Simply your favourite 30 works

[Karl Henning]

But how can you leave off the Second Cantata (op 31) and the wonderful orchestration of the Ricercare a 6 from the Musical Offering?

(* chortle *)

[Ghost Sonata]

^^^^

Scriabin wrote 12 piano sonatas? 😮

Yup, there are ten numbered ones and two youthful compositions.  One might even say there are 13 :  Vers la flamme he initially intended as a sonata but ended-up publishing it separately. 

[nodogen]

Yup, there are ten numbered ones and two youthful compositions.  One might even say there are 13 :  Vers la flamme he initially intended as a sonata but ended-up publishing it separately.

Oh well, at least I have 11 of them then! ☺️

[Jaakko Keskinen]

One per composer:

Wagner: Ring
Debussy: Preludes book 1
Sibelius: Pohjola's daughter
Beethoven: Fidelio
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Richard Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
Rachmaninov: The Rock
Stravinsky: The Firebird
Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini
Weber: Der Freischütz
Liszt: Faust Symphony
Ravel: Miroirs
Brahms: Violin concerto
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn: Piano trio no. 1
Bruckner: Symphony no. 7
Shostakovich: Golden Mountains
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust
Haydn: The Creation
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Gounod: Faust
Massenet: Thaïs
Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Franck: Violin sonata
Fauré: Berceuse
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen BWV65
Handel: Solomon

[Ghost Sonata]

One per composer:...

That was a very good idea as I've gone around today with a hang-dog look from obsessing about the many composers I love whose memory I just offended...

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Dammit, I forgot Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Consider Bach and Handel deleted.

Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel

[ritter]

My list today would look like this (minimal cheating--cf. the Ravel--, and most certainly not limited to one by composer):

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14, "Moonlight"
Beethoven: Ouvertüre Leonore III
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Berg: Lulu-Suite
Berio: Sinfonia
Boulez: Dérive 2
Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
Boulez: Pli selon pli
Casella: La Giara
Debussy: Études pour piano
Debussy: Images pour orchestre
Debussy: Jeux
Enescu: Piano Quintet, op. 29
Falla: El retablo de Maese Pedro
Falla: El sombrero de tres picos
Falla / E. Halffter: Atlántida
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (piano and orchestra versions)
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Stravinsky: Agon
Stravinsky: Pulcinella
Stravinsky: Symphonies d'instruments à vent
Verdi: Falstaff
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Wagner: Parsifal

Strictly in alphabetical order, and ca. 50% of the list could see changes from one day to the next 

[Karl Henning]

Dammit, I forgot Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov. Consider Bach and Handel deleted.

That's tough.

I cannot say that you're wrong;  but that's tough   

[Jaakko Keskinen]

That's tough.

I cannot say that you're wrong;  but that's tough   

I know but I'm not the biggest fan of baroque there is. 

[Karl Henning]

Fair Disclosure:  I could not see Handel's way into my 30 favorite, either.

[nodogen]

(One per composer, no order)

Ligeti. Atmospheres
Part. Te deum
Ravel. Daphnis et Chloe
Scriabin. Sonata no.6
Haas. limited approximations
Andriessen. De staat
Bach. Partita no.2
Boulez. Sur incises
Chopin. 3 nocturnes, op.9
Coates. Symphony no.14
Gorecki. Symphony no.3
Murail. Desintegrations
Rzewski. The people united will never be defeated!
Sumera. Musica profana
Bartok. String quartet no.4
Messiaen. Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Bruckner. Symphony no.8
Sibelius. Symphony no.6
Faure. Ballade in F sharp, op.19
Kurtag. Hommage a Mihaly Andras, op.13
Brahms. Symphony no.4
Liszt. Funerailles
Penderecki. String quartet no.3
Rachmaninoff. Piano sonata no.2
Scelsi. Pfhat
Takemitsu. Spirit garden
Szymanowski. Piano sonata no.3
Vaughan Williams. Symphony no.8
Nielsen. Symphony no.5
Debussy. Preludes

[North Star]

(One per composer, no order)

