Compilation of the TC Top Recommended Lists

The TC Top 100 Recommended Art Songs
Facilitated by pjang23

1. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
2. Schubert: Winterreise, D911
3. Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder
4. Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op.48
5. Schubert: Die Schöne Müllerin, D795
6. Mahler: Rückertlieder
7. Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
8. Ravel: Shéhérazade
9. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op.24
10. Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
11. Berlioz: Les Nuits d'été, Op.7
12. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire, Op.21
13. Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge
14. Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op.31
15. Brahms: Vier Ernste Gesänge, Op.121
16. Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957
17. Debussy: Fêtes Galantes, L80 & 104
18. Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op.98
19. Fauré: La Bonne Chanson, Op.61
20. Schubert: Erlkönig, D328
21. Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben, Op.42
22. Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
23. Schubert: An die Musik, D547
24. Wolf: Mörike Lieder
25. Sibelius: Luonnotar, Op.70
26. Debussy: Ariettes Oubliées, L60
27. Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
28. Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
29. Brahms: Alto Rhapsody, Op.53
30. Grieg: Haugtussa, Op.67
31. Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV91
32. Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.39
33. Ravel: Chansons madécasses
34. Mahler: Revelge
35. Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas
36. Copland: 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson
37. Berg: Altenberg Lieder, Op.4
38. Schoenberg: Das Buch der hängenden Gärten, Op.15
39. Berg: Sieben frühe Lieder
40. Stravinsky: Three Japanese Lyrics
41. Schubert: Nächt und Träume, D827
42. Messiaen: Harawi
43. Elgar: Sea Pictures, Op.37
44. Schumann: Liederkreis, Op.24
45. Strauss: 4 Lieder, Op.27
46. Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
47. Mahler: Urlicht
48. Rachmaninoff: Vocalise, Op.34/14
49. Poulenc: Tel Jour, Telle Nuit, FP86
50. Dowland: First Booke of Songes
51. Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
52. Canteloube: Chants d'Auvergne
53. Debussy: Trois Chansons de Bilitis, L90
54. Britten: Les Illuminations, Op.18
55. Webern: 5 Lieder, Op.3
56. Finzi: Dies Natalis, Op.8
57. Fauré: La Chanson d'Ève, Op.95
58. Schubert: Gretchen am Spinnrade, D118
59. Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
60. Brahms: Zwei Gesange for Alto, Viola and Piano, Op.91
61. Messiaen: Poèmes pour mi
62. Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op.19
63. Lieberson: Neruda Songs
64. Schubert: Du bist die Ruh, D776
65. Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch
66. Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
67. Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No.5
68. Mahler: Ablösung im Sommer
69. Delius: Five Songs from the Norwegian
70. Satie: Je Te Veux
71. Wolf: Goethe-Lieder
72. Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774
73. Barber: Dover Beach, Op.3
74. Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531
75. Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, Op.79
76. Martinů: Magic Nights
77. Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony, Op.18
78. Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire, FP101
79. Beethoven: Adelaide, Op.46
80. Hahn: À Chloris
81. Fauré: Cinq Mélodies de Venise, Op.58
82. Berg: 4 Gesänge, Op.2
83. Schumann: Myrthen, Op.25
84. Debussy: Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire, L64
85. Falla: Psyché, for mezzo-soprano, flute, harp & string trio, G67
86. Mahler: Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
87. Alfonso X El Sabio: Santa Maria Strela Do Dia (Cantigas De Santa Maria #100)
88. Fauré: Après un rêve, Op.7/1
89. Poulenc: Le bal masqué, FP60
90. Dowland: A Pilgrimes Solace
91. Fauré: Clair de Lune, Op.46/2
92. Berg: Der Wein
93. Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
94. Brahms: 5 Lieder, Op.105
95. Ives: General William Booth Enters into Heaven
96. Sibelius: Six Runeberg Songs, Op.90
97. Rachmaninoff: Zdes' khorosho, Op.21/7
98. Dvořák: Gypsy Melodies, Op.55
99. Nystroem: Songs by the Sea
100. Schoenberg: 6 Lieder, Op.3

A list of honorable mention works can be found here.

The TC Top 100 Recommended Chamber Duos
Facilitated by arcaneholocaust

1. Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1
2. Debussy: Cello Sonata
3. Franck: Violin Sonata
4. Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1
5. Shostakovich: Cello Sonata
6. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 9 "Kreutzer"
7. Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 2
8. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 5 "Spring"
9. Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 2
10. Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2
11. Debussy: Violin Sonata
12. Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata
13. Takemitsu: Toward The Sea
14. Enescu: Violin Sonata No. 3
15. Fauré: Élégie For Cello And Piano
16. Schubert: Fantasia For Piano Four Hands
17. Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No. 1
18. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 2
19. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3
20. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 10
21. Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2
22. Bach, J.S.: Flute Sonata No. 1
23. Myaskovsky: Cello Sonata No. 2
24. Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
25. Poulenc: Flute Sonata
26. Schumann: Fünf Stücke Im Volkston
27. Ives: Violin Sonata No. 3
28. Messiaen: Visions De L'Amen
29. Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 1
30. Bartók: 44 Duos For Two Violins
31. Bach, J.S.: Viola Da Gamba Sonata No. 3
32. Schubert: Sonata For Piano Four Hands "Grand Duo"
33. Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 18
34. Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1
35. Bach, J.S.: Flute Sonata No. 5
36. Berg: Four Pieces For Clarinet And Piano
37. Koechlin: Bassoon Sonata
38. Pärt: Fratres
39. Dvořák: Romantic Pieces For Violin And Piano
40. Grieg: Cello Sonata
41. Janáček: Violin Sonata
42. Debussy: En Blanc Et Noir
43. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4
44. Kodály: Duo For Violin And Cello
45. Clarke: Viola Sonata
46. Martinů: Cello Sonata No. 1
47. Hummel: Cello Sonata
48. Mendelssohn: Song Without Words, Op. 109
49. Pärt: Spiegel Im Spiegel
50. Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata
51. Bach, J.S.: Violin Sonata No. 1
52. Poulenc: Oboe Sonata
53. Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op. 11/4
54. Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3
55. Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 2
56. Schubert: Fantasia For Violin And Piano
57. Carter: Cello Sonata
58. Webern: Three Little Pieces For Cello And Piano
59. Strauss, R.: Violin Sonata
60. Prokofiev: Cello Sonata
61. Bartók: Violin Sonata No. 2
62. Ravel: Violin Sonata No. 1
63. Webern: Four Pieces For Violin And Piano
64. Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5
65. Bach, J.S.: Violin Sonata No. 5
66. Stravinsky: Duo Concertant
67. Stravinsky: Concerto For Two Pianos
68. Chopin: Cello Sonata
69. Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 25
70. Shostakovich: Viola Sonata
71. Mozart: Sonata For Two Pianos In D Major
72. Schumann: Drei Fantasiestücke
73. Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 21
74. Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2
75. Mozart: Violin Sonata No. 26
76. Ravel: Sonata For Violin And Cello
77. Lekeu: Violin Sonata
78. Turina: Violin Sonata No. 2
79. Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6
80. Respighi: Violin Sonata
81. Schoenberg: Phantasy For Violin And Piano
82. Reger: Clarinet Sonata No. 3
83. Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 1
84. Finzi: Five Bagatelles
85. Hovhaness: Spirit Of Trees
86. Fauré: Sicilienne For Cello And Piano
87. Bach, J.S.: Violin Sonata No. 6
88. Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1
89. Bridge: Cello Sonata
90. Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op. 25/4
91. Dutilleux: Sonatina For Flute And Piano
92. Takemitsu: Distance De Fée
93. Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1
94. Szymanowski: Myths
95. Fauré: Cello Sonata No. 2
96. Saint-Saëns: Violin Sonata No. 1
97. Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 8
98. Koechlin: Horn Sonata
99. Schnittke: Cello Sonata No. 1
100. Martinů: Three Madrigals For Violin And Viola

A list of nominated works that did not make the top 100 can be found here.

