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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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#1,497 ·
Apparently after tallying our votes on the 131st tier, part 2, I forgot to post the results or move the works! Don't look to me for organization skills or leadership, y'all. I'm a big-picture man.

Our votes on the 131st tier, part 2 selected the following works...

To move up 2 tiers:
Granados: Allegro de Concierto, op. 46 [1903]
Guerrero: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis) [1566, rev. 1582]
Handel: Tra le fiamme, HWV 170 [1707]
Hensel (Mendelssohn, Fanny): String Quartet in E-flat [1834]
Isaac: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam [1492]
Kapsberger: Libro Quarto d'Intavolatura di Chitarrone [1640]
Kokkonen: Symphony #4 [1971]
Krenek: String quartet #7, op. 96 [1944]
Labor: Clarinet Quintet in D, op. 11 [1900]
Lassus: In monte Oliveti [1568]
Legrenzi: Trio Sonatas (18), op. 2 [1655]
Lutosławski: Double Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Chamber Orchestra [1979-80]
Martinů: String Quartet #5 [1938]
Mendelssohn: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op. 60 [1831, rev. 1843]
Morales: Missa Mille Regretz [1540]
Mozart: String Quartet #16 in E-flat, K. 428 [1783]
Myaskovsky: String Quartet #11 in E-flat, op. 67/2 "Reminiscences" [1945]
Obrecht: Beata es, Maria [1505]
Padovano: Messe a 24 (version II)
Pettersson: Symphony #16 [1979]
Pettersson: Symphony #9 [1970]
Philips: Cantiones Sacrae for 5 Voices [1612]

To move up 1 tier:
Gubaidulina: Piano Concerto "Introitus" [1978]
Haas, G. F.: Solstices [2019]
Hassler: Missa super Dixit Maria [1599]
Haydn: Symphony #13 in D [1763]
Haydn: Symphony #20 in C [1757-63]
Herzogenberg: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, op. 43 [1883]
Hillborg: Cold Heat [2010]
Hindemith: Trio for Viola, Heckelphone and Piano, op. 47 [1928]
Holliger: Puneigä [2002]
Honegger: Le Roi David [1921]
Howells: Oboe Sonata [1942]
Huygens: Pathodia Sacra et Profana [1647]
Indy: String Quartet #1 in D, op. 35 [1890]
Ives: Set #1 for chamber orchestra [1912]
Jacob, V. G.: Missa Dei Filii, op. 2 [1725]
Johnson, D.: November [1959]
Juon: Wind Quintet in B-flat, op. 84 [1928]
Koechlin: Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, op. 92 [1924]
La Rue: Missa L'Homme armé
Lekeu: Adagio pour quatuor d'orchestre [1891]
Lerdahl: Time after Time [2000]
Liebermann: Concerto for Violin and Piano and String Quartet [1989]
Lobo: Missa Maria Magdalena [1602]
Loewe: Piano Concerto #2 in A [c. 1830]
Maderna: Grande Aulodia [1970]
Manoury: In Situ for soloists, string orchestra & large spatialized orchestra [2013]
Martinů: Piano Concerto #3, H. 316 [1948]
Martinů: Piano Concerto #5 "Fantasia Concertante", H. 366 [1958]
Martinů: String Quartet #3 [1929]
Massenet: Orchestral Suite #6 "Scènes de féerie" [1880-81]
Mayer: Symphony #7 in F minor [1855-56]
Medtner: Piano Sonata #5 in G minor, op. 22 [1901-10]
Meyer: Quintet for string quartet and double bass [1995]
Milhaud: Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe and Piano, op. 47 [1918]
Mitterer: Im Sturm [2004-2007]
Mochizuki: All That is Including Me [1996]
Moscheles: Grand Septet in D, op. 88 [1832-3]
Mustonen: Nonet #2 [2000]
Neukomm: Clarinet Quintet in B-flat, op. 8 [c. 1806]
Onslow: Wind Quintet in F, op. 81 [1850]
Paderewski: Polish Fantasy for piano and orchestra, op. 19 [1893]
Parra: Hypermusic Prologue: A projective opera in seven planes [2009]
Pedersøn: Pratum Spirituale [c. 1620]
Penderecki: Kadisz [2009]
Penderecki: Paradise Lost [1975-8]
Perle: Transcendental Modulations [1993]
Posadas: Glossopoeia [2009]
Poulenc: La voix humaine [1958]
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence [1939]

