Your ‘Top 10’ Favorite Works Of All-Time

[Brian]

This is impossible!!!!!!
I'll try it. 

Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 30
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
Chopin - Ballade No. 4
Dvořák - Symphony No. 8
Haydn - Symphony No. 92 (or 98, or 103, or...)
Janáček - Sinfonietta
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin (piano, not orchestra)
Roussel - Bacchus et Ariane
Schubert - Impromptus D. 935
Schubert - String Quintet D. 956

A further list of works that, when I am listening to them, I think surely must be in the top 10:

Fauré - Requiem
Sibelius - Symphony No. 5
R. Strauss - Four Last Songs
Tchaikovsky - Sleeping Beauty

Divertimento à l'Hongroise D.818

Super underrated but always popping into my head.

EDIT: Wow, only one Beethoven work selected before I got here.

[amw]

EDIT: Wow, only one Beethoven work selected before I got here.

Here's 10 albeit a somewhat boring 10:

Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor op.111
Piano Sonata No.30 in E major op.109
Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flat major op.106
String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major op.74
String Quartet No.14 in C-sharp minor op.131
String Quartet No.13 in B-flat major op.130/133
Missa Solemnis op.123
Piano Trio No.6 in E-flat major op.70 no.2
Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor op.5 no.2
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor op.37

[some guy]

Any list with opus 111 and 131 is NOT a boring list.

[SimonNZ]

Any list with opus 111 and 131 is NOT a boring list.

Your list, I think, would be particularly interesting.

[Karl Henning]

Feldman: Triadic Memories
Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
Weinberg: Pf Quintet
Copland: Sextet
Brahms: Chorale Preludes
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
JSB: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
RVW Flos campi
Andriessen: Hoketus

[Mirror Image]

Feldman: Triadic Memories
Cage: Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano
Weinberg: Pf Quintet
Copland: Sextet
Brahms: Chorale Preludes
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps
JSB: Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch
Haydn: Harmoniemesse
RVW Flos campi
Andriessen: Hoketus

No Stravinsky, Schoenberg, or Shostakovich, Karl? Shocking!

[Karl Henning]

No Stravinsky, Schoenberg, or Shostakovich, Karl? Shocking!

It's du jour, John!

[Mirror Image]

It's du jour, John!

Ah, très bien.

[some guy]

Your list, I think, would be particularly interesting.

Well, only if I could have 100 instead of ten. And even 100 might kill me. There's just too much music. When I was ten, I might have been able to play this game. But now? Not a chance! (I want to say, "I wouldn't know where to begin," but the real problem is that I wouldn't know where to stop.)

[Papy Oli]

Some long established favourites of mine :

Arvo Part - Kanon Pokajanen
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.4 Op.7
Chopin - Ballade No.1
Mahler - Symphony No.2
Bruckner - Symphony No.8
Rameau - Pièces de Clavecin (1724  - includes Le Rappel des Oiseaux)
Tallis - Salve intemerata

The new entries :

Arnold - 9th symphony (or Grand grand Festival overture or Peterloo)
Finzi - Eclogue
Any of RVW 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 8 for that last spot.

[Biffo]

Here's 10 albeit a somewhat boring 10:

Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor op.111
Piano Sonata No.30 in E major op.109
Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flat major op.106
String Quartet No.10 in E-flat major op.74
String Quartet No.14 in C-sharp minor op.131
String Quartet No.13 in B-flat major op.130/133
Missa Solemnis op.123
Piano Trio No.6 in E-flat major op.70 no.2
Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor op.5 no.2
Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor op.37

Some might consider my favourite 10 even more boring (conventional)-

Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor op.111
Piano Sonata No.29 in B-flat major op.106
String Quartet No.15 in A minor op.132
Missa Solemnis op.123
Piano Concerto No.4 in G major
Fidelio
Symphony No 3 in E flat major Eroica
Symphony No 7 in A major
Symphony No 9 in D minor
Coriolan Overture

[San Antone]

Well, only if I could have 100 instead of ten. And even 100 might kill me. There's just too much music. When I was ten, I might have been able to play this game. But now? Not a chance! (I want to say, "I wouldn't know where to begin," but the real problem is that I wouldn't know where to stop.)

I had to work to get to ten.  99% of the music I listen to is enjoyable and very important to my well-being.  But only a tiny handful of works rise above to a level that touch me so deeply that I cannot imagine living without them.

Nice list, Karl.  With the exception of Flos campi, a work I've never heard (RVW is not a composer I listen to) the rest are among some of my own favorites even if they did not make my list.

[Karl Henning]

I had to work to get to ten.  99% of the music I listen to is enjoyable and very important to my well-being.  But only a tiny handful of works rise above to a level that touch me so deeply that I cannot imagine living without them.

Nice list, Karl.  With the exception of Flos campi, a work I've never heard (RVW is not a composer I listen to) the rest are among some of my own favorites even if they did not make my list.

Cheers!

[Total Rafa]

Don't know about 'Top 10', 'All-Time', and the like, but here's 10.   

Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Beethoven: Waldstein Sonata
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
Fauré: Requiem
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor "In memory of a great artist"
Schubert: String Quintet