The TC Top 200 Recommended String Quartets List
Facilitated by TurnaboutVox

1. Schubert: String Quartet No 14 in D minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden"
2. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
3. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 + Op. 133 "Grosse Fuge"
4. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131
5. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op.110
6. Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
7. Bartók: String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91
8. Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, KV 465 "Dissonance"
9. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, B. 179 "American"
10. Ravel: String Quartet in F major

11. Haydn: String Quartet No. 61 in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2, Hob.III:76 "Fifths"
12. Schubert: String Quartet No.15 in G major, D. 887
13. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
14. Haydn: String Quartet No. 62 in C, Op. 76 No. 3, Hob.III:77 "Emperor"
15. Berg: Lyric Suite
16. Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, D. 804 "Rosamunde"
17. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2 in D major
18. Sibelius: String Quartet No. 4 in D minor, Op. 56 "Voces Intimae"
19. Schoenberg: String Quartet No 2, Op. 10
20. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

21. Haydn: String Quartet No. 63 in B flat, Op. 76/4, Hob.III:78 'Sunrise'
22. Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
23. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95
24. Bartók: String Quartet No. 6, Sz. 114
25. Bartók: String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102
26. Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2
27. Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 27
28. Fauré: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 121
29. Reich: Different trains
30. Webern: Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5

31. Janáček: String Quartet No.1 "Kreutzer Sonata"
32. Haydn: String Quartet No. 64 in D major, Op. 76/5, Hob.III:79 "Largo"
33. Schubert: String Quartet No.12 in C minor, D. 703 'Quartettsatz'
34. Crumb: Black Angels
35. Bartók: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Sz. 40
36. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15 in E-flat minor, Op. 144
37. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 73
38. Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, JB 1:105 "From My Life"
39. Shostakovich: String Quartet No 13 in B flat minor, Op. 138
40. Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 11

41. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E flat, Op. 127
42. Mozart: String Quartet No. 17 in B flat, KV 458 "The Hunt"
43. Bartók: String Quartet No. 3, Sz. 85
44. Haydn: String Quartet No. 30, Op.33 No. 2 in E-flat major, Hob. III:38 "The Joke"
45. Brahms: String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51/1
46. Mozart: String Quartet No. 18 in A major, KV 464
47. Nielsen: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 13
48. Barber: String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11
49. Ives: String Quartet No. 2
50. Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B flat, Op. 67

51. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat, Op. 74 "Harp"
52. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F major, Op. 59 No. 1
53. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59 No. 3
54. Britten: String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36
55. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 14 in A flat, Op. 105, B. 193
56. Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 4 (with tape)
57. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
58. Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 5, W. 263
59. Dutilleux: String Quartet "Ainsi La Nuit"
60. Glass: String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima"

61. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2
62. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 51, B. 92
63. Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op 51 No. 2
64. Saariaho: Nymphéa (Jardin secret III) for string quartet and live electronics
65. Nielsen: String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 14
66. Bartók: String Quartet No 2, Op. 17, Sz. 67
67. Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 37
68. Schnittke: String Quartet No. 2
69. Carter: String Quartet No. 1
70. Ligeti: String Quartet No. 1 "Métamorphoses nocturnes"

71. Mozart: String Quartet No. 14 in G major, KV 387
72. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 4 in E minor, Op. 44 No. 2
73. Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 No. 1
74. Britten: String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25
75. Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92
76. Vasks: String Quartet No. 4
77. Rubbra: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 150
78. Rochberg: String Quartet No. 3
79. Haas, G. F.: String Quartet No. 3 "In iij. Noct"
80. Glass: String Quartet No. 4 "Buczak"

81. Haydn: String Quartet No. 31 in B minor, Op. 33 No. 1, Hob.III:37
82. Hindemith: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 22
83. Ives: String Quartet No. 1, "From the Salvation Army"
84. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92
85. Takemitsu: A Way a Lone
86. Stenhammar: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 25
87. Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 3
88. Elgar: String Quartet in E minor, Op. 83
89. Bruch: String Quartet No. 2 in E major, Op. 10
90. Walton: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor

91. Haydn: String Quartet No. 57 in C major, Op 74 No. 1, Hob. III:72
92. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat major, Op. 117
93. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 44 No. 1
94. Carter: String Quartet No. 2
95. Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7
96. Webern: String Quartet, Op. 28
97. Kurtág: Hommage à Mihály András (12 Microludes for String Quartet), Op. 13
98. Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No.9, W. 457
99. Ferneyhough: Sonatas for String Quartet
100. Reger: String Quartet (No. 4) in E flat, Op. 109

101. Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 4, Op. 25
102. Haydn: String Quartet No. 32 in C minor, Op. 33 No. 3, Hob. III:39 "The Bird"
103. Britten: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94
104. Schnittke: String Quartet No. 3
105. Nielsen: String Quartet No 4 in F major, Op. 44
106. Cage: String Quartet In Four Parts
107. Haas, G. F.: String Quartet No. 7 with electronics
108. Coates: String Quartet No. 9
109. Lutosławski: String Quartet
110. Maderna: Quartetto per Archi in due tempi

111. Mozart: String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, KV 421
112. Schumann: String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3
113. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op 106, B 192
114. Shostakovich: String Quartet No 14, Op. 142
115. Webern: Six Bagatelles for String Quartet, Op. 9
116. Xenakis: Tetras, for String Quartet
117. Harvey: String Quartet No. 4 with live electronics
118. Bridge: String Quartet No. 2 in G minor, H. 115
119. Bloch: String Quartet No. 2
120. Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet

121. Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30
122. Haydn: String Quartet No. 23 in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5, Hob. III:35
123. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 1 in C, Op. 37
124. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108
125. Crawford-Seeger: String Quartet
126. Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 3 in E-flat minor, Op. 30
127. Penderecki: String Quartet No. 1
128. Nono: Fragmente - Stille, An Diotima
129. Kurtág: String Quartet, Op. 1
130. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op.122

131. Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50
132. Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 in D minor, JB 1:124
133. Haydn: String Quartet No. 53 in D major, Op. 64 No. 5, Hob. III:63 "The Lark"
134. Rihm: String Quartet No. 10
135. Carter: String Quartet No. 3
136. Haydn: String Quartet No. 60 in G major, Op. 76 No. 1, Hob. III:75
137. Martinů: String Quartet No. 6, H. 312
138. Henze: String Quartet No. 5
139. Takemitsu: Landscape, for string quartet
140. Reger: String Quartet (No. 5) in F sharp minor, Op.121

141. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 5 in F minor, Op. 9, B. 37
142. Myaskovsky: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor, Op. 86
143. Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 1 in G minor
144. Respighi: Quartetto Dorico
145. Hindemith: String Quartet No 5, Op 32
146. Koechlin: String Quartet No. 1 in D, Op. 51
147. Berio: Notturno (Quartetto III)
148. Manoury: Tensio, second string quartet with live-electronics
149. Cherubini: String Quartet No. 6 in A minor
150. Glass: String Quartet No. 5

151. Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 44 No. 3
152. Haydn: String Quartet No. 66 in G major, Op. 77 No. 1, Hob. III:81
153. Nørgård: String Quartet No 8 ''Night Descending Like Smoke''
154. Ge Gan-Ru: String Quartet No. 5 "Fall of Baghdad"
155. Kagel: String Quartet No. 1
156. Martinů: String Quartet No. 7, H. 314 "Concerto Da Camera"
157. Haydn: String Quartet No. 59 in G minor, Op. 74 No. 3, Hob. III:74 "Rider"
158. Scelsi: String Quartet No. 3
159. Penderecki: String Quartet No. 2
160. Feldman: String Quartet No. 2

161. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 9 in D minor, Op. 34 B 75
162. Schubert: String Quartet No. 9 in G minor, D. 173
163. Ginastera: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 26
164. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68
165. Cherubini: String Quartet No. 1 in E flat
166. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 4 in D, Op. 83
167. Zemlinsky: String Quartet No. 3, Op. 19
168. Lachenmann: Gran Torso
169. Radulescu: String Quartet No. 5 "Before The Universe Was Born"
170. Sciarrino: Sei Quartetti Brevi

171. Bridge: String Quartet No. 4, H. 188
172. Schoenberg: String Quartet in D major
173. Szymanowski: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 56
174. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 4 in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4
175. Haas, Pavel: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 7 "From The Monkey Mountains"
176. Dvořák: String Quartet No. 11 in C major, Op. 61, B. 121
177. Rihm: String Quartet No. 3 "Im Innersten"
178. Mennin, Peter: String Quartet No. 2
179. Riley: Requiem for Adam, for string quartet with sound collage
180. Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 22

181. Schumann: String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 41 No. 2
182. Hindemith: String Quartet No. 2, Op. 10
183. Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
184. Berg: String Quartet, Op. 3
185. Reger: String Quartet (No. 2) in A major, Op.54 No.2
186. Furrer: String Quartet No. 3
187. Bruckner: String Quartet in C minor, WAB 111
188. Thomson, Virgil: String Quartet No. 2
189. Birtwistle: Nine Movements for String Quartet
190. Dillon: String Quartet No. 6

191. Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4
192. Sculthorpe: String Quartet No. 8
193. Adès: Arcadiana, For String Quartet, Op. 12
194. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 118
195. Höller: Antiphon
196. Kagel: String Quartet III: In Four Movements
197. Tippett: String Quartet No. 4
198. Delius: String Quartet in E minor, RT viii/8 "Late Swallows"
199. Copland: Two Pieces for String Quartet
200. Babbitt: String Quartet No. 2

A list of honorable mention works can be found here. A list of other works mentioned can be found here.

The TC Top 200 Recommended Post-1950 Works List

NOTE: This list was compiled using a distinctly different methodology than the other lists in this thread. Please see the original voting thread for details on the methodology. In addition to the rules stated at the beginning of the thread, other rules were added during the thread.

1) No enshrined works can have more than 50% of its votes from one member
2) Toward the end of the voting a potential -1 vote was added. Voters could then vote for normal 2 works they liked and a third work that would have its vote total reduced by 1 point.

