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+2 Mahler: Symphony #3
+1 Mahler: Symphony #10
- 1 Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

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+2, Berg, Violin concerto
+1, Prokofiev, Piano concerto 2
-1, Schubert, Winterreise

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+2 Beethoven PS 14
+1 Beethoven Sym 5
-1 Beethoven Sym 7

Tier 6: (most strongly recommended):
Bach, JS: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G, op. 58
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Debussy: La mer
Ligeti: Études
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler: Symphony #9
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Schoenberg: String Quartet #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 5:
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Bach, JS: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-Tempered Clavier), BWV 846–893
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114
Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
Ives: Symphony #4
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (Illuminations from the Beyond...)
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 in D minor, K. 466
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), op. 25, D. 795
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Verdi: Otello
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Tier 4
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27/2 "Quasi una fantasia" ("Moonlight")
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #32 in C minor, op. 111
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral" in F, op. 68
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Berg: Wozzeck
Berio: Sinfonia
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master)
Boulez: Pli selon pli (Fold by Fold)
Brahms: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 98
Britten: War Requiem, op. 66
Bruckner: Symphony #5 in B-flat
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor
Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores
Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night)
Dutilleux: Timbres, espace, mouvement (Timbre, space, movement)
Fauré: Requiem in D minor, op. 48
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Haydn, J: Symphony #104 "London" in D
Janáček: Sinfonietta
Josquin: Nymphes des bois (La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem) 
Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro (Saint Peter's Tears)
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.177
Lutosławski: Symphony #3
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 "Italian" in A, op. 90
Messiaen: Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement (The Book of the Blessed Sacrament)
Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la presence divine (Three Small Liturgies of the Divine Presence)
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter" in C, K. 551
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Nielsen: Symphony #5, op. 50
Nørgard: Symphony #3
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #2 in G minor, op. 16
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956
Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished" in B minor, D. 759
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82
Strauss, R: Metamorphosen
Strauss, R: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
Stravinsky: Agon
Stravinsky: Les noces (The Wedding)
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Stravinsky: Threni
Tallis: Spem in Alium
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5 in E minor, op. 64
Verdi: Falstaff
Wagner: Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)

Tier 3:
Adams, J: Harmonielehre
Alfonso X El Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria
Bach, JS: Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
Bach, JS: Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat, op. 73 "Emperor"
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #21 in C, op. 53 "Waldstein"
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 "Appassionata" (Passionate) in F minor, op. 57
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #29 in B-flat, op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
Beethoven: String Quartet #13 in B-flat, op. 130, including the Große Fuge (Great Fugue), op. 133
Beethoven: String Quartet #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 131
Beethoven: Symphony #8 in F, op. 93
Brahms: Ein deutsches requiem ("A German Requiem"), op. 45
Brahms: Piano Trio #1 in B, op. 8
Brahms: String Sextet #1 in B-flat, op. 18
Bruckner: Symphony #9 in D minor
Chopin: Nocturnes
Debussy: Études for piano
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
Feldman: Rothko Chapel
Josquin: Missa L'homme armé sexti toni
Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum ("Sibylline Prophecies")
Maderna: Quadrivium
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #3
Martin: Petite symphonie concertante, op. 54
Monteverdi (et. al.?): L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea)
Mozart: Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, op. 67
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 in D minor, op. 30
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra), op. 61
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op. 4
Schubert: String Quartet #15 in G, D. 887
Schumann: Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), op. 48
Sciarrino: Luci mie traditrici (Oh My Betraying Eyes)
Shostakovich: String Quartet #8 in C minor, op. 110
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, op. 71
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 in B-flat minor, op. 23
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique" in B minor, op. 74
Thomson: The Feast of Love
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention), including Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons)
Webern: Symphony, op. 21
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Xenakis: Jonchaies