To remain on the 131st tier:
Grøndahl: Trombone Concerto [1924]
Harvey: Ritual Melodies [1989-90]
Haydn: Symphony #1 in D [1759]
Haydn: Symphony #14 in A [1764]
Haydn: Symphony #19 [1759-60]
Jacob: Horn Concerto [1951]
Kalafati: Symphony in A minor, op. 12 [1912]
Koželuch: Sinfonia Concertante for Trumpet, Piano, Mandolin and Double Bass in E-flat, P II:1 [1798]
Kurtág: Pieces (9) for Solo Viola [1994]
Lemeland: Symphony #9, op. 168 [1997]
Liszt: Hunnenschlacht (Battle of the Huns), S.105 [1857]
Lortzing: Undine [1845]
Luchesi: Requiem [1771]
Luzzaschi: Madrigali per cantare et sonare [1601]
Makarova: Symphony in D minor [1938, rev. 1962]
Massenet: Chérubin [1905]
Mayuzumi: Nirvana Symphony [1958]
McEwen: Where the Wild Thyme Blows [1936]
Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F minor, op. 4 [1825]
Menotti: The Consul [1949]
Miyoshi: Chaines (Prelude for piano) [1973]
Mumma: Hornpipe [1967]
Obukhov: Révélation [1915]
Ohki: Symphony #5 "Hiroshima" [1953]
Oliveros: CCCC (Cistern Chapel Chance Chants) [1990]
Panufnik, A.: Bassoon Concerto [1985]
Panufnik, R.: Wild Ways for Double Choir and ji-nashi shakuhachi or flute or recorders, including “Zen Love Song” [2007]
Parry: String Quartet #3 in G [1877-80]
Paumann: Mit ganczem Willen [1452]
Pentland: Piano Quintet [1983]
Pfitzner: Piano Quintet in C, op. 23 [1908]
Pizzetti: Piano Trio in A [1925]
Poulenc: Élégie for Horn and Piano [1957]

To move down 1 to the 132nd tier:
Harrison, M.: Revelation: Music in Pure Intonation [2001]
Martynov: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1992]
Menuhin: Suite for two Pianos in the Baroque Manner [2016]
 
#1,500 ·
Our votes on the 69th tier selected the following works...

To move up to the 66th* tier:
Bach: Cantata #208 "Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd" (the Hunting Cantata), including "Sheep May Safely Graze" [1713]
Bomtempo: Requiem in C minor, op. 23 [1820]
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28 [1942]
Lindberg: Clarinet Concerto [2002]
Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto #2 in D minor, op. 40 [1837]
Schnittke: String Quartet #3 [1983]
Striggio: Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno [c. 1566]

To move up 1 to the 68th tier:
Anonymous, French Manuscript 844: Le Chansonnier du Roi (Le Manuscrit du Roi) [13th c.]
Bach, C. P. E.: Magnificat in D, Wq. 215 [1749]
Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 [1725]
Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations and Fugue in E-flat, op. 35 [1802]
Brahms: Schicksalslied, op. 54 [1871]
Dohnányi: Symphony #2 in E, op. 40 [1944; rev. 1950s]
Dvořák: Piano Quartet #2 in E-flat, op. 87 [1889]
Dvořák: Piano Trio #3 in F minor, op. 65 [1883]
Enescu: Oedipe, op. 23 [1931]
Gubaidulina: Triple Concerto for violin, cello, banyan, and orchestra [2016]
Honegger: Symphony #4 "Deliciae Basiliensis" [1946]
Martinů: Piano Trio #3 in C, H. 332 [1951]
Medtner: Skazki (Fairy Tales) [1904-1928]
Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria [by 1594]
Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts [1741]
Rautavaara: Piano Concerto #1, op. 45 [1969]
Schumann: Symphony #2 in C, op. 61 [1847]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #10 in A-flat, op. 118 [1964]
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto #1, op. 35 [1916]
Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor "The Devil's Trill" [1799]
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), op. 68 [1890]
Vivaldi: La Stravaganza, op. 4 [1713]
Webern: Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) [1905]
Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C minor, op. 43 [1948]