The list includes the year the work was written in parentheses

1. Berio: Sinfonia (1968-70)
2. Ligeti: Requiem (1965)
3. Boulez: Le marteau sans maître (1955)
4. Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles... (1971-4)
5. Rzewski: The People United Will Never be Defeated! (1975)
6. Ligeti: Études pour piano (1985-2001)
7. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (1974-6)
8. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E minor, op. 93 (1953)
9. Górecki: Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" (1976)
10. Crumb: Black Angels (1971)
11. Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques (1974-85)
12. Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time (1990)
13. Adams: Harmonielehre (1985)
14. Penderecki: St. Luke Passion (1966)
15. Ligeti: Violin Concerto (1992)
16. Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (1991)
17. Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 3 (1983)
18. Britten: War Requiem (1962)
19. Varèse: Déserts (1950-54)
20. Stravinsky: Threni (1958)
21. Stockhausen: Gruppen (1955-57)
22. Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 (1959)
23. Stockhausen: LICHT (1977-2003)
24. Pärt: Te Deum (1985)
25. Carter: A Symphony Of Three Orchestras (1976)
26. Schnittke: Piano Quintet (1972-76)
27. Boulez: Répons (1984)
28. Xenakis: Metastaseis (1953-54)
29. Glass: Einstein on the Beach (1976)
30. Dutilleux: Tout un monde lointain (1970)
31. Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1980)
32. Feldman: Rothko Chapel (1971)
33. Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (1960)
34. Adams: Nixon in China (1987)
35. Boulez: Anthèmes II (1997)
36. Gubaidulina: Offertorium (1980)
37. Scelsi: Uaxuctum (1969)
38. Andriessen: De Staat (1976)
39. Haas: Limited Approximations (2010)
40. Saariaho: L' Amour de Loin (2000)
41. Shostakovich: Symphony No.15 (1971)
42. Barber: Piano Concerto (1962)
43. Reich: Different Trains (1988)
44. Adès: Concentric Paths (2005)
45. Messiaen: St. François d'Assise (1975-83)
46. Lutoslawski: Concerto for Orchestra (1954)
47. Babbitt: All Set (1957)
48. Haas: String Quartet 3 "In iij. Noct" (2003)
49. Rihm: Jagden und Formen (1995/2001)
50. Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 (1960)
51. Ligeti: Piano Concerto (1985-8)
52. Xenakis: Persepolis (1971)
53. Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura (1988)
54. Vasks: Violin Concert, 'Distant Light' (1997)
55. Cage: Music of Changes (1951)
56. Pärt: Tabula Rasa (1977)
57. Murail: Gondwana (1980)
58. Adams: The Dharma at Big Sur (2003)
59. Boulez: Sur Incises (1996-1998)
60. Riley: In C (1964)
61. Cage: 4'33" (1952)
62. Sciarrino: Allegoria della Notte (1985)
63. Poulenc: Gloria (1961)
64. Schnittke: Viola Concerto (1985)
65. Stockhausen: Kontakte (1958-60)
66. Berio: Laborintus II (1965)
67. Chin: Xi (1998)
68. Gerhard: Symphony No. 4 "New York" (1967)
69. Takemitsu: November Steps (1967)
70. Crumb: Ancient Voices of Children (1970)
71. Ligeti: Atmosphères (1961)
72. Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto (1996)
73. Kurtag: 2nd String Quartet (12 Microludes) (1977/78)
74. Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles (1966)
75. Ferneyhough: String Quartet No. 6 (2010)
76. Chin: Violin Concerto (2001)
77. Pärt: Fratres (1977)
78. Berio: Sequenze (2002)
79. Grisey: Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (1998)
80. Carter: Symphonia: Sum fluxae pretium spei (1996)
81. Stravinsky: Agon (1957)
82. Ligeti: Chamber Concerto, for 13 instrumentalists (1970)
83. Nørgård: Symphony no. 3 (1975)
84. Furrer: Piano Concerto (2007)
85. Kagel: Music for Renaissance Instruments (1966)
86. Nono: Como Una Ola De Fuerza Y Luz (1972)
87. Gubaidulina: Canticle of the Sun (Sonnengesang) (1997)
88. Partch: Delusion Of The Fury (1965-1966)
89. Ferneyhough: Terrain (1992)
90. Takemitsu: Requiem for Strings (1957)
91. Pintscher: Five Pieces for Orchestra (1997)
92. Adams: Harmonium (1981)
93. Maderna: Quadrivium (1969)
94. Messiaen: Chronochromie (1960)
95. Feldman: For Philip Guston (1984)
96. Schnittke: Symphony No. 1 (1969-74)
97. Saariaho: 'Nymphéa' (Jardin Secret III) (1987)
98. Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 1 (1977)
99. Ustvolskaya: Symphony No. 3 "Jesus Messiah, Save Us" (1983)
100. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor (1952)
101. Stravinsky: Septet (1953)
102. Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2 (1957)
103. Nono: Prometeo (1981-85)
104. Ligeti: Lux Aeterna (1966)
105. Stockhausen: KLANG (2004-2007)
106. Dallapiccola: Piccola Musica Notturna (1954)
107. Ligeti: Lontano (1967)
108. Saariaho: Six Japanese Gardens (1994)
109. Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano (1948-1992)
110. Feldman: String Quartet No. 2 (1983)
111. Reich: The Desert Music (1983)
112. Xenakis: Tetras (1983)
113. Britten: The Turn of the Screw (1954)
114. Rautavaara: Symphony No. 7 'Angel of Light' (1994)
115. Duckworth: Time Curve Preludes (1978)
116. Schnittke: Concerto for Piano and Strings (1979)
117. López: La Selva (1998)
118. Schnittke: Symphony No. 5 (Concerto Grosso No. 4) (1988)
119. Babbitt: Philomel (1964)
120. Lachenmann: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (1996)
121. Xenakis: Nomos Alpha (1965-66)
122. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (1951)
123. Murail: Désintégrations (1983)
124. Haas: In Vain (2000-2002)
125. Boulez: Pli selon pli (1989)
126. Kurtág: 3rd String Quartet (Officium breve) (1989)
127. Carter: String Quartet No. 1 (1951)
128. Zimmermann: Die Soldaten (1957-64)
129. Schnittke: Choir Concerto (1985)
130. Ligeti: Double Concerto, for flute, oboe and orchestra (1972)
131. Lachenmann: Kontrakadenz (1970/71)
132. Messiaen: La Transfiguration De Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ (1965-1969)
133. Penderecki: Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem" (1996)
134. Ligeti: Musica Ricercata (1952)
135. Nørgård: String Quartet No. 8 (1997)
136. Birtwistle: The Triumph of Time (1972)
137. Holt, Simeon ten: Canto Ostinato (1976)
138. Crumb: Vox Balaenae (1971)
139. Murail: Winter Fragments (2000)
140. Feldman: Crippled Symmetry (1983)
141. Xenakis: Kraanerg (1968)
142. Boulez: Cinq Notations (1978)
143. Sessions: String Quartet No. 2 (1951)
144. Goebbels: Surrogate Cities (1994)
145. Berio: Coro (1974-76)
146. Cage: Roaratorio (1979)
147. Silvestrov: Symphony No. 5 (1982)
148. Lieberson: Neruda Songs (2005)
149. Adams: Gnarly Buttons (1996)
150. Messiaen: Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte-Trinité (1969)
151. Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux (1956-58)
152. Takemitsu: Toward the Sea (1981)
153. Dillon: Nine Rivers (1982-2000)
154. Stockhausen: Momente (1969)
155. Barraqué: Piano Sonata (1950-52)
156. Eötvös: Psychokosmos (1993)
157. Yoshimatsu: Symphony No. 5 (2001)
158. Hosokawa: Utsurohi (1986)
159. Oliveros: To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe... (1970)
160. Petrassi: Concerto for Orchestra No.5 (1955)
161. Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 (1988-89)
162. Ligeti: Clocks and Clouds (1973)
163. Henze: Symphony No. 5 (1962)
164. Glass: Akhnaten (1983)
165. Penderecki: Utrenja (1971)
166. Tavener: Song for Athene (1993)
167. Carter: Double Concerto (1959-61)
168. Schnittke: Symphony No. 2 "St. Florian" (1979)
169. Nono: Il Canto Sospeso (1955)
170. Adams, J.L.: Become Ocean (2013)
171. Shostakovich: Viola Sonata (1975)
172. Cerha: Spiegel (1960-1)
173. Malec: Sonoris Causa (1997)
174. Schnittke: Requiem (1975)
175. Lutosławski: Cello Concerto (1969-70)
176. Berio: Rendering (1989)
177. Cage: Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music (1962)
178. MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie (1990)
179. Ablinger: Voices and Piano (1998/2010)
180. Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre (1974-7)
181. Lindberg: Kraft (1985)
182. Crumb: Makrokosmos (1972-1979)
183. Salonen: Wing On Wing (2004)
184. Schnittke: Concerto Grosso No. 2 (1981-1982)
185. Romitelli: Dead City Radio, Audiodrome for orchestra (2003)
186. Penderecki: String Quartet No. 3 (2008)
187. Takemitsu: Stanza II (1971)
188. Manoury: Fragments pour un portrait (1998)
189. Britten: Cello Symphony (1963)
190. Coates: Symphony No.14 (2002)
191. Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 3 (1987)
192. Tippett: Fantasia Concertante on a Theme of Corelli (1953)
193. Ligeti: String Quartet No. 2 (1968)
194. Donatoni: Hot (1989)
195. Radulescu: Byzantine Prayer (1988)
196. Stroppa: Let me Sing into your Ear (2010)
197. Reimann: Lear (1978)
198. Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre (1954)
199. Finnissy: English Country Tunes (1977-1985)
200. Abrahamsen: Schnee (2008)

