the GMG recommendations project

[Mahlerian]

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 +2
Bach: St Matthew Passion +1
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 -1

[coffee]

+2: Shostakovich 5
+1: Reich Music for 18
-1: Messiaen Turangalila

Here is the board currently:

Tier 4 (most strongly recommended):
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame

Tier 3:
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Berio: Sinfonia
Debussy: La mer
Mahler: Symphony #9
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Tier 2:
Berg: Wozzeck
Berlioz: Les Troyens (The Trojans)
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître
Bruckner: Symphony #4 in E-flat
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Ligeti: Études
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Ockeghem: Missa prolationem
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Stravinsky: Agon
Tallis: Spem in Alium
Verdi: Falstaff
Wagner: Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)

Tier 1:
Adams: Harmonielehre
Anon.: Dies irae (Gregorian chant)
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
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 #8 in C minor
Cage: Music of Changes
Crumb: Black Angels
Debussy: Études for piano
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Josquin: Miserere
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Off: Carmina Burana
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 0 (not yet or not officially recommended):
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Cage: 4'33"
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
All other works!

[Chronochromie]

Debussy: Preludes +2
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie +1
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47  -1

[Trout]

Mozart Figaro +2
Bruckner 8 +1
Bruckner 4 -1

[Androcles]

Bach Brandenburg Concertos +2 (Can I have this as a single entry?)
Bach Sonatas and Partitas +1
Grisey Les Espaces -1

[SimonNZ]

Grisey Espaces +2
Messiaen Turangalila +1
Shostakovich Symphony 8 -1

[Ken B]

Josquin Nymphes des bois
Orfeo Der Mond
Boulez Marteau  -1

[Glume Profusion]

+2 Haydn: The Creation
+1 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
-1 Grisey: Les espaces acoustiques

[GioCar]

Handel: Messiah HWV 56 +2
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, op.8 +1
Berlioz: Les Troyens -1

The pedant is here again:
- according to the IRCAM database, it's Grisey's "Espaces acoustiques", without the article "Les". It makes a subtle difference. Does anyone know a bit more?
- It's Ockeghem's Missa prolationum, not prolationem.

[ritter]

Boulez Marteau +2
Stravinsky Noces +1
Grisey Espaces -1

Regards,

[Androcles]

Shostakovich 10 +2
Shostakovich 8 +1
Stockhausen Gruppen -1 I would vote for Grisey again if I could....

[Mahlerian]

Boulez: Marteau +2
Mozart: Figaro +1
Grieg: Concerto -1

[Chronochromie]

Ligeti: Études +2
Berg: Wozzeck +1
Shostakovich: 10th Symphony -1

[Trout]

+2 Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
+1 Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
-1 Schoenberg Serenade

[coffee]

+2: Puccini Madama Butterfly
+1: Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
-1: Grisey Espaces

[musicrom]

+2: Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps
+1: Sibelius Symphony No. 2
-1: Messiaen Turangalila-Symphonie

Hopefully I did this right.

[Chronochromie]

-1: Messiaen Turangalila-Symphonie
Hopefully I did this right.

YOU DID NOT 

[Glume Profusion]

+2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
+1 Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
-1 Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie

[ritter]

Wagner Parsifal+2
Enescu Symphonie de chambre op. 33 +1
Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 -1

[Ken B]

+2: Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps
+1: Sibelius Symphony No. 7
-1: Messiaen Turangalila-Symphonie