To remain on the 69th tier:
Abrahamsen: Schnee [2008]
Arnold: English Dances, opp. 27 & 33 [1951]
Arnold: Guitar Concerto, op. 67 [1959]
Bach: Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11 "Lobet Gott In Seinen Reichen" [1735]
Barber: Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, op. 26 [1949]
Boulanger, L.: Psalm 130 "Du fond de l'abîme" [1917]
Brahms: Waltzes, op. 39 [1865]
Buxtehude: Jubilate Domino, BuxWV 64 [1690 or earlier]
Dutilleux: Symphony #1 [1951]
Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit (The Accursed Huntsman) [1882]
Ginastera: Estancia, op. 8; and Four Dances from Estancia, op. 8a [1941]
Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33 [1735]
Haydn: Symphony #6 in D "Le Matin" [1761]
Kancheli: Symphony #5 "To the Memory of My Parents" [1977]
Ligeti: Cello Sonata [1953]
Liszt: Nuages gris (Trübe Wolken), S.199 [1881]
Martinů: Symphony #5, H. 310 [1946]
Messiaen: Chronochromie [1960]
Milhaud: Le bœuf sur le toit, op. 58 [1919]
Mompou: Musica Callada (Silent Music) [1959 to 1967]
Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death [1875, 1877]
Nielsen: String Quartet #3 in E-flat, op. 14 [1898; rev. 1899]
Palestrina: Stabat Mater [probably 1590-1591]
Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song), Z. 333 [1690]
Rachmaninoff: Symphony #1 in D minor, op. 13 [1895]
Rheinberger: Piano Quartet in E-flat, op. 38 [1870]
Shostakovich: Symphony #12 in D minor, op. 112 "The Year 1917" [1961]
Szymanowski: Symphony #3, op. 27 "Song of the Night" [1916]
Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge [1909]
Villa-Lobos: Chôros #10 for chorus and orchestra "Rasga o coração" [1926]
Wellesz: Symphony #1, op. 62 [1945]
Yoshimatsu: Symphony #4, op. 82 [2000]

To move down 1 to the 70th tier:
Schnittke: Symphony #2 "St. Florian" [1979]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start the 68th tier voting thread soon.

*The 67th tier doesn't technically exist yet so these works skip it. We'll create the 67th tier when we do the 68th tier -- which will happen soon.
 
#1,501 ·
Our votes on the 68th tier, part 1 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 66th tier:
Bach: Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 [1725]
Bach: Toccatas for Harpsichord, BWV 910-916 [1707-13]
Dvořák: Piano Trio #3 in F minor, op. 65 [1883]
Dvořák: String Quartet #14 in A-flat, op. 105 [1895]
Enescu: Oedipe, op. 23 [1931]
Jongen: Symphonie Concertante, op. 81 [1926]
Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), K. 384 [1782]
Rossini: Guillaume Tell (William Tell) [1829]
Schumann: Symphony #2 in C, op. 61 [1847]
Sibelius: Karelia Suite, op. 11 [1893]
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, op. 24 [1878]
Weinberg: Cello Concerto in C minor, op. 43 [1948]

To move up 1 to the 67th tier:
Beethoven: "Eroica" Variations and Fugue in E-flat, op. 35 [1802]
Birtwistle: Earth Dances [1986]
Brahms: Schicksalslied, op. 54 [1871]
Dvořák: Symphony #5 in F, op. 76 [1875]
Honegger: Symphony #4 "Deliciae Basiliensis" [1946]
Ligeti: Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano [1982]
Medtner: Skazki (Fairy Tales) [1904-1928]
Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria [by 1594]
Prokofiev: Cinderella, op. 87 [1944]
Rautavaara: Piano Concerto #1, op. 45 [1969]

To remain on the 68th tier:
Atterberg: Symphony #2 in F, op. 6 [1913]
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161 [probably after 1690 and before 1707]
Hahn: Si mes vers avaient des ailes [1888]
Kraus: Symphony in C minor [1783]
Rachmaninoff: The Bells, op. 35 [1913]
Szymanowski: Symphony #4, op. 60 "Symphonie Concertante" [1932]
Vivaldi: La Stravaganza, op. 4 [1713]
Walton: Cello Concerto [1957]

To move down 1 to the 69th tier:
Glass: Music in 12 Parts [1974]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
#1,502 ·
Our votes on the 131st tier, part 3 selected the following works...