Tier 2:
Adams, J: The Dharma at Big Sur
Adams, JL: Become Ocean
Albéniz: Iberia
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #8 in C minor, op. 13 "Pathetique"
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #30 in E, op. 109
Beethoven: String Quartet #15 in A minor, op. 132
Beethoven: String Quartet #16 in F, op. 135
Beethoven: Symphony #4 in B-flat, op. 60
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
Bellini: Norma
Berg: Kammerkonzert (Chamber Concerto) for Piano, Violin, and 13 Wind Instruments
Berg: Violin Concerto
Bernstein: Mass
Boccherini: Quintettino (Quintet) "La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid" (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid) in C, op. 30/6
Boulez: Piano Sonata #2
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 15
Brahms: String Sextet #2 in G, op. 36
Brahms: Symphony #1 in C minor, op. 68
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn ("St. Anthony Variations"), op. 56a
Bruckner: Symphony #6 in A
Bruckner: Symphony #7 in E
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque, op. 42
Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Casella: A notte alta, op. 30
Chopin: Polonaise in A Flat, op. 53, "Heroic"
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Crumb: Black Angels
Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia
Debussy: Jeux (Games)
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Dvořák: Piano Trio #4 in E minor, op. 90 "Dumky"
Enescu: Oedipe
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)
Franck: Violin Sonata in A
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
Ginastera: Cello Concerto #2, op. 50
Glass: Songs from Liquid Days
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Gorecki: Symphony #3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Gubaidulina: Repentance
Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
Haydn, J: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Haydn, J: Symphony #101 "The Clock" in D
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Holst: The Planets, op. 32 
Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake)
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Janáček: Jenůfa
Janáček's String Quartet #1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
Kurtág: Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova, op. 17
Ligeti: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, S.160-163
Lully: Atys
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Mahler: Symphony #1 "Titan" in D
Mahler: Symphony #5
Martin: Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra
Martinů: Polní mše (Field Mass)
Martinů: Symphony #4, H. 305
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio #2 in C minor, op. 66
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 "Scottish" in A minor, op. 56
Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (And I Await the Resurrection of the Dead) 
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 3
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 4
Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
Mozart: Piano Concerto #18 in B-flat, K. 456
Mozart: Piano Concerto #22 in E-flak, K. 482
Mozart: Piano Concerto #23 in A, K. 488
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Mozart: Piano Concerto #27 in B-flat, K. 595
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, K. 452
Mozart: Symphony #38 in D, K. 504 "Prague"
Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz
Nono: Prometeo (Prometheus)
Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Orff: Carmina Burana
Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Pérotin: Sederunt principes
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, op. 64
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto #1 in D, op. 19
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes, opp. 3/2, 23, and 32   
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Rachmaninov: Symphony #2 in E minor, op. 27
Rameau: Castor et Pollux (1754 version)
Rautavaara: Vigilia
Ravel: Bolero
Ravel: Piano Trio
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (pour piano)
Reich: Different Trains
Saariaho: Je sens un deuxième coeur (I feel a second heart)
Saint-Saëns: Symphony #3 "Organ" in C minor, op. 78
Schumann: Études Symphoniques (Symphonic Studies), op. 13
Schumann: Fantasie in C, op. 17
Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Dawn), op. 133
Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16
Schütz: Cantiones sacrae
Schütz: Weihnachtshistorie (Christmas Story), SWV 435
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57
Shostakovich: Piano Trio #2 in E minor, op. 67
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto #1 in A minor, op. 77/99
Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge ("Song of the Youths")
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Strauss, R: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op. 64
Strauss, R: Elektra, op. 58
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Suk: A Summer's Tale, op. 29
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto #1, op. 35
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, op. 24
Toch: Die chinesische Flöte, op. 29
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5 in D
Victoria: Officium Defunctorum (Requiem à 6)
Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch (Spanish songbook)

