1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die

Pre-1700

• Anonymous – Carmina Burana (Clemencic Consort)
• Hildegard of Bingen – Antiphons (Sequentia: Canticles of Ecstasy)
• Guillaume de Machaut – Ballades (Early Music Consort of London: The Art of Courtly Love)
• Francesco Landini – Ballatas and Songs (Anonymous 4: The Second Circle)
• Guillaume Dufay – Motets (Huelgas Ensemble: O Gemma Lux)
• Antoine Busnoys – Motets (Binchois Consort: Missa L’homme armé)
• Jean de Ockeghem – Alma redemptoris mater (The Clerks’ Group: Missa Mi-Mi)
• John Browne – Stabat mater (Tallis Scholars: Music from the Eton Choirbook)
• Josquin des Prez – Missa Pange lingua (Tallis Scholars)
• John Taverner – The Western Wynde Mass (Tallis Scholars)
• Nicolas Gombert – Motets (Henry’s Eight: Eight-Part Credo)
• Cristóbal de Morales – Motets (Ensemble Plus Ultra: Morales en Toledo)
• Antonio de Cabezón – Diferencias (Accentus Ensemble: Tientos y Glosados)
• Thomas Tallis – Lamentations of Jeremiah (Hilliard Ensemble)
• Orlande de Lassus – Motets (The Cardinall’s Musick: Missa Surge Propera)
• Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina – Missa Papae Marcelli (The Sixteen: Allegri Miserere)
• Thomas Tallis – Spem in alium (Choir of Winchester Cathedral)
• Tomás Luis de Victoria – O magnum mysterium (Victoria Voices and Viols: Motets)
• Francisco Guerrero – Battle Mass (Westerminster Cathedral Choir)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Madrigals (Tragicomedia: Madrigali Concertati)
• William Byrd – My Ladye Nevells Book (Christopher Hogwood)
• William Byrd – Masses (The Cardinall’s Musick: The Masses)
• Carlo Gesualdo – Madrigals (La Venexiana: Quarto libro de Madrigali)
• John Dowland – Lute Songs (Charles Daniels & David Miller: Sweet Stay Awhile)
• Giovanni Gabrieli – Sacrae symphoniae (Gabrieli Consort and Players: Music for San Rocco)
• John Wilbye – Madrigals (Consort of Musicke: The Silver Swan)
• Orlando Gibbons – Anthems (Choir of Winchester Cathedral)
• Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck – Organ Works (Masaaki Suzuki: Psalms from Geneva)
• John Dowland – Lachrimae or Seaven Teares (Parley of Instruments: Complete Works for Lute, Vol. 4)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Orfeo (Monteverdi Choir: L’Orfeo)
• Girolamo Frescobaldi – Keyboard Works (Sergio Vartolo: Keyboard Music, Fantasie Book I)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Vespers (Taverner Consort, Choirs & Players: Vespro della Beata Vergine)
• Thomas Weelkes – Anthems (Choir of Winchester Cathedral: Cathedral Music)
• Thomas Campion – Books of Ayres (Steven Rickards & Dorothy Linell: Lute Songs)
• Thomas Tomkins – Anthems (Choir of St. George’s Chapel: Cathedral Music)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Combattimento (Le Concert d’Astrée)
• John Jenkins – Fantasias (Fretwork: The Mirrour and Wonder of his Age)
• William Lawes – Consort Setts (Phantasm: Consorts in Four and Five Parts)
• Heinrich Schütz – Musikalische Exequien (The Sixteen)
• Gregorio Allegri – Miserere mei Deus (Tallis Scholars: Music Featured on the South Bank Show)
• Claudio Monteverdi – Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Concentus Musicus Wien)
• Claudio Monteverdi – L’incoronazione di Poppea (City of London Baroque Sinfonia)
• Giacomo Carissimi – Jephte (Gabrieli Consort & Players: Jephthah/The Judgement Of Solomon/Jonah)
• Barbara Strozzi – Cantatas (Ensemble Musica Fiorita: Cantates)
• Francesco Cavalli – La Calisto (Maria Bayo & Marcello Lippi)
• Heinrich Schütz – The Christmas Story (Gabrieli Consort & Players: Christmas Vespers)
• Dietrich Buxtehude – Organ Music (Julia Brown)
• Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber – Mystery Sonatas (Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr & Alison McGillivray: The Rosary Sonatas)
• Henry Purcell – Anthems (Choir of New College, Oxford: The Complete Anthems and Services 6)
• Henry Purcell – Chacony in G minor (Parley of Instruments: Ayres for the Theatre)
• Michel-Richard de Lalande – Grand Motets (Les Arts Florissants: Te Deum)
• Henry Purcell – Fantasias (Rose Consort of Viols)
• John Blow – Venus and Adonis (New London Consort: Venus & Adonis)
• Henry Purcell – Dido and Aeneas (Academy of Ancient Music and Chorus: Dido & Aeneas)
• Jean-Baptiste Lully – Armide (Collegium Vocale)
• Alessandro Scarlatti – Cantatas (The King’s Consort: Salve Regina; Cantatas & Motets)
• Juan de Araujo – Dixit Dominus (Ex Cathedra: Moon, Sun & All Things)
• Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Te Deum (Les Arts Florissants)
• Henry Purcell – The Fairy Queen (Schütz Choir of London/London Classical Players)
• Henry Purcell – Come Ye Sons of Art, Away (Choir of New College, Oxford/The King’s Consort)
• Antonio Caldara – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis Orchestra)

1700-1760

• Arcangelo Corelli – Twelve Concerti Grossi, op. 6 (Brandenburg Consort)
• Antonio Vivaldi – Gloria, RV 589 (Taverner Consort: Gloria, Magnificat)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Preludes, Fantasias, Toccatas & Fugues (Gerhard Weinberger: Organ Works Vol. 8)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pièces de clavecin (Christophe Rousset)
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Trumpet Concerto in D major (Niklas Eklund: Art of the Baroque Trumpet, Vol. 1)
• Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for Two Trumpets (Mark Bennett, Michael Harrison & Trevor Pinnock: Mad About Vivaldi)
• Antonio Vivaldi – L’estro armonico (Federico Guglielmo & Christopher Hogwood)
• Antonio Vivaldi – Stabat mater (The King’s Consort: Vivaldi Sacred Music)
• François Couperin – Twenty-seven Ordres (Scott Ross: L’Intégrale de Clavecin au Château d’Assas)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Orgelbüchlein (Gerhard Weinberger: Organ Works Vol. 2)
• Antonio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans (The King’s Consort)
• George Frideric Handel – Water Music (English Baroque Scholars)
• Marin Marais – Pièces de viole, quatrième livre (Cristophe Coin & Christophe Rousset: Suitte d’un goût étranger)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Violin Concertos (Collegium Musicum 90)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Concerto for Two Violins (Hilary Hahn & Margaret Batjer: Bach Concertos)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suites (Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra: Suites)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Six Suites for Solo Cello (Torleif Thedéen)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin (Rachel Podger: Sonatas & Partitas Vol. 3)
• George Frideric Handel – Keyboard Suites (Sophie Yates: Harpsichord Works)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concertos (Hanover Band: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Magnificat (Collegium Vocale Gent: Christmas Cantatas)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Great Cantatas (Collegium Vocale Gent: Weinen, Klagen)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – St. John Passion (John Eliot Gardiner: Christmas Oratorio/St. Matthew Passion)
• George Frideric Handel – Guilio Cesare (Marc Minkowski)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Six English Suites (Christophe Rousset: Suites Anglaises)
• George Frideric Handel – Rodelinda (Alan Curtis)
• Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (Concerto Italiano: Le Quattro Stagioni)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Six Violin Sonatas (Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr & Jaap ter Linden: Violin Sonatas)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Keyboard Partitas (Gustav Leonhardt: 6 Partitas)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Motets (Monteverdi Choir: Motets BVW 225-231)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – St. Matthew Passion (Munich Bach Choir & Orchestra: Matthäus Passion)
• George Frideric Handel – Coronation Anthems (King’s College Choir)
• John Gay – The Beggar’s Opera (Jeremy Barlow)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – French Suites (Davitt Moroney)
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Paris Quartets (Gustav Leonhardt, Barthold, Sigiswald & Wieland Kujiken: Paris Quartets 1-12)
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Tafelmusik (Musica Antiqua Köln)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio (Collegium Aureum: Weihnachtsoratorium)
• George Frideric Handel – Ariodante (Marc Minkowski)
• George Frideric Handel – Organ Concertos (Brandenburg Consort)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Indes galantes (Les Arts Florissants)
• Giovanni Battista Pergolesi – Stabat mater (Helmut Müller-Brühl: Stabat Mater/Salve Regina)
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Castor et Pollux (Les Arts Florissants: Castor & Pollux)
• George Frideric Handel – Serse (William Christie)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Harpsichord Concertos (The English Consort: Concertos)
• George Frideric Handel – Concerti grossi, op. 6 (Academy of Ancient Music)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier (Gustav Leonhardt: Das Wohltemperierte Klavier 1)
• Domenico Scarlatti – Keyboard Sonatas (Benjamin Frith: Complete Keyboard Sonatas Vol. 5)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldberg Variations (Pierre Hantaï: Variations Goldberg)
• George Frideric Handel – Messiah (Clare College Choir/Freiburg Baroque Orchestra)
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Keyboard Sonatas (Bob van Asperen: Prussian Sonatas/Württemberg Sonatas)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – A Musical Offering (Musica Antiqua Köln: Musikalisches Opfer)
• George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabaeus (The King’s Consort)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – Mass in B minor (Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists)
• George Frideric Handel – Music for the Royal Fireworks (The King’s Consort: Musick for the Royal Fireworks)
• Johann Sebastian Bach – The Art of Fugue (Davitt Moroney: Die Kunst der Fuge)
• George Frideric Handel – Theodora (Gabrieli Consort and Players)
• William Boyce – Eight Symphonies, op. 2 (Aradia Ensemble)

