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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
 
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5:
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48

4:
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"

3:
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81

2:
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31

1:
Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Bloch: String Quartet #1 in B minor, B. 40
Bruckner: Mass #3 in F minor (1868)

Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58
 
#3 ·
+5
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]

+4
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47 [1905]
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]

+3
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]

+2
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1, S.514 [1859-62]
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60

+1
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Elgar: Symphony #2 in E-flat, op. 63 [1911]
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"
Prokofiev: War and Peace, op. 91
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
 
#4 ·
5

Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello

4

Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Delius: Florida Suite
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]

3

Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"

2

Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Elgar: Symphony #2 in E-flat, op. 63 [1911]
Gounod: Romeo et Juliette [1867]
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), Z. 328
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11

1

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)
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47 [1905]
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81
Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
 
#5 ·
+5
Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto

+4
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Boulez: …explosante-fixe…

+3
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Schnittke: Requiem

+2
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S. 514
Lutoslawski: Symphonic Variations
Mahler: Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica"

+1
Bartok: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliees, L 60
Dufay: Missa L'homme arme
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain"
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
 
#6 ·
+5

Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor

+4

Bruckner: Mass #3 in F minor (1868)
Lutosławski: Symphonic Variations
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31

+3

Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30

+2

Chin: Cello Concerto (2013)
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47 [1905]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]

Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11

+1

Abel: 27 Pieces for Bass Viol (The Drexel Manuscript)
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]

Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58

Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
 
#7 ·
5
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Dowland: Second Booke of Songes

4
Abel: 27 Pieces for Bass Viol (The Drexel Manuscript)
Bloch: String Quartet #1 in B minor, B. 40
Chin: Cello Concerto (2013)
Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Prokofiev: War and Peace, op. 91

3
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81

Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), Z. 328
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48

2
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58

1
Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]

Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30

Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11
 
#8 ·
5
Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"

4
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Chin: Cello Concerto (2013)
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81

3
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (before 1735)
Bruckner: Mass #3 in F minor (1868)
Delius: Florida Suite
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20

2
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11

1
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Boulez: ...explosante-fixe...
Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)

Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
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]

Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45

Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58
Weber: Grand Duo Concertant for clarinet and piano, op. 48
 
#9 ·
+5:
Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45

+4:
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Delius: Florida Suite
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Elgar: Symphony #2 in E-flat, op. 63 [1911]

+3:
Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bloch: String Quartet #1 in B minor, B. 40
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, op. 47 [1905]
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81

+2:
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11

+1:
Bruckner: Mass #3 in F minor (1868)
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1, S.514 [1859-62]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]

Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
 
#10 · (Edited)
+5
Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227 (before 1735)
Gounod: Romeo et Juliette [1867]
Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus, op. 13 [1923]

+4
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1, S.514 [1859-62]
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #5 in G, op. 55 [1932]
Prokofiev: War and Peace, op. 91
Strauss, R.: Elektra, op. 58

+3
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)
Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), Z. 328

+2
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Berg: Altenberg Lieder, op. 4
Boulez: ...explosante-fixe...
Delius: Florida Suite
Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31

+1
Abel: 27 Pieces for Bass Viol (The Drexel Manuscript)
Bach, C.P.E.: Cello Concerto #2 in B-flat, Wq. 171
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L 60
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Elgar: Symphony #2 in E-flat, op. 63 [1911]
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
 
#12 ·
+5

Abel: 27 Pieces for Bass Viol (The Drexel Manuscript)
Dvořák: String Quartet #13 in G, op. 106 [1895]
Lassus: Lamentations of Jeremiah [1585]
Medtner: Piano Sonata in E minor, op. 25/2 "Night Wind"

Palestrina: Canticum Canticorum (Song of Songs) [1584]
Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day), Z. 328
Schoenberg: String Quartet #3, op. 30

+4

Bax: Elegiac Trio
Buxtehude: Passacaglia in D minor, BuxWV 161
Cras: Quintet for Harp, Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
Delius: Florida Suite

Ibert: Escales (Ports of Call) [1922]
Medtner: Violin Sonata #3 in E minor, op. 57 "Epica"
Moeran: String Quartet #1 in A minor
Spohr: Nonet in F, op. 31

+3

Braga Santos: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 16
Butterworth: Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad
Dohnányi: Violin Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 27

Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor, op. 33 [1876]
Elgar: Symphony #1 in A-flat, op. 55 [1908]
Gounod: Romeo et Juliette [1867]

Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata #2 in A minor, op. 81
Schnittke: Requiem [1975]
Wirén: Serenade for Strings, op. 11

+2

Bantock: Celtic Symphony [1940]
Bartók: Piano Quintet, Sz. 23
Bellini: Norma [1831]
Boulez: ...explosante-fixe...
Dufay: Missa L'homme armé [probably 1450s]

Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
Hovhaness: Symphony #2, op. 132 "Mysterious Mountain" [1946]
Lutosławski: Symphonic Variations
Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor, op. 20
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia Antartica"

+1

Chin: Cello Concerto (2013)
Delibes: Lakmé (including the Flower Duet)
Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
Dvořák: Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano, op. 75 [1887]

Josquin: Ave Maria... virgo serena [before 1476]
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1, S.514 [1859-62]
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Prokofiev: War and Peace, op. 91
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Schumann: Violin Concerto in D minor
 
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