Tier 1:
Abrahamsen: let me tell you
Adams, J: Nixon in China
Allegri: Miserere
Alwyn: Lyra Angelica (Harp Concerto)
Anon.: Dies irae (Gregorian chant)
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
Bacewicz: String Quartet #5
Bach, JS: Johannes-Passion (St. John Passion), BWV 245
Bax: Symphony #1
Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, op. 67
Beethoven: String Quartet #10 in E-flat "Harp", op. 74
Berlioz: Les Troyens (The Trojans)
Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus
Bonis: Piano Quartet #2, op. 124
Boulez: Sur Incises
Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat, op. 40
Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat, op. 83
Brahms: Symphony #2 in D, op. 73
Brahms: Symphony #3 in F, op. 90
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 
Bruch: Violin Concerto #1 in G minor, op. 26
Bruckner: Symphony #4 in E-flat
Cage: 4'33"
Cage: Music of Changes
Carter: Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei
Casella: La Giara
Cerha: Bruchstück, geträumt (Fractured, Dreamed)
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, op. 21
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Elgar: Enigma Variations, op. 36
Enescu: Chamber Symphony in E, op. 33
Ferrari: Presque Rien #1: Le Lever du Jour au Bord de la Mer (Almost Nothing #1: Daybreak at the Seashore)
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23
Glass: Koyaanisqatsi
Handel: Giulio Cesare 
Handel: Water Music, HWV 348-350
Hartmann: Symphony #1 "Versuch eines Requiem" (Essay Towards a Requiem)
Haydn, M.: Requiem (Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo)
Henning: Out in the Sun
Hindemith: Violin Sonata #1, op. 11/4
Husa: Music for Prague 1968
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Josquin: Miserere
Kalinnikov: Symphony #1 in G minor
Kancheli: Mourned by the Wind, liturgy for solo viola & orchestra
Koechlin: Ballade for piano and orchestra, op. 50
Krenek: Symphonic Elegy (in memoriam Anton Webern), op. 105
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Ligeti: Chamber Concerto
Liszt: Christus, S.3
Mahler: Symphony #10
Medtner: Piano Concerto #3 "Ballade" in E minor, op. 60
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux
Milhaud: La Création du monde (The Creation of the World), op. 81a
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor K. 427/417a
Mozart: Piano Concerto #25 in C, K. 503
Mozart: Serenade #13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" in G, K. 525
Mozart: String Quintet #3 in C, K. 515
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Nono: Das attendee Klarsein
Nyman: MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse [High-Speed Music])
Orff: Der Mond
Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas
Pärt: Fratres
Pierné: Piano Concerto in C minor, op. 12
Poulenc: Gloria
Prokofiev: Symphony #5 in B-flat, op. 100
Puccini: La bohème
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 in C minor, op. 18
Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto #1
Rautavaara: Symphony #7 "Angel of Light"
Reich: Proverb
Riley: In C
Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals)
Schnittke: Concerto Grosso #1
Schnittke: String Trio
Schnittke: Symphony #5 (Concerto Grosso #4)
Schnittke: Viola Concerto
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #7, op. 64 "White Mass"
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #9, op. 68 "Black Mass"
Schubert: Piano Trio #1 in B-flat, D. 898
Schubert: Piano Trio #2 in E-flat, D. 929
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, op. 44
Schumann: Violin Sonata #2 in D minor, op. 121
Shostakovich: String Quartet #3 in F, op. 73
Shostakovich: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 43
Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D, op. 43
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Smetana: Má vlast (My Homeland)
Smetana: String Quartet #1 "From My Life" in E minor
Stockhausen: Hymnen
Strauss, J: Radetzky March, op. 228
Strauss, R: Don Juan, op. 20
Strauss, R: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), op. 28
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
Teixeira: Te Deum
Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts
Turina: Piano Trio #2 in B minor, op. 76
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia antartica" (Antarctic Symphony)

Tier 0 (not recommended):
Enescu: Cello Sonata #1 in F minor, op. 26/1
Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Strauss, J II: An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube), op. 314
All other works!

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+2 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
+1 Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
-1 Grisey: Espaces acoustiques

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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 30, +2
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, +1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5, -1

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Brahms PC 2, 2
Beethove, PC 4, 1
Boulex, Pli -1

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Messiaen: Turangalila Symphonie +2
Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores +1
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232 -1

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+2 Mozart Figaro
+1 Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
-1 Mahler 10

[Mahlerian]

Boulez: Sur incises +2
Bach: St John Passion +1
Beethoven: Piano Concerto in E-flat "Emperor" -1

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+2 Chopin: Ballades
+1 Chopin: Scherzi
-1 Maderna: Quadrivium

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Boulez: Pli selon pli +2
Stravinsky: Threni +1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5 -1

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+2 Mahler: Symphony #4
+1 Mahler: Symphony #7
- 1 Boulez: Le marteau sans maître

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+2 Beethoven PC 5
+1 Brahms Sym 1
-1 Ravel Bolero

Tier 8: (most strongly recommended):
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Tier 7:
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G, op. 58