Ligeti. Atmospheres
Part. Te deum
Ravel. Daphnis et Chloe
Scriabin. Sonata no.6
Haas. limited approximations
Andriessen. De staat
Bach. Partita no.2
Boulez. Sur incises
Chopin. 3 nocturnes, op.9
Coates. Symphony no.14
Gorecki. Symphony no.3
Murail. Desintegrations
Rzewski. The people united will never be defeated!
Sumera. Musica profana
Bartok. String quartet no.4
Messiaen. Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Bruckner. Symphony no.8
Sibelius. Symphony no.6
Faure. Ballade in F sharp, op.19
Kurtag. Hommage a Mihaly Andras, op.13
Brahms. Symphony no.4
Liszt. Funerailles
Penderecki. String quartet no.3
Rachmaninoff. Piano sonata no.2
Scelsi. Pfhat
Takemitsu. Spirit garden
Szymanowski. Piano sonata no.3
Vaughan Williams. Symphony no.8
Nielsen. Symphony no.5
Debussy. Preludes

Wonderful list. Is the Bach Partita for solo violin or harpsichord?

[nodogen]

Wonderful list. Is the Bach Partita for solo violin or harpsichord?

😊

Solo violin. Afraid I'm not a fan of the typewriter.

[Christo]

Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes

Another admirer here; most elusive final 'round' (dance) ever. 

[Xenophanes]

Brahms, Clarinet Quintet----Kell, Fine Arts Qt.

Mussorgsky- -Ravel, Pictures----Ansermet, SRO

Beethoven, Symphonies ------Leibowitz

Beethoven, Symphony no. 4----- Ansermet, Leibowitz

Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 ---- Leibowitz, Ansermet, Suitner

Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 --- Amsermet, Leibowitz

Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 --- Suitner, Leibowitz

Bach, 6 Brandenburg Concerto ---- Karl Ristenpart, Chamber Orchestra of the Saar

Bach, Magnificat ---- Prohaska

Brahms, Symphonies 1, 2, and 3 -----Walter, Columbia SO

Brahms, Symphony no. 4 ------Reiner, Royal Phil.

Sibelius, Symphonies ----- Maazel, Vninienna Phil.

Sibelius, Lemminkainen Suite, etc. ---- Gibson, Stein                 

Haydn, Symphonies 82-86 ----- Marriner, ASMF

Haydn, Symphony nos. 22, 77 ----Ward

Puccini, La Boheme ---- Beecham

Mozart, Symphonies nos.35 (Krips, RPO) and 41 (Leibowitz, Davis)

Rachmaninoff, Symphony no. 2--Ormandy

Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto no. 3--Horowitz, Reiner

Rachmaninoff, Isle of the Dead---- Reiner

Mayuzumi, Samsara --- Louisville Orch., Hong Kong Phil.

Schumann, Symphonies ---- Wit, Polish NRSO

[Mirror Image]

I suppose a new list is in order and I'm trying to keep the one work per composer idea (in no particular):

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3
Sibelius: Symphony No. 4
Nielsen: Symphony No. 3, "Sinfonia espansiva"
Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra
Schnittke: Cello Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Stravinsky: Apollo
Janáček: String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Ives: Symphony No. 4
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
Martinů: Musique de Chambre No. 1, "Les fêtes nocturnes"
Copland: Appalachian Spring
Szymanowski: Litany for the Virgin Mary
Berg: Lyric Suite
Britten: Nocturne
Hartmann: Symphonische Hymnen
Takemitsu: Toward the Sea (all three arrangements)
Barber: Violin Concerto
Duruflé: Requiem
Tippett: Double Concerto
Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 6
Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes
Chávez: Sinfonia india "Symphony No. 2"
Revueltas: La noche de los Mayas
Pärt: Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten

[Madiel]

Ravel snuck in there twice. An interesting list.

I haven't dared even try to do one myself yet...

[Mirror Image]

Ravel snuck in there twice. An interesting list.

I haven't dared even try to do one myself yet...

Thanks for the correction. Revueltas' La noche de los Mayas is added to my list.