Simply your favourite 30 works

[Ken B]

We might literally be the last two people on GMG who do not have it.

The Berman Prok sonatas?

[Brian]

The Berman Prok sonatas?

Raekallio

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I don't have it either, and I'm not likely to have it in future. Prok's Sonatas are among my least favorite pianos works. I only truly love the D minor op.14.

Sarge

I'm trying to bite my tongue...but the Prokofievian(?) in me just........

......oh, what the heck....

But no Toccata? Suggestion Diabolique? War sonatas?

[North Star]

I'm trying to bite my tongue...but the Prokofievian(?) in me just........

......oh, what the heck....

But no Toccata? Suggestion Diabolique? War sonatas?

Not to mention Visions fugitives, Sarcasms, or 10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet...

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm trying to bite my tongue...but the Prokofievian(?) in me just........

......oh, what the heck....

But no Toccata? Suggestion Diabolique? War sonatas?

Not to mention Visions fugitives, Sarcasms, or 10 Pieces from Romeo & Juliet...

Okay, I can see buying the Raekallio box for those non-Sonata pieces (which I do like)

Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

Beethoven
Symphony no.6
Brahms
Symphony no.1
Symphony no.4
Bruckner
Symphony no.5
Elgar
Symphony no.1
Symphony no.2
Enigma Variations
In The South Overture "Alassio"
Glazunov
Symphony no.4
Mahler
Symphony no.1
Symphony no.6
Symphony no.8
Symphony no.9
Nielsen
Symphony no.4
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto no.3
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloe
La Valse
Respighi
Roman Trilogy
Rimsky Korsakov
Sheherezade
Schubert
Symphony no.9
Scriabin
Symphony no.3
Shostakovich
Symphony no.10
R.Strauss
Eine Alpensinfonie
Ein Heldenleben
Tod und Verklarung
Don Juan
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Tchaikovsky
Symphony no.6
Francesca da Rimini

Well.... that needed to be updated!! Have got to know so much great music over the last two years, so I expect this list is subject to change in the next two years too!
1.   Mahler 6
2.   7
3.   9
4.   Elgar 2
5.   Gerontius
6.   Strauss Dance of Seven Veils + Mondscheinmusik
7.   Ravel La Valse
8.   Schnittke Faust Cantata
9.   Schnittke Requiem
10.   Coleridge Taylor Violin Concerto
11.   Brahms 2
12.   Schumann Violin Concerto
13.   Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 3
14.   Dvorak 5
15.   Dvorak Cello Concerto
16.   Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
17.   Feldman Coptic Light
18.   Shostakovich 5
19.   Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet
20.   Schubert 9
21.   Stravinsky Le Sacre
22.   Vaughan Williams 9
23.   Ades Asyla
24.   Ginastera Estancia Dances
25.   Wagner Lohengrin Act 1 Prelude
26.   Mendelssohn 3
27.   Bruckner 7
28.   Chopin Ballade 1
29.   Dvorak Wind Serenade
30.   Respighi Roman Trilogy
31.   Schmitt La Tragedie de Salome
32.   Gershwin An American in Paris
33.   Rimsky Korsakov Sheherezade
34.   Beethoven 3

Maximum of two per composer, except for Mahler, who gets 3 :p And yeah, went slightly over 30 as I don't do maths at school anymore :p Not in any order of course

[EigenUser]

Old thread, but I have no shame in reviving it.

As of now:
1. Bartok -- "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
2. Bartok -- "Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra"
3. Bartok -- "Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra"
4. Ravel -- "La Valse"
5. Ligeti -- "Clocks and Clouds"
6. Ravel -- "Daphnis and Chloe"
7. Ligeti -- "Piano Concerto"
8. Ravel -- "Introduction and Allegro"
9. Stravinsky -- "The Rite of Spring"
10. Gershwin -- "Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra"
11. Ligeti -- "San Francisco Polyphony"
12. Gershwin -- "An American in Paris"
13. Ravel -- "Piano Concerto in G"
14. Debussy -- "Jeux"
15. Ligeti -- "Lontano"
16. Debussy -- "La Mer"
17. Bartok -- "The Miraculous Mandarin"
18. Stravinsky -- "Agon"
19. Ades -- "Asyla"
20. Feldman -- "Rothko Chapel"
21. Feldman -- "Piano and String Quartet"
22. Bartok -- "Dance Suite"
23. Debussy -- "Trois Nocturnes"
24. Reich -- "Music for 18 Musicians"
25. Ravel -- "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
26. Mendelssohn -- "Octet"
27. Mendelssohn -- Various (later) string symphonies, no real order
28. Gershwin -- "Cuban Overture"
29. Ligeti -- "Violin Concerto"
30. Bartok -- "Concerto for Orchestra"

It's changed. I'm not going to list in any order other than alphabetical to avoid bias and I'm limiting myself to three works per composer.

