where people are voting up two works every few days works fine in the short term, but in the long term I don't think it will lead to a stable system. To achieve that I think you need some kind of comparative voting system: ranking polls, binary polls or voting works both up and down. Also, for me personally the opportunity to promote any work from a list of 6000 is almost too hard to decide - I would find it easier to participate when given a more limited choice.
 
#1,335 ·
Our votes on the 127th tier, part 2 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 125th tier:
Britten: Folk song arrangements, volumes 1-6 [1943-1961]
Caldara: Sonate da camera, op. 2 [1699]
Chadwick: Symphonic Sketches [1904]
Chapí: String Quartet #2 in F [1904]
Chopin: Fantasy on Polish Airs in A, op. 13 [1828]
Clarke: Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale [1941]
Clementi: Symphony in D, op. 18/2 [1787]
Corelli: Trio Sonatas (12), op. 4 [1694]
Cras: Journal de bord, for orchestra [1927]
Denisov: The Sun of Incas [1964]
Dohnányi: String Quartet #3 in A minor, op. 33 [1926]
Dufay: Ecclesiae militantis [1431]
Emmanuel: Sonata for Clarinet, Flute and Piano, op. 11 [1907]
Fasch: Trumpet Concerto in D [18th century]
Fauré: Mélodies (2), op. 87, including "Le plus doux chemin" [1904]
Feld: Flute Concerto [1954]
To move up 1 to the 126th tier:
Bryars: Piano Concerto "The Solway Canal" [2010]
Burkhard: Violin Concerto #2, op. 69 [1943]
Busoni: Tone Pieces (6) [1916]
Byström: Symphony in D Minor [1870-2, rev. 1895]
Camilleri: Malta Suite [1946]
Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello in D minor [1926]
Castellanos: Santa Cruz de Pacairigua (Suite Sinfonica) [1954]
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Cello Sonata, op. 50 [1928]
Cendo: In Vivo [2008-2011]
Cesti: La Dori [1657]
Cimarosa: Il maestro di cappella [1793]
Coates, G.: Piano Quintet [2013]
Coates, G.: Symphony #2 "Music on Abstract Lines/ Illuminatio in Tenebris" [1974]
Coates, G.: Symphony #4 "Chiaroscuro" [1989]
Copland: Symphony #2 "Short" [1933]
Cowell: Symphony #16 "Icelandic" [1962]
David, Félicien: Herculanum [1859]
Davies, W.: Symphony #2 in G, op. 32 [1911]
Debussy: L'enfant prodigue, L 57 [1884, rev. 1907-8]
Delius: Violin Sonata in B, op. posth. [1892]
Dett: The Ordering of Moses, a Biblical Folk Scene for soloists, chorus and orchestra [1932]
Durey: Sonatine for flute and piano, op. 25 [1929]
Dutilleux: Mystère de l'instant [1989]
Dvořák: String Quartet #4 in E minor, B. 19 [1870]
Długoszewski: Space is a Diamond [1970]
Enescu: Piano Quartet #2 in D minor, op. 30 [1944]
Eötvös: Violin Concerto #2 "DoReMi" [2012]
Escher: Clarinet Trio [1978]
Ewazen: Trumpet Sonata [1995]
Fagerlund: Isola [2011]
Ferneyhough: Lemma-Icon-Epigram [1981]
To remain on the 127th tier:
Cerha: Violin Concerto [2004]
Chasins: Three Chinese Pieces [1926]
Chavez: Soli I for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and trumpet [1933]
Chopin: Écossaises (3), op. 72/3 [1826]
Coates, G.: Among the Asteroids for string quartet [1962]
Constant: 14 Stations [1970]
Cras: mes d'enfants [1918]
Crumb: Otherworldly Resonances for 2 pianos [2003]
Czernowin: Adiantum Capillus-Veneris I-III (Maidenhair fern I-III) [2015-2016]
Dalbavie: Sinfonietta [2005]
Dan: Symphony #4 "1965 Kanagawa" [1965]
Danielpour: First Light [1988]
Darmar: Piano Concerto "Cunda" [2014]
Domeniconi: Koyunbaba Suite [1985-86]
Donatoni: Duo pour Bruno [1974-75]
Donatoni: Tema [1981]
Drdla: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 245 [1931]