Tier 6:
Bach, JS: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Debussy: La mer
Ligeti: Études
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mahler: Symphony #9
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Schoenberg: String Quartet #2 in F-sharp minor, op. 10
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 5:
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (St. Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Bach, JS: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier (The Well-Tempered Clavier), BWV 846–893
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114
Boulez: Pli selon pli (Fold by Fold)
Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
Dufay: Nuper rosarum flores
Ives: Symphony #4
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'au-delà... (Illuminations from the Beyond...)
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time)
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Mozart: Piano Concerto #20 in D minor, K. 466
Rameau: Pièces de clavecin
Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (The Fair Maid of the Mill), op. 25, D. 795
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
Stravinsky: Threni
Verdi: Otello
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Tier 4
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 27/2 "Quasi una fantasia" ("Moonlight")
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #30 in E, op. 109
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #32 in C minor, op. 111
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony #6 "Pastoral" in F, op. 68
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Berg: Wozzeck
Berio: Sinfonia
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Brahms: Symphony #4 in E minor, op. 98
Britten: War Requiem, op. 66
Bruckner: Symphony #5 in B-flat
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor
Dutilleux: Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night)
Dutilleux: Timbres, espace, mouvement (Timbre, space, movement)
Fauré: Requiem in D minor, op. 48
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Haydn, J: Symphony #104 "London" in D
Janáček: Sinfonietta
Josquin: Nymphes des bois (La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem) 
Lassus: Lagrime di San Pietro (Saint Peter's Tears)
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B Minor, S.177
Lutosławski: Symphony #3
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Mahler: Rückert-Lieder
Mendelssohn: Symphony #4 "Italian" in A, op. 90
Messiaen: Le Livre du Saint-Sacrement (The Book of the Blessed Sacrament)
Messiaen: Trois petites liturgies de la presence divine (Three Small Liturgies of the Divine Presence)
Messiaen: Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus
Mozart: Symphony #41 "Jupiter" in C, K. 551
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Nielsen: Symphony #5, op. 50
Nørgard: Symphony #3
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #2 in G minor, op. 16
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956
Schubert: Symphony #8 "Unfinished" in B minor, D. 759
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82
Strauss, R: Metamorphosen
Strauss, R: Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)
Stravinsky: Agon
Stravinsky: Les noces (The Wedding)
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Tallis: Spem in Alium
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Verdi: Falstaff
Wagner: Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)

Tier 3:
Adams, J: Harmonielehre
Alfonso X El Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria
Bach, JS: Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
Bach, JS: Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat, op. 73 "Emperor"
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #21 in C, op. 53 "Waldstein"
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #23 "Appassionata" (Passionate) in F minor, op. 57
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #29 in B-flat, op. 106 "Hammerklavier"
Beethoven: String Quartet #13 in B-flat, op. 130, including the Große Fuge (Great Fugue), op. 133
Beethoven: String Quartet #14 in C-sharp minor, op. 131
Beethoven: Symphony #8 in F, op. 93
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître (The Hammer Without a Master)
Boulez: Sur Incises
Brahms: Ein deutsches requiem ("A German Requiem"), op. 45
Brahms: Piano Concerto #2 in B-flat, op. 83
Brahms: Piano Trio #1 in B, op. 8
Brahms: String Sextet #1 in B-flat, op. 18
Brahms: Symphony #1 in C minor, op. 68
Bruckner: Symphony #9 in D minor
Chopin: Nocturnes
Debussy: Études for piano
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor, op. 104
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
Feldman: Rothko Chapel
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques
Josquin: Missa L'homme armé sexti toni
Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum ("Sibylline Prophecies")
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #3
Martin: Petite symphonie concertante, op. 54
Monteverdi (et. al.?): L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea)
Mozart: Symphony #40 in G minor, K. 550
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, op. 67
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #3 in D minor, op. 30
Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus (Concerto for birds and orchestra), op. 61
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35
Schnittke: Piano Quintet
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op. 4
Schubert: String Quartet #15 in G, D. 887
Schumann: Dichterliebe (A Poet's Love), op. 48
Sciarrino: Luci mie traditrici (Oh My Betraying Eyes)
Shostakovich: String Quartet #8 in C minor, op. 110
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93
Stravinsky: Requiem Canticles
Stravinsky: Symphony in C
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, op. 71
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto #1 in B-flat minor, op. 23
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5 in E minor, op. 64
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique" in B minor, op. 74
Thomson: The Feast of Love
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention), including Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons)
Webern: Symphony, op. 21
Weill: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Xenakis: Jonchaies

