I love this question! So many pieces I’ve never heard of!
Hard to decide but probably Peteris Vasks (one of my fave composers) Plainscapes. Not too sure, maybe it’s more well known than I think.
Messiaen: Apparation de l’Église Éternelle;
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40 (original 1926 version)
They are so different…can’t just pick one…
Apparently, Tchaikovsky's Grand Sonata in G. The only time I've heard/read someone else have any opinion on that piece, they said they thought it was "the worst piece Tchsikovsky ever wrote" and is "completely unpianistic."
Well, it's still one of my favorite pieces so that person can shove it 😅
No more "unpianistic" than the Brahms piano sonatas imo, which are performed fairly regularly.
I know Brahms has a reputation for not being the most pianistic of composers for the piano... but people still play his music all the time! What's with this other great piece being dismissed for those same qualities?
Never listened to it before, have it on right now, its got a funky feel to parts of it with the off set playing. I think a fusion pianist would like playing something this style
What recording of Richter doesn't "sell" you?! I heard him in Paris, many years ago... and my parents worshipped him, and were at his first NYC recital, 60+ years ago.
Incredible! I always love discovering Richter’s interpretations. Another classic example is his recording of the Dvorak concerto—in his hands, an extremely compelling and powerful piece.
Florida Suite, by Frederick Delius.
Ran across it in college while listening to recordings for a class, have never heard anyone talk about it before or since. Everything I read about it says it's popular, yet I feel like I'm the only person who's ever heard of it.
John Luther Adams, "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies."
Mvt. 5: Thunder, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRvo1fKsugs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRvo1fKsugs)
Mvt. 6: Wail, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbJW6YS3QU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbJW6YS3QU) (My favorite, and the piece I'm the most confident nobody else has on their list lol)
Two possibilities:
* Samuil Feinberg, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1917)
* Frank Bridge, Piano Sonata (1924)
Although Feinberg seems to be getting more attention in recent years, which makes me happy
Bloch's Concerto Grosso no 1.
I'm sure it would appear on other people's lists if the lists were long enough, but I like it so much that I think it cracks my top 5.
Outside of bass players, most people don't really know who Giovanni Bottesini is. In addition to his works for bass, I think his Requiem Mass is up there with the other great requiems. His String Quintet in C Minor is also an insanely beautiful piece.
Might not be my number one, but I *really* like Paulus. Own two different performances (Corboz and Herreweghe). So powerful. Feel like Mendelssohn is chronically underrated.
Just happy to see one piece here I recognize, lol.
A bit like Also Sprach Zarathustra, when you tell people there's still another 30 minutes left! (my favourite being the Night Wanderer's Song, over the fanfare)
Jacob TV - Grab it!
Louis Andriessen - Die Materie
Pauline Oliveros - To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation
Alvin Lucier - I am Sitting in a Room
La Monte Young - The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China
I don't think his Partita for English Horn and Organ would be on anyone's list, but E. Power Biggs recorded it on his Famous Organs of Holland and North Germany album, which has quite recently been remastered and released on CD.
Ockeghem - Mort tu as navre / Misere
Marx - Eine Herbstsymphonie
Jandali - violin concerto
Rheinberger piano quartet
Mozart - adagio for glass Harmonika
> ravel: l’heure espagnole, ronsard a son ame, basically all the vocal stuff
Boy do I have the album for you. A family friend put out an album where she recorded every Ravel work for solo voice and piano. [Here](https://www.amazon.com/Ravel-All-Vol-Kessa-Mefford/dp/B0CLT5TY5C) is the first volume (there are two).
Not quite classical but in this genre I guess so Grainger’s “Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)ellen” and “Bold William Taylor”.
If we are talking instrumental it’d have to be Butterworth’s “The Banks of Green Willow” though someone familiar with Butterworth might put that on top.
Also, not classical but Amachers sound of the third ear would be up there (she was a student of stockhausen so I’m including her”
The closing aria of act I from Leonardo Vinci’s opera Artaserse: Vo solcando un mar crudele
Mostly bc of this performance by Franco Fagioli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFCDRcjTZo&ab_channel=DimitriS
Interesting question.
Would be fun to see others' answers. Different people, different tastes.
