the GMG recommendations project

[Glume Profusion]

+2 Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, S.160-163
+1 Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.177
-1 Kalinnikov: Symphony #1 in G minor

[Chronochromie]

Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum +2
Messiaen: Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement +1
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 -1

[NikF]

Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor, Op. 15 +2
Enescu: Cello Sonata in F Minor, Op. 26 + 1
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61 -1

[Trout]

+2 Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14, op. 131
+1 Beethoven: Grosse Fuge, op. 130
-1 Sibelius 5

[Gaspard de la nuit]

Gubaidulina - Viola Concerto +2
Biber - Rosary Sonatas +1
Anthiel - Ballet mecanique -1

[Ken B]

Stravinsky Jeu 2
Stravinsky Les Noces 1
Antheil Les Noces in dragBallet Mechanique

[coffee]

Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie +2
Ligeti: Etudes +1

I'll skip this vote for now. You've got to do the -1! It's not optional.

[coffee]

Just for the moment I'm skipping Eigenuser's vote, but when he fixes it I'll add it in as well. Meanwhile, mine (and this is with Ken B's fix):

+2: Beethoven Violin Concerto
+1: Adams Harmonielehre
-1: Messiaen Turangalila

Tier 7: (most strongly recommended):
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Tier 6:
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Tier 5:
Debussy: La mer
Ligeti: Études
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Stravinsky: Les noces (The Wedding)

Tier 4
Bach, JS: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Berg: Wozzeck
Berio: Sinfonia
Messiaen: Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement (The Book of the Blessed Sacrament)
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 3:
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.177
Mahler: Symphony #9
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schoenberg: String Quartet #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), op. 25, D. 795
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Schumann: Études Symphoniques (Symphonic Studies), op. 13
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Stravinsky: Agon
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique" in B minor, op. 74
Verdi: Falstaff
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention), including Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)

Tier 2:
Bach, JS: Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 "Appassionata" (Passionate) in F minor, op. 57
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #32 in C minor, op. 111
Beethoven: String Quartet #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 131
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral" in F, op. 68
Beethoven: Symphony #8 in F, op. 93
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 15
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor
Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, op. 21
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Crumb: Black Angels
Debussy: Études for piano
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques
Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Josquin: Nymphes des bois (La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem) 
Kalinnikov: Symphony #1 in G minor
Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum ("Sibylline Prophecies")
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, S.160-163
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Mozart: Piano Concerto #27 in B-flat, K 595
Mozart: Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550
Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter" in C, K. 551
Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz
Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes, opp. 3/2, 23, and 32   
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (pour piano)
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Saariaho: Je sens un deuxième coeur (I feel a second heart)
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956
Schumann: Fantasie in C, op. 17
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, op. 44
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Tallis: Spem in Alium
Thomson: The Feast of Love
Verdi: Otello
Victoria: Officium Defunctorum (Requiem à 6)
Wagner: Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)

Tier 1:
Abrahamsen: let me tell you
Adams: Harmonielehre
Anon.: Dies irae (Gregorian chant)
Bach, JS: Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
Beethoven: String Quartet #13 in B-flat, op. 130, including the Große Fuge (Great Fugue), op. 133
Berlioz: Les Troyens (The Trojans)
Brahms: Ein deutsches requiem ("A German Requiem"), op. 45
Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat, op. 40
Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat, op. 83
Bruckner: Symphony #4 in E-flat
Cage: Music of Changes
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Enescu: Cello Sonata #1 in F minor, op. 26/1
Enescu: Chamber Symphony in E, op. 33
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23
Glass: Koyaanisqatsi
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Janáček: Sinfonietta
Josquin: Miserere
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la presence divine (Three Small Liturgies of the Divine Presence)
Monteverdi (et. al.?): L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart: Piano Concerto #22 in E-flak, K 482
Orff: Carmina Burana
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 in D minor, op. 30
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Schnittke: Concerto Grosso #1
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op. 4
Shostakovich: String Quartet #3 in F, op. 73
Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D, op. 43
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47

Tier 0 (not yet or not officially recommended):
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Cage: 4'33"
Ives: Symphony #4
Orff: Der Mond
All other works!

This is updated as of my vote in reply #215.