Tier 2:
Adams, J: The Dharma at Big Sur
Adams, JL: Become Ocean
Albéniz: Iberia
Bach, JS: Johannes-Passion (St. John Passion), BWV 245
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116
Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz. 110
Beethoven: Piano Sonata #8 in C minor, op. 13 "Pathetique"
Beethoven: String Quartet #15 in A minor, op. 132
Beethoven: String Quartet #16 in F, op. 135
Beethoven: Symphony #4 in B-flat, op. 60
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
Bellini: Norma
Berg: Kammerkonzert (Chamber Concerto) for Piano, Violin, and 13 Wind Instruments
Berg: Violin Concerto
Bernstein: Mass
Boccherini: Quintettino (Quintet) "La Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid" (Night Music of the Streets of Madrid) in C, op. 30/6
Boulez: Piano Sonata #2
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115
Brahms: Piano Concerto #1 in D minor, op. 15
Brahms: String Sextet #2 in G, op. 36
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn ("St. Anthony Variations"), op. 56a
Bruckner: Symphony #6 in A
Bruckner: Symphony #7 in E
Busoni: Berceuse élégiaque, op. 42
Carter: A Symphony of Three Orchestras
Casella: A notte alta, op. 30
Chopin: Ballades
Chopin: Polonaise in A Flat, op. 53, "Heroic"
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Crumb: Black Angels
Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia
Debussy: Jeux (Games)
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Dvořák: Piano Trio #4 in E minor, op. 90 "Dumky"
Enescu: Oedipe
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat)
Franck: Violin Sonata in A
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
Ginastera: Cello Concerto #2, op. 50
Glass: Songs from Liquid Days
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Gorecki: Symphony #3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Gubaidulina: Repentance
Gubaidulina: Viola Concerto
Haydn, J: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Haydn, J: Symphony #101 "The Clock" in D
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
Holst: The Planets, op. 32 
Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake)
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Janáček: Jenůfa
Janáček's String Quartet #1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
Kurtág: Messages of the Late Miss R. V. Troussova, op. 17
Ligeti: Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, S.160-163
Lully: Atys
Lutosławski: Cello Concerto
Maderna: Quadrivium
Mahler: Symphony #1 "Titan" in D
Mahler: Symphony #4 in G
Mahler: Symphony #5
Martin: Ballade for Trombone and Orchestra
Martinů: Polní mše (Field Mass)
Martinů: Symphony #4, H. 305
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio #2 in C minor, op. 66
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 "Scottish" in A minor, op. 56
Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (And I Await the Resurrection of the Dead) 
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 3
Monteverdi: Madrigals, Book 4
Monteverdi: Selva morale e spirituale
Mozart: Piano Concerto #18 in B-flat, K. 456
Mozart: Piano Concerto #22 in E-flak, K. 482
Mozart: Piano Concerto #23 in A, K. 488
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Mozart: Piano Concerto #27 in B-flat, K. 595
Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, K. 452
Mozart: Symphony #38 in D, K. 504 "Prague"
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Nono: Como una ola de fuerza y luz
Nono: Prometeo (Prometheus)
Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)
Orff: Carmina Burana
Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Pérotin: Sederunt principes
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, op. 64
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto #1 in D, op. 19
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Rachmaninoff: 24 Preludes, opp. 3/2, 23, and 32   
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, op. 45
Rachmaninov: Symphony #2 in E minor, op. 27
Rameau: Castor et Pollux (1754 version)
Rautavaara: Vigilia
Ravel: Piano Trio
Ravel: Le tombeau de Couperin (pour piano)
Reich: Different Trains
Saariaho: Je sens un deuxième coeur (I feel a second heart)
Saint-Saëns: Symphony #3 "Organ" in C minor, op. 78
Schumann: Études Symphoniques (Symphonic Studies), op. 13
Schumann: Fantasie in C, op. 17
Schumann: Gesänge der Frühe (Songs of Dawn), op. 133
Schumann: Kreisleriana, op. 16
Schütz: Cantiones sacrae
Schütz: Weihnachtshistorie (Christmas Story), SWV 435
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet in G minor, op. 57
Shostakovich: Piano Trio #2 in E minor, op. 67
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto #1 in A minor, op. 77/99
Stockhausen: Gesang der Jünglinge ("Song of the Youths")
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Strauss, R: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), op. 64
Strauss, R: Elektra, op. 58
Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
Stravinsky: Ebony Concerto
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress
Suk: A Summer's Tale, op. 29
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto #1, op. 35
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, op. 24
Toch: Die chinesische Flöte, op. 29
Vaughan Williams: Flos Campi
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5 in D
Victoria: Officium Defunctorum (Requiem à 6)
Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch (Spanish songbook)