Ades -- "Asyla"
Bartok -- "Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra"
Bartok -- "Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra"
Bartok -- "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
Debussy -- "Jeux"
Debussy -- "La Mer"
Debussy -- "Sirenes" (and all of the "Trois Nocturnes" sequence, but this one is my favorite)
Feldman -- "Rothko Chapel"
Gershwin -- "Piano Concerto"
Gershwin -- "An American in Paris"
Haydn -- "Symphony No. 83" (The Hen)
Haydn -- "Symphony No. 88" (The Letter 'V')
Honegger -- "Pacific 2-3-1"
Ligeti -- "Clocks and Clouds"
Ligeti -- "Piano Concerto"
Ligeti -- "San Francisco Polyphony"
Mendelssohn -- "String Symphony 10"
Mendelssohn -- "Octet"
Messiaen -- "Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum"
Messiaen -- "Turangalila-Symphonie" (I don't want to admit it, but I always find myself playing movements 1, 2, 5, and 10 in the car)
Ohana -- "Cello Concerto - In Dark and Blue"
Ravel -- "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ravel -- "Introduction and Allegro"
Ravel -- "La Valse"
Reich -- "Music for 18 Musicians"
Schoenberg -- "Chamber Symphony No. 1"
Schumann -- "Konzertstuck for 4 Horns and Orchestra"
Schumann -- "Symphony No. 4"
Stravinsky -- "Agon"
Stravinsky -- "Scherzo a la Russe"

[Karl Henning]

Messiaen -- "Turangalila-Symphonie" (I don't want to admit it, but I always find myself playing movements 1, 2, 5, and 10 in the car)

Actually (and I've not listened, myself, in a while), that strikes me as perfect car music.

[EigenUser]

Actually (and I've not listened, myself, in a while), that strikes me as perfect car music.

It is! So is Adams' "Short Ride in a Fast Machine".

I also would like to listen to Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" while on a long car ride through winding mountain roads. I haven't yet had the opportunity .

[nico1616]

1. Beethoven: Violin Concerto
2. Brahms: Symphony n°4
3. Brahms: Violin Concerto
4. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
5. Bruckner: Symphony n°9
6. Dvorák: Cello Concerto
7. Dvorák: Symphony n°8
8. Handel: Giulio Cesare
9. Handel: Alcina
10. Handel: Semele

11. Haydn: Symphony n°97
12. Janácek: Jenufa
13. Janácek: Sinfonietta
14. Mahler - Symphony n°6
15. Mozart - Piano Concerto n°25
16. Mozart - Don Giovanni
17. Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov
18. Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann
19. Puccini - Madame Butterfly
20. Puccini - Il Trittico

21. Rameau - Platée
22. Schubert - Piano Sonata D 784
23. Schumann - Piano Concerto
24. Sibelius -Symphony n°7
25. Strauss - Elektra
26. Tsjaikovski - Symphony n°6
27. Tsjaikovski - Jevgeni Onegin
28. Verdi - Don Carlo
29. Verdi - Aida
30. Wagner - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

[North Star]

One per composer

(There are 8 orchestral works (5 of which symphonies), 6 chamber works, 5 works for solo keyboard (1 for organ, 4 for pf), 4 ballets, 3 concertos, 3 vocal works (one of them a cappella), and 2 operas on the list)

1. Alkan: Études in all the minor keys, Op. 39 (solo kbd)
2. Bach: Clavier-Übung III (solo kbd)
3. Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin (ballet)
4. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in c^# minor, Op. 131 (chamber)
5. Berg: Violin Concerto (cto)
6. Berlioz: Les Troyens (opera)
7. Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Op. 31 (vocal orch)
8. Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (orch)
9. Chopin: Mazurkas, Op. 50 (to pick one set) (solo kbd)
10. Copland: Appalachian Spring (ballet)
11. Debussy: Préludes, book I (solo kbd)
12. Haydn: String Quartet in d minor, 'Quinten', Op. 76/II (chamber)
13. Ives: Holidays Symphony (orch)
14. Janáček: String Quartet No. 2 (chamber)
15. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (vocal orch)
16. Martinů: Nonet (chamber)
17. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (opera)
18. Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet (ballet)
19. Pärt: Tabula Rasa (cto)
20. Rakhmaninov: All-Night Vigil (vocal)
21. Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major (cto)
22. Reich: Music for 18 Musicians (chamber??)
23. Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887 (chamber)
24. Schönberg: 5 Orchesterstücke, Op. 16 (orch)
25. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 (orch)
26. Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 (orch)
27. Skryabin: Vers la flamme (solo kbd)
28. Stravinsky: Sacre (ballet)
39. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5 (orch)
30. Varèse: Ameriques (orch)