To move up 2 tiers:
Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C, op. 56 [1932]
Rebel: Sonatas (12) in 2 or 3 parts (including Le Tombeau de M. de Lully) [1695]
Reger: Cello Sonata #4 in A minor, op. 116 [1910]
Rheinberger: String Quintet [1874]
Rihm: Dyade [2011]
Rosetti (Rössler): Horn Concerto in E, C 50 [published 1797]
Rossi: The Songs of Solomon [1623]
Rubbra: String Quartet #2 in E-flat, op. 73 [1951]
Rubinstein: Cello Sonata #1 in D, op. 18 [1852]
Saint-Saëns: Oboe Sonata in D, op. 166 [1921]
Scelsi: Trilogia "Die drei Lebensalter des Menschen (The Three Ages of Man)" [1956]
Schnittke: Violin Concerto #3 [1978]
Schoenberg: Little Piano Pieces (6), op. 19 [1911]
Schoenberg: Piano Pieces (5), op. 23 [1920-23]
Schreker: Der Wind [1909]
Schubert: Auf dem Strom, D. 943, op. 119 [1828]
Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied II, D. 768 [1823]
Schütz: Symphoniae Sacrae III, SWV 398-418 [1650]
Sessions: Montezuma [c. 1940-62]
Simone de Bonefont: Missa pro Mortuis [16th century]
Spohr: Double quartet #1 in D minor, op. 65 [1823]
Strozzi: Arie, op. 8 [by 1664]
Tallis: Suscipe quaeso Domine [1575]
Tchaikovsky, B.: Piano Trio [1953]
Tcherepnin, N.: Prelude to "La Princesse Lointaine" [1896]
Telemann: Fantasias (12) for Solo Violin TWV 40:14–25 [1735]
Traetta: Antigona [1772]
Weinberg: String Quartet #8 [1959]
Westhoff: Violin Sonatas (6) [1694]
Wuorinen: Trio for Bass Instruments [1981]
Xenakis: À l'île de Gorée [1986]
Zimmermann: Photoptosis: Prelude for large orchestra [1968]

To move up 1 tier:
Prokofiev: Zdravitsa!, op. 85 [1939]
Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Salon (2), op. 6 [1893]
Raphael: Flute Sonata in E minor [1925]
Roussel: Sérénade, op. 30 [1925]
Saariaho: Amers (Sea Marks) [1992]
Salonen: Dichotomie [2000]
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K. 175 [18th cent.]
Scheidt: Tabulatura Nova, including "Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz, SSWV 106" [1624]
Schmidt: Quintet #2 in B-flat [1932]
Schnittke: Violin Concerto #1 [1957, rev. 1963]
Schubert: Abendstern, D.806 [1824]
Schumann, G.: Cello Sonata in E minor, op. 19 [1898]
Schumann: Gesänge (4), op. 142, including "Mein Wagen rollet langsam" [1840]
Schumann: Lieder und Gesänge (5), op. 127, including "Dein Angesicht so lieb und schön" [1850-1]
Schumann: Lieder und Gesänge III, op. 77, including "Aufträge" [1841-50]
Séjourne: Double concerto for marimba and vibraphone [2012]
Shapey: String Quartet #7 [1972]
Shchedrin: Polyphonic Notebook [1972]
Sheng: The Song and Dance of Tears [2003]
Simpson: Symphony #9 [1987]
Sinding: Piano Sonata in B minor, op. 91 [1909]
Skalkottas: The Maiden and Death [1938]
Stamitz: Symphony in E-flat, op. 11/3 [1754-5]
Steen-Andersen: Black Box Music [2012]
Strauss, R.: Aus Italien, op. 16 [1886]
Stravinsky: Feu d'artifice [1908]
Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe [1944]
Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique [1908]
Szymanowski: Masques, op. 34 [1915-6]
Tan: Symphonic Poem on Three Notes [2011]
Telemann: Partie polonaise in B for two lutes, TWV 39:1
Tovey: Symphony in D, op. 32 [1913]
Turina: Violin Sonata #2, op. 82 "Española" [1934]
Ung: Oracle for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, percussion and voices [2004]
Ustvolskaya: Concerto for Piano, Strings, and Timpani [1946]
Valen: Violin Concerto, op. 37 [1940]
Vermeulen: String Quartet [1960-1]
Vierne: Violin Sonata in G minor, op. 23 [1905-6]
Vivaldi: Bassoon concerto in A minor, RV 497 [c. 1734-5]
Vladigerov: Bulgarian Rhapsody (Vardar Rhapsody) [1922; orch. 1928]
Volkmann: String Quartet #4 in E minor, op. 35 [1857]
Wellesz: Prosperos Beschwörungen, op. 53 [1934-6]
Zarzycki: Mazurka in G, op. 26 [1884]
Zemlinsky: String Quartet #1, op. 4 [1895]