Tier 1:
Abrahamsen: let me tell you
Adams, J: Nixon in China
Allegri: Miserere
Alwyn: Lyra Angelica (Harp Concerto)
Anon.: Dies irae (Gregorian chant)
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
Bacewicz: String Quartet #5
Bax: Symphony #1
Beach: Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, op. 67
Beethoven: String Quartet #10 in E-flat "Harp", op. 74
Berlioz: Les Troyens (The Trojans)
Birtwistle: The Mask of Orpheus
Bonis: Piano Quartet #2, op. 124
Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat, op. 40
Brahms: Symphony #2 in D, op. 73
Brahms: Symphony #3 in F, op. 90
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D, op. 77 
Bruch: Violin Concerto #1 in G minor, op. 26
Bruckner: Symphony #4 in E-flat
Cage: 4'33"
Cage: Music of Changes
Carter: Symphonia: sum fluxae pretium spei
Casella: La Giara
Cerha: Bruchstück, geträumt (Fractured, Dreamed)
Chausson: Concert for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet, op. 21
Chopin: Scherzi (Scherzos)
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Elgar: Enigma Variations, op. 36
Enescu: Chamber Symphony in E, op. 33
Ferrari: Presque Rien #1: Le Lever du Jour au Bord de la Mer (Almost Nothing #1: Daybreak at the Seashore)
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, op. 18
Franck: Symphony in D minor
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23
Glass: Koyaanisqatsi
Handel: Giulio Cesare 
Handel: Water Music, HWV 348-350
Hartmann: Symphony #1 "Versuch eines Requiem" (Essay Towards a Requiem)
Haydn, M.: Requiem (Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo)
Henning: Out in the Sun
Hindemith: Violin Sonata #1, op. 11/4
Husa: Music for Prague 1968
Ives: The Unanswered Question
Josquin: Miserere
Kalinnikov: Symphony #1 in G minor
Kancheli: Mourned by the Wind, liturgy for solo viola & orchestra
Koechlin: Ballade for piano and orchestra, op. 50
Krenek: Symphonic Elegy (in memoriam Anton Webern), op. 105
Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion
Ligeti: Atmosphères
Ligeti: Chamber Concerto
Liszt: Christus, S.3
Mahler: Symphony #7
Medtner: Piano Concerto #3 "Ballade" in E minor, op. 60
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, op. 64
Messiaen: Catalogue d'oiseaux
Milhaud: La Création du monde (The Creation of the World), op. 81a
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor K. 427/417a
Mozart: Piano Concerto #25 in C, K. 503
Mozart: Serenade #13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" in G, K. 525
Mozart: String Quintet #3 in C, K. 515
Nono: Das attendee Klarsein
Nyman: MGV (Musique à Grande Vitesse [High-Speed Music])
Orff: Der Mond
Ortiz: Trattado de Glosas
Pärt: Fratres
Pierné: Piano Concerto in C minor, op. 12
Poulenc: Gloria
Prokofiev: Symphony #5 in B-flat, op. 100
Puccini: La bohème
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2 in C minor, op. 18
Rawsthorne: Piano Concerto #1
Rautavaara: Symphony #7 "Angel of Light"
Ravel: Bolero
Reich: Proverb
Riley: In C
Saint-Saëns: Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals)
Schnittke: Concerto Grosso #1
Schnittke: String Trio
Schnittke: Symphony #5 (Concerto Grosso #4)
Schnittke: Viola Concerto
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #7, op. 64 "White Mass"
Scriabin: Piano Sonata #9, op. 68 "Black Mass"
Schubert: Piano Trio #1 in B-flat, D. 898
Schubert: Piano Trio #2 in E-flat, D. 929
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, op. 44
Schumann: Violin Sonata #2 in D minor, op. 121
Shostakovich: String Quartet #3 in F, op. 73
Shostakovich: Symphony #4 in C minor, op. 43
Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D, op. 43
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op. 47
Smetana: Má vlast (My Homeland)
Smetana: String Quartet #1 "From My Life" in E minor
Stockhausen: Hymnen
Strauss, J: Radetzky March, op. 228
Strauss, R: Don Juan, op. 20
Strauss, R: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), op. 28
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Stravinsky: L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor, op. 50
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D, op. 35
Teixeira: Te Deum
Thomson: Four Saints in Three Acts
Turina: Piano Trio #2 in B minor, op. 76
Vaughan Williams: Symphony #7 "Sinfonia antartica" (Antarctic Symphony)