The TC Top 200 Recommended Operas (2015 version)
Facilitated by Faustian

NOTE: This is an updated version of the List generated several years ago

1. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
2. Mozart: Don Giovanni
3. Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
4. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
5. Verdi: Don Carlos
6. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
7. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
8. Berg: Wozzeck
9. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
10. Bartók: Bluebeard's Castle
11. Mozart: Così fan tutte
12. Wagner: Parsifal
13. Verdi: Otello
14. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
15. Bizet: Carmen
16. Verdi: La traviata
17. Puccini: La bohème
18. Verdi: Rigoletto
19. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
20. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
21. Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
22. Wagner: Lohengrin
23. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
24. Bellini: Norma
25. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
26. Britten: Peter Grimes
27. Puccini: Tosca
28. Schoenberg: Moses und Aron
29. Puccini: Turandot
30. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
31. Verdi: Aida
32. Strauss: Salome
33. Rossini: La Cenerentola
34. Beethoven: Fidelio
35. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
36. Verdi: Il trovatore
37. Puccini: La fanciulla del West
38. Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
39. Saariaho: L'Amour de loin
40. Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann
41. Gounod: Faust
42. Handel: Giulio Cesare
43. Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
44. Wagner: Tannhäuser
45. Janáček: Jenůfa
46. Rossini: Guillaume Tell
47. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
48. Berg: Lulu
49. Adams: Nixon in China
50. Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
51. Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
52. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
53. Verdi: Falstaff
54. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
55. Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
56. Berlioz: Les Troyens
57. Weber: Der Freischütz
58. Rameau: Les Indes galantes
59. Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges
60. Messiaen: Saint François d'Assise
61. Strauss: Elektra
62. Puccini: Il trittico
63. Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
64. Mozart: Idomeneo
65. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
66. Massenet: Werther
67. Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
68. Dvořák: Rusalka
69. Smetana: The Bartered Bride
70. Ligeti: Le grand macabre
71. Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
72. Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
73. Poulenc: Dialogues des carmélites
74. Bellini: La sonnambula
75. Boito: Mefistofele
76. Glass: Satyagraha
77. Glass: Einstein on the Beach
78. Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri
79. Verdi: La forza del destino
80. Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
81. Verdi: Macbeth
82. Donizetti: Don Pasquale
83. Bellini: I puritani
84. Britten: Billy Budd
85. Giordano: Andrea Chénier
86. Strauss II: Die Fledermaus
87. Massenet: Manon
88. Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten
89. Janáček: From the House of the Dead
90. Glass: Akhnaten
91. Gounod: Roméo et Juliette
92. Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
93. Verdi: Nabucco
94. Borodin: Prince Igor
95. Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
96. Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
97. Schoenberg: Erwartung
98. Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel
99. Bizet: Les pêcheurs de perles
100. Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots
101. Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
102. Donizetti: La fille du régiment
103. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
104. Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
105. Puccini: La rondine
106. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
107. Rameau: Castor et Pollux
108. Prokofiev: L'amour des trois oranges
109. Stockhausen: Licht
110. Shostakovich: The Nose
111. Puccini: Manon Lescaut
112. Donizetti: Anna Bolena
113. Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila
114. Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper
115. Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades
116. Janáček: Káťa Kabanová
117. Delibes: Lakmé
118. Britten: Death in Venice
119. Rossini: La donna del lago
120. Adès: The Tempest
121. Korngold: Die tote Stadt
122. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
123. Handel: Alcina
124. Prokofiev: War and Peace
125. Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer
126. Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers
127. Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi
128. Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur
129. Zimmermann: Die Soldaten
130. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
131. Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko
132. Rossini: Le comte Ory
133. Massenet: Thaïs
134. Falla: La vida breve
135. Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
136. Strauss: Capriccio
137. Reimann: Lear
138. Adams: Doctor Atomic
139. Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream
140. Halévy: La Juive
141. Verdi: Ernani
142. Tchaikovsky: Iolanta
143. Cherubini: Médée
144. Busoni: Doktor Faust
145. Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
146. Thomas: Mignon
147. Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict
148. Lully: Armide
149. Strauss: Arabella
150. Nono: Prometeo
151. Janáček: The Makropulos Case
152. Verdi: Luisa Miller
153. Verdi: I vespri siciliani
154. Enescu: Œdipe
155. Lehár: Die lustige Witwe
156. Barber: Vanessa
157. Verdi: Stiffelio
158. Handel: Ariodante
159. Lully: Thésée
160. Reich: The Cave
161. Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel
162. Partch: Delusion of the Fury
163. Dallapiccola: Il prigioniero
164. Wagner: Rienzi
165. Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts
166. Gluck: Alceste
167. Purcell: King Arthur
168. Feldman: Neither
169. Lachenmann: Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
170. Strauss: Daphne
171. Handel: Rodelinda
172. Meyerbeer: L'Africaine
173. Charpentier: Louise
174. Weill: Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny
175. Weber: Euryanthe
176. Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini
177. Pergolesi: La serva padrona
178. Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie
179. Heggie: Moby-Dick
180. Benjamin: Written on Skin
181. Rossini: Il turco in Italia
182. Schubert: Fierrabras
183. Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
184. Montemezzi: L'amore dei tre re
185. Poulenc: La voix humaine
186. Ravel: L'heure espagnole
187. Romitelli: An Index of Metals
188. Handel: Rinaldo
189. Britten: Albert Herring
190. Szymanowski: King Roger
191. Ponchielli: La Gioconda
192. Rossini: Semiramide
193. Menotti: The Consul
194. Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet
195. Bellini: Il pirata
196. Donizetti: Poliuto
197. Rossini: Otello
198. Previn: A Streetcar Named Desire
199. Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
200. Rossini: Armida

A list of nominated works that did not make the top 200 can be found here.

The TC Top 162 Recommended Pre-1700 Works
Facilitated by Nereffid

01. Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
02. Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
03. Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine
04. Josquin: Missa Pange lingua
05. Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
06. Tallis: Spem in Alium
07. Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
08. Pérotin: Viderunt omnes
09. Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
10. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
11. Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum
12. Byrd: Mass for 5 Voices
13. Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 8 (Madrigali guerrieri, et amorosi)
14. Victoria: Officium defunctorum
15. Allegri: Miserere
16. Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsoria
17. Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah
18. Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores
19. Hildegard: Ordo virtutum
20. Josquin: Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales
21. Dowland: Second Booke of Songes
22. Byrd: Mass for 4 Voices
23. Ockeghem: Requiem (Missa pro defunctis)
24. Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri
25. Charpentier: Te Deum
26. Alfonso X: Cantigas de Santa Maria
27. Gabrieli G: Sacrae Symphoniae
28. Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro
29. Pérotin: Sederunt principes
30. Schütz: Musikalische Exequien
31. Byrd: My Ladye Nevells Booke
32. Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
33. Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares
34. Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum
35. Palestrina: Stabat mater
36. Victoria: Tenebrae Responsoria
37. Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 5
38. Anon: Carmina Burana
39. Pachelbel: Canon in D
40. Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
41. Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit
42. Various: Codex Chantilly
43. Praetorius: Terpsichore
44. Dufay: Missa L'homme armé
45. Brumel: Missa Et ecce terrae motus
46. Obrecht: Missa Caput
47. Frescobaldi: Fiori musicali
48. Biber: Battalia a 10
49. Gombert: Je prens congie a 8
50. Palestrina: Canticum canticorum
51. Anon: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat
52. Anon: Tournai Mass
53. Morales: Missa pro defunctis
54. Browne: Stabat mater
55. Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
56. Purcell: Hail, bright Cecilia! (Ode for St. Cecilia's Day)
57. Ockeghem: Missa Mi-Mi
58. Josquin: Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae
59. Marenzio: Madrigals, Book 5
60. Lully: Armide
61. Susato: Danserye
62. Sweelinck: Fantasia cromatica, SwWV 258
63. Machaut: La Remede de Fortune
64. Willaert: Madrigals from Musica Nova
65. Gabrieli G: Symphoniae Sacrae II
66. Froberger: Suite XX in D, FbWV 620
67. Caccini: Le nuove musiche
68. Striggio: Missa Ecco si beato giorno
69. la Rue: Requiem
70. Biber: Missa Salisburgensis
71. Landini: Ballate (Ecco la primavera, Conviens' a fede, Questa fanciull' Amor)
72. Anon: Codex las Huelgas
73. Lassus: Penitential Psalms
74. Léonin: Viderunt omnes
75. Richafort: Requiem
76. Dufay: Missa Se la face ay pale
77. Peri: Euridice
78. Isaac: Missa de Apostolis
79. Dowland: First Booke of Songes
80. Sanz: Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española
81. Merula: Curtio precipitato et altri capricii, libro secondo, op.13
82. Adam de la Halle: Jeu de Robin et Marion
83. Agricola: Missa in myne zyn
84. Milán: Libro de Música de Vihuela de mano (El Maestro)
85. Anon: Le Manuscrit du Roi - Estampies & Danses Royales
86. Clemens: Missa Pastores quidnam vidistis
87. Gibbons: Cries of London
88. Schütz: Weihnachtshistorie
89. Buxtehude: Toccata in D minor, BuxWV 155
90. Gombert: Media vita a 6
91. Ashwell: Missa Ave Maria
92. Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre Dame
93. Anon: Codex Calixtinus
94. Ockeghem: Deo gratias
95. Mouton: Nesciens Mater
96. Gallus: Opus Musicum
97. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
98. Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover
99. Purcell: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
100. Biber: Requiem a 15 in A
101. Hildegard: Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum
102. Dunstable: Veni Sancte Spiritus
103. Bull: In Nomine IX (for keyboard)
104. Rore: Missa Praeter rerum seriem
105. Various: Codex Faenza
106. Dowland: Lute music (Frogg Galliard, Tarleton's Resurrection)
107. Manchicourt: Missa Veni sancte spiritus
108. Tye: Western Wynde Mass
109. Cavalieri: Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo
110. Josquin: Miserere mei Deus
111. Lobo, D: Requiem for 6 voices
112. Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria
113. Caldara: Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo
114. Taverner: Western Wynde Mass
115. Rossi, M: 10 Toccatas
116. Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso
117. Anon: Cant de la Sibilla
118. Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 5
119. Anon: Codex Montpellier
120. Anon: Sumer is icumen in
121. Schütz: Geistliche Chormusik
122. Charpentier: Leçons de Ténèbres
123. Codax: Cantigas de amigo
124. Machaut: Douce dame jolie
125. Ciconia: Una panthera
126. Stradella: San Giovanni Battista
127. Schein: Fontana d'Israel (Israels Brünnlein)
128. Bach, Johann Christoph: Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hatte (Lamento)
129. Janequin: Le Chant des Oyseaulx
130. Cavalli: La Calisto
131. Carissimi: Jephte
132. Lassus: Cantiones sacrae a 6 (1594)
133. Obrecht: Missa Maria Zart
134. Banchieri: Barca di Venetia per Padova
135. Ockeghem: Missa Cuiusvis Toni
136. Cabezón: Obras de Música
137. Anon: Ludus Danielis
138. Jacopo da Bologna: Madrigals
139. Binchois: Chansons (Triste plaisir, Dueil angoisseus)
140. Josquin: Nymphes des bois
141. Pandolfi Mealli: Violin sonatas, op.3
142. Pachelbel: Hexachordium Apollinis
143. Sheppard: Media vita
144. Schütz: Psalmen Davids
145. Purcell: The Fairy Queen
146. Gombert: Magnificats (8)
147. Couperin, L: Pièces de clavecin
148. Lawes: Consort Setts a 5 and 6 (to the organ)
149. Machaut: Je vivroie liement
150. Vitry: Motets
151. Dufay: Salve flos Tusce gentis
152. Gesualdo: Miserere
153. Busnois: Missa L'homme armé
154. Padovano: Mass for 24 voices
155. Charpentier: Messe de minuit pour Noël
156. Buxtehude: Ciacona in C, BuxWV 159
157. Froberger: Lamentation faite sur la mort de Ferdinand III, FbWV 633
158. Dufay: Missa Ave regina caelorum
159. Anon: Roman de Fauvel
160. Lully: Benedictus
161. Ockeghem: Missa L'homme armé
162. la Rue: Missa L'Homme armé