1761-1800

• Joseph Haydn – Symphonies nos. 6-8 (Hanover Band)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice (Monteverdi Choir)
• Leopold Mozart – Trumpet Concerto (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Great Recordings of the Century)
• Joseph Haydn – Cello Concertos (Academy of Ancient Music)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Sonatas (Rachel Podger & Gary Cooper: Complete Sonatas for Keyboard and Violin, Vol. 2)
• Giuseppe Tartini – Violin Sonata in G minor, « The Devil’s Trill » (Ida Haendel & Geoffrey Parsons: Baroque Transcriptions)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste (Teresa Ringholz & Justin Lavender)
• Andre-Ernest-Modeste Grétry – Zémire et Azor (Mady Mesplé, Roland Bufkens & Jean-Claude Orliac)
• Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Sonatas (Alfred Brendel: 11 Piano Sonatas)
• Luigi Boccherini – String Quintets (Vanbrugh Quartet: Cello Quintets)
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no. 45, « Farewell » (Hanover Band: Symphony No 45 in F sharp)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – String Quintets (Amadeus Quartet: Die Streichquintette)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonatas (Mitsuko Uchida)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concerto no. 5, « Turkish » (New Philharmonic Orchestra: Violin Concertos/Wind Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 9, « Jeunehomme » (Concerto Köln: Piano Concertos)
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigénie en Tauride (John Eliot Gardiner)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia concertante in E flat major (Nikolaus Harnoncourt: The 5 Violin Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo, re di Creta (John Eliot Gardiner: Idomeneo)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – « Haydn » Quartets (Hagen Quartet: The String Quartets)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Karl Böhm)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Serenade in B flat major, « Gran partita » (English Chamber Orchestra: Wind Concertos/Serenade K361)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Mass in C minor « Great » (Monteverdi Choir: Great Mass in C Minor)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no. 36, « Linz » (Prague Chamber Orchestra)
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no. 83, « La poule » (Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 82-87)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 20 (English Chamber Orchestra: Piano Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 21 (English Chamber Orchestra: Piano Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 22 (English Baroque Soloists: Piano Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Horn Concerto no. 4 (Philharmonia Orchestra: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 23 (Bamberg Symphony Orchestra: Klavierkonzerte)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Marriage of Figaro (Charles Mackerras)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 24 (Rafael Kubelik & Clifford Curzon: Piano Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Quartet in E flat major (Leopold String Trio: Piano Quartet in G minor K478)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 25 (Colin Davis & Stephen Kovacevich: Piano Concertos 21 & 25)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no. 38, « Prague » (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Späte Symphonien)
• Joseph Haydn – Seven Last Words (Rosamunde Quartet: The Seven Words)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni (Carlo Maria Giulini)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 26, « Coronation » (Georg Szell & Robert Casadesus: Piano Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no. 39 (English Baroque Soloists: Symphones Nos. 38 & 39)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no. 40 (English Concert: The Symphonies)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no. 41, « Jupiter » (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 40 & 41)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – « Prussian » String Quartets (Petersen Quartet: 3 « Preussische » Quartette)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Quintet (Sabine Meyer: Clarinet and Horn Quintets)
• Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, op. 64 (The Lindsays)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Così fan tutte (Bernard Haitink)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ave verum corpus (Vienna Boys’ Choir: Requiem/Ave Verum)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Magic Flute (Colin Davis: Die Zauberflöte)
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no. 94, « Surprise » (Amsterdam Concertgebouw: Die Londoner Symphonien)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La clemenza di Tito (John Eliot Gardiner)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no. 27 (Ferenc Fricsay & Clara Haskil: Klavierkonzerte)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Concerto (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Complete Wind Concertos)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields & Chorus)
• Domenico Cimarosa – Il matrimonio segreto (La Scala Orchestra)
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no. 104, « London » (Berlin Philharmonic: Symphonies 83 « Hen », 101 « Clock » & 104 « London »)
• Joseph Haydn – Trumpet Concerto (Trevor Pinnock & Mark Bennett: Concertos)
• Luigi Cherubini – Médée (Leonard Bernstein: Medea)
• Joseph Haydn – Trumpet Concerto (Mark Bennett & Trevor Pinnock: Concertos)
• Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, op. 76 (Angeles Quartet: Complete String Quartets)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C minor, op. 13, « Pathétique » (Vladimir Ashkenazy: Favourite Piano Sonatas)
• Joseph Haydn – Mass in D minor, « Nelson » (English Concert & Choir: Missa in Angustiis « Nelson Mass »)
• Joseph Haydn – The Creation (Thomas Henglebrock: Die Schöpfung)
• John Field – Piano Concertos (Northern Sinfonia: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4)
• Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, op. 77 (Mosaïques Quartet: Trois Quatuors)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartets, op. 18 (Takács Quartet)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 1 (Cleveland Orchestra: Symphony No. 1/Symphony No. 6)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata in F major, op. 24, « Spring » (Adolf Busch & Rudolf Serkin: The European Busch-Serkin Duo Recordings Volume 1)