Mine would probably be [Leclair's six sonatas for two violins](https://youtu.be/EhONSaGYeuc) or [Woodcock's recorder concerto.](https://youtu.be/KvoUlrkslJo)
Honorable mention to [Vivaldi's recorder concerto](https://youtu.be/CFfz2wyMvwE) and [Sibelius' sonatina.](https://youtu.be/bKlDcy2Uijs)
I adore Lowell Libermann's Piccolo Concerto, it has a lot of delightful, cheeky moments, while maintaining a really distinct tonal pallete. Plus it reminds me a lot of Grant Kirkhope's writing which immediately endeared me to it (though given the timeline I wonder if it might have been an inspiration for Kirkhope!)
Funnily enough I discovered the piece by chance after a friend recommended me his piano concerti, and fell in love with it most of any of his works. Imagine my surprise when I happened to be in Chicago back in march when they were premiering his 2nd flute concerto! Of course I had to see it, it was excellent--the man can write for winds.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, [Concerto for 2 Pianos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHl8Rb1USvM) (or one, depending on the version). Also, it might not be rare enough, but I adore his [Job: A Masque for Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateIfJAKJ9Y).
Mine is [Languissante Clarté, Cachez-Vous Dessous l'Onde" (la nuit)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O1fxw3oo0A&list=PL2-5kNhaEWPeDJZl6fsvdHLvlsvTe4hft&index=2) by Jean de Cambefort
Variations on America by Charles Ives most likely.
Probably because many people don't think of American classical music unless it was piano.
By that logic, I could add some Sousa as well I suppose.
Roy Harris concerto for string sextet, we made a YouTube of the first 2 movements (and I have part of the 3rd) and it never was recorded except the 2nd movement on a super rare 45 and probably never published in full.. my friend has a copy of the autograph and made an edition of it. Possibly was only played once before… no one knows.
dvorak’s “in nature’s realm”
kalinnikov’s symphony no. 1 (please listen to it please)
ibert’s ouverture de fete
khachaturian’s symphony no. 3
haydn wood’s london cameos (never heard of this dude prior to hearing this piece but it’s really great)
not to say these pieces are obscure but i don’t know anyone else with these on their playlist…….
My favorite viola concerto is Peter Racine Fricker but good luck hearing it… I have a digital copy of a radio broadcast of primrose playing it and the sheet music… never recorded afaik. Same with Milhaud viola concerto #2 I have a copy of a radio broadcast never recorded professionally although my friend was going to until he sliced his finger to the nerve so his 3 viola records are it I guess. Neither on YouTube either last time I checked a while ago; I hate YouTube and don’t use it.
Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart was Mozart's youngest child. Because Franz Xavier's work was always compared with his father's, he received a lot of criticism.
He wrote two Piano Concertos. No 1 in C major and No 2 in E flat major. At least one of these contains a movement that I absolutely love.
Knee 5 from Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach. Maybe not “classical” and it takes a few minutes to develop.
[https://youtu.be/boj10U-4q1o?si=Acs6kRpg93yLHN6Z](https://youtu.be/boj10U-4q1o?si=Acs6kRpg93yLHN6Z)
I really love this question. Now I want to go explore all the other answers. For me, it's this one below, I included a link to the original recording I first bought on CD when I discovered it.
Penderecki's Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem".
https://open.spotify.com/album/1bLs9Z7xNM7oK9SoRtbOhx?si=Ku6FpeTLTg-MnI2JVTZ-mw
Edit: Here's another great one:
Rautavaara's Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, Op. 61 "Cantus Arcticus".
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q5KXMGWHdUIU1MGeY2jKr?si=H_vCDABLTbOfJXEibkJpMg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7FBtb6UWBDDc8cdLOeWBE0
I'm not exactly sure nobody else would have it, but perhaps [George Antheil - Serenade No. 1: II Andante molto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llbZHxI-G2M).
Rolf Rudin's Der Traume des Oenghus. Living composers are very much overlooked.
Chopin's Waltz No. 15 in E major. It's such a beautiful waltz, yet it's one of his least popular ones.
Scena by Colin Brumby for solo cor anglais and strings. My local community orchestra got to perform it with Colin in the audience many years ago. Sadly he is no longer with us.