More details about this list may be found here and subsequent posts.

The TC Top 125 Recommended Piano Trios List
Facilitated by senza sordino

1. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 97, "Archduke"
2. Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
3. Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90 / B. 166, "Dumky"
4. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
5. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D major, Op. 70/1 "Ghost"
6. Schubert: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, D. 929
7. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
8. Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, D. 898
9. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49
10. Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano, FP 43

11. Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
12. Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120
13. Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50
14. Ligeti: Trio for violin, horn and piano
15. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101
16. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 44 in E major, Hob. XV/28
17. Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
18. Mozart: Trio for clarinet, viola and piano in E-flat major, K. 498 "Kegelstatt"
19. Bartók: Contrasts, for clarinet, violin and piano, Sz. 111 / BB 116
20. Debussy: Piano Trio, L. 3

21. Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
22. Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
23. Brahms: Trio for horn, violin and piano in E-flat major, Op. 40
24. Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9
25. Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65 / B. 130
26. Brahms: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano in A minor, Op. 114
27. Chausson: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3
28. Saariaho: Cendres, for alto flute, cello, and piano
29. Schubert: Notturno, D. 897
30. Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C major, Op. 87

31. Bridge: Piano Trio No. 2, H. 178
32. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 1/3
33. Ives: Piano Trio
34. Schumann: Piano Trio No. 3 in G minor, Op. 110
35. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 39 in G major, Hob. XV/25
36. Crumb: Vox Balaenae, for electric flute, cello and piano
37. Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 92
38. Takemitsu: Between Tides
39. Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
40. Schumann (Wieck), Clara: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17

41. Beethoven: Piano Trio No.6 in E-flat major, Op. 70/2
42. Schumann: Piano Trio No. 2 in F major, Op. 80
43. Kurtág: Hommage à R. Sch. for viola, clarinet and piano, Op. 15d
44. Mozart: Piano Trio No. 3 in B-flat major, K. 502
45. Bruch: Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola, and piano, Op. 83
46. Martinů: Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor, H. 327
47. Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio No. 1 in F Major Op. 18
48. Hummel: Piano Trio No. 6 in E-flat major, Op. 93
49. Schnittke: Piano Trio
50. Gubaidulina: Quasi Hoquetus, for viola, bassoon, and piano

51. Roussel: Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 2
52. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 45 in E-flat major, Hob. XV/29
53. Franck: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor, Op. 1/1
54. Mozart: Piano Trio No. 4 in E major, K. 542
55. Lachenmann: Allegro Sostenuto, for clarinet, cello and piano
56. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, Op. 1/2
57. Alfano: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano
58. Clarke, Rebecca: Piano Trio
59. Chopin: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 8
60. Rihm: Fremde Szenen I-III

61. Turina: Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 76
62. Mozart: Piano Trio No. 5 in C major, K. 548
63. Schumann: Märchenerzählungen, for clarinet, viola and piano, Op. 132
64. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 1 in C minor, Op. 8
65. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 43 in C major, Hob. XV/27
66. Khachaturian: Trio for clarinet, violin, and piano
67. Weinberg: Piano Trio, Op. 24
68. Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 26 / B. 56
69. Hummel: Piano Trio No. 5 in E major, Op. 83
70. Zemlinsky: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano, Op. 3

71. Martinů: Piano Trio No. 3, H. 332
72. Alkan: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 30
73. Taneyev: Piano Trio in D major, Op. 22
74. Lalo: Piano Trio No. 3 in A minor, Op. 26
75. Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 88
76. Pierné: Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 45
77. Weber: Trio for flute, cello and piano, Op. 63
78. Furrer: Aer, for clarinet, cello and piano
79. Feldman: For Philip Guston, for flute, percussion and piano
80. Beach: Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 150

81. Turina: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 35
82. Lekeu: Piano Trio in C minor
83. Bloch: Three Nocturnes
84. Hummel: Piano Trio No. 7 in E-flat major, Op. 96
85. Milhaud: Suite for violin, clarinet and piano Op. 157b
86. Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat major, Op. 21 / B. 51
87. Granados: Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 50
88. Bertrand: Sanh, for bass clarinet, cello and piano
89. Schoenfield: Café Music
90. Glinka: Trio Pathétique in D minor, for clarinet, piano and bassoon

