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The TC Top 200 Most Recommended Orchestral Works
The results of a poll conducted by Trout whom we all thank for the hard work he put into this.
1. Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
2. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos 3. Debussy - Prélude à L'Après-midi d'un Faune 10’ 4. Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra 5. Ravel - Daphnis et Chloé 6. Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 7. Debussy - La Mer 8. Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie 9. Stravinsky - Petrushka 10. Stravinsky - The Firebird 11. Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker 12. Mozart - Serenade No. 10 "Gran Partita" 13. Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade 14. Bach - Orchestral Suites 15. Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra 16. Barber - Adagio for Strings 17. Handel - Water Music 18. Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet 19. Smetana - Má Vlast 20. Copland - Appalachian Spring 21. Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta 22. Holst - The Planets 23. Grieg - Peer Gynt 24. Debussy - Nocturnes 25. Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture 26. Varèse - Amériques 27. Respighi - The Pines of Rome 28. Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn 29. Sibelius - Finlandia 30. Beethoven - Egmont 31. Ives - The Unanswered Question 32. Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Overture 33. Ravel - Pavane pour une Infante Défunte 34. Debussy - Images pour Orchestre 35. Mozart - Serenade No. 13 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" 36. Strauss - Tod und Verklärung 37. Grieg - Holberg Suite 38. Elgar - Enigma Variations 39. Strauss - Metamorphosen 40. Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake 41. Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream 61’ 42. Dvořák - Serenade for Strings 43. Webern - Six Pieces for Orchestra 44. Sibelius – Tapiola 18’ 45. Strauss - Ein Heldenleben 46. Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf 47. Handel - Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 48. Gershwin - An American in Paris 49. Brahms - Tragic Overture 50. Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings 51. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht 52. Dukas - The Sorcerer's Apprentice 53. Stockhausen - Gruppen 54. J. Strauss II - The Blue Danube 55. Liszt - Les Préludes 56. Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks 57. Britten - The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra 58. Sibelius - Lemminkäinen Suite 59. Rachmaninoff - Isle of the Dead 20’ 60. Rachmaninoff - Symphonic Dances 61. Strauss - Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche 62. Dvořák - Slavonic Dances 19’ 63. Stravinsky – Pulcinella suite is 24’ whole work is 40’ 64. Falla - El Sombrero de Tres Picos 65. Rimsky-Korsakov - Capriccio Espagnol 66. Bartók - The Miraculous Mandarin 67. Ravel - La Valse 68. Brahms - Academic Festival Overture 69. Wagner - Siegfried Idyll 70. Bartók - Divertimento for String Orchestra 71. Debussy - Jeux 72. Berg - Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite 73. Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty 74. Ives - Three Places in New England 75. Ligeti - Atmosphères 76. Ravel - Le Tombeau de Couperin 77. Mendelssohn - The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave) 78. Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy 79. Fauré - Pavane 80. Adams - Harmonielehre 81. Bax - Tintagel 82. Britten - Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes 83. Saint-Saëns - Danse Macabre 8’ 84. Strauss - Don Juan 85. Sibelius - Pohjola's Daughter 86. Webern - Passacaglia 87. Pärt - Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten 88. Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Festival Overture 14’ 89. Barber - Second Essay for Orchestra 90. Rebel - Les Élémens 91. Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima 9’ 92. Hindemith - Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber 93. Beethoven - Leonore Overture No. 3 94. Ravel - Rapsodie Espagnole 16’ 95. Lutosławski - Concerto for Orchestra 96. Bizet - L'Arlésienne 18’ 97. Villa-Lobos - Uirapuru 98. Sibelius - The Wood-Nymph 99. Respighi - The Fountains of Rome 15’ 100. Vaughan Williams - Job: A Masque for Dancing 101. Schubert - Rosamunde 102. Schoenberg - Five Pieces for Orchestra 103. Prokofiev - Scythian Suite 104. Copland - Rodeo 105. Holst - St. Paul's Suite 106. Milhaud - La Création du Monde 107. Sibelius - En Saga 108. Falla - El Amor Brujo 109. Brahms - Serenade No. 1 110. Prokofiev - Cinderella 111. Elgar - Introduction and Allegro 112. Dvořák - The Noon Witch 113. Glazunov - The Seasons 114. Mozart - Serenade No. 9 "Posthorn" 115. Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia 116. Xenakis - Metastasis 117. Lully - Ballet d'Alcidiane 118. Varèse - Ionisation 119. Liszt - Mazeppa 120. Enescu - Romanian Rhapsodies 11’ 121. Saint-Saëns - The Carnival of the Animals 122. Berg - Three Pieces for Orchestra 123. Schoenberg - Pelleas und Melisande 124. Ravel - Boléro 125. Janáček - Taras Bulba 126. Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 1 127. Barber - First Essay for Orchestra 128. Khachaturian - Gayane 129. Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance Marches 130. Varèse - Déserts 131. Messiaen - Éclairs sur L'Au-Delà… 132. Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasilieras No. 4 133. Ives - Central Park in the Dark 134. Ravel - Valses Nobles et Sentimentales 135. Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 136. Schumann - Manfred 137. Dvořák - In Nature's Realm 138. Dvořák - The Water Goblin 139. Ravel - Ma Mère L'Oye 140. Sibelius - Karelia Suite 141. Sibelius - Kullervo 142. Takemitsu - Spirit Garden 143. Berlioz - Roman Carnival Overture 144. Stravinsky - Agon 145. Alfvén - Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 "Midsommarvaka" 146. Beethoven - Coriolan Overture 147. Dutilleux - Mystère de L'Instant 148. Dvořák - Symphonic Variations 149. Shostakovich - Festive Overture 150. Webern - Im Sommerwind 151. Britten - Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge 152. Schoenberg - Variations for Orchestra 153. Prokofiev - Lieutenant Kijé Suite 154. Adam - Giselle 155. J. Strauss I - Radetzky March 156. Mozart - Serenade No. 7 "Haffner" 157. Delius - On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 158. Biber - Battalia à 10 159. Delibes - Coppélia 160. Stravinsky - Apollo 161. Stravinsky - Concerto in E-flat "Dumbarton Oaks" 162. Janáček - Idyll for String Orchestra 163. Bartók - The Wooden Prince 164. Webern - Variations for Orchestra 165. Fauré - Pelléas et Mélisande 166. Ligeti - Chamber Concerto 167. Chabrier - España 168. Ippolitov-Ivanov - Caucasian Sketches 169. Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances 170. J. Strauss II - Morgenblätter 171. Rautavaara - Cantus Arcticus 172. Barber - The School for Scandal Overture 173. Copland - Billy the Kid 174. Barber - Music for a Scene from Shelley 175. Adams - Shaker Loops 176. Ibert - Escales 177. Ginastera - Estancia 178. Brahms - Serenade No. 2 179. Roussel - Bacchus et Ariane 180. Grieg - Funeral March in Memory of Rikard Nordraak 181. Copland - El Salón México 182. Mendelssohn - Ruy Blas Overture 183. Varèse - Arcana 184. Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini 185. Elgar - Serenade for Strings 186. Koechlin - Le Livre de la Jungle 187. Sibelius - The Oceanides 188. Lutosławski - Musique Funèbre 189. Honegger - Pacific 231 190. Sibelius - Nightride and Sunrise 191. Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasilieras No. 2 192. Khachaturian - Spartacus 193. Bax - November Woods 194. Tchaikovsky - Capriccio Italien 195. Wirén - Serenade for Strings 196. Copland - Lincoln Portrait 197. Suk - Serenade for Strings 198. Stravinsky - Jeu de Cartes 199. Ligeti - Lontano 200. Berlioz - Le Corsaire Overture
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