To remain on the 131st tier:
Pousseur: Les Éphémérides d'Icare 2 [1970]
Prins: Mirror Box Extensions [2014-2015]
Qin, Wenchen: Echoes from the other Shore [2015]
Rădulescu: Das Andere, op. 49 [1983]
Ravel: Histoires naturelles [1906]
Rihm: String Quartet #5 "Ohne Titel" (Untitled) [1983]
Roslavets: Dances of the White Maidens (or “Dance of the White Girls”) [1912]
Rubinstein: The Demon [1871]
Ruders: The Handmaid's Tale [2000]
Sallinen: Ratsumies (The Horsemen) [1974]
Sallinen: Symphony #2 "Symphonic Dialogue for percussion solo and orchestra" [1972]
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K 54 [18th century]
Schlünz: Light from the One for recorder and 17-string bass koto [2006]
Schubert: Piano Sonata #1 in E, D. 157 [1815]
Schubert: Violin Sonata (Sonatina) #1 in D, D. 384 [1816]
Schwitters: Ursonate [1932]
Sciarrino: Un'immagine di Arpocrate [1974]
Sculthorpe: Small Town for Orchestra [1963/1976]
Sorensen: Triple Concerto "L'isola della citta" [2015]
Swayne: The Silent Land [1996]
Tcherepnin, A.: Concerto for Harmonica and Orchestra [1953]
Telemann: Overture in G, TWV 55:G10, "Burlesque de Quixotte"
Tippett: Piano Sonata #3 [1973]
Vieuxtemps: Pieces (6) for Solo Violin, followed by a Capriccio for Solo Viola ("Hommage à Paganini"), op. 55 [1883]
Vladigerov: Piano Concerto #3, op. 31 [1937]
Weber: Piano Concerto #1 in C, op. 11 [1810]
Widmann: String Quartet #3 "Hunting Quartet" [2003]
Wirén: Violin Concerto, op. 23 [1946]
Wordsworth: Symphony #4 in E-flat, op. 54 [1953]

To move down 1 tier:
Smith, Linda Catlin: Piano Quintet [2014]
Vaughan Williams: The Blue Bird [1913]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
#1,503 ·
Our votes on the 68th tier, part 2 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 66th tier:
Bach: Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book), BWV 599-644 [1708-1717, after 1727]
Barber: Dover Beach, op. 3 [1931]
Brahms: String Quartet #2 in A minor, op. 51/2 [1873]
Byrd: Infelix ego [1591]
Dvořák: Piano Quartet #2 in E-flat, op. 87 [1889]
Hartmann: Concerto funèbre [1939]
Hummel: Septet #1 in D minor, op. 74 [1816]
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio #2 in C minor, op. 66 [1845]
Mozart: Piano Sonata #11 in A, K. 331 [1784]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #9 in E-flat, op. 117 [1964]
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto #1, op. 35 [1916]
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) [1840]

To move up 1 to the 67th tier:
Anonymous, French Manuscript 844: Le Chansonnier du Roi (Le Manuscrit du Roi) [13th c.]
Fauré: Mélodies (3), op. 7, including "Après un rêve" [1878]
Khachaturian: Spartacus [1954]
Poulenc: Flute Sonata [1957]
Prokofiev: String Quartet #2 in F, op. 92 "Kabardinian" [1942]
Reger: Piano Concerto in F minor, op. 114 [1910]
Sibelius: Valse Triste, op. 44/1 [1904]
Warlock: The Curlew [1922]

To remain on the 68th tier:
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms [1965]
Delius: Sea Drift [1904]
Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town), op. 40 [1901]
Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind [1994]
Liszt: La lugubre gondola, S.200 [1882]
Rachmaninoff: Études-Tableaux, opp. 33 & 39 [1911]
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto #3 in B minor, op. 61 [1880]
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades), op. 68 [1890]

To move down 1 to the 69th tier:
Borodin: Symphony #1 in E-flat [1867]
Kurtág: Kafka Fragments [1987]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
#1,506 ·
Our votes on the Xth tier selected the following works...