To move down 1 to the 128th tier:
Danielpour: Margaret Garner [2005]
Del Tredici: In Memory of a Summer Day [1980]
 
#1,339 ·
I am still unable to get rid of the table boxes in any time-efficient manner, so apologies for the ugliness, but anyway, our votes on the 86th tier, part 2 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 84th tier:
Gabrieli: Canzoni et Sonate [1615]
Gautier de Coincy: Miracles de Nostre Dame [c. 1200]
Kalinnikov: Symphony #2 in A [1897]
Mendelssohn: String Quintet #2 in B-flat, op. 87 [1845]
Mouton: Nesciens mater virgo virum [1555]

To move up 1 to the 85th tier:
Glinka: Grand Sextet in E-flat [1832]
Goldmark: Violin Concerto #1 in A minor, op. 28 [1877]
Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, HWV 55 [1740]
Holst: St. Paul's Suite, op. 29/2 [1922]
Josquin: Missa de Beata Virgine [c. 1510]
Kapsberger: Libro primo d'intavolatura di lauto [1611]
Landini: Ecco la primavera [14th century]
La Rue: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) [c. 1506?]
Lassus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera [1610]
Lutosławski: Les espaces du sommeil [1975]
Lutosławski: Musique funèbre [1958]
Machaut: Je vivroie liement [14th cent.]
Maderna: Quadrivium [1969]
Manchicourt: Missa Veni sancte spiritus [16th century]
Martinů: Fantasia for Theremin, Oboe, String Quartet and Piano, H. 301 [1944]
Martinů: Symphony #3, H. 299 [1944]
Morales: Missa pro defunctis [1544]
Myaskovsky: Symphony #25 in D-flat, op. 69 [1946; rev. 1949]

To remain on the 86th tier:
Ge: String Quartet #5 "Fall of Baghdad" [2007]
Glass: String Quartet #4 "Buczak" [1989]
Handel: Acis and Galatea, HWV 49 [probably 1718]
Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 [1739]
Handel: Samson, HWV 57 [1743]
Holst: Egdon Heath, op. 47 [1927]
Huré: Piano Quintet in D [1914]
Khachaturian: Symphony #2 in E minor "The Bell" [1944]
Langgaard: Symphony #4, BVN 124 "Løvfald (Fall of Leaves)" [1916; rev. 1920]
Lehár: Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) [1905]
Marais: Suitte d'un Goût Étranger (Suite in a Foreign Style) [1717]
Nielsen: Aladdin (incidental music and suite) [1919]

To move down 1 to the 87th tier:
Monn/Schoenberg: Cello Concerto in G minor [1740; 1933]
 
#1,342 · (Edited)
My next update (including Highwayman's additions in 1345, below):

Bach: Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn, BWV 1127 [1713]
Beethoven: Sextet in E-flat, op. 71 [1796]
Bergman: Flute Concerto, op. 89 "Birds in the Morning" [1979]
Billone: Mani.Giacometti [2000]
Birtwistle: Clarinet Quintet [1980]
Buxtehude: Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein, BuxWV 210 [c. 1700]
Dench: Piano Sonata [2015-6]
Ferneyhough: String Trio [1995]
Finnissy: String Trio [1986]
Freitas Branco: Vathek [1913]
Gordon: Clouded Yellow [2010]
Halffter, C.: String Quartet #7 "Espacio de silencio" [2007]
Haubenstock-Ramati: Für Kandinsky [1987]
Holst: Ode to Death, op. 38 [1919]
Orrego-Salas: Sextet for Clarinet, Piano and String Quartet, op. 38 [1955]
Reinken: An Wasserflüssen Babylon [before 1700]
Reynolds: Whispers Out of Time [1988]
Schreker: Der Schatzgräber [1920]
Veress: String Trio [1954]
Victoria: Missa O Magnum Mysterium [1592]
Wolpe: Quartet for Trumpet, Tenor Saxophone, Percussion and Piano [1950-4]
 
