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Chronochromie

Messiaen: Turangalila-Symphonie +2
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie +1
Stravinsky Le Sacre du Printemps -1

Mahlerian

Debussy: Etudes +2
Monteverdi: Madrigals Book 8 +1
Shostakovich: Symphony 5 - 1
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

coffee

#102
+2 Shostakovich Symphony 5 (but it will only have 1 point; I will pretend that I voted before Mahlerian to make the numbers work)
+1 Mozart Don Giovanni
-1 Stravinsky sacre


Tier 5: (most strongly recommended):
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Tier 4
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître
Ligeti: Études
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Tier 3:
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Berg: Wozzeck
Berio: Sinfonia
Debussy: Études for piano
Debussy: La mer
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques
Mahler: Symphony #9
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 2:
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Josquin: Nymphes des bois (La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem) 
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
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)
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
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
Crumb: Black Angels
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Enescu: Chamber Symphony in E, op. 33
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
Josquin: Miserere
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Orff: Carmina Burana
Orff: Der Mond
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93
Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D, op. 43
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Stravinsky: Noces
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique" in B minor, op. 74
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention), including Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons)

Tier 0 (not yet or not officially recommended):
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Cage: 4'33"
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
All other works!

Androcles

Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov   +2
Bach: Mass in B minor          +1
Grisey Espaces                    -1
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

SimonNZ

Debussy Preludes +2
Machaut Messe de Nostre Dame +1
Bruckner Symphony 8 -1

Trout

+2 Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
+1 Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
-1 Boulez: Le marteau sans maître

musicrom

Sibelius: Symphony No. 5, +2
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, +1
Debussy: La mer, -1

GioCar

Schumann: Études Symphoniques Op. 13 +2
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem +1
Puccini: Madama Butterfly -1 (don't take it too personally my dear avatar, it's just a game... ;))

Glume Profusion

+2 Schubert: String Quintet
+1 Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
-1 Debussy: Études

ritter

Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92  +2
Berio: Sinfonia +1
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem ("A German Requiem"), op. 45 -1

All "Bs" this time around  ;)

coffee

+2 Beethoven 9
+1 Wagner Ring
-1 Mozart Figaro

Tier 5: (most strongly recommended):
Bach, JS: Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Tier 4
Bach, JS: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, BWV 1001-1006
Berio: Sinfonia
Beethoven: Symphony #7 in A, op. 92
Debussy: Préludes, Books 1 & 2
Ligeti: Études
Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie
Monteverdi: The 8th Madrigal Book, Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi (Madrigals of War and Love)
Sibelius: Symphony #5 in E-flat, op. 82

Tier 3:
Bach, JS: Matthäus-Passion (Matthew Passion), BWV 244
Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" ("Heroic") in E-flat, op. 55
Beethoven: Symphony #9 "Choral" in D minor, op. 125
Berg: Wozzeck
Boulez: Le marteau sans maître
Mahler: Symphony #9
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (Hippolytus and Aricia)
Schubert: Winterreise, D. 911
Sibelius: Symphony #7 in C, op. 105
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung)
Wagner: Parsifal

Tier 2:
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051
Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114
Biber: Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas
Chopin: Preludes, op. 28
Debussy: Études for piano
Debussy: La mer
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques
Handel: Messiah, HWV 56
Haydn: Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
Josquin: Nymphes des bois (La Déploration de Johannes Ockeghem) 
Mahler: Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
Mahler: Symphony #6 in A minor
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Piano Concerto #24 in C minor, K. 491
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Ockeghem: Missa prolationum
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Reich: Music for 18 Musicians
Schoenberg: Serenade, op. 24
Schubert: String Quartet #14 "Death and the Maiden" in D minor, D. 810
Schubert: String Quintet in C, D. 956
Schumann: Études Symphoniques (Symphonic Studies), op. 13
Shostakovich: Symphony #8 in C minor, op. 65
Stockhausen: Gruppen for 3 orchestras
Stravinsky: Agon
Tallis: Spem in Alium
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #6 "Pathétique" in B minor, op. 74
Verdi: Falstaff
Wagner: Der Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Master-Singers of Nuremberg)

Tier 1:
Adams: Harmonielehre
Anon.: Dies irae (Gregorian chant)
Antheil: Ballet Mécanique
Beethoven: Symphony #5 in C minor, op. 67
Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, op. 61
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
Bruckner: Symphony #8 in C minor
Cage: Music of Changes
Crumb: Black Angels
Dvořák: String Quartet #12 "American" in F, op. 96
Enescu: Chamber Symphony in E, op. 33
Dvořák: Symphony #9 "From the New World" in E minor, op. 95
Gesualdo: Madrigals, Book 6
Josquin: Miserere
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat, op. 20
Nielsen: Symphony #4 "The Inextinguishable," op. 29
Orff: Carmina Burana
Orff: Der Mond
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli (Pope Marcellus Mass)
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Shostakovich: Symphony #5 in D minor, op. 47
Shostakovich: Symphony #10 in E minor, op. 93
Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D, op. 43
Stravinsky: Jeu de cartes
Stravinsky: Noces
Takemitsu: From Me Flows What You Call Time
Vivaldi: Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention), including Le quattro staggioni (The Four Seasons)

Tier 0 (not yet or not officially recommended):
Barber: Symphony #1 (in one movement), op. 9
Cage: 4'33"
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 16
Harvey: Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco
All other works!

Androcles

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 +2
Mozart Symphony 40 +1
Ligeti Etudes -1
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Mahlerian

Stravinsky: Les Noces +2
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor +1
Haydn: The Creation - 1
"l do not consider my music as atonal, but rather as non-tonal. I feel the unity of all keys. Atonal music by modern composers admits of no key at all, no feeling of any definite center." - Arnold Schoenberg

Chronochromie

Schumann: Piano Quintet +2
Debussy: La Mer +1
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 3 -1

Ken B

Quote from: musicrom on November 14, 2016, 07:06:34 PM

Debussy: La mer, -1


WELCOME TO GMG!!!!!!

TD

Victoria Requiem (the big one) 2
Schoenberg Transfigured Night(sextet) 1
Debussy La Mer -1

SimonNZ

Stravinsky Les Noces +2
Messiaen Turangalila +1
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen -1

nathanb

Stockhausen +2
Stravinsky Rite +1
Puccini -1

Glume Profusion

+2 Bach: Goldberg Variations
+1 Verdi: Otello
-1 Orff: Der Mond

GioCar

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 +2
Gesualdo: Madrigals book 6 +1
Orff: Carmina Burana -1

Chronochromie

Debussy: La Mer +2
Grisey: Espaces acoustiques +1
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) -1 (this really shouldn't be considered a single work)