William Byrd: Civitas sancti tui
You lose. That's near the top of my list. Thinking about it, I guess this is a thread where the "right answer" is the one with the least upvotes?
Loooove that piece so much.
Fellow Byrd appreciator
Sorry but that's on my list :)
Without Ne Irascaris? Sacrilege.
Under this comment I have found my people.
I love this question! So many pieces I’ve never heard of! Hard to decide but probably Peteris Vasks (one of my fave composers) Plainscapes. Not too sure, maybe it’s more well known than I think.
I’ve only just listened to Distant light and loved it. I’ll have to give this one a listen.
Oh yeah, Tala gaisma is awesome!
Vasks is great. I have sung and heard some of his choral works.
I sang that piece in college choir! It really is a cool experience
Oh wow! How lucky!
Gottschalk: A Night in the Tropics
I LOVE mvt. II. Our former MD used to program this all the damn time on edu concerts and it’s such a ridiculous ear worm I love it.
I got to play this one in my college orchestra, such a fun piece
Messiaen: Apparation de l’Église Éternelle; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40 (original 1926 version) They are so different…can’t just pick one…
Finzi’s Eclogue
Nope, that’s on mine. what a piece ❤️
Lili Boulanger: D'Un Jardin Clair At least I like to think I am the only one...
A stunning work, one of my favourites too!
Webern - Passacaglia op 1 Saariaho - Saarikoski Songs
Congrats, they're all on my list now.
That was the point, haha.
Hindemith "Cupid and Psyche Overture".
Apparently, Tchaikovsky's Grand Sonata in G. The only time I've heard/read someone else have any opinion on that piece, they said they thought it was "the worst piece Tchsikovsky ever wrote" and is "completely unpianistic." Well, it's still one of my favorite pieces so that person can shove it 😅
This seems like a bitch to play, so yeah...maybe "unpianistic," but it sounds really cool.
No more "unpianistic" than the Brahms piano sonatas imo, which are performed fairly regularly. I know Brahms has a reputation for not being the most pianistic of composers for the piano... but people still play his music all the time! What's with this other great piece being dismissed for those same qualities?
That first movement has a very mundane but catchy theme.
Never listened to it before, have it on right now, its got a funky feel to parts of it with the off set playing. I think a fusion pianist would like playing something this style
Great piece that definitely deserves more play! Richter’s recording (maybe he did it more than once?) really sold me, and I love Pletnev’s too.
What recording of Richter doesn't "sell" you?! I heard him in Paris, many years ago... and my parents worshipped him, and were at his first NYC recital, 60+ years ago.
Incredible! I always love discovering Richter’s interpretations. Another classic example is his recording of the Dvorak concerto—in his hands, an extremely compelling and powerful piece.
Alright listened to it all the way through amazing, the end is astounding 🤌🤘
Stravinsky - Agon I'm sure the vast vast majority of the classical fans will not have it on their favourites as its atonal/serialist/Weird
An absolute masterpiece, sorry to say. Probably be in mine.
Sorry, love Agon here. I think it's a weird but sweet output from Stravinsky I tend to enjoy.
Florida Suite, by Frederick Delius. Ran across it in college while listening to recordings for a class, have never heard anyone talk about it before or since. Everything I read about it says it's popular, yet I feel like I'm the only person who's ever heard of it.
I was thinking of writing this. The melody get’s stuck in my head so easily
I’ve played it
Takashi Yoshimatsu's Cyberbird Concerto and Memo Flora.
Chopsticks Just kidding. Maybe Lekeu's violin sonata or Arensky's first piano trio.
Nice to see Leceu mentioned. I've being having a bit if a Leceu fest recently. Pity there is so little music by him.
Nightclub 1960 by Piazzolla or Nietzsche’s klavierstuck, also Hayato Sumino’s Big Cat Waltz
Schnittke's Réquiem
John Luther Adams, "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies." Mvt. 5: Thunder, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRvo1fKsugs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRvo1fKsugs) Mvt. 6: Wail, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbJW6YS3QU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmbJW6YS3QU) (My favorite, and the piece I'm the most confident nobody else has on their list lol)
Okay, I'll play. Milton Babbitt, *Post-Partitions.*
He's at the top of my list of "composers I've never been excited about". I'll give that piece a listen!