Tier 0 (not recommended):
Enescu: Cello Sonata #1 in F minor, op. 26/1
Mahler: Symphony #10
Strauss, J II: An der schönen blauen Donau (The Blue Danube), op. 314
All other works!

[Glume Profusion]

+2 Beethoven: Symphony #3
+1 Beethoven: Piano Sonata #8
-1 Brahms: Ein deutsches requiem

[Ten thumbs]

+2 Alkan - 12 Études in the minor keys, Opus 39
+1 Heller - Voyage autour de ma chambre, Opus 140
-1 Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov

[Ken B]

Dufay, Missa Se la face ay pale, 2
Dvorak, "American" Quartet
Messiaen, Turangalila -1

[Gaspard de la nuit]

I have to admit, I'm disappointed with this list.  I was under the impression that this thread was meant to introduce people to music they may not have heard before.  In reality though, most of the works on here are extremely famous and if you're not already intimately familiar with these you are at least aware of them enough to need no introduction.  I get the impression that people are more concerned with what tier their favorite works are on than actually introducing, or discovering, anything new. 

Aren't there any good romantic composers that aren't already famous?

[Ken B]

I have to admit, I'm disappointed with this list.  I was under the impression that this thread was meant to introduce people to music they may not have heard before.  In reality though, most of the works on here are extremely famous and if you're not already intimately familiar with these you are at least aware of them enough to need no introduction.  I get the impression that people are more concerned with what tier their favorite works are on than actually introducing, or discovering, anything new. 

Aren't there any good romantic composers that aren't already famous?

"New to classical music? Or a veteran listener looking for something new? You've come to the right place! "

That's how this thread starts, its first words. They surely express, better than just your "impression", what the purpose of the thread is. So I think finding, as one example, Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto near the top where newbies will look first, and, for another example, Dallapiccola's Canti di prigionia further down where the veteran listener seeking something new can find it, makes good sense.

[Gurn Blanston]

The purpose of the thread is, as was stated in the OP:

The participants of this forum have created this list of recommendations, ranked from our highest recommendations (at the top) on down to works we specifically do not recommend. You can find it in reply #1, the post right below this one. These recommendations embody an accumulation of many people's knowledge and a consensus (via compromise) of many people's tastes. We eagerly hope it helps you fall in love with some music that you might not have heard already.

The post goes on at length: Coffee is nothing if not prolix!   However, in all the verbiage, there is nothing at all which solicits recommendations for obscure new works which one may not have heard. Essentially, the thread is intended to spotlight works which have stood the test of time and become classics. Presumably, those with the highest ratings are the ones which one should least wish to miss hearing.

This being the case, I think complaints about a lack of obscure music are out of place. However, equally out of place are unnecessarily rude or ad hominem replies. In answer to the question;

Is the start of another hissy fit vendetta meltdown like the last one?

it sure as hell better not be. There are 2 sides to every meltdown, and both will pay the price if this escalates further.

GB

[Gaspard de la nuit]

there is nothing at all which solicits recommendations for obscure new works which one may not have heard

I think complaints about a lack of obscure music are out of place.

As unpopular as my feelings toward this thread may be, there's nothing "out of place" about them.  I have every right to voice my criticism on the lack of recommendations on a thread titled "The Recommendation Project".  This is really more of a favorites thread, which is fine.  I just think the title is misleading and I was really looking forward to something else.  My mistake.

Also, I find the deletion of my posts a little unfounded in this case.  Ken (EDIT: GB) may have acted out of line, but I never did.  In fact, I thought I handled myself pretty well.  Is handling yourself maturely "out of place" here too?