1801-1850

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2, « Moonlight » (Stephen Kovacevich: Klaviersonaten)
• Joseph Haydn – The Seasons (Herbert von Karajan: Die Jahreszeiten)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 2 (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Beethoven Complete Symphonies)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concertos no. 3 (Royal Concertgebouw: Piano Concertos)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 3, « Eroica » (Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique: 9 Symphonies)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata in A major, op. 47, « Kreutzer » (Gidon Kremer & Martha Argerich: Violinsonaten Nos. 9 « Kreutzer » & 10)
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trumpet Concerto (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Trumpet Concertos)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in F minor, op. 57, « Appassionata » (Daniel Barenboim: The Complete Piano Sonatas)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Triple Concerto (David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich & Sviatoslav Richter: Great Recordings of the Century)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major (Philharmonia Orchestra: Piano Concertos 4 & 5)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartets, op. 59, « Razumovsky » (The Lindsays: String Quartets)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 4 (Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century: The 9 Symphonies)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Concertos (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Violinkonzert/Violin Concerto)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 5 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in D major, op. 70, no. 1, « Ghost » (Florestan Trio: The Complete Music for Piano Trio – 1)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 6, « Pastoral » (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: Decca Recordings 1949-1955)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major (Vienna Philharmonic: The 5 Piano Concertos)
• Fernando Sor – Guitar Works (Adam Holzman: Morceau de Concert/Six Valses et un Galop)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in E flat major, op. 81A, « Les adieux » (Arthur Rubinstein: Beethoven Sonatas)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in B flat major, op. 97, « Archduke » (Beaux Arts Trio: Trios « Archduke » & « Ghost »)
• Carl Maria von Weber – Clarinet Concertos nos. 1 & 2 (Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment: Clarinet Concertos)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 7 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 8 (Berlin Staatskapelle: The Nine Symphonies)
• Carl Lowe – Ballads (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Jörg Demus: Balladen & Lieder)
• Gioachino Rossini – Tancredi (Alberto Zedda)
• Gioachino Rossini – L’italiana in Algeri (Jesús López-Cobos)
• Louis Spohr – Nonet in F major (Vienna Octet: Spohr Nonet)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio (Otto Klemperer)
• Franz Schubert – Lieder (Bryn Terfel & Malcolm Martineau: An Die Musik)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Cello Sonatas, op. 102 (Miklós Perényi & András Schiff: Complete Music for Piano and Violoncello)
• Nicolò Paganini – Violin Concertos nos. 1-6 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: Accardo Plays Paganini Complete Recordings)
• Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville (Giuseppe Patanè: Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
• Franz Schubert – Symphony no. 5 (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphonien No. 5 & 9)
• Nicolò Paganini – Twenty-four Caprices (Massimo Quarta: 24 Caprices)
• Franz Schubert – Violin Sonata in A major (Josef Suk & Jan Panenka: The Intimate Schubert)
• Gioachino Rossini – La cenerentola (Riccardo Chailly)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in B flat major, op. 106 « Hammerklavier » (François-Frédéric Guy: Piano Sonatas Hammerklavier)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Quintet in A major, « Trout » (Members of the Vienna Octet: Trout Quintet/Death and the Maiden)
• Frédéric Chopin – Mazurkas (Garrick Ohlsson: The Complete Chopin Piano Works Volume Eleven)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in E major, op. 109 (Alfred Brendel: The Late Piano Sonatas)
• Carl Maria von Weber – Der Freischütz (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in A flat major, op. 110 (Emil Gilels: Klaviersonaten Nos. 27, 28, 30 & 31)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C minor, op. 111 (Maurizio Pollini: Piano Sonatas)
• Franz Schubert – Symphony no. 8, « Unfinished » (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 8 « Unvollendete »)
• Franz Schubert – Fantasy in C major, « Wanderer » (Maurizio Pollini: Wanderer-Fantasie)
• Franz Schubert – Die schöne Müllerin (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Jörg Demus)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa solemnis (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Diabelli Variations (Piotr Anderszewski)
• Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga – String Quartets (Voces String Quartet: Complete String Quartets)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 9, « Choral » (Bayreuth Festival)
• Franz Schubert – Octet in F major, D803 (Nash Ensemble: Octet in F, D803)
• Franz Schubert – String Quartet in D minor, D810, « Death and the Maiden » (Emerson Quartet: The Late String Quartets)
• Franz Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata (Jean-Guihen Queyras & Alexandre Tharaud)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Late String Quartets (Takács Quartet)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Octet (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Octet in E-flat for Strings, op. 20)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Songs without Words (András Schiff: Piano Concertos 1 & 2)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in D major, D850 (Mitsuko Uchida)
• Gioachino Rossini – Il viaggio a Reims (Claudio Abbado)
• Franz Schubert – String Quartet in G major, D887 (Busch Quartet: String Quartets Nos. 14 « Death and the Maiden » & 15)
• Felix Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Seiji Ozawa)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in G major, D894 (Arcadi Volodos: Solo Piano Works)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Trio in B flat major (Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud & Pablo Casals: Great Chamber Music Recordings)
• Franz Schubert – Impromptus (Maria João Pires: Le Voyage Magnifique)
• Franz Schubert – Winterreise (Peter Schreier & András Schiff: Die schöne Müllerin/Winterreise)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Trio in E flat major, D929 (Beaux Arts Trio: The Piano Trios)
• Franz Schubert – Fantasy in C, D934 (Adolf Busch & Rudolf Serkin: The European Busch-Serkin Duo Recordings Volume 3)
• Franz Schubert – Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D940 (Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu: Sonata for 2 Pianos)
• Franz Schubert – Symphony no. 9, « Great » (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
• Franz Schubert – String Quartet in C major (Hollywood Quartet: Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht/Schubert Quintet)
• Franz Schubert – Schwanengesang (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore: Schwanengesang/Lieder)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 (Radu Lupu: Moments Musicaux, D760)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in A major, D959 (Lief Ove Andsnes: Klaviersonate D 959)
• Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960 (Mitsuko Uchida: Piano Sonata D. 960)
• Frédéric Chopin – Nocturnes (Maria João Pires)
• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concertos (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
• Frédéric Chopin – Waltzes (Arthur Rubinstein: Waltzes; Impromptus)
• Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 (Pacifica Quartet: The Complete String Quartets)
• Gioachino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (Lamberto Gardelli)
• Hector Berlioz – Symphonie fantastique (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Anna Bolena (Gianandrea Gavazzeni)
• Felix Mendelssohn – The Hebrides, « Fingal’s Cave » (London Symphony Orchestra: Ouvertüren)
• Frédéric Chopin – Études (Juána Zayas: Études for Piano, Opp. 10 & 25)
• Vincenzo Bellini – La sonnambula (Leonard Ber nstein)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto no. 1 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: The Romantic Piano Concerto 17)
• Vincenzo Bellini – Norma (Richard Bonynge)
• Gaetano Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore (Richard Bonynge)
• Gioachino Rossini – Stabat mater (Myung-Whun Chung)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no. 4, « Italian » (Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy (London Symphony Orchestra: Harold en Italie)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor (Richard Bonynge)
• Vincenzo Bellini – I puritani (Richard Bonynge)
• Robert Schumann – Études symphoniques (Murray Perahia: Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13)
• Robert Schumann – Carnaval (Marc-André Hamelin: Carnaval/Fantasiestücke/Papillons)
• Robert Schumann – Piano Sonata no. 1 (Evgeny Kissin: Carnval, Op. 9)
• Frédéric Chopin – Ballades (Krystian Zimerman: 4 Balladen)
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Les Huguenots (Richard Bonynge)
• Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartets, op. 44 (Pacific Quartet: The Complete String Quartets)
• Robert Schumann – Davidsbündlertänze (Andreas Haefliger)
• Hector Berlioz – Grande messe des morts (London Philharmonic Orchestra: Requiem/Symphonie Fantastique)
• Franz Liszt – Années de pèlerinage (Alfred Brendel & Zoltán Kocsis)
• Robert Schumann – Fantasy in C major (Sviatoslav Richter: Fantasy in C)
• Robert Schumann – Kinderszenen (Alex Slobodyanik: Piano Music)
• Robert Schumann – Kreisleriana (Evgeny Kissin)
• Hector Berlioz – Roméo et Juliette (Colin Davis: Romeo & Juliet)
• Frédéric Chopin – Preludes (Grigory Sokolov: 24 Preludes Opus 28)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trios nos. 1 & 2 (Florestan Trio: The Piano Trios)
• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, « Funeral March » (Sergei Rachmaninov: The Complete Recordings)
• Franz Liszt – Paraphrases & Transcriptions (Earl Wild: Masterpieces for Solo Piano, Vol. 2)
• Robert Schumann – Dichterliebe (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Jörg Demus: An die Musik)
• Robert Schumann – Frauenliebe und -leben (Janet Baker & Geoffrey Parsons: Arianna a Naxos/Frauenliebe und -leben)
• Robert Schumann – Liederkreis, op. 24 (Ian Bostridge & Julius Drake)
• Robert Schumann – Liederkreis, op. 39 (Wolfgang Holzmair & Imogen Cooper: Eichendorff Lieder)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Variations sérieuses (Murray Perahia: Sonata, Op.6/Variations sérieuses)
• Robert Schumann – Symphony no. 1, « Spring » (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: The Symphonies)
• Richard Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer (Joseph Keilberth)
• Robert Schumann – Piano Quartet (Florestan Trio: Fantasiestücke/Piano Trio No 3 Op 110/Piano Quartet Op 47)
• Franz Berwald – Symphonies (Malmö Symphony Orchestra: The Four Symphonies)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no. 3, « Scottish » (London Symphony Orchestra: Symphonien)
• Robert Schumann – String Quartets (Ysaÿe Quartet: String Quartets Op. 41)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco (Lamberto Gardelli)
• Robert Schumann – Piano Quintet (Martha Argerich, Dora Schwarzberg, Lucy Hall, Nobuko Imai & Mischa Maisky: Klavierquartett/Klavierquintett)
• Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila (Valery Gergiev)
• Gaetano Donizetti – Don Pasquale (Riccardo Muti)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E minor (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Violin Concertos)
• Hector Berlioz – Le carnaval romain (Dresden Staatskapelle: Berlioz Overtures)
• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor (Dinu Lipatti: Great Recordings of the Century)
• Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto (Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra: Klavierkonzert/Piano Concerto)
• Richard Wagner – Tannhäuser (Daniel Barenboim)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah (Paul Daniel)
• Robert Schumann – Symphony no. 2 (Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra: Symphonies 1-4)
• Robert Schumann – Piano Trios (Beaux Arts Trio: The Complete Piano Trios)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth (Claudio Abbado)
• Charles-Valentin Alkan – Grande sonate « Les quatres âges » (Marc-André Hamelin: Les quatre âges)
• Johann Strauss the Elder – Radetzky March (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: New Year’s Concert 1979)
• Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsodies (Georges Cziffra: Rhapsodies Hongroises)
• Richard Wagner – Lohengrin (Claudio Abbado)
• Robert Schumann – Concertstück for Four Horns (American Horn Quartet: Concertos for Four Horns)
• Robert Schumann – Fantasiestück, op. 73 (Steven Isserlis & Christoph Eschenbach: Steven Isserlis Plays Schumann)
• Otto Nicolai – The Merry Wives of Windsor (Robert Heger: Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor)
• Robert Schumann – Symphony no. 3, « Rhenish » (Berlin Staatskapelle: The Symphonies)
• Robert Schumann – Cello Concerto in A minor (Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie: Steven Isserlis Plays Schumann)