#1,343 ·
Our votes on the 100th tier, part 3 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 98th tier:
Koechlin: Piano Quintet, op. 80 [1908-21]
Ockeghem: Missa Au travail suis [before 1470]
Pierné: Piano Quintet in E minor, op. 41 [1917]
Schubert: Der Wanderer, D. 489 (formerly D. 493) [1816]
Schubert: Psalm 23, D. 706 [1820]
Schumann: Fantasiestücke (3), op. 73 [1849]

To move up 1 to the 99th tier:
Langgaard: Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play) for string quartet [1918]
Leclair: Violin/Flute Sonatas (12), op. 9 [c. 1743]
Milhaud: Suite for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano after Le voyageur sans bagage, op. 157b [1936]
Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda [1624]
Mozart: Piano Concerto #15 in B-flat, K. 450 [1784]
Noskowski: Piano Quartet in D minor, op. 8 [1881]
Pejačević: Symphony in F-sharp minor, op. 41 [1918]
Poulenc: Le Bal Masqué [1932]
Poulenc: Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone [1922; rev. 1945]
Rautavaara: Autumn Gardens [1999]
Respighi: Violin Sonata in B minor [1917]
Rheinberger: Mass in E-flat, op. 109 "Cantus Missæ" [1878]
Schreker: Die Gezeichneten (The Stigmatized) [1915]
Schuman: Symphony #5 "Symphony for Strings" [1943]

To remain on the 100th tier:
Ligeti: Pieces (10) for Wind Quintet [1968]
Mendelssohn: Ruy Blas Overture, op. 95 [1839]
Mozart: Divertimento #17 in D, K. 334 [1780]
Piazzolla: 5 Tango Sensations [1989]
Pierné: Violin Sonata, op. 36 [1900]
Rihm: Et Lux [2009]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, op. 30 [1883]
Schnittke: A Paganini [1982]
Schubert: Piano Sonata #6 in E minor, D. 566 [1817]
Séverac: Cerdaña [1911]

To move down 1 to the 101st tier:
Scelsi: Anahit "Lyric Poem on the name of Venus" for violin and 18 instruments [1965]
 
#1,344 ·
Our votes on the 24th tier selected the following works...

To move up 1 to the 23rd tier:
Elgar: "Enigma" Variations on an Original Theme, op. 36 [1899]
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6 [1611]
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, op. 4 [1899]
Schubert: Piano Sonata #19 in C minor, D. 958 [1828]
Sibelius: Symphony #4 in A minor, op. 63 [1911]

To remain on the 24th tier:
Alwyn: Harp Concerto "Lyra Angelica" [1954]
Bach: Violin Concerto #1 in A minor, BWV 1041 [c. 1723]
Beethoven: Piano Trio #7 in B-flat, op. 97 "Archduke" [1811]
Beethoven: "Triple" Concerto for violin, cello, and piano in C, op. 56 [1805]
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, op. 21 [1874]
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, op. 26 "Fingal's Cave" [1832]
Nielsen: Symphony #5, op. 50 [1922]
Schumann: Symphony #3 in E-flat, op. 97 "Rhenish" [1850]
Shostakovich: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 43 [1936]

To move down 1 to the 25th tier:
Schubert: Piano Sonata #18 in G, D 894 [1826]
 
#1,346 · (Edited)
Our votes on the 127th tier, part 3 (the link should work now) selected the following works...

To move up 2 tiers:
Finzi: Earth and Air and Rain, op. 15 [1928-35]
Foote: Piano Trio #2 in B-flat, op. 65 [1907-08]
Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar, op. 22 (including the Suite, op. 56) [1872]
Haas, G. F.: Solstices [2019]
Harvey: Ritual Melodies [1989-90]
Haydn: Stabat Mater [1767]
Hindemith: Trio for Viola, Heckelphone and Piano, op. 47 [1928]
Holliger: Puneigä [2002]
Honegger: Le Roi David [1921]
Howells: Oboe Sonata [1942]