To move up 2 tiers:
Rosenmüller: Sonatas (12) [c. 1682]
Rózsa: Cello Concerto, op. 32 [1967-68]
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto #2 in D minor, op. 119 [1902]
Saint-Saëns: Cello Sonata #1 in C minor, op. 32 [1872]
Schoenberg: Wind Quintet, op. 26 [1923-4]
Schütz: Schwanengesang (Opus ultimum), SWV 482-494 [1671]
Stanford: Requiem, op. 63 [1896]
Svendsen: Symphony #2 in B-flat, op. 15 [1874]
Taneyev: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 12 [1896-98]
Telemann: Brockes Passion, TWV 5:1 [1716]
Vallet: Le Secret des Muses [1615-6]
Victoria: Missa Ave maris stella [1576]
Victoria: Missa Vidi speciosam [1592]
Wilbye: Weep, weep, mine eyes [1598]
Zelenka: Requiem ZWV 48 [c. 1731]
Zemlinsky: Psalm 13, op. 24 [1935]

To move up 1 tier:
Reger: Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue in E minor, op. 127 [1913]
Ries: Piano Quintet in B minor, op. 74 [1815]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada Suite [1890]
Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, a musical tableau, op. 5 [1867]
Rogier (sometimes attrib. to Morley): Laboravi in gemitu meo [16th century]
Rosetti (Rössler): Horn Concerto in D minor, C 38 [18th century]
Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri [1813]
Rózsa: Sinfonia Concertante, op. 29 [1966]
Saariaho: Laterna Magica [2008]
Saint-Saëns: Le rouet d'Omphale, op. 31 [1871]
Scarlatti, D.: Iste confessor [by 1715]
Schubert: Der Zwerg, D. 771 [1822]
Schumann: Gedichte (Kerner Lieder) (12), op. 35 [1840]
Sessions: String Quartet #2 [1951]
Shchedrin: The Sealed Angel [1988]
Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra (Jazz Suite #2) [after 1956]
Sibelius: Humoresques, op. 87 & 89 [1917]
Stanford: Part-Songs (8), op. 119, including “The Blue Bird” [1910]
Stravinsky: Concerto in D "Basle" [1946]
Verdi: Luisa Miller [1849]
Webern: Quartet for violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone and piano, op. 22 [1930]
Wellesz: String Quartet #3, op. 25 [1918]
Zappa: The Perfect Stranger [1984]
Zemlinsky: Clarinet Trio in D minor, op. 3 [1896]

To remain on the Xth tier:
Rameau: Zoroastre [1749]
Rihm: Astralis [2001]
Sallinen: String Quartet #3 "Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March" [1969]
Sammartini, G. B.: Sonatas (12), op. 2 [c. 1742]
Schmitt: Ombres, op. 64 [1913-17]
Schmitt: Psaume XLVII, op. 38 [1904]
Schnittke: Symphony #7 [1993]
Schubert: Symphony #1 in D, op. 82, D. 82 [1813]
Scriabin: Dances [1906-1914]
Scriabin/Nemtin: Preparation for the Final Mystery [1998]
Shostakovich: Symphony #2 in B, op. 14 "To October" [1927]
Sinding: Symphony #1 in D Minor, op. 21 [1890, rev. 1895]
Stockhausen: Erwachen (Awakening) from Klang (Sound) [2007]
Sviridov: Hymns and Prayers [1987-97]
Sviridov: The Snowstorm, musical illustrations after Pushkin [1975]
Telemann: Overture-Suite for Recorder, Strings and Basso Continuo in A minor, TWV 55:a2
Thompson: String Quartet #2 in G [1967]
Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts [1928]
Twining: Chrysalid Requiem [2002]
Villa-Lobos: Symphony #6, "On the Outline of the Mountains of Brazil" [1944]
Wiklund: Piano Concerto #1 in E minor, op. 10 [1907]
Willaert: Quid non ebrietas [1519]

To move down 1 to the Xth tier:
Satie: Parade [1917]
Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon [1967]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
#1,508 ·
Our votes on the 68th tier, part 3 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 66th tier:
Bach, C. P. E.: Magnificat in D, Wq. 215 [1749]
Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, BWV 1027-1029 [1730s-40s]
Biber: Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa [1696]
Dohnányi: Symphony #2 in E, op. 40 [1944; rev. 1950s]
Enescu: Octet for strings in C, op. 7 [1900]
Franck: Piano Trio #1 in F-sharp minor, op. 1/1 [1839?]
Gubaidulina: Triple Concerto for violin, cello, banyan, and orchestra [2016]
Schubert: Moments Musicaux (6), D. 780 [1828]
Tartini: Violin Sonata in G minor "The Devil's Trill" [1799]
Webern: Langsamer Satz (Slow Movement) [1905]