1851-1900

• Franz Liszt – Transcendental Studies (Claudio Arrau: Sämtliche Etüden)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto (Carlo Maria Giulini)
• Robert Schumann – Symphony no. 4 (Dresden Staatskapelle: Symphonies Nos. 1-4)
• Johannes Brahms – Lieder (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Il trovatore (Zubin Mehta)
• Giuseppe Verdi – La traviata (Riccardo Muti)
• Franz Liszt – Piano Sonata in B minor (Sviatoslav Richter: Joue Franz Liszt)
• Robert Schumann – Scenen aus Goethes Faust (Benjamin Britten: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust)
• Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust (Colin Davis)
• Franz Liszt – Les préludes (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Les préludes/Mazeppa)
• Johannes Brahms – Piano Trio no. 1 (Beaux Arts Trio: The Piano Trios)
• Franz Liszt – Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2 (Sviatoslav Richter & Kirill Kondrashin: The Two Piano Concertos)
• Hector Berlioz – Les nuits d’été (New Philharmonia Orchestra)
• César Franck – Six Pièces, opp. 16-21 (Marie-Claire Alain: Great Organ Works)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Simon Boccanegra (Claudio Abbado)
• Jacques Offenbach – Orpheus in the Underworld (Marc Minkowski: Orphée aux Enfers)
• Richard Wagner – Wesendonck Lieder (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Brucker Symphony No. 8/Wagner Tristan and Isolde)
• Hector Berlioz – Les troyens (Colin Davis)
• Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto no. 1 (Nelson Freire & Riccardo Chailly: The Piano Concertos)
• Charles Gounod – Faust (Fausto Cleva)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Un ballo in maschera (Herbert von Karajan)
• Richard Wagner – Tristan und Isolde (Wilhelm Furtwängler)
• Johannes Brahms – String Sextets nos. 1 & 2 (Menuhin, Masters, Aronowitz, Wallfisch, Gendron & Simpson)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Songs (Ljuba Kazarnovskaya & Ljuba Orfenova: Complete Songs Volume 1)
• Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartets nos. 1 & 3 (Leopold String Trio: The Piano Quartets)
• Edvard Grieg – Songs (Monica Groop & Love Derwinger: The Complete Songs Volume 1)
• Gabriel Fauré – Mélodies (Elly Ameling, Gérard Souzay & Dalton Baldwin)
• Franz Liszt – A Faust Symphony (Budapest Festival Orchestra)
• Henry Vieuxtemps – Violin Concerto no. 5 (Jascha Heifetz & Malcolm Sargent: Bruch Scottish Fantasy Concerto No. 1/Vieuxtemps Concerto No. 5)
• Giuseppe Verdi – La forza del destino (Riccardo Muti)
• Henryk Wieniawski – Violin Concerto no. 2 (Gil Shaham & Lawrence Foster: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
• Johannes Brahms – Piano Quintet in F minor (Guarnieri Quartet: Dvorák Brahms Piano Quintets)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo capriccioso (Paris Orchestra: The French Album)
• Gioachino Rossini – Petite messe solennelle (The King’s Consort)
• Georges Bizet – The Pearl Fishers (Georges Prêtre)
• Anton Bruckner – Masses nos. 1-3 (Corydon Singers & Orchestra: The Masses)
• Jacques Offenbach – La belle Hélène (Marc Minkowski)
• Edvard Grieg – Lyric Pieces (Emil Gilels: Lyrische Stücke)
• Johannes Brahms – Cello Sonatas nos. 1 & 2 (Steven Isserlis & Stephen Hough: Cello Sonatas)
• Bedrich Smetana – The Bartered Bride (Zdenek Kosler)
• Richard Wagner – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Rafael Kubelík)
• Johann Strauss II – The Blue Danube (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Neujahrskonzert 2003)
• Modest Mussorgsky – A Night on the Bare Mountain (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Pictures at an Exhibition)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Don Carlos (Claudio Abbado)
• Johannes Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem (Swedish Radio Choir)
• Max Bruch – Violin Concerto no. 1 (New Symphony Orchestra: Scottish Fantasy Concerto No. 1)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Stephen Hough & Sakari Oramo: The Romantic Piano Concerto 27)
• Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto (Stephen Kovacevich & Colin Davis: Piano Concertos)
• Henri Duparc – Mélodies (Sarah Walker, Thomas Allen & Roger Vignoles: The Songs of Henri Duparc)
• Arrigo Boito – Mefistofele (Oliviero de Fabritiis)
• Ambroise Thomas – Hamlet (Antonio de Almeida)
• Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov (Mark Ermler)
• Johannes Brahms – Hungarian Dances (Walter Klien & Alfred Brendel: Walter Klien Plays Brahms)
• Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev – Islamey (Boris Berezovsky: Mussorgsky Rachmaninov Balakirev Medtner Liadov)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 4/Romeo & Juliet)
• Léo Delibes – Coppélia (Suisse Romande Orchestra)
• Richard Wagner – Siegfried Idyll (Northern Sinfonia: Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos/Wagner Siegfried Idyll)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Aida (Riccardo Muti)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – String Quartet no. 1 (Jerusalem Quartet: Shostakovictchaikovsky)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Cello Concerto no. 1 (Mstislav Rostropovich & Carlo Maria Guilini: Dvorák Cello Concerto/Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No. 1)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 3 (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: Symphonies 3 & 8)
• Johannes Brahms – String Quartets (Amadeus Quartet: Die Streichquartette/The String Quartets)
• Edouard Lalo – Symphonie espagnole (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Georges Bizet – Carmen (Claudio Abbado)
• Johann Strauss II – Die Fledermaus (Willi Boskovsky)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Requiem (Carlo Maria Giulini: Messa da Requiem)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 4, « Romantic » (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra: Orchestral works)
• Richard Wagner – Der Ring des Nibelungen (Daniel Barenboim)
• Hugo Wolf – Lieder (Hugo Wolf Society: 1931-1938 The Complete Edition)
• Edvard Grieg – Peer Gynt (Ole Kristian Ruud)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto no. 1 (Berlin Philharmonic)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 5 (NDR Symphony Orchestra)
• Gabriel Fauré – Nocturnes (Jean-Philippe Collard: 13 Nocturnes)
• Johannes Brahms – Symphony no. 1 (Cleveland Orchestra)
• Alexander Borodin – Symphony no. 2 (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Gabriel Fauré – Violin Sonata no. 1 (Jacques Thibaud & Alfred Cortot: Franck/Fauré/Debussy Violin Sonatas)
• Amilcare Ponchielli – La Gioconda (Marcello Viotti)
• Bedrich Smetana – String Quartet no. 1, « From My Life » (The Lindsays: The Two String Quartets)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Rococo Variations (Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Elgar/Bloch/Kabalevsky/Tchaikovsky/R. Strauss)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Seasons (Mikhail Pletnev: Mussorgsky/Tchaikovsky)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake (Philadelphia Orchestra)
• Johannes Brahms – Symphony no. 2 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: Four Symphonies)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Samson et Dalila (Myung-Whun Chung)
• Johannes Brahms – Violin Concerto (Itzhak Perlman & Daniel Barenboim: Violin Concerto, Sonatensatz & Hungarian Dances)
• Pablo de Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen (Jascha Heifetz & William Steinberg: Heifetz Showpieces)
• Antonín Dvorák – Slavonic Dances (Chamber Orchestra of Europe)
• Arthur Sullivan – H.M.S. Pinafore (Charles Mackerras)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin (Semyon Bychkov)
• Pyoty Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 4 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 « Pathétique »)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy – Violin Concerto (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Violin Concerto in D Major)
• Johannes Brahms – Violin Sonatas (Josef Suk & Julius Katchen)
• Bedrich Smetana – Má vlast (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Gabriel Fauré – Piano Quartets 1 & 2 (Augustin Dumay, Bruno Pasquier, Jean-Philippe Collard & Frédéric Lodéon: Musique de Chambre 2)
• Modest Mussorgsky – Khovanshchina (Claudio Abbado)
• Gabriel Fauré – Élégie (Steven Isserlis & Pascal Devoyon: Comple te Works for Cello)
• Hans Rott – Symphony in E major (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphony)
• Jacques Offenbach – The Tales of Hoffmann (Richard Bonynge: Les Contes d’Hoffmann)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 6)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Violin Concerto no. 3 (Jean-Jacques Kantorow & Kees Bakels)
• Bedrich Smetana – From the Homeland (Josef Suk & Jan Panenka: Smetana/Dvorák/Suk)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture (Accademia di Santa Cecilia: Overtures & Fantasies)
• Charles-Marie Widor – Symphony no. 5 (Olivier Latry: 5e & 6e Symphonies pour Orgue)
• Alexander Borodin – String Quartet no. 2 (Borodin Quartet: Shostakovich/Borodin/Ravel)
• Johannes Brahms – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Cleveland Orchestra: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
• Richard Wagner – Parsifal (Plácido Domingo)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 6 (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: Symphonies 6 & 7)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Trio in A minor (Kempf Trio: Tchaikovsky/Rachmaninov)
• Pablo de Sarasate – Concert Fantasy on Carmen (Itzhak Perlman & Lawrence Foster: Virtuoso Violin)
• Johannes Brahms – Symphony no. 3 (Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3)
• Emmanuel Chabrier – España (Detroit Symphony Orchestra: España/Suite Pastorale/Fête Polonaise)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 7 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonie Nr. 7)
• Léo Delibes – Lakmé (Michel Plasson)
• Jules Massenet – Manon (Antonio Pappano)
• César Franck – Prélude, choral et fugue (Stephen Hough: Piano Music)
• Johannes Brahms – Symphony no. 4 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonie No. 4)
• Antonín Dvorák – Symphony no. 7 (London Symphony Orchestra: The Symphonies)
• César Franck – Symphonic Variations (London Philharmonic Orchestra: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1)
• Gustav Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Johann Strauss II – Der Zigeunerbaron (Otto Ackermann)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Manfred Symphony (London Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Lieder (Christine Brewer & Roger Vignoles: The Complete Songs 1)
• Arthur Sullivan – The Mikado (Charles Mackerras)
• César Franck – Violin Sonata in A major (Kaja Danczowska & Krystian Zimerman: Violin Sonata)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals (Martha Argerich, Nelson Friere & Mischa Maisky: Duo Piano Extravaganza)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Symphony no. 3, « Organ » (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 3)
• John Stainer – The Crucifixion (Choir of Guildford Cathedral)
• Reynaldo Hahn – Mélodies (London Schubert Choir: Songs by Reynaldo Hahn)
• Alexander Borodin – Prince Igor (Valery Gergiev)
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Capriccio espagnol (New York Philharmonic: Scheherazade)
• Jules Massenet – Werther (Elie Cohen)
• Johannes Brahms – Double Concerto (Gil Shaham, Jian Wang & Claudio Abbado: Violin Concerto/Double Concerto)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 8 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Violin Sonata (Vadim Repin & Boris Berezovsky: Strauss/Bartók/Stravinsky)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Otello (Carlos Kleiber)
• César Franck – Symphony in D minor (Amsterdam Concertgebouw: The Best of César Franck)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 1 (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Sheherazade (Kirov Orchestra)
• Hugo Wolf – Mörike Lieder (Joan Rodgers, Stephan Genz & Roger Vignoles)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony no. 5 (Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra: Symphonies 4, 5 & 6)
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Russian Easter Festival Overture (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra: Tchaikovsky Marche Slav)
• Erik Satie – Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes (Aldo Ciccolini: L’Œuvre pour Piano)
• Alexander Scriabin – Preludes (Evgeny Zarafiants: Preludes, Vol. 1)
• Antonín Dvorák – Symphony no. 8 (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Hugo Wolf – Goethe Lieder (Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Sviatoslav Richter)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Sleeping Beauty (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Don Juan (Berlin Philharmonic: Also sprach Zarathustra)
• Richard Strauss – Tod und Verklärung (Berlin Philharmonic: Vier letzte Lieder/Four Last Songs)
• Ernest Chausson – Poème de l’amour et de la mer (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Poèmes de l’Amour)
• Hugo Wolf – Spanisches Liederbuch (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Gerald Moore)
• Gabriel Fauré – Requiem (Corydon Singers)
• Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana (Tullio Serafin)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Queen of Spades (Valery Gergiev: Pique Dame)
• Claude Debussy – Fêtes galantes (Gérard Souzay & Dalton Baldwin: Lieder/Melodies)
• Jean Sibelius – Songs (Karita Mattila & Ilmo Ranta)
• Johannes Brahms – Clarient Quintet (Gabrieli Quartet)
• Ruggero Leoncavallo – Pagliacci (Nello Santi)
• Alexander Scriabin – Piano Sonatas (Marc-André Hamelin)
• Jean Sibelius – En saga (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Finlandia/En Saga/Tapiola)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Twenty-Four Preludes (Vladimir Ashkenazy: Preludes, opp. 23 & 32)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker (Kirov Orchestra)
• Johannes Brahms – Klavierstücke, opp. 116-19 (Julius Katchen: Works for Solo Piano)
• Jean Sibelius – Kullervo (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
• Claude Debussy – String Quartet (Juilliard Quartet: Quartets Debussy/Ravel/Dutilleux)
• Engelburt Humperdinck – Hänsel und Gretel (Donald Runnicles)
• Erik Satie – Vexations (Steffen Schleiermacher: Piano Music, Vol. 4)
• Antonín Dvorák – String Quartet in F major, « American » (Prazák Quartet: String Quartet No. 12 op. 96 B 179, « The American »)
• Giacomo Puccini – Manon Lescaut (Giuseppe Sinopoli)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy – Symphony no. 6, « Pathétique » (Kirov Orchestra)
• Giuseppe Verdi – Falstaff (Herbert von Karajan)
• Jean Sibelius – Karelia Suite (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra: Finlandia)
• Antonín Dvorák – Symphony no. 9 (Royal Concertgebouw: Symphony No. 9 From the New World/The Water Goblin)
• Anton Stepanovich Arensky – Piano Trio no. 1 (Renaud Capuçon, Gautier Capuçon & Polina Leschenko: Martha Argerich and Friends)
• Claude Debussy – Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune (Symphony Orchestra: Nocturnes)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 2, « Resurrection » (Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Sonatas (Gervase de Peyer & Daniel Barenboim: Clarinet Sonatas 1 & 2)
• Richard Strauss – Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Don Juan/Burleske for Piano and Orchestra)
• Antonín Dvorák – Cello Concerto in B minor (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Cellokonzerte)
• Serge Rachmaninov – Symphony no. 1 (St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Gustave Charpentier – Louise (Sylvain Cambreling)
• Umberto Giordano – Andrea Chénier (Lovro von Matacic)
• Anton Bruckner – Symphony no. 9 (NDR Symphony Orchestra: Symphonies n. 5 & 9)
• Ernest Chausson – Poème (Philippe Graffin & Vernon Handley: Elgar Violin Concerto/ Chausson Poème)
• Jean Sibelius – Lemminkäinen Suite (Lahti Symphony Orchestra)
• Giacomo Puccini – La bohème (Thomas Schippers)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 3 (Ambrosian Singers)
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano Concerto no. 5, « Egyptian » (Stephen Hough & Sakari Oramo: The Romantic Piano Concerto 27)
• Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: 5 Great Tone Poems)
• Hugo Wolf – Italienisches Liederbuch (Felicity Lott, Peter Schreier & Graham Johnson)
• Richard Strauss – Don Quixote (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Paul Dukas – The Sorcerer’s Appre ntice (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Saint-Saëns Orgel-Symphonie)
• Richard Strauss – Ein Heldenleben (Dresden Staatskapelle)
• Edward Elgar – Sea Pictures (London Symphony Orchestra: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures)
• Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations (Philharmonia Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Alexander Glazunov – The Seasons (Philharmonia Orchestra: Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (Hollywood Quartet)
• Louis Vierne – Organ Symphonies (Jeremy Filsell: Symphonies pour Orgue)
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 1 (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon)
• Giacomo Puccini – Tosca (Victor de Sabata)
• Antonín Dvorák – Rusalka (Milada Subrtová, Ivo Zidek & Eduard Haken)
• Edward Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius (Adrian Boult)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 4 (Michael Gielen & Christine Whittlesey: Symphonies No. 1-9)
• Jean Sibelius – Finlandia (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Finlandia/Valse triste/Tapiola)