To move up 1 tier:
Ferrari: Tautologos III [1969]
Flagello: Symphony #1 [1968]
Frankel: Symphony #1, op. 33 [1958]
Freitas Branco: Symphony #4 in D major [1952]
Fry: Christmas Symphony "Santa Claus" [1853]
Gaito: Piano Quintet, op. 24 [1917]
Garayev: Violin Concerto [1967]
Godowsky: Piano Sonata in E minor [1910]
Goehr: Clarinet Quintet, op. 79 [2007]
Goossens: Oboe Concerto, op. 45 [1927]
Gounod: Marche funèbre d'une marionnette [1879]
Gouvy: Octet #1 in E-flat, op. 71 [1879]
Grainger: In a Nutshell [1916]
Granados: Escenas Románticas [1904]
Guarnieri: String Quartet #3 [1962]
Guillou: Hyperion, or The Rhetoric of Fire, op. 45 [1988]
Harbison: Requiem [2003]
Harrison, J.: Bredon Hill: Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra [1942]
Hayasaka: Piano Concerto in D minor [1948]
Haydn: String Quartets, op. 9 [1769]
Haydn: Orlando Paladino [1782]
Haydn: Te Deum #2 in C, Hob. XXIIIc:2 [1799]
Henze: String Quartet #4 [1976]
Henze: Symphony #10 [1997-2000]
Hindemith: String Quartet #1 in C, op. 2 [1915]
Hotteterre: Pieces for Flute, opp. 2 & 5 [1708, 1715]
Hummel: Clarinet Quartet in E flat major, WoO 5 [1808]
Hurlstone: Piano Trio in G [1905]
Huybrechts: Suite for Piano and Winds [1929]
Ifukube: Japanese Rhapsody [1935]

To remain on the 127th tier:
Fétis: Flute Concerto in B minor [1869]
Field: Piano concerto #5 in C, H. 39, "L'incendie par l'orage" [1817]
Fine: String Quartet [1952]
Ginastera: American Preludes (12), op. 12 [1944]
Glazunov: Piano Sonata #2 in E minor, op. 75 [1901]
Glazunov: Prelude and Fugue in D, op. 93 [1907]
Golubev: Harp Quintet in C minor, op. 39 [1953]
Gordon: Observations on Air [2016]
Grandval: Suite for flute and piano [1872]
Greenstein: Clearing, Dawn, Dance [2010]
Handel: Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi, HWV 197 [1711]
Harrison, L.: Suite for Symphonic Strings [1960]
Haydn: Symphony #10 in D [1760]
Haydn: Symphony #11 in E-flat [1762]
Haydn: Symphony #12 in E [1763]
Haydn: Symphony #81 in G [1784]
Higdon: All Things Majestic [2011]
Holzbauer: Mass in C [c. 1770]
Hoof: Symphony #4 in B [1950]
Hovhaness: Symphony #24, op. 273 "Majnun" [1973]
Ifukube: Kugo-Ka [1969]

To move down 1 tier:
Glass: Days and Nights in Rocinha [1997]
Glass: Piano Concerto #1 "Tirol" [2000]
Harrison, L.: Largo Ostinato [1937]
Haydn: English Canzonettas, Books 1 & 2, Hob. XXVIa:25-36 [1794-5]
Haydn: Symphony #5 in D [1762]
Holten: Handel with Care (Variations on Darwin) [2009]
 
#1,347 · (Edited)
At some point in the distant past we voted on the 116th tier, part 2, and our votes on that tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 114th tier:
Cherubini: Marche funèbre [1820]
Chopin: Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C for cello and piano, op. 3 [1829]
Couperin, A. L.: Pièces de Clavecin [1751]
Couperin: Versets (7) d'un motet composé de l'ordre du roy [1705]
Creston: Symphony #3 "Three Mysteries", op. 48 [1950]
Czerny: Symphony #1 in C minor, op. 780
Dunstable: Salve scema sanctitatis [15th century]
Eötvös: Paris-Dakar [2000]
Ferneyhough: La chute d'Icare [1988]
Flotow: Martha [1847]
Froberger: Suite #18 (Partita) in G minor, FbWV 618 [mid-17th century]
Frühling: Clarinet Trio in A minor, op. 40 [1925?]
Gade: Symphony #1 in C minor, op. 5 [1842]
Glazunov: String Quartet #3 in G, op. 26 "Quatuor Slave" [1886-8]
Glière: Symphony #2 in C minor, op. 25 [1907-08]
Gombert: In Te Domine Speravi [1539]
Gombert: Media vita in morte sumus [1539]
Granados: Valses Poéticos [1899]
Gretchaninov: Symphony #5, op. 153 [1936]
Guerrero: Ave virgo sanctissima [1566]