91. Borodin: Piano Trio in D major
92. Sciarrino: Piano Trio No. 2
93. Martinů: Trio for flute, cello and piano, H. 300
94. Reger: Piano Trio in E minor, Op. 102
95. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 42 in E-flat major, Hob. XV/30
96. Höller: Tagträume
97. Bridge: Piano Trio No. 1 (Phantasie), H. 79
98. Zimmerli: Piano Trio No. 1
99. Kagel: Piano Trio No. 1
100. Hummel: Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat major Op. 12

101. Sørensen: Phantasmagoria
102. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 1 in E-Flat Op. 1/1
103. Stockhausen: Schlagtrio, for piano and two (x3) timpanists
104. Akhunov: Big Elegy to John Cage
105. Hensel (Mendelssohn), Fanny: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 11
106. Babajanian: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor
107. Mozart: Piano Trio No. 2 in G major, K. 496
108. Fibich: Piano Trio in F minor
109. Farrenc: Trio for flute, cello and piano in E minor, Op. 45
110. Brahms (attributed): Piano Trio in A major, Op. Posth, Anh. 4/5

111. Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11 "Gassenhauer"
112. Oehring & ter Schiphorst: Prae-Senz (Ballet Blanc II)
113. Turina: Circulo, Op. 91
114. Martinů: Bergerettes, H. 275
115. Vasks: Piano Trio "Episodi e canto perpetuo"
116. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 41 in E-flat minor, Hob. XV/31
117. Pärt: Mozart-Adagio
118. Henze: Adagio adagio
119. Kulenty: A Cradle Song
120. Haydn: Piano Trio No. 38 in D major, Hob. XV/24

121. Rimsky-Korsakov: Piano Trio in C minor
122. Reinecke: Trio for clarinet, horn and piano, Op. 274
123. Arensky: Piano Trio No. 2 in F minor, Op. 73
124. Magnard: Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 18
125. Gribbin: How to Make the Water Sound

A list of honorable mention works can be found here.

The TC Top 50 Recommended Solo Repertoire List
Facilitated by Portamento

1. Bach, J.S.: Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
2. Bach, J.S.: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
3. Kodály: Sonata for solo cello, op. 8
4. Bartók: Sonata for violin solo, Sz. 117
5. Debussy: Syrinx for solo flute, L. 129
6. Ligeti: Sonata for viola
7. Ysaÿe: Six Sonatas for solo violin, op. 27
8. Paganini: 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, op. 1
9. Bach, J.S.: Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013
10. Berio: Sequenza VIII, for violin
11. Varèse: Density 21.5, for flute solo
12. Grisey: Prologue, for viola and optional live electronics
13. Reger: Three Suites for Solo Cello, op. 131c
14. Britten: Suite for Cello, op. 72
15. Ligeti: Sonata for cello
16. Stravinsky: Elegy, for viola (or violin) solo
17. Kurtág: Hipartita for violin, op. 43
18. Xenakis: Nomos Alpha, for cello
19. Schnittke: A Paganini, for violin
20. Mozart, W.A.: Adagio for glass harmonica in C major, K. 356 (617a)
21. Prokofiev: Sonata for violin solo in D major, op. 115
22. Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid for Oboe Solo, op. 49
23. Abel: 27 Pieces for bass viol, WK 186-212
24. Saariaho: Six Japanese Gardens, for percussion and electronics
25. Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo violin, TWV 40:14-25
26. Stravinsky: Three Pieces for solo clarinet
27. Boulez: Anthèmes II, for violin and electronics
28. Berio: Sequenza IX, for clarinet
29. Cage: Freedman Etudes for violin
30. Telemann: 12 Fantasias for solo flute, TWV 40:2-13
31. Marshall: September Cannons, for violin and electronic processing
32. Petzold: Partita in A major for viola d'amore
33. Xenakis: Rebonds, for solo percussion
34. Rădulescu: Das Andere, for viola solo, op. 49
35. Saariaho: Sept Papillons for solo cello
36. Britten: Third Suite for Cello, op. 87
37. Glass: Partita for Solo Violin
38. Schweinitz: Plainsound Counterpoint for double bass solo, op. 56
39. Takemitsu: Air, for solo flute
40. Reger: Three Suites for Solo Viola, op. 131d
41. Roman: Assaggi á Violino Solo, BeRI 301-23, 343
42. Piazzolla: Tango-Études, for flute solo
43. Hume: The First Part of Ayres
44. Dutilleux: Trois Strophes sur le nom de Sacher for solo cello
45. Hindemith: Sonata for solo viola, op. 25/1
46. Dennehy: fAt, for flute and tape
47. Vilsmaÿr: Six Partitas for Solo Violin
48. Haas: Solo for viola d'amore
49. Khachaturian: Sonata-Fantasy, for cello solo in C major, op. 104
50. Honegger: Sonata for violin solo, H. 143

A list of honorable mention works can be found here.

The TC Top 50 Recommended Electronic Works List
Facilitated by Portamento

1. Stockhausen: Kontakte
2. Boulez: Répons
3. Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
4. Varèse: Déserts
5. Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge
6. Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room
7. Boulez: Anthèmes II
8. Reich: Different Trains
9. Nono: La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura
10. Boulez: ...explosante-fixe...
11. Saariaho: Lichtbogen
12. Murail: Désintégrations
13. Varèse: Poème électronique
14. Schaeffer & Henry: Symphonie pour un homme seul
15. Cage: Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake
16. Marshall: Three Penitential Visions
17. Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz
18. Chin: Xi
19. Berio: Laborintus II
20. Stockhausen: Cosmic Pulses
21. Stockhausen: Oktophonie
22. Xenakis: La légende d'Eer
23. Parmegiani: De Natura Sonorum
24. Haas: String Quartet #7
25. Bryars: Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
26. Babbitt: Philomel
27. Saariaho: Nymphéa (Jardin secret III)
28. Romitelli: An Index of Metals
29. Xenakis: Persepolis
30. Berio: Visage
31. Ferrari: Petite symphonie intuitive pour un paysage de printemps
32. Nono: Prometeo
33. Andre: ...als... II
34. Reich: Come Out
35. Bayle: Erosphère
36. Neuwirth: Lost Highway
37. Dhomont: Forêt profonde
38. Xenakis: Kraanerg
39. Radulescu: String Quartet #4, op. 33 "infinite to be cannot be infinite, infinite anti-be could be infinite"
40. Ligeti: Artikulation
41. Saariaho: Six Japanese Gardens
42. Murail: Winter Fragments
43. Fujikura: Sparking Orbit
44. Stone: Shing Kee
45. Mitterer: coloured noise
46. Haas: …und…
47. Feldman: Three Voices
48. Stockhausen: Hymnen
49. Lansky: Ride
50. Stockhausen: Helikopter-Streichquartett (Helicopter String Quartet)

A list of honorable mention works can be found here.

The TC Top 200 Recommended Operas (2020 version)
Facilitated by Granate

NOTE: This is an updated version of the two previous lists - 2011 version and 2015 version.

1. Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen
2. Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
3. Wagner - Parsifal
4. Puccini - Madama Butterfly
5. Puccini - Tosca
6. Mozart - Die Zauberflöte
7. Verdi - Otello
8. Verdi - Aida
9. Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Mozart - Don Giovanni
11. Verdi - La traviata
12. Verdi - Don Carlo(s)
13. Wagner - Tannhäuser
14. Wagner - Lohengrin
15. Debussy - Pélléas et Mélisande
16. Puccini - Turandot
17. Puccini - La fanciulla del West
18. Bellini - Norma
19. Puccini - La Bohème
20. Verdi - La Forza del Destino
21. Mussorgky - Boris Godunov
22. Wagner - Der Fliegende Holländer
23. Verdi - Rigoletto
24. Verdi - Il trovatore
25. Leoncavallo - Pagliacci
26. Rossini - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
27. Verdi - Simon Boccanegra
28. Verdi - Macbeth
29. Bizet - Carmen
30. Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor
31. Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
32. Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana
33. Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle
34. R. Strauss - Salome
35. R. Strauss - Elektra
36. Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin
37. Beethoven - Fidelio
38. Bellini - La sonnambula
39. Puccini - Suor Angelica
40. Weber - Der Freischütz
41. Boito - Mefistofele
42. R. Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier
43. Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
44. Britten - Peter Grimes
45. Poulenc - Dialogue des Carmélites
46. Puccini - Manon Lescaut
47. Gounod - Faust
48. Rossini - La Cenerentola
49. Purcell - Dido and Aeneas
50. Puccini - Gianni Schicchi
51. Mascagni - L'amico Fritz
52. Gounod - Roméo et Juliette
53. Donizetti - L'elisir d'amore
54. Verdi - Un Ballo in Maschera
55. Verdi - Nabucco
56. Tchaikovsky - Iolanta
57. Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice
58. Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame
59. Mozart - Così fan tutte
60. Berg - Wozzeck
61. Cilea - Adriana Lecouvreur
62. Puccini - Il tabarro
63. Dvorák - Rusalka
64. R. Strauss - Die Frau ohne Schatten
65. Janacek - Jenufa
66. Massenet - Thaïs
67. Berlioz - Les troyens
68. Donizetti - Maria Stuarda
69. Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
70. Britten - Billy Budd
71. Giordano - Andrea Chénier
72. Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina
73. Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila
74. Janacek - The Cunning Little Vixen
75. Donizetti - La fille du régiment
76. Handel - Giulio Cesare
77. Bellini - I Capuleti e i Montecchi
78. Verdi - Ernani
79. Massenet - Werther
80. Monteverdi - L'Orfeo
81. Massenet - Manon
82. Janacek - Katja Kabanova
83. Donizetti - Anna Bolena
84. Rossini - Guillaume Tell
85. Verdi - Falstaff
86. Giordano - Fedora
87. Verdi - Attila
88. Monteverdi - Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
89. Tchaikovsky - Mazeppa
90. Verdi - I Vespri siciliani
91. Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia
92. R. Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos
93. Borodin - Prince Igor
94. Verdi - Stiffelio / Aroldo
95. Ponchielli - La Gioconda
96. Delibes - Lakmé
97. Rimsky-Korsakov - The Tsar's bride
98. Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
99. Britten - Death in Venice
100. Donizetti - Poliuto
101. Rossini - La gazza ladra
102. Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots
103. Prokofiev - War and Peace
104. Smetana - The Bartered Bride
105. Korngold - Die Tote Stadt
106. Bellini - Beatrice di Tenda
107. Flotow - Martha
108. Bellini - I puritani
109. Magnard - Guercoeur
110. Rimsky-Korsakov - Sadko
111. Verdi - Luisa Miller
112. Chausson - Le roi Arthus
113. Donizetti - Roberto Devereux
114. Saariaho - L'Amour de loin
115. Handel - Ariodante
116. Cherubini - Medea / Medée
117. Rossini - Semiramide
118. Pergolesi - La serva padrona
119. Rossini - L'italiana in Algeri
120. Janacek - From the House of the Dead
121. Mozart - La clemenza di Tito
122. Rossini - Il turco in Italia
123. Bellini - Il pirata
124. Wagner - Rienzi
125. Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea
126. Boughton - The immortal hour
127. Cavalli - La Calisto
128. d'Albert - Tiefland
129. Lehar - Land des Lächelns
130. Enescu - Oedipe
131. Vivaldi - La fida ninfa
132. Cilea - L'Arlesiana
133. Rimsky-Korsakov - The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh
134. Mascagni - Iris
135. Rossini - La donna del lago
136. Cavalli - Eliogabalo
137. Paisiello - Nina, o sia La pazza per amore
138. Chabrier - Le roi malgré lui
139. Prokofiev - The Love for Three Oranges
140. Boito - Nerone
141. Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini
142. Alwyn - Miss Julie
143. Lachenmann - Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern
144. Janacek - Vek Makropulos
145. Marschner - Der vampyr
146. Donizetti - Don Pasquale
147. Berlioz - La Damnation de Faust
148. Smyth - The wrecker
149. Puccini - La Rondine
150. Stockhausen - Licht
151. Vivaldi - Bajazed
152. Handel - Alcina
153. Mozart - Idomeneo
154. Glinka - Ruslan and Lyudmila
155. Saint-Saëns - Henry VIII
156. Massenet - La Navarraise
157. Charpentier - Louise
158. Britten - A Midsummer Night's Dream
159. Massenet - Hérodiade
160. Montemezzi - L'amore dei tre re
161. Schmidt - Notre Dame
162. Menotti - Help, Help, the Globolinks!
163. Glass - Satyagraha
164. Gluck - Iphigénie en Tauride
165. Balfe - Bohemian girl
166. Sallinen - The red line
167. Telemann - Germanicus
168. Strauss II - Die Fledermaus
169. Martinu - Julietta
170. Rossini - Otello
171. Nielsen - Maskarade
172. Rachmaninoff - The miserly knight
173. Pfitzner - Palestrina
174. Handel - Rinaldo
175. Cimarosa - Il matrimonio segreto
176. Meyerbeer - Le prophète
177. Catalani - La Wally
178. Nielsen - Saul & David
179. Vivaldi - Teuzzone
180. Ravel - L'heure Espagnole
181. Novak - The Lantern
182. Cavalli - Giasone
183. Vinci - Partenope
184. Nystroem - Herr Arnes Penningar
185. Penderecki - The Devils of Loudun
186. Vivaldi - Ercole
187. Pergolesi - L'Olimpiade
188. Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel
189. Barber - Vanessa
190. Haydn - Orlando paladino
191. Halévy - La juive
192. Dvorak - Dimitrij
193. Rachmaninoff - Aleko
194. R. Strauss - Arabella
195. Britten - Albert Herring
196. Stravinsky - The Rake's progress
197. Weinberg - The Passenger
198. Prokofiev - Betrothal in a Monastery
199. Britten - The Turn of the Screw
200. Purcell - The fairy-queen

NOTE: From position 124, ties are ordered by Premiere date.

Mentioned Operas outside possible Top 200:

Kálmán - Gräfin Mariza
Prokofiev - The fiery angel
Rossini - Matilde di Shabran
Bizet - Les pechêurs de perles
Strauss II - Der Zigeunerbaron
Massenet - Don Quichotte
Partch - Delusion of the Fury
Rossini - Zelmira
Lehar - Paganini
Moniuszko - Straszny dwór
Nono - Prometeo
Cherubini - Lodoiska
Mascagni - Gugliemo Ratcliff
R. Strauss - Daphne
Glinka - A life for the Tsar
Donizetti - La favourite
R. Strauss - Capriccio
Busoni - Doktor Faust
Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex
Adès - The tempest
Cavalli - Artemisia
Mascagni - Zanetto
Gershwin - Porgy & Bess
Glass - Einstein on the Beach
Donizetti - Adelia
Cavalli - Il rapimento d'Helena
Donizetti - Elvida
Meyerbeer - L'africaine
Vinci - Artaserse
Handel - Serse

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