1901-1950

• Sergei Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Cello Sonata (Truls Mørk & Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Cello Sonatas)
• Roger Quilter – Songs (Duke Quartet: O Mistress Mine/To Daisies/Julia’s Hair/Go, Lovely Rose)
• Francesco Cilea – Adriana Lecouvreur (Mario Rossi)
• Gustav Mahler – Rückert Lieder (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Kindertotenlieder/5 Rückertlieder)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 5 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonie No. 5)
• Claude Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande (Roger Désormière)
• Carl Nielsen – Symphony no. 2, « The Four Temperaments » (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphonies No. 1 & No. 2 ‘The Four Temperaments’)
• Hubert Parry – I Was Glad (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge: Elgar Coronation Ode)
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 2 (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
• Eugen d’Albert – Tiefland (Bertrand de Billy)
• Maurice Ravel – String Quartet (Cleveland Quartet: Debussy Quartet in G)
• John Ireland – Songs (Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman & Graham Johnson: The Songs of John Ireland)
• Hugo Alfvén – Swedish Rhapsodies (Iceland Symphony Orchestra: Swedish Rhapsodies 1-3)
• Maurice Ravel – Shéhérazade (Suisse Romande Orchestra: Berlioz Les Nuits d’été)
• Richard Strauss – Symphonia domestica (Royal Scottish National Orchestra: Symphonic Poems)
• Alexander Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau (Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Pelleas und Melisande (Berling Philharmonic Orchestra: Verklärte Nacht/Transfigured Night)
• Alexander Glazunov – Violin Concerto in A minor (Nathan Milstein & William Steinberg: Tchaikovsky & Glazunov Violin Concertos)
• Leos Janácek – Jenufa (Charles Mackerras)
• Anatoly Lyadov – Fairytales (BBC Philharmonic: Baba-Yaga/Eight Russian Folksongs/The Enchanted Lake)
• Ferruccio Busoni – Piano Concerto (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: The Romantic Piano Concerto 22)
• Gustav Mahler – Kindertotenlieder (Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 8 « Symphony of a Thousand »)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 6 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: The Complete Symphonies)
• Alexander Scriabin – Symphony no. 3 (Russian National Orchestra: Symphony No. 3 « Le Divin Poème »)
• Charles Villiers Stanford – Songs of the Sea (BBC National Chorus of Wales: The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet)
• Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly (Herbert von Karajan)
• Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Violin Concertos)
• Maurice Ravel – Introduction and Allegro (Melos Ensemble: Franck Sonata for Violin and Piano)
• Maurice Ravel – Miroirs (Jean-Efflam Bavouzet: Complete Piano Works)
• Claude Debussy – La mer (Cleveland Orchestra: La Mer/Nocturnes)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 7 (San Francisco Symphony)
• Franz Lehár – The Merry Widow (Lovro von Matacic)
• Frederick Delius – A Mass of Life (Bournemouth SO and Chorus)
• Jean Sibelius – Pelléas et Mélisande Suite (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Grieg Peer Gynt Suites 1 & 2)
• Richard Strauss – Salome (Giuseppe Sinopoli)
• Carl Nielsen – Maskarade (Ulf Schirmer)
• Jean Sibelius – Pohjola’s Daughter (Lahti Symphony Orchestra: Tone Poems)
• Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Holidays Symphony)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Chamber Symphony no. 1 (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Verklärte Nacht/Pelleas und Melisande)
• Josef Suk – Asrael Symphony (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Asrael Symphony/Fairy Tales/Serenade for Strings)
• Frederick Delius – Brigg Fair (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 8 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphony no. 2 (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov – The Golden Cockerel Suite (London Symphony Orchestra: Suite from « Le Coq d’Or »)
• Edward Elgar – Symphony no. 1 (Philharmonia Orchestra: Symphony No. 1 in A flat)
• Maurice Ravel – Gaspard de la nuit (Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin Piano Sonata/Klaviersonate no. 2)
• Isaac Albéniz – Iberia (Alicia de Larrocha)
• Alexander Scriabin – The Poem of Ecstasy (Kirov Orchestra: Stravinsky The Rite of Spring)
• Maurice Ravel – Rapsodie espagnole (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Bolero)
• Arnold Schoenberg – String Quartet no. 2 (Aron Quartet: Streichquartette/String Quartets)
• Gustav Holst – Savitri (English Chamber Orchestra: Savitri/Egdon Heath)
• Anton Webern – Passacaglia (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Erwartung (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Béla Bartók – String Quartets (Takács Quartet: The 6 String Quartets)
• Gustav Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde (Otto Klemperer)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 9 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto no. 3 (Martha Argerich & Riccardo Chailly: Rachmaninoff 3/Tchaikovsky 1)
• Richard Strauss – Elektra (Georg Solti)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Klavierstücke (Peter Hill: Piano Music)
• George Butterworth – Songs (Bryn Terfel & Malcolm Martineau: The Vagabond & Other Songs)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – The Isle of the Dead (London Philharmonic)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Jean Sibelius – String Quartet « Voces intimae » (Emerson Quartet: Intimate Voices)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Sea Symphony (Vernon Handley)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – On Wenlock Edge (Nash Ensemble: Along the Field/On Wenlock Edge)
• Anton Webern – Six Orchestral Pieces, op. 6 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Boulez conducts Webern II)
• Claude Debussy – Préludes, Books 1 & 2 (Krystian Zimerman: Préludes)
• Engelbert Humperdinck – Königskinder (Heinz Walberg)
• Gustav Mahler – Symphony no. 10 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony 10)
• Edward Elgar – Violin Concerto (New Queen’s Hall of Orchestra: Violin Concertos)
• Florent Schmitt – La tragédie de Salomé (Radio France Philharmonic)
• Fritz Kreisler – Liebesfreund & Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler & Carl Lamson: The Complete RCA Recordings)
• Franz Schreker – Der ferne Klang (Michael Halász)
• Alexander Scriabin – Prometheus (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier (Georg Solti)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (Sinfonia of London: Elgar Introduction and Allegro)
• Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: The Firebird/Petrushka)
• Edward Elgar – Symphony no. 2 (Hallé Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Enrique Granados – Goyescas (Alicia de Larrocha: Albéniz Iberia)
• Maurice Ravel – Ma mère l’oye (Martha Argerich & Mikhail Pletnev: Prokofiev Cinderella Suite)
• Béla Bartók – Bluebeard’s Castle (István Kertész: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle)
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 4 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 4-7)
• Sergey Taneyev – Piano Quintet (Mikhail Pletnev, Vadim Repin, Ilya Gringolts, Nobuko Imai & Lynn Harrell: Chamber Music)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Études-tableaux (John Ogdon: Etudes tableaux, Op. 38 & Op. 39)
• Carl Nielsen – Symphony no. 3 (San Francisco Symphony: The Symphonies)
• Reinhold Glière – Symphony no. 3 « Ilya Muromets » (BBC Philharmonic)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Gurrelieder (Sharon Sweet, Siegfried Jerusalem & Claudio Abbado: Gurre Lieder)
• Igor Stravinsky – Petrushka (Philadelphia Orchestra: Liadov Eight Russian Folk Dances)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto no. 1 (Berlin Philharmonic: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3)
• Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Vocalise and Other Songs (Joan Rod gers, Maria Popescu, Alexandre Naoumenko, Sergei Leiferkus & Howard Shelley: Complete Songs)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Pierrot lunaire (Nash Ensemble)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Piano Sonata no. 2 (Yevgeny Sudbin: Rachmaninov)
• Wilhelm Stenhammar – Serenade (Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra: Serenade Opus 31)
• Claude Debussy – Jeux (Accademia di Sta Cecilia: 2 Nocturnes/Jeux)
• Edward Elgar – Falstaff (Hallé Orchestra)
• Ivor Gurney – Songs (Paul Agnew & Julius Drake: Severn Meadows)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – The Bells (London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus: Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky)
• Albert Roussel – Le festin d’araignée (ORTF National Orchestra: Symphonie N. 2 en si Bémol Majeur Op. 23)
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring (Philharmonia Orchestra: Le Sacre du printemps)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – A London Symphony (London Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony no. 2/Partita)
• Erno Dohnányi – Variations on a Nursery Song (BBC Philharmonic: The Veil of Pierrette)
• Manuel de Falla – Siete canciones populares Españolas (Victoria de los Angeles & Gonzalo Soriano: La vida breve/El amor brujo)
• Max Reger – Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart (Norrköping Symphony Orchestra: Mozart Variations, Op. 132)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: The World of Vaughan Williams)
• Zoltán Kodály – Duo for Violin and Cello (Renaud Capuçon & Gautier Capuçon: Face à face)
• Maurice Ravel – Piano Trio (Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio: Works for Piano, Violin and Cello)
• Béla Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances (Zoltán Kocsis: Piano Works)
• Claude Debussy – Douze Études (Mitsuko Uchida: 12 Études)
• Alban Berg – Three Orchestral Pieces, op. 6 (London Symphony Orchestra: Lulu-Suite/Altenberg-Lieder)
• Manuel de Falla – Nights in the Gardens of Spain (London Philharmonic)
• Claude Debussy – Sonatas (Nash Ensemble: Chamber Music)
• Manuel de Falla – El amor brujo (Spanish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra: The Best of Falla)
• Charles Ives – Concord Sonata (Marc-André Hamelin)
• Hans Pfitzner – Palestrina (Rafael Kubelik)
• Franz Schreker – Die Gezeichneten (Lothar Zagrosek)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – All-Night Vigil (Vespers) (St. Petersburg Capella: Vespers)
• Wilhelm Stenhammar – Symphony no. 2 (Stockholm Philharmonic: Symphony No. 2 in G minor)
• Richard Strauss – Eine Alpensinfonie (Weimar Staatskapelle: An Alpine Symphony)
• Karol Szymanowski – Myths (Lydia Mordkovitch & Marina Gusak-Grin: Sonata Op. 9)
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 5 (Lahti Symphony Orchestra)
• Ernest Bloch – Schelomo (Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra: Schumann Cello Concerto)
• Karol Szymanowski – Symphony no. 3, « The Song of the Night » (Polish Radio National Symphony Orchestra & Chorus: Symphonies 2-4/Harnasie)
• Karol Szymanowski – Violin Concerto no. 1 (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
• Percy Grainger – In a Nutshell (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
• Ottorino Respighi – Roman Trilogy (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra: Pini di Roma)
• Carl Nielsen – Symphony no. 4, « Inextinguishable » (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 2 « The Four Temperaments »)
