Your top 8 (or any number of) chamber works (or any other kind)

[vandermolen]

Time to make a list (in no particular order):

Ravel: Violin Sonata (1927)
Ravel: Piano Trio
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp
Debussy: Violin Sonata
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Janáček: Violin Sonata
Janáček: Pohádka
Szymanowski: Mythes

Very much agree with these choices thought don't know the Janacek.

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Very much agree with these choices thought don't know the Janacek.

Both of the works or just one of them?

[vandermolen]

Both of the works or just one of them?

Both. I like the piano work 'Along the Overgrown Path'.

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Both. I like the piano work 'Along the Overgrown Path'.

Wow, yeah, Jeffrey. You definitely should check out those two works. The last time I listened to On the Overgrown Path was about four or five years ago (the Crossley recording on Decca). Very nice work indeed.

[Brian]

1. Schubert - String Quintet in C, D956

hmm...what else...

Dvorak - Sextet, String Quintet Op. 77, Piano Quintet, Trio "Dumky"
Schumann - Piano Quintet
Taneyev - Piano Quintet
Brahms - Clarinet Quintet
Martinu - Nonet
Mendelssohn - Octet, both piano trios
Faure - Piano Quartet No. 1
Dohnanyi - Sextet
Nielsen - Wind Quintet

Golijov's Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind is a superb choice. Also Penderecki's Sextet, Copland's Sextet, Gabriela Lena Frank's Hilos, and Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Cello and Piano.

[vandermolen]

Wow, yeah, Jeffrey. You definitely should check out those two works. The last time I listened to On the Overgrown Path was about four or five years ago (the Crossley recording on Decca). Very nice work indeed.

I bought the DGG double album (LP) of Janacek's 'On the Overgrown Path' for 25p when I was at university in the north of England in the 1970s. Apparently it was from a shop which had been bomb damaged by the IRA in Northern Ireland. I bought that and Beecham's EMI LP of Sibelius Symphony 7 etc, Prokofiev and Shostakovich's first symphonies and Stravinsky's 'Firebird' all for £1.00. 

[vandermolen]

1. Schubert - String Quintet in C, D956

hmm...what else...

Dvorak - Sextet, String Quintet Op. 77, Piano Quintet, Trio "Dumky"
Schumann - Piano Quintet
Taneyev - Piano Quintet
Brahms - Clarinet Quintet
Martinu - Nonet
Mendelssohn - Octet, both piano trios
Faure - Piano Quartet No. 1
Dohnanyi - Sextet
Nielsen - Wind Quintet

Golijov's Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind is a superb choice. Also Penderecki's Sextet, Copland's Sextet, Gabriela Lena Frank's Hilos, and Lera Auerbach's 24 Preludes for Cello and Piano.

Interesting choices. I like the music of Tanayev and Dohnanyi as well as Martinu and Nielsen so must look out for some of these works.

[Jo498]

The Dohnanyi sextet is one of my favorites for "mixed" (horn, clarinet, piano, string trio) chamber music and I would almost have named it as well. It's unabashedly romantic (written in the 1930s) and colorful. There are several good recordings, e.g. the one on Naxos.

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I bought the DGG double album (LP) of Janacek's 'On the Overgrown Path' for 25p when I was at university in the north of England in the 1970s. Apparently it was from a shop which had been bomb damaged by the IRA in Northern Ireland. I bought that and Beecham's EMI LP of Sibelius Symphony 7 etc, Prokofiev and Shostakovich's first symphonies and Stravinsky's 'Firebird' all for £1.00.

Very nice, Jeffrey. Thanks for the anecdote.

[ritter]

Let's see, let's see...I suppose the addition of the human voice to the "up to 9 instruments" limit set out in the OP does not violate the rules.

- Pierre Boulez: Le Marteau sans maître
- Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- W.A. Mozart: String Quintet No. 3 in C, KV 515
- Georges Enesco: Piano quintet op. 29
- Igor Stravinsky: Septet
- Claude Debussy: Danses, sacrée et profane (version for harp and string quartet)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen: Zeitmaße
- Luciano Berio: O King for mezzosoprano and five instruments

[vandermolen]

The Dohnanyi sextet is one of my favorites for "mixed" (horn, clarinet, piano, string trio) chamber music and I would almost have named it as well. It's unabashedly romantic (written in the 1930s) and colorful. There are several good recordings, e.g. the one on Naxos.

Excellent! Very many thanks.
I just sampled it on Amazon and it sounds great. So I have purchased a second hand CD of it on the ASV label. Something else to smuggle into the house. 

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- Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé
- Claude Debussy: Danses, sacrée et profane (version for harp and string quartet)

Yes to both of these! Some of my favorite music....ever.

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Yes to both of these! Some of my favorite music....ever.

Don't know the Ravel but that Debussy work is beautiful - one of my absolute favourites which I should have included in my original list.

[North Star]

Don't know the Ravel but that Debussy work is beautiful - one of my absolute favourites which I should have included in my original list.

High time you fix that, Jeffrey! Here's the first number, performed by Felicity Palmer, Nash Ensemble & Simon Rattle
https://www.youtube.com/v/Fpf0fg1RCyg

[aukhawk]

I must check out that Debussy.

Until then ...

Schubert String Quintet
Shostakovich Piano Trio
Shostakovitch Piano Quintet
Mendelssohn Octet

... er, that's it really.  I generally dislike the sound of piano and strings in combination, so the wide world of Piano Trios (and Violin Sonatas) is largely lost to me.

[ritter]

Don't know the Ravel but that Debussy work is beautiful - one of my absolute favourites which I should have included in my original list.

If you like the Danses, vandermolen, I urge you (if you haven't done so yet) to explore Debussy's own reduction for two pianos...it's fantastic IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/v/8WUowrWF0d8
Available on this excellent set (the YouTube was actually ubloaded by one of the pianists, Marco Rapetti):

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[Jo498]

Schubert String Quintet
Shostakovich Piano Trio
Shostakovitch Piano Quintet
Mendelssohn Octet

... er, that's it really.  I generally dislike the sound of piano and strings in combination, so the wide world of Piano Trios (and Violin Sonatas) is largely lost to me.

what about winds + strings or woodwinds + piano (or even winds only like Nielsen's or Rejcha's quintets)?

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Don't know the Ravel but that Debussy work is beautiful - one of my absolute favourites which I should have included in my original list.

Not to undermine Karlo's (North Star) choice of Palmer/Rattle, I would listen to Jill Gomez/Boulez. Right now, this performance is the most exquisite I've heard.

[Rons_talking]

A few I haven't seen:

Bartok: Contrasts
Dahl: Concert a Tres
Copland: Nonet

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A few I haven't seen:

Bartok: Contrasts
Dahl: Concert a Tres
Copland: Nonet

Not really a question of what has or hasn't been listed, but what's your top 8.