To move up 1 to the 115th tier:
Chopin: Piano Sonata #1 in C minor, op. 4 [1828]
Delius: Paris - The Song of a Great City [1900]
Denisov: Sonata for Flute and Guitar [1977]
Eben: Landscapes of Patmos [1984-5]
Einhorn: Voices of Light [1994]
Elgar: Dream Children, op. 43 [1902]
Fauré: Mirages, op. 113 [1919]
Fauré: Preludes (9) for Piano, op. 103 [1910]
Françaix: Divertissement for oboe, clarinet and bassoon [1947]
Gershwin: Second Rhapsody for piano and orchestra [1931]
Gipps: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 34 [1948]
Giuliani: Le Rossiniana, opp. 119-124 [c. 1820-1828]
Glass: Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra [2000]
Golijov: Ayre [2004]
Gordon: Timber [2009]
Griffes: Roman Sketches, op. 7 [1916]
Hartmann: Symphony #8 [1960-62]

To remain on the 116th tier:
Dallapiccola: Quaderno musicale di Annalibera [1952]
Damase: Piano Concerto #2 [1962]
Danielpour: Concerto for Orchestra "Zoroastrian Riddles" [1996]
Daugherty: Trail of Tears for flute and orchestra [2010]
Davydov: Cello Concerto #2 in A minor, op. 14 [1863?]
Dillon: The Book of Elements [2002]
Enescu/Țăranu/Bentoiu: Symphony #5 [begun 1941; completed 1995]
Ferneyhough: Carceri d'Invenzione [1982-6]
Ferrari: Hétérozygote [1964]
Finnissy: Piano Concerto #3 [1978]
Gál: Symphony #2 in F, op. 53 [1943]
Gilson: La mer, four symphonic sketches [1892]
Gipps: Horn Concerto, op. 58 [1968]
Glass: Songs from Liquid Days [1986]
Guilmant: Organ Sonata #1 in D minor, op. 42 [1875]
Gulda: Suite for Piano, Electric Piano, and Drums [by 1969]
Haas, G. F.: Concerto for baritone saxophone and orchestra [2008]

To move down 1 to the 117th tier:
Furtwängler: Symphony #2 in E minor [1946]
 
#1,348 · (Edited)
From the "Recommend a work more strongly" experiment, I'm moving up the following works (the tier listed is the one they were on before I moved them up):

3rd tier -- Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) [1875]

8th tier -- Mozart: Don Giovanni

21st tier -- Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, op. 120 [1823]

Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole in D minor, op. 21 [1874] - Tier 24

Tier 26: Shostakovich: Symphony #9 in E-flat, op. 70 [1945]

27th tier -- Beethoven: Piano Sonata #31 in A-flat, op. 110 [1822]

29th tier -- Beethoven: String Quartet #16 in F, op. 135 [1826]

Tier 31: Beethoven: Symphony #4 in B-flat, op. 60 [1806]
Tier 31: Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129 [1850]
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #1 in G minor, op. 13 "Winter Daydreams" [1866] - Tier 31

Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9 [1948] - Tier 32

Brahms: Piano Trio #2 in C, op. 87 [1882] - Tier 35

39th tier -- Bruckner: Symphony #6 in A, WAB 106 [1881]

Tier 41 -- Hummel: Piano Trio #6 in E-flat, op. 93 [1823]

43rd tier -- Fauré: String Quartet in E minor, op. 121 [1924]

Tier 44: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, op. 20 [1876]

50th tier -- Brahms: Violin Sonata #3 in D minor, op. 108 [1887]
50th tier -- Murail: Gondwana

51st tier -- Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty, op. 66 [1889]

55th tier -- Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke [1591]

Varèse: Déserts [1954] -- Tier 60

Stockhausen: Kontakte [1958-60] -- Tier 66

70th tier -- Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum [1964]