• Richard Strauss – Ariadne auf Naxos (Herbert von Karajan)
• Charles Ives – Symphony no. 4 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Holidays Symphony)
• Gustav Holst – The Planets (Montreal Symphony Orchestra)
• Lili Boulanger – Psalm 130, « Du fond de l’abîme » (Namur Symphony Choir: 3 Psaumes/Vieille prière bouddhique)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto no. 1 (David Oistrakh & Lovro von Matacic)
• Sergie Prokofiev – Symphony no. 1 (Chamber Orchestra of Europe: Peter und der Wolf/Symphonie classique)
• Erik Satie – Parade (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Die Frau ohne Schatten (Georg Solti)
• Ottorino Respighi – Ancient Airs and Dances (Orpheus Chamber Orchestra: Ancient Airs and Dances I & III)
• George Enescu – Symphony no. 3 (BBC Philharmonic)
• Francis Poulenc – Mélodies (Pierre Bernac, Gerard Souzay, Nicolai Gedda, Francis Poulenc & Dalton Baldwin: Mélodies & chansons)
• Leos Janácek – Taras Bulba (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Glagolitic Mass)
• Giacomo Puccini – Gianni Schicchi (Gabriele Santini)
• Igor Stravinsky – The Soldier’s Tale (David Timson, Benjamin Soames, Jonathan Keeble & Nicholas Ward)
• Arnold Bax – Tintagel (BBC Philharmonic: The Symphonies)
• Manuel de Falla – The Three-Cornered Hat (Suisse Romande Orchestra: El sombrero de tres picos)
• Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures)
• Darius Milhaud – Le boeuf sur le toit (Lille National Orchestra: La Création du monde)
• Sergei Prokofiev – The Love for Three Oranges (Valery Gergiev)
• Maurice Ravel – Le tombeau du Couperin (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra: Bolero/La Valse/Alborada del Gracioso)
• Joaquin Turina – Danzas fantásticas (Castile and León Symphony: Sinfonía sevillana)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Die tote Stadt (Erich Leinsdorf)
• Maurice Ravel – La valse (Paris Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Igor Stravinsky – Pulcinella (London Symphony Orchestra: Le Sacre du Printemps)
• Igor Stravinsky – Symphonies of Wind Instruments (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony of Psalms)
• Federico Mompou – Cançons i danses (Stephen Hough: Piano Music by Federico Mompou)
• Béla Bartók – Violin Sonatas nos. 1 & 2 (György Pauk & Jenö Jandó)
• Leos Janácek – Kátya Kabanová (Charles Mackerras: Kata Kabanova)
• Erwin Schulhoff – Suite for Chamber Orchestra (Brno Czech State Orchestra: Sinfonie/Symphony No. 1)
• Charles Ives – Three Places in New England (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
• Edgard Varèse – Amériques (Cleveland Orchestra: Ives Symphony No. 4 The Unanswered Question)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto no. 3 (Dallas Symphony Orchestra)
• Edgard Varèse – Offrandes (French National Orchestra: L’Œuvre de Edgar Varèse Vol. 1 1920-1927)
• Igor Stravinsky – Three Movements from « Petrushka » (Evgeny Kissin: Scriabin Sonata No. 3 & Five Preludes)
• Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony (English Northern Philharmonia)
• Maurice Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Cello (Renaud Capuçon & Gautier Capuçon: Sonates & Trio)
• William Walton – Façade (David Lloyd-Jones)
• Peter Warlock – The Curlew (Nash Ensemble)
• Jacques Ibert – Escales (Montreal Symphony Orchestra)
• Carl Nielsen – Symphony no. 5 (New York Philharmonic: The 6 Symphonies)
• Alban Berg – Wozzeck (Claudio Abbado)
• Béla Bartók – Dance Suite (Budapest Festival Orchestra: The Wooden Prince)
• Joseph Canteloube – Chants d’Auvergne (Netania Davrath & Pierre de la Roche: Songs of the Auvergne)
• Leos Janácek – String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 (Skampa Quartet: String Quartets)
• Arthur Honegger – Three Symphonic Movements (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Pacific 231)
• Darius Milhaud – La création du monde (Columbia Chamber Orchestra: Preludes, Fugues & Riffs)
• Leos Janácek – The Cunning Little Vixen (Charles Mackerras)
• Frances Poulenc – Les biches (Ambrosian Singers)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Suite for Piano (Peter Hill: Piano Music)
• Igor Stravinsky – Octet (European Soloists Ensemble: Chamber Works & Rarities)
• Alexander Zemlinsky – Lyric Symphony (Paris Orchestra: Lyrische Symphonie Op. 18)
• Igor Stravinsky – Les noces (Robert Craft: Oedipus Rex/Les Noces)
• Eugène Ysaye – Six Solo Violin Sonatas, op. 27 (Oscar Shumsky: Sonatas)
• Béla Bartók – The Miraculous Mandarin (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Ferruccio Busoni – Doktor Faust (Kent Nagano)
• Karol Szymanowski – King Roger (Simon Rattle)
• Jean Sibelius – Symphony no. 7 (London Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 2 in D)
• George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris)
• Marcel Dupré – Symphonie-Passion (John Scott: Organ Music by Marcel Dupré)
• Maurice Ravel – Tzigane (Philippe Graffin & Claire Désert: In the Shade of Forests)
• Maurice Ravel – L’enfant et les sortilèges (André Previn)
• Alexander Zemlinsky – String Quartet no. 3 (Artis Quartet: String Quartetes 3 & 4)
• Giacomo Puccini – Turandot (Francesco Molinari-Pradelli)
• Carl Nielsen – Symphony no. 6 (San Francisco Symphony: The Symphonies)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 1 (Philadelphia Orchestra: Concerto for Cello in E Flat)
• George Enescu – Violin Sonata no. 3 (Peter Csaba & Arto Satukangas: Sonatas for Violin and Piano 2 & 3)
• Frank Martin – Mass for double choir (Westminster Cathedral Choir)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Piano Concerto no. 4 (Philharmonia Orchestra: Ravel Piano Concerto in G)
• Karol Szymanowski – Mazurkas (Marc-André Hamelin: The Complete Mazurkas)
• Karol Szymanowksi – Stabat mater (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus)
• Leos Janácek – Sinfonietta (Vienna Philharmonic: Sinfonietta/Taras Bulba/Lachian Dances)
• Maurice Ravel – Chansons madécasses (Melos Ensemble: The Great Voice of Dame Janet Baker)
• Jean Sibelius – Tapiola (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Finlandia/Valse triste/Tapiola)
• Maurice Ravel – Violin Sonata (Arthur Grumiaux & István Hajdu)
• Gustav Holst – Egdon Heath (BBC Symphony Orchestra: The Planets/Egdon Heath)
• Leos Janácek – Glagolitic Mass (Danish NRSO and Chorus)
• Joseph Jongen – Symphonie concertante (San Francisco Symphony)
• Bohuslav Martinu – La revue de cuisine (Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
• Igor Stravinsky – Oedipus rex (Colin Davis)
• Zoltán Kodály – Háry János Suite (Budapest Festival Orchestra)
• Eugène Goossens – Oboe Concerto (West Australian Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Constant Lambert – The Rio Grande (Chorus of Opera North: Summer’s Last Will and Testament)
• Edgard Varèse – Arcana (Philharmonia Orchestra: Holst The Planets)
• George Gershwin – An American in Paris (Boston Pops Orchestra: Orchestral Works)
• Maurice Ravel – Boléro (Jos van Immerseel)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Variations for Orchestra (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Verklärte Nacht/Transfigured Night)
• Igor Stravinsky – Apollo (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Le Sacre du Printemps)
• Kurt Weill – Das Berliner Requiem (Chapelle Royale Chorus: Berliner Requiem)
• Kurt Weill – Die Dreigroschenoper (H.K. Gruber)
• Arnold Bax – Symphony no. 3 (BBC Philharmonic: The Symphonies)
• William Walton – Viola Concerto (Frederick Riddle & William Walton: Walton Conducts Walton)
• Frank Bridge – Oration (Alban Gerhardt & Richard Hickox: Vol. 4)
• Albert Roussel – Symphony no. 3 (Lamoureux Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4)
• Igor Stravinsky – Symphony of Psalms (Prague Philharmonic Choir: Oedipus Rex)
• Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto for the Left Hand (Société du Conservatoire Orchestra: Piano Concertos)
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji – Opus clavicembalisticum (Geoffrey Douglas Madge)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Job (English Northern Philharmonia: Job: A Masque for Dancing)
• William Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast (Huddersfield Choral Society: Walton Conducts Walton)
• Igor Stravinsky – Violin Concerto (Philharmonia Orchestra: Dutilleux Sur le même accord)
• Maurice Ravel – Piano Concerto in G (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli & Ettore Gracis)
• Béla Bartók – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2)
• Edgard Varèse – Ionisation (Asko Ensemble: The Complete Works)
• Francis Poulenc – Concerto for Two Pianos (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Concerto pour 2 pianos et orchestre)
• Francis Poulenc – Sextet (Nash Ensemble: The Complete Chamber Music)
• Richard Strauss – Arabella (Rudolf Kempe)
• Igor Stravinsky – Duo Concertant (Lydia Mordkovitch & Julian Milford: Duo Concertant/Suite Italienne)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Moses und Aron (Pierre Boulez)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Mstislav Rostropovich)
• Karol Szymanowski – Symphony no. 4 (BBC Philharmonic: Symphony No. 2/Symphony No. 4)
• Charles Tournemire – L’orgue mystique (Georges Delvallée)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Concerto no. 1 (Martha Argerich, Guy Touvron & Jörg Faerber)
• Kurt Weill – Die sieben Todsünden (Herbert Kegel & Gisela May)
• Zoltán Kodály – Dances of Galánta (Philharmonia Hungarica: Háry János Suite/Dances of Galánta)
• Karol Szymanowski – Violin Concerto no. 2 (Polish State Philharmonic: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2)
• Edward Elgar – Symphony no. 3 (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Cello Sonata (Steven Isserlis & Olli Mustonen: Janácek/Prokofiev/Shostakovich)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Lieutenant Kijé Suite (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Lieutenant Kijé/Scythian Suite)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Dallas Symphony Orchestra: The Piano Concertos)
• Paul Hindemith – Mathis der Maler Symphony (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony no. 4 (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet (Kirov Orchestra)
• Alban Berg – Lulu (Pierre Boulez)
• William Walton – Symphony no. 1 (London Symphony Orchestra: Collected Works)
• Alban Berg – Violin Concerto (Bavarian Radio Symphony)
• George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess (Simon Rattle)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Concerto no. 2 (Leonid Kogan & Basil Cameron)
• Samuel Barber – Adagio for Strings (New York Philharmonic)
• Carl Orff – Carmina burana (André Previn)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf (Claudio Abbado)
• Olivier Messiaen – Poèmes pour Mi (Ingrid Kappelle & Hâkon Austbø: Melodies)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphony no. 3 (St. Petersburg Philharmonic)
• Anton Webern – Variations, op. 27 (Maurizio Pollini: Stravinsky Petreuchka/Prokofiev Sonate No. 7)
• Béla Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 4 (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
• Franz Schmidt – Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln (Nikolaus Harnoncourt)
• Benjamin Britten – Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (English Chamber Orchestra: Britten Conducts Britten)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 5 (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Daphne (Karl Böhm)
• Dag Wirén – Serenade for Strings (Bournemouth Sinfonietta: Scandanavian String Music)