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Off with FF VI OST and FF IX OST shall replace it. As much as I love FF VI ost but nothing beats the overwhelming humanity of Final Fantasy IX ost.

[North Star]

Off with FF VI OST and FF IX OST shall replace it. As much as I love FF VI ost but nothing beats the overwhelming humanity of Final Fantasy IX ost.

Err, wrong thread, I think. 

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Nope, both soundtracks clearly have enough classical music elements to count as one, imho.

[North Star]

Nope, both soundtracks clearly have enough classical music elements to count as one, imho.

Fair enough. As you didn't quote your original post, I didn't even realize you were talking about the soundtracks and not the games themselves.

[EigenUser]

One per composer, except for my current top four composers (Bartok, Ravel, Ligeti, and Messiaen), where I allow two each.

Ades "Asyla"
Bartok "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta"
Bartok "Piano Concerto No. 2"
Beethoven "Missa Solemnis"
Boulez "Notations for Orchestra"

Debussy "Jeux"
Dvorak "Symphony No. 9"
Faure "Requiem"
Feldman "Piano and String Quartet" (pretty much tied with RC, but I'll go with P&SQ)
Gershwin "Piano Concerto"

Haydn "Symphony No. 88"
Honegger "Pacific 2-3-1"
Ligeti "Clocks and Clouds"
Ligeti "Piano Concerto"
Mahler "Symphony No. 7" (almost tied with DLvdE)

Mendelssohn "Octet"
Messiaen "Et Expecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum"
Messiaen "Turangalila Symphonie"
Ockeghem "Missa Prolationum"
Ohana "Cello Concerto -- In Dark and Blue"

Ravel "Daphnis and Chloe"
Ravel "Introduction and Allegro" (tied with the SQ)
Reich "Music for 18 Musicians"
Schumann "Concertpiece for Four Horns and Orchestra" (nearly tied with the 4th symphony)
Schoenberg "Chamber Symphony No. 1"

Shostakovich "Symphony No. 9"
Stravinsky "Agon"
Takemitsu "Dream/Window"
Varese "Ameriques"
Webern "Six Pieces for Orchestra"

I feel ashamed that I like the "Turangalila-Symphonie" so much -- like, I don't know, gluttonous, or something like that. But I do.

[Ken B]

Nate

I feel ashamed that I like the "Turangalila-Symphonie" so much -- like, I don't know, gluttonous, or something like that. But I do

Turgid. That's a good word. Or bloated. Expansive is a polite euphemism. Bloviated, that's another good one.
Meretricious is my choice though. 

French orchestral music; what a work-out for the vocabulary. 

[Wanderer]

I feel ashamed that I like the "Turangalila-Symphonie" so much.

Why would you? It's one of the most brilliant symphonic utterances of the 20th century. If I were you, I'd be more concerned about the Honegger. 

[EigenUser]

Nate
Turgid. That's a good word. Or bloated. Expansive is a polite euphemism. Bloviated, that's another good one.
Meretricious is my choice though. 

French orchestral music; what a work-out for the vocabulary. 

I remember that amw once said something like "listening to Turangalila seems to go well with eating ice cream right from the carton". Possibly one of my favorite lines from GMG because it is so funny, yet so true. It is enjoyable to do, but afterwards my ears are ringing and I think "why did I listen to the whole thing?"

Why would you? It's one of the most brilliant symphonic utterances of the 20th century. If I were you, I'd be more concerned about the Honegger. 

I knew I'd catch crap for the Honegger, but I have a sound defense: I hold a degree in mechanical engineering . Of course I'm going to like it -- it's not just about trains, but also musical momentum, inertia, acceleration... all of that good stuff from dynamics!

[Ken B]

Nate's faves

Debussy "Jeux"

You should try La Mer. It's more popular you know.