To move up 1 to the 67th tier:
Bartók: Contrasts, Sz. 111 [1938]
Dowland: First Booke of Songes [1597]
Dvořák: Rusalka, op. 114 [1900]
Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air, op. 25 [1886]
Martinů: Piano Trio #3 in C, H. 332 [1951]
Ockeghem: Missa cuiusvis toni [by 1497]
Poulenc: Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor [1949]
Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Away, Z. 323 [1694]
Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts [1741]
Shostakovich: String Quartet #10 in A-flat, op. 118 [1964]
Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus [1939]

To remain on the 68th tier:
Boulez: ...explosante-fixe… [1973, 1993]
Britten: Cello Symphony, op. 68 [1963]
Holst: Suite #2 in F for military band, op. 28/2 [1911]
Kodály: Dances of Galánta [1933]
Leifs: Requiem, op. 33b [1947]
Mozart: Adagio in B minor, K. 540 [1788]
Rheinberger: Symphony #2 in F, op. 87 "Florentine" [1875]
Stravinsky: Le Chant du Rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) [1917]

To move down 1 to the 69th tier:
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast [1931]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
#1,511 ·
Crumb: Echoes of Time and the River (Echoes II) [1967]
 
#1,512 ·
Our votes on the 130th tier, part 1 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 128th tier:
Abel: Piano Concertos, op. 11 [1774]
Bach, C. P. E.: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Wq. 170, H. 432 [1750]
Berio: Un rè in ascolto [1984]
Britten: The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, op. 35 [1945]
Cui: Suite Concertante [1884]
Ferneyhough: Shadowtime [2004]
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 3 [1595]
Honegger: String Quartet #2, H. 103 [1936]
Kodály: Budavári Te Deum [1936]
Poulenc: La voix humaine [1958]
Saariaho: Amers (Sea Marks) [1992]
Schubert: Abendstern, D.806 [1824]
Schumann, C.: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 7 [1835]
Stanford: Irish Rhapsody #6 for violin and orchestra, op. 191 [1923]
Vivaldi: Bassoon concerto in A minor, RV 497 [c. 1734-5]
Wuorinen: Genesis [1989]
Zemlinsky: String Quartet #1, op. 4 [1895]


To move up 1 to the 129th tier:
Bayle: Erosphère [1980]
Blavet: Flute Sonatas (6), op. 2 [1732]
Carter: Enchanted Preludes for flute and cello [1988]
Dello Joio: Meditations on Ecclesiastes [1956]
Graener: Piano Trio, op. 61 [1923]
Hindson: Pulse Magnet [2001]
Indy: String Quartet #1 in D, op. 35 [1890]
Loewe: Piano Concerto #2 in A [c. 1830]
Martirano: L's G.A. for gassed-masked politico, helium bomb, three 16mm movie projectors, and 2-channel tape recorder [1967]
Meyer: Quintet for string quartet and double bass [1995]
Mosolov: Turkmenian Nights [1928]
Neukomm: Clarinet Quintet in B-flat, op. 8 [c. 1806]
Penderecki: Paradise Lost [1975-8]
Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de Salon (2), op. 6 [1893]
Renié: Harp Concerto in C minor [1894-1901]
Scarlatti, D.: Keyboard Sonata in A minor, K. 175 [18th cent.]
Sciarrino: Carnaval [2011]
Sheng: H'un (Lacerations): In memoriam 1966-76 for orchestra [1988]
Stravinsky: Scherzo fantastique [1908]
Tower: Made in America [2005]
Ustvolskaya: Concerto for Piano, Strings, and Timpani [1946]
Wagner: Die Feen (The Fairies) [1834]

To remain on the 130th tier:
Alnæs: Symphony #2 in D major, op. 43 [c. 1923]
Ashley: In Sara, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Men and Women [1972]
Bonis: Soir-Matin for piano trio, op. 76 [1907]
Chausson: La Tempête, op. 18 [1888]
Coates, G.: Symphony #10 "Drones of Druids on Celtic Ruins" [1989]
Dohnányi: Rhapsodies (4), op. 11 [1902-03]
Emmanuel: Sonata for Clarinet, Flute and Piano, op. 11 [1907]
Freitas Branco: Paraísos Artificiais [1910]
Hadley, H. K.: Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 50 [1904]
Haydn: Symphony #13 in D [1763]
Johnson, D.: November [1959]
Lekeu: Adagio pour quatuor d'orchestre [1891]
Mantovani: Le sette Chiese [2002]
Palmgren: Preludes (24), op. 17 [1907]
Riisager: Trumpet Concertino, op. 29 [1933]
Skalkottas: The Maiden and Death [1938]

To move down 1 to the 131st tier:
Tavener: Fragments of a Prayer [2006]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
#1,513 ·
Our votes on the 101st tier, part 1 selected the following works...