[Ken B]

Per coffee I must amend my -1. Mr Ives wins it for Symphony 4
Ives Sym 4, -1

[Trout]

+2 Ives: Symphony No. 4
+1 Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
-1 Stravinsky Jeu de cartes

[GioCar]

Webern: Symphony op. 21 +2
Boulez: Le marteau +1
Mahler: DLvdE -1

[ritter]

Maderna Quadrivium +2
Messiaen Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum +1
Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie -1

[Gaspard de la nuit]

Lutoslawski - Symphony No. 3 +2
Mahler - Symphony No. 9 +1
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde -1

[Mirror Image]

Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde +2
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 +1
Verdi: Falstaff -1

[Glume Profusion]

+2 Dvorak: Cello Concerto in B Minor
+1 Ligeti: Chamber Concerto
-1 Thomson: The Feast of Love

[Karl Henning]

Stravinsky: Les noces (The Wedding) +2
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître +1

Crumb: Black Angels -1

[Chronochromie]

Ives: Symphony No. 4 +2
Verdi: Falstaff +1
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47 -1

[EigenUser]

Okay fine:
-1: Mozart Symphony No. 40

Just because it isn't something that has to be sought.

[coffee]

+2 Dvorak Symphony 9
+1 Antheil Ballet Mecanique
-1 Mahler DLVD

Tier 7: (most strongly recommended):
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Tier 6:
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
Ligeti: Études
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Tier 5:
Debussy: La mer
Stravinsky: Les noces (The Wedding)

Tier 4
Bach, JS: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Berg: Wozzeck
Berio: Sinfonia
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître
Ives: Symphony #4
Mahler: Symphony #9
Messiaen: Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement (The Book of the Blessed Sacrament)
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 3:
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.177
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schoenberg: String Quartet #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), op. 25, D. 795
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Schumann: Études Symphoniques (Symphonic Studies), op. 13
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Stravinsky: Agon
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique" in B minor, op. 74
Verdi: Falstaff
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention), including Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)

Tier 2:
Bach, JS: Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 "Appassionata" (Passionate) in F minor, op. 57
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #32 in C minor, op. 111
Beethoven: String Quartet #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 131
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral" in F, op. 68
Beethoven: Symphony #8 in F, op. 93
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 15
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor
Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, op. 21
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Crumb: Black Angels
Debussy: Études for piano
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques
Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Josquin: Nymphes des bois (La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem) 
Kalinnikov: Symphony #1 in G minor
Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum ("Sibylline Prophecies")
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, S.160-163
Lutoslawski: Symphony #3
Maderna: Quadrivium
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Mozart: Piano Concerto #27 in B-flat, K 595
Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter" in C, K. 551
Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz
Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes, opp. 3/2, 23, and 32   
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (pour piano)
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Saariaho: Je sens un deuxième coeur (I feel a second heart)
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956
Schumann: Fantasie in C, op. 17
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, op. 44
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Tallis: Spem in Alium
Verdi: Otello
Victoria: Officium Defunctorum (Requiem à 6)
Wagner: Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)
Webern: Symphony, op. 21

Tier 1:
Abrahamsen: let me tell you
Adams: Harmonielehre
Anon.: Dies irae (Gregorian chant)
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
Bach, JS: Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
Beethoven: String Quartet #13 in B-flat, op. 130, including the Große Fuge (Great Fugue), op. 133
Berlioz: Les Troyens (The Trojans)
Brahms: Ein deutsches requiem ("A German Requiem"), op. 45
Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat, op. 40
Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat, op. 83
Bruckner: Symphony #4 in E-flat
Cage: Music of Changes
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Enescu: Cello Sonata #1 in F minor, op. 26/1
Enescu: Chamber Symphony in E, op. 33
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23
Glass: Koyaanisqatsi
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Janáček: Sinfonietta
Josquin: Miserere
Ligeti: Chamber Concerto
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum 
Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la presence divine (Three Small Liturgies of the Divine Presence)
Monteverdi (et. al.?): L'incoronazione di Poppea
Mozart: Piano Concerto #22 in E-flak, K 482
Mozart: Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550
Orff: Carmina Burana
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 in D minor, op. 30
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Schnittke: Concerto Grosso #1
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op. 4
Shostakovich: String Quartet #3 in F, op. 73
Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D, op. 43
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Thomson: The Feast of Love

Tier 0 (not yet or not officially recommended):
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Cage: 4'33"
Orff: Der Mond
All other works!

[Ken B]

Thomson Feast of Love, 2
Glass, Songs from liquid days 1
Messiaen Turangalila -1