Your top 8 (or any number of) chamber works (or any other kind)

[BachQ]

Brahms, Violin Sonata #3 in d minor
Saint-Saens, Violin Sonata in d minor
Schumann, Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2 in d minor, Op. 121
Gade, violin sonata op. 21 in d minor
Vítězslav Novák, violin sonata in d minor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, violin sonata op. 28 in d minor
Zdeněk Fibich, violin sonatina, op. 27 in d minor
Ireland, violin Sonata No. 1 in d minor
Reger, violin sonata #1 op. 1 in d minor
Reger, violin sonata #6 op. 103b/1 in d minor
Ropartz, violin sonata #1 in d minor

[Drasko]

Is the Martinu Nonet from earlier that bad a piece that you don't want to be associated with it ? 

No, just that the later one is so bloody sublime that it has passed to realms beyond comparison  0:)

[Larry Rinkel]

OK, I admit it. Starting this thread was a mistake. In fact, I've been regretting it since post no. 10 or thereabouts...

Good Lord, do you have no sense of humor at all? I've half a mind to delete my registration and let you all go back to your lists, if that's all you're interested in posting.

[Maciek]

Ah, what the hell. The thread is derailed anyway. We might as well go on with this...

Good Lord, do you have no sense of humor at all?

Assuming you're addressing that question to me (and not the Good Lord): I don't know, possibly not.

[quintett op.57]

Sorry, I had included 3 works for 2 instruments
corrected :

Shostakovich   : Piano quintet
Schubert         : String quintet
Beethoven       : Piano trio after Sy2
Bruckner          : String quintet
Brahms            : String sextet n°1
Schumann        : Piano trio n°3
Shostakovich    : Piano trio n°2
Nielsen            : Wind quintet

[BachQ]

OK, I admit it. Starting this thread was a mistake. In fact, I've been regretting it since post no. 10

....... we should take notice of the author of that wayward POST #10 .......... Being none other than ......... Gurn ........ 

[Maciek]

I knew I couldn't count on GMG members being able to count to 10!

[BachQ]

Before Gurn:




After Gurn:

[Maciek]

And I am what? Zero?

[Maciek]

Brahms, Violin Sonata #3 in d minor
Saint-Saens, Violin Sonata in d minor
Schumann, Sonata for Violin and Piano no 2 in d minor, Op. 121
Gade, violin sonata op. 21 in d minor
Vítězslav Novák, violin sonata in d minor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, violin sonata op. 28 in d minor
Zdeněk Fibich, violin sonatina, op. 27 in d minor
Ireland, violin Sonata No. 1 in d minor
Reger, violin sonata #1 op. 1 in d minor
Reger, violin sonata #6 op. 103b/1 in d minor
Ropartz, violin sonata #1 in d minor

A belated:

What? No Szymanowski Violin Sonata in D Minor?! D Minor, you have no taste!

[Gaspard de la nuit]

1. Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor pour la fin du temps
2. Béla Bartók - Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
3. Franz Schubert - String Quintet
4. Arnold Schoenberg - Pierrot lunaire
5. Claude Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
6. György Ligeti - Horn Trio
7. Johannes Brahms    - Clarinet Quintet
8. Johann Sebastian Bach - The Musical Offering
9. Iannis Xenakis - Pléïades
10. Igor Stravinsky - L'histoire du soldat suite

[coffee]

No one should take my list too seriously, but it would go

- Brahms: Piano Trio #1
- Schubert: String Quintet
- Beethoven: Piano Trio #5 "Ghost"
- Rachmaninov: Piano Trio #2 Elegiaque
- Brahms: Piano Quartet #1
- Brahms: Piano Quintet
- Golijov: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
- Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
- Rachmaninov: Piano Trio #1 Elegiaque
- Mendelssohn: Octet
- Shostakovich: Piano Trio #2
- Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
- Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
- Chausson: Concert for violin, piano, and string quartet

[Mirror Image]

Time to make a list (in no particular order):

Ravel: Violin Sonata (1927)
Ravel: Piano Trio
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Janáček: Violin Sonata
Janáček: Pohádka
Szymanowski: Mythes

[Jo498]

I'll take the constraints that it must be at least trios, no string quartets and that no composer and no combination of instruments should occur twice (with the exception of Haydn and Beethoven, I don't think the latters septet, quintet and woodwind chamber music are up with the best and Haydn's best are quartets despite some nice mixed divertimenti):

Schubert: string quintet
Mozart: clarinet trio K 498
Brahms: clarinet quintet
Beethoven: Trio op.97
Haydn: Trio E major Nr. 28
Schumann: Piano quartet op.47
Dvorak: string sextet
Shostakovich: piano quintet

[Dax]

A pretty impossible task but here goes - in reverse alphabetical order.

Varese: Octandre
Spohr: Octet
Schubert: C major string quintet
Ravel: String quartet
Rachmaninov: Trio élégiaque no 2 in D minor
Ornstein: Piano quintet
Merikanto: Nonet
Ives: Over the pavements
Cage: String quartet
Bryars: Les fiançailles

[Mandryka]

Cage: String quartet

I'm very keen on Four, is that the one you mean? The String Quartet in Four Parts I know less well.

[johnshade]

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It pleases  me to see that some of you have chosen my favorite, Bartok Sonata for two pianos and percussion. My second choice is Beethoven Piano Trio no. 7 in B-flat major, op. 97.

[vandermolen]

Bliss: Oboe Quintet
Vaughan Williams: Violin Sonata
Vaughan Williams: String Quartet 2,'For Jean on her Birthday'
Bloch: Piano Quintet No.1
Bloch: String Quartet No.1
Bax: Harp Quintet
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet
Miaskovsky: String Quartet 13

If allowed more:
Vainberg: Piano Quintet
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Miaskovsky: Cello Sonata No.2
Cesar Franck: Violin Sonata

[Dax]

Cage - yes, the string quartet in four parts.

The first Bloch quintet is indeed a corker!

[vandermolen]

The first Bloch quintet is indeed a corker!

Yes, it's more like a symphony.

I've missed out Debussy and Ravel although I am very fond of their chamber music as well.