72nd tier -- Rzewski: Coming Together

Rihm: Jagden und Formen (Hunts and Forms) [1995-2008] -- Tier 73

76th tier -- Xenakis: Jonchaies [1977]

Lachenmann: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (The Little Match Girl) [1996] -- Tier 78

Tier 79 -- Duparc: L'invitation au voyage [1872]

Tier 83 -- Fauré: La Bonne Chanson, op. 61, including "La lune blanche nuit dans les bois" [1894]

Tier 84 -- Takemitsu: November Steps [1967]

85 tier -- Boulez: Piano Sonata #2
85th tier -- Saariaho: D'Om le Vrai Sens (clarinet concerto) [2010]

Tier 87 -- Willan: Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue [1916]

Tier 109 -- Barber: Songs (4), op. 13, including "Sure on this Shining Night" [1937-40]

118th Tier -- Dunstable: Missa Da gaudiorum premia [1420?]

120th tier -- Andre: ... auf ... III
120th tier -- Billone: ITI KE MI
Tier 120: Dvořák: Hussite Overture, op. 67 [1883]
Tier 120 -- Martinů: Oboe Quartet, H. 315 [1947]

Arauxo: Facultad Organica [1626] - Tier 122
122nd Tier -- Kerll: Missa in fletu solatium obsidionis Viennensis [1689]
122nd tier -- Parry: Songs of Farewell [1916-8]

Adams, J.L.: In the White Silence [1998] -- Tier 123
123rd tier -- Fibich: Symphony #3 in E minor, op. 53 [1898]
Tier 123: Glazunov: Concert Waltz #2 in F for orchestra, op. 51 [1894]
123rd tier -- Palestrina: Missa Ecce ego Johannes [1586]
123rd tier -- Victoria: Missa Laetatus sum [1600] -- promoted twice

124th Tier – Gesualdo: Sacrae Cantiones, Book I [1603]
124th Tier -- Josquin: O virgo Prudentissima [1520]
124th Tier -- Palestrina: Missa Ecce ego Johannes [1586]
124th tier -- Tchaikovsky: Iolanta [1891]

Tier 125: Arensky: Violin Concerto [1891]
Bach: Cantata #1 "Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern" [1725] - Tier 125
125th tier -- Bax: Symphony #4 in E-flat [1931]
Tier 125 -- Dohnányi: Pieces (6) for Piano, op. 41 [1945]
Gretchaninov: Symphony #1, op. 6 [1895] - Tier 125
125th Tier -- Isaac: Angeli Archangeli [1490s]
125th tier -- Milhaud: La Cheminée du Roi René, op. 205 [1939]
Rihm: Musik für drei Streicher [1977] -- Tier 125
125th tier -- Salieri: Variations on "La Follia di Spagna" [1815]
Tier 125 -- Schubert: An den Mond, D. 193 [1815]
Tier 125 -- Schumann: Belsatzar, op. 57 [1840]
125th Tier -- Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis [1554]
125th tier -- Weber: Oberon [1826]

127th Tier -- Biber: Sonatae violino solo [1681]*
127th tier -- Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum [1977]
Ferneyhough: Lemma-Icon-Epigram [1981] -- Tier 127*
Tier 127: Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar, op. 22 (including the Suite, op. 56) [1872]*
127th tier -- Sessions: Montezuma [c. 1940-62]
127th Tier -- Tallis: Suscipe quaeso Domine [1575]
127th tier -- Uematsu, Hamauzu, Nakano: Final Fantasy X [2001]
127th tier -- Vierne: Violin Sonata in G minor, op. 23 [1905-6]

Tier 129 -- Coulthard: Canada Mosaic [1974]
Grisey: L'Icône paradoxale [1992-1994] -- Tier 129
129th tier -- Henze: The English Cat [1980-3, rev. 1990]
129th tier -- Vali: Segâh
Tier 129 -- Willan: Passacaglia and Fugue #2 in E minor [1959]

* Any work that got promoted through voting in the meantime will still be promoted for this.
 