1901-1950 continued

• Francis Poulenc – Organ Concerto (Maurice Duruflé & Georges Prêtre: Concert champêtre)
• Béla Bartók – Violin Concerto no. 2 (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra: Concerto for Orchestra/Dance Suite)
• Herbert Howells – Hymnus paradisi (BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)
• Bohuslav Martinu – Double Concerto (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 1)
• Roy Harris – Symphony no. 3 (New York Philharmonic)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade for Music (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Wood Conducts Vaughan Williams)
• Silvestre Revueltas – Sensemayá (Los Angeles Philharmonic)
• Igor Stravinsky – Concerto in E flat, « Dumbarton Oaks » (Ensemble InterContemporain: Berg Kammerkonzert/Chamber Concerto)
• Anton Webern – String Quartet, op. 28 (Artis Quartet: Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio)
• Benjamin Britten – Les illuminations (Peter Pears & Benjamin Britten: Serenade/Les Illuminations/Nocturne)
• Benjamin Britten – Violin Concerto (Mark Lubotsky & Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto/Violin Concerto)
• Joaquín Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez (Carlos Bonell & Steuart Bedford: Concertos for Flute, Guitar)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 6 (Leningrad Philharmonic: Mravinsky in Moscow 1965)
• Michael Tippett – Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Academy of St. Martin in the Fields: Concerto for Orchestra/Fanfare for Brass/Byzantium)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky (Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus)
• William Walton – Violin Concerto (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Violin Concertos)
• Samuel Barber – Violin Concerto (Joshua Bell & David Zinman: Violin Concertos)
• Benjamin Britten – Sinfonia da requiem (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Cello Symphony/Sinfonia de Requiem)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Quintet (Borodin Quartet)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Sonata no. 6 (Ivo Pogorelich: Chopin Piano Sonata/Klaviersonate No. 2)
• Aram Khachaturian – Violin Concerto (Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in C (CBC Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky)
• Sergei Rachmaninov – Symphonic Dances (St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphony No. 3)
• Arthur Honegger – Symphony no. 2 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonien Nos. 2 & 3)
• Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time (Jean Pasquier, André Vacellier, Etienne Pasquier & Olivier Messiaen)
• Benjamin Britten – String Quartets (Belcea Quartet: String Quartets Nos. 1, 2 & 3)
• Manuel Ponce – Concierto del sur (London Symphony Orchestra: The Great Guitar Concertos)
• Richard Strauss – Capriccio (Wolfgang Sawallisch)
• Michael Tippett – A Child of Our Time (Colin Davis)
• Alberto Ginastera – Estancia (Odense Symphony Orchestra: Overture to the Creole ‘Faust’)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 7 « Leningrad » (Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 1/Symphony No. 7 « Leningrad »)
• Maurice Duruflé – Prélude et fugue sur le nom d’Alain (John Scott: The Complete Organ Music of Maurice Duruflé)
• Aaron Copland – Rodeo (London Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral & Ballet Works 1936-1948)
• Gerald Finzi – Let Us Garlands Bring (Janet Baker & Geoffrey Parsons: Baker)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Sonata no. 7 (Maurizio Pollini: Stravinsky Pétrouchka/Prokofiev Sonate No. 7)
• Arnold Schoenberg – Piano Concerto (SWF Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra)
• Richard Strauss – Horn Concerto no. 2 (Philharmonia Orchestra: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
• Benjamin Britten – Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (Boyd Neel Orchestra)
• Sergei Prokofiev – War and Peace (Valery Gergiev)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony no. 5 (London Symphony Orchestra: The 9 Symphonies)
• Béla Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (San Francisco Symphony: Orchestral Works)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 8 (Leningrad Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Aaron Copland – Appalachian Spring (Boston Symphony Orchestra: Composers Conduct)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Cinderella (London Symphony Orchestra: Cinderella/’Classical’ Symphony)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony no. 5 (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 5/Symphony No. 7)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Trio no. 2 (Vienna Piano Trio: The Piano Trios)
• Leonard Bernstein – On the Town (Michael Tilson Thomas)
• Olivier Messiaen – Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus (Yvonne Loriod: Messiaen Edition)
• Benjamin Britten – Peter Grimes (Benjamin Britten)
• Béla Bartók – Piano Concerto no. 3 (Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: Klavierkonzerte 1-3)
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Violin Concerto (Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Concerto)
• Béla Bartók – Viola Concerto (Netherland Radio Chamber Orchestra)
• Frank Martin – Petite symphonie concertante (Geneva Chamber Orchestra)
• Bohuslav Martinu – Symphony no. 4 (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 9 (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
• Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Benjamin Britten – The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
• Igor Stravinsky – Symphony in Three Movements (SWR Baden-Baden Symphony Orchestra: Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Bachianas brasileiras no. 5 (Pleeth Cello Quartet: Bachianas Brasileiras 1 & 5)
• Aaron Copland – Symphony no. 3 (New York Philharmonic)
• Benjamin Britten – The Rape of Lucretia (Benjamin Britten)
• Arthur Honegger – Symphony no. 3, « Symphonie liturgique » (Roayl Concertgebouw Orchestra: Poulenc Gloria)
• Xavier Montsalvatge – Canciones negras (Teresa Berganza & Félix Lavilla: Canciones Españolas)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Violin Sonata no. 1 (David Oistrakh & Sviatoslav Richter: Brahms Violinsonate A-Dur op. 100)
• Franz Waxman – Carmen Fantasy (RCA Victor Orchestra: Korngold Concerto)
• Kurt Weill – Street Scene (John Mauceri)
• Ned Rorem – Songs (Ensemble Oriol: Songs of Ned Rorem)
• Arnold Schoenberg – A Survivor from Warsaw (Male Chorus of the Vienna State Opera: Ein Überlebender aus Warschau)
• Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony no. 6 (New Philharmonia Orchestra: Symphony No. 4/Symphony No. 6)
• Maurice Duruflé – Requiem (George Guest: Fauré Requiem)
• Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Orchestra of St. Luke’s)
• Roberto Gerhard – The Duenna (Antoni Ros-Marbà: La Dueña)
• John Cage – Sonatas and Interludes (Nora Skuta)
• Aaron Copland – Clarinet Concerto (Columbia Symphony Strings: Orchestral & Ballet Works 1936-1948)
• Conlon Nancarrow – Player Piano Studies (Conlon Nancarrow: Studies for Player Piano)
• Olivier Messiaen – Turangalîla Symphony (Kent Nagano: Turangalîla-Symphonie)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – From Jewish Folk Poetry (Tatiana Sharova, Ludmila Kuznetsova & Alexei Martynov: New Babylon Film Music)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Concerto no. 1 (Maxim Vengerov & Mstislav Rostropovich: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 & 2)
• Richard Strauss – Four Last Songs (Gundula Janowitz & Herbert von Karajan: Vier letzte Lieder/Four Last Songs)
• Leonard Bernstein – Symphony no. 2, « The Age of Anxiety » (Ulster Orchestra)
• Gerald Finzi – Clarinet Concerto (Northern Sinfonia)
• Gian-Carlo Menotti – The Consul (Richard Hickox)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Cello Sonata (Mstislav Rostropovich & Sviatoslav Richter: Rostropovich Plays Prokofiev)
• Astor Piazzolla – Tangos (Piazzoll, Console, Malvicino, Suarez Paz & Ziegler: Tango/Zero Hour)
• Malcolm Arnold – English Dances (Queensland Symphony Orchestra: Dances)

