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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