#1,351 ·
Our votes on the 100th tier, part 4 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 98th tier:
Soler: Keyboard Sonatas [18th century]
Stockhausen: Tierkreis [1975]
Takemitsu: Rain Spell [1980]
Thompson: Symphony #2 in E minor [1931]
Tournemire: L'Orgue Mystique, opp. 55-57 [1927-32]
Vaughan Williams: Merciless Beauty [1921]
Yoshimatsu: While an Angel Falls into a Doze..., op. 73 [1998]

To move up 1 to the 99th tier:
Sor: Studies for Guitar [1815, 1827, 1831, 1837]
Takemitsu: Waterways [1978]
Telemann: Concerto for Flute, Oboe d'amore, and Viola d'amore in E, TWV 53:E1 [18th century]
Turina: Círculo, op. 91 [1942?]
Turina: Piano Trio #2 in B minor, op. 76 [1933]
Vaňhal (or Wanhal): Stabat Mater in F minor [1775]
Varèse: Ecuatorial [1934]
Vierne: Organ Symphony #3 in F-sharp minor, op. 28 [1911]
Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus, RV 594 [c. 1730]
Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith [1963]
Weill: Das Berliner Requiem [1928]
Weinberg: Symphony #3, op. 45 [1949]
Willaert: Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Psalm 147) [1555]
Willaert: Vecchie letrose [1545]
Wolf: Italian Serenade [1887]
Wyschnegradsky: Préludes (24) dans tous les tons de l'échelle chromatique diatonisée à 13 sons (Preludes in Quarter-Tone System), op. 22 [1934]

To remain on the 100th tier:
Shaw: Partita for 8 Voices [2013]
Strauss, R.: Ariadne auf Naxos, op. 60 [1912]
Svendsen: Romance in G for Violin and Orchestra, op. 26 [1881]
Taneyev: Suite de Concert, op. 28 [1909]
Vaughan Williams: Toward the Unknown Region [1906]
Villa-Lobos: Chôros #9 for orchestra [1929-42]
Wetz: Symphony #2 in A, op. 47 [1919]

To move down 1 to the 101st tier:
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two trumpets in C, RV 537
 
#1,352 ·
Our votes on the 86th tier, part 3 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 84th tier:
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata #2 in D minor, op. 14 [1912]
Sallinen: Songs of Life and Death, op. 69 [1995]
Schulhoff: Concerto for Piano and Small Orchestra [1923]
Schumann: String Quartets, op. 41 [1842]
Sheppard: Media vita [early 16th cent.]
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto #2 in C-sharp minor, op. 129 [1967]
Zelenka: Missa Dei Patris, ZWV 19 [1740]

To move up 1 to the 85th tier:
Nielsen: Symphony #2, op. 16 "The Four Temperaments" [1902]
Palestrina: Missa Sicut lilium inter spinas [late 16th cent.]
Pandolfi Mealli: Violin Sonatas, opp. 3 & 4 [1660]
Pärt: Te Deum [1984]
Piazzolla: Libertango [1974]
Puccini: Il trittico [1916]
Reger: String Quartet #4 in E-flat, op. 109 [1909]
Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem [probably 1550s]
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #4 in F-sharp, op. 30 [1904]
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #6, op. 62 [1911]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #4 in D, op. 83 [1949]
Strauss, R.: Songs (5), op. 41, including "Wiegenlied" [1899]
Suk: Zrání (Ripening), op. 34 [1917]
Takemitsu: In an Autumn Garden [1973, 1979]
Tubin: Symphony #4 in A "Sinfonia Lirica" [1943; rev. 1978]
Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem [1936]
Wylkynson: Salve regina (in nine parts from the Eton Choirbook) [c. 1500]

To remain on the 86th tier:
Penderecki: Utrenja [1971]
Puccini: Manon Lescaut [1893]
Reich: Drumming [1971]
Reich: Electric Counterpoint [1987]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony #1 in E minor, op. 1 [1865]
Schnittke: (K)ein Sommernachtstraum ((Not) A Midsummer Night's Dream) [1985]
Tallis: If Ye Love Me [1565]
Tavener: The Protecting Veil [1988]
Weill: Die Sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins) [1933]
Xenakis: Rebonds [1988]

To move down 1 to the 87th tier:
Stravinsky: Duo Concertant [1932]
 
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