We're splitting the 58th tier of the Talk Classical community's favorite and most highly recommended works.
Based on the results of our voting, we'll move about 25 of these works up to the new 57th tier and about 15 works on up to the 56th tier. (All works will have a chance to continue climbing next time we do whatever tier they land on.)
Each participant gets gets as many +1 votes as you want. You can also have as many +2 votes as you want--but fewer than the number of +1 votes. For example, if you have five +1 votes, you can have no more than four +2 votes. Then you can also have as many +3 votes as you want--but fewer than the number of +2 votes. And so on, up to +5, which is the highest vote you can give a work.
Voting on this thread will be open 5 days.
I will tally the votes on a Google sheet.
Have fun! Also, please be considerate! Someone, hopefully, will be influenced by our selections!
Here are the eligible works for this thread:
Abel: 27 Pieces for Bass Viol (The Drexel Manuscript)
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (before 1735)
Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Bloch: String Quartet #1 in B minor, B. 40
Boulez: ...explosante-fixe...
Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Bruckner: Mass #3 in F minor (1868)
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Chin: Cello Concerto (2013)
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)
Delius: Florida Suite
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47 [1905]
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Elgar: Symphony #2 in E-flat, op. 63 [1911]
Gounod: Romeo et Juliette [1867]
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1, S.514 [1859-62]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Lutosławski: Symphonic Variations
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81
Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Prokofiev: War and Peace, op. 91
Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), Z. 328
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11
Based on the results of our voting, we'll move about 25 of these works up to the new 57th tier and about 15 works on up to the 56th tier. (All works will have a chance to continue climbing next time we do whatever tier they land on.)
Each participant gets gets as many +1 votes as you want. You can also have as many +2 votes as you want--but fewer than the number of +1 votes. For example, if you have five +1 votes, you can have no more than four +2 votes. Then you can also have as many +3 votes as you want--but fewer than the number of +2 votes. And so on, up to +5, which is the highest vote you can give a work.
Voting on this thread will be open 5 days.
I will tally the votes on a Google sheet.
Have fun! Also, please be considerate! Someone, hopefully, will be influenced by our selections!
Here are the eligible works for this thread:
Abel: 27 Pieces for Bass Viol (The Drexel Manuscript)
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (before 1735)
Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Bloch: String Quartet #1 in B minor, B. 40
Boulez: ...explosante-fixe...
Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Bruckner: Mass #3 in F minor (1868)
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Chin: Cello Concerto (2013)
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)
Delius: Florida Suite
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47 [1905]
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Elgar: Symphony #2 in E-flat, op. 63 [1911]
Gounod: Romeo et Juliette [1867]
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1, S.514 [1859-62]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Lutosławski: Symphonic Variations
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81
Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Prokofiev: War and Peace, op. 91
Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), Z. 328
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11