To move up 2 to the 99th tier:
Agricola: Missa in myne zyn [c. 1500]
Alfonso X: Cantiga de Santa Maria 417 "Nobre don e muy preçado" [13th cent.]
Brahms: Canons (13), op. 113 [by c. 1891]
Brahms: Songs (5), op. 49, including "Wiegenlied" (“Brahms’s Lullaby”) [1868]
Corelli: Trio Sonatas (12), op. 3 [1689]
Duphly: Pièces de Clavecin [1744-1768]
Gibbons: The Cries of London [c. 1600]
Glazunov: String Quintet in A, op. 39 [1892]
Glinka: Trio Pathétique in D minor [1832]
Höller: Tagträume (Daydreams) for violin, cello, and piano [1994]
Janequin: La Guerre (La Bataille de Marignan) [1529]
Lassus: Missa Osculetur me [c. 1582]

To move up 1 to the 100th tier:
Atterberg: Suite #3 for violin, viola, and string orchestra, op. 19/1 [1917]
Babbitt: Clarinet Quintet [1996]
Beethoven: Violin Sonata #8 in G, op. 30/3 [1802]
Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem [2012]
Bridge: Cello Sonata in D minor, H. 125 [1913-7]
Campra: Messe de Requiem [after 1723]
Carter: Piano Sonata [1946]
Charpentier: La descente d'Orphée aux enfers [1686]
Chopin: Variations on "Là ci darem la mano," op. 2 [1827]
Clemens non Papa: Ego flos campi à 7 [1550]
Couperin: Elévation "Lauda Sion salvatorem" [1680]
Debussy: Rhapsody for alto saxophone and orchestra [1919]
Duckworth: Time Curve Preludes [1978]
Dufay: Se la face ay pale [1430s]
Enescu: Orchestral Suite #3 in D, op. 27, "Villageoise" [1938]
Gade: Echoes of Ossian, op. 1 [1841]
Granados: Piano Trio in C, op. 50 [1895]
Handel: Alcina, HWV 34 [1735]
Henze: Boulevard Solitude [1951]
Hermann of Reichenau: Salve Regina [early 11th cent.]
Howells: Piano Quartet in A minor, op. 21 [1916, rev. 1936]
Josquin: Mille regretz [16th century]
Koechlin: Violin Sonata, op. 64 [1916]
Leclair: Violin/Flute Sonatas (12), op. 9 [c. 1743]
Ligeti: Double Concerto for Flute and Oboe [1972]

To remain on the 101st tier:
Aho: Symphony #12 "Luosto" for 2 orchestras [1994]
Alfano: Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Piano [1929]
Andre: ...22, 13... [2004]
Barber: Medea [1946]
Bliss: Cello Concerto [1970]
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante [1880]
Boyce: Symphonies (8), op. 2 [c. 1760]
Britten: Cello Suite #1, op. 72 [1964]
Casella: Triple Concerto, op. 56 [1933]
Dittersdorf: Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses [1783]
Dusapin: String Quartet #2 "Time Zones" [1989]
Enescu: Symphony #1 in E-flat, op. 13 [1905]
Falla: Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, and Cello [1926]
Fauré: Romances sans paroles, op. 17 [1878]
Forqueray, A. & Forqueray, J.B.: Pièces de Viole (32) [before 1747]
Franck: Trois Chorals for organ [1890]
Glass: Music with Changing Parts [1970]
Granados: Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 49 [1895]
Gubaidulina: Repentance [2008]
Haydn: Symphony #70 in D [1778-9]
Hindemith: Trumpet Sonata [1939]
Kodály: Duo for Violin and Cello, op. 7 [1914]
Lekeu (completed by Indy): Piano Quartet [1895]

To move down 1 to the 102nd tier:
Amirov & Nazirova: Piano Concerto after Arabian Themes [1957]
Langgaard: Rosengaardsspil (Rose Garden Play) for string quartet [1918]

I will move the works to their new tiers and start another voting thread soon.
 
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