1951-Present

• Benjamin Britten – Billy Budd (Benjamin Britten)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues (Vladimir Ashkenazy: 24 Preludes & Fugues, op. 87)
• Francis Poulenc – Stabat mater (City of London Sinfonia: Gloria-Stabat Mater)
• Igor Stravinsky – The Rake’s Progress (Igor Stravinsky)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony-Concerto (Mstislav Rostropovich & Seiji Ozawa: Symphony No. 2)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Guitar Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Sergei Prokofiev – Symphony no. 7 (London Symphony Orchestra: The Complete Symphonies)
• Michael Tippett – The Midsummer Marriage (Colin Davis)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 10 (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonie No. 10)
• Michael Tippett – Fantasia concertante (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Ritual Dances)
• Leonard Bernstein – Serenade (Philharmonia Orchestra: West Side Story)
• Benjamin Britten – The Turn of the Screw (Benjamin Britten)
• Aram Khachaturian – Spartacus (Vienna Philharmonic)
• Witold Lutoslawski – Concerto for Orchestra (BBC Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Joaquin Rodrigo – Fantasia para un gentilhombre (Royal Philharmonic: Concierto de Aranjuez/Fantasia para un Gentilhombre)
• Iannis Xenakis – Metastaseis (French Radio National Orchestra)
• Alan Hovhaness – Symphony no. 2, « Mysterious Mountain » (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
• Pierre Boulez – Le marteau sans maître (Ensemble InterContemperain: Boulez Conducts Boulez)
• Leonard Bernstein – Candide (Leonard Bernstein)
• William Walton – Cello Concerto (London Symphony Orchestra: Cello Concertos)
• Malcolm Williamson – Piano Works (Antony Gray: Complete Works for Piano)
• Francis Poulenc – Dialogues des Carmélites (Kent Nagano)
• Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story (Carol Lawrence, Larry Kent & Chita Rivera)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Piano Concerto no. 2 (Dmitri Shostakovich & André Cluytens: Piano Concertos)
• Samuel Barber – Vanessa (Dimitri Mitropoulos)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Gruppen (WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne: Gruppen, Punkte)
• Igor Stravinsky – Agon (Southwest German Radio Orchestra: Le Domaine Musical Vol. 2)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 11, « The Year 1905 » (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Michael Tippett – Symphony no. 2 (London Symphony Orchestra: Piano Sonatas 1-3/String Quartets 1-3)
• Olivier Messiaen – Catalogue d’oiseaux (Peter Hill: The Piano Works)
• Luciano Berio – Sequenzas (Nora Shulman, Alain Trudel & Jasper Wood: Sequenzas I-XIV)
• Hanns Eisler – Deutsche Sinfonie (Lothar Zagrosek)
• Francis Poulenc – La voix humaine (French National Orchestra)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Cello Concerto no. 1 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Benjamin Britten – A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Richard Hickox)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet no. 8 (Borodin Quartet: Complete Quartets)
• Krzysztof Penderecki – Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (London Symphony Orchestra)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte (Jonny Axelsson & Fredrik Ullén: Zyklus)
• Bernd Alois Zimmermann – Die Soldaten (Bernhard Kontarsky)
• Elliott Carter – Double Concerto (Sequitur)
• Benjamin Britten – War Requiem (Peter Pears, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau & Galina Vishnevskaya)
• György Ligeti – Aventures & Nouvelles aventures (Ensemble InterContemporain: Clear or Cloudy)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 13, « Babi Yar » (Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra: Complete Symphonies)
• Olivier Messiaen – Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum (Domaine Musical Orchestra: Messiaen Edition)
• Giacinto Scelsi – String Quartet no. 4 (Quartet of Klangforum Wien: Streichquartett Nr. 4)
• Benjamin Britten – Curlew River (Benjamin Britten)
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s In Nomine (SW German Radio Orchestra)
• Henri Dutilleux – Métaboles (French National Orchestra)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet no. 10 (Borodin Quartet: String Quartets 1-13)
• Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms (Vienna Jeunesse Choir: Chichester Psalms/Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2)
• Rodion Shchedrin – Carmen Suite (Russian National Orchestra)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Seven Blok Romances (Galine Vishnevskaya, Ulf Hoelscher, Mstislav Rostropovich & Vasso Devetzi: Seven Romances on Verses by Alexander Blok)
• György Ligeti – String Quartet no. 2 (LaSalle Quartet: Clear or Cloudy)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Violin Sonata (Oleg Kagan & Sviatoslav Richter: Sonata for Violin op. 134)
• Karlheinz Stockhausen – Stimmung (Singcircle)
• Luciano Berio – Sinfonia (London Voices)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 14 (Mstislav Rostropovich & Galina Vishnevskaya)
• Elliott Carter – Concerto for Orchestra (SW German Radio Orchestra: Piano Concerto)
• Peter Maxwell Davies – Eight Songs for a Mad King (Fires of London)
• Henri Dutilleux – Tout un monde lointain… (Paris Orchestra: Cello Concerto/Tout un monde lointain…)
• Elliott Carter – String Quartet no. 3 (Arditti Quartet: String Quartets 1-4)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony no. 15 (Berlin Philharmonic: Im Takt Der Zeit)
• Morton Feldman – Cello and Orchestra (Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra: Piano and Orchestra)
• Harrison Birtwistle – The Triumph of Time (Philharmonia Orchestra)
• Bruno Maderna – Aura (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Dallapiccola Three Questions with Two Answers)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara – Cantus arcticus (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Garden of Spaces)
• Benjamin Britten – Death in Venice (Steuart Bedford)
• Dmitri Shostakovich – String Quartet no. 15 (Borodin Quartet: Complete Quartets)
• Pierre Boulez – Rituel: in memorium Bruno Maderna (BBC Symphony Orchestra)
• Steve Reich – Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich & Musicians)
• Philip Glass – Einstein on the Beach (Philip Glass Ensemble)
• Henryk Górecki – Symphony no. 3 (London Sinfonietta)
• György Ligeti – Le grand macabre (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
• John Corigliano – Clarinet Concerto (Richard Stoltzman & Lawrence Leighton Smith: The Essential Clarinet)
• Toru Takemitsu – A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden (BBC National Orchestra of Wales)
• Arvo Pärt – Fratres (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Tabula Rasa)
• Einojuhani Rautavaara – Angels and Visitations (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Violin Concerto)
• Pierre Boulez – Notations (Lyons National Orchestra)
• Michael Tippett – String Quartet no. 4 (The Lindsays)
• John Cage – Roaratorio (John Cage)
• George Benjamin – Ringed by the Flat Horizon (BBC Symphony Orchestra: At First Light/A Mind of Winter)
• Sofia Gubaidulina – Offertorium (Gidon Kremer & Charles Dutoit)
• Brian Ferneyhough – Funérailles (Arditti Quartet)
• Tristan Murail – Gondwana (French National Orchestra: Gondwana/Désintégrations/Time and Again)
• Jonathan Harvey – Mortuos plango, vivos voco (Pierre Boulez: Tombeau de Messiaen)
• William Bolcom – Songs of Innocence and Experience (University of Michigan Musical Society & Symphony Orchestra)
• John Tavener – Funeral Ikos (Choir of King’s College, Cambridge: Voices of Praise)
• Olivier Messiaen – Saint François d’Assise (Kent Nagano)
• Oliver Knussen – Where the Wild Things Are (Higglety Pigglety Pop! & Where the Wild Things Are)
• Olivier Messiaen – Livre du Saint Sacrement (Jennifer Bate)
• Hans Werner Henze – Symphony no. 7 (South West German Radio Orchestra)
• Helmut Lachenmann – Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrung) (Ensemble Modern: Schwankungen am Rand)
• John Adams – Harmonielehre (San Francisco Symphony)
• György Ligeti – Études (Pierre-Laurent Aimard: György Ligeti Edition 3)
• Witold Lutoslawski – Chain 2 (Anne-Sophie Mutter & Witold Lutoslawski: Partita/Chain 2/Piano Concerto)
• Alfred Schnittke – String Trio (Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet & Mstislav Rostropovich: Concerto for Three/String Trio)
• Milton Babbitt – Transfigured Notes (Boston Orchestra)
• Peter Sculthorpe – Earth Cry (Sydney Symphony Orchestra)
• Philip Glass – Violin Concerto (Ulster Orchestra)
• John Adams – Nixon in China (Edo de Waart)
• John Tavener – The Protecting Veil (Steven Isserlis & Gennady Rozhdestvensky)
• Louis Andriessen – De Materie (Netherlands Chamber Choir)
• Ross Edwards – Maninyas (Sydney Symphony)
• Steve Reich – Different Trains (Kronos Quartet)
• Mark-Anthony Turnage – Three Screaming Popes (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: Drowned Out)
• György Kurtág – Officium breve (Keller Quartet: Musik für Streichinstrumente)
• James MacMillan – Veni, veni, Emmanuel (Ulster Orchestra)
• Olivier Messiaen – Éclairs sur l’Au-delà… (Bastille Opera Orchestra)
• Simon Bainbridge – Ad ora incerta (Martyn Brabbins: Ad Ora Incerta/Four Primo Levi Settings)
• György Kurtág – Stele (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: Stockhausen Gruppen)
• Magnus Lindberg – Aura (BBC Symphony Orchestra: Aura/Engine)
• Carl Vine – Percussion Symphony (Synergy: Complete Symphonies 1-6)
• Mark-Anthony Turnage – Blood on the Floor (Ensemble Modern: Some Days/Your Rockaby/Night Dances/Dispelling the Fears)
• Thomas Adès – Asyla (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)
• Sofia Gubaidulina – Canticle of the Sun (Danish National Radio Choir)
• Peteris Vasks – Violin Concerto, « Distant Light » (Swedish Chamber Orchestra)
• Gérard Grisey – Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil (Catherine Dubosc, Klangforum Wien & Sylvain Cambreling)
• Wolfgang Rihm – Deus Passus (Helmuth Rilling)
• Wolfgang Rihm – Jagden und Formen (Ensemble Modern)
• Julian Anderson – Book of Hours (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group)