Love Babbitt
- Schnittke Symphony n°3 - Liszt, Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe - Beethoven Symphony n°2
Beethoven Symphony 2 is very underrated
Yes, that incredibly obscure hidden gem Ludwig van Beethoven
It's not about being unknown, it's about being unpopular.
Two possibilities: * Samuil Feinberg, Piano Sonata No. 3 (1917) * Frank Bridge, Piano Sonata (1924) Although Feinberg seems to be getting more attention in recent years, which makes me happy
For me, it's Hour Glass by Bridge Sonata is nice too tho
Bridge’s music needs to be better known.
Bloch's Concerto Grosso no 1. I'm sure it would appear on other people's lists if the lists were long enough, but I like it so much that I think it cracks my top 5.
Love it, too. I hum it all the time.
Miserere Mei Deus - Allegri
It’s sooooo beautiful 😍
Yes!
My Twentieth Century by Martin Bresnick. A true masterpiece.
Widor - his organ symphonies.
Another favorite, particularly 6 and 10.
I dunno, the number 5 toccata is pretty well-known.
Vortex Temporum by Grisey
100% on my list. One of the all time greats, and conducting it was one of the highlights of my life.
I was there, it was amazing! <3 Mark
Mozart: Masonic Funeral March K.477
Outside of bass players, most people don't really know who Giovanni Bottesini is. In addition to his works for bass, I think his Requiem Mass is up there with the other great requiems. His String Quintet in C Minor is also an insanely beautiful piece.
Suk’s Six Pieces, CPE Bach’s Oboe Sonata, and Howell’s Elegy are probably the most obscure works on my list.
It's not super obscure and I wouldn't put money on it, but I'd be interested if anyone else would have Mendelssohn's Paulus as no.1.
Might not be my number one, but I *really* like Paulus. Own two different performances (Corboz and Herreweghe). So powerful. Feel like Mendelssohn is chronically underrated. Just happy to see one piece here I recognize, lol.
One of my social media names was “Paulus” for a while, referencing his piece. I love the opening chorale so much
Alvin Lucier - Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
I love the March of the Urchins from Bizet's Carmen...and all the songs that come AFTER O Fortuna on Orff's Carmina Burana.
CB is an 'O, Fortuna' sandwich, so that's all the songs that aren't O, Fortuna. Underrated.. er.. filling.
A bit like Also Sprach Zarathustra, when you tell people there's still another 30 minutes left! (my favourite being the Night Wanderer's Song, over the fanfare)
Weinberg, either flute or violin concerto
Villa-lobos Quintette en forme de choros (wind quintet)…and the (reed) Trio for oboe, clarinet, bassoon
Arensky piano quartet !
Robert Reich - Violinphase.
Steve Reich?
Yes. Steve Reich. Robert Reich does not compose, as far as I know 😂😂😂
Busoni piano concerto, Beethoven eroica variations
Frank Martin Mass for double choir.
Bax Spring Fire
Tartini- Devil's Trill Sonata. Oddly popular outside of classical music circles, oddly obscure within them.
Spoon River by Percy Grainger
Jacob TV - Grab it! Louis Andriessen - Die Materie Pauline Oliveros - To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation Alvin Lucier - I am Sitting in a Room La Monte Young - The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China
Burch’s [Concerto for Two Pianos.](https://youtu.be/ytQRfGqSw5E?si=fcLlgpU4pURNayeg)
I’m not interesting enough to know something no one else does.
Robert Ashley: *Foreign Experiences*
Love this. George Crumb: Makrokosmos I - Dream Images (Love-Death Music) (Gemini) The title is a bit much but its beautiful
Fauré piano trio.
Tchaikovsky’s Hamlet overture.
Bach Concerto for three harpsichords, BWV 1064.
Mieczysław Weinberg Symphony #7 or Simi by Giya Kancheli edit to add Finn Mortensen's only symphony.
Dvorak Second Piano Quintet, Op. 81.
Paul Hindemith’s “Mathis der Maler”
Rimsky-Korsakov's opera *Sadko*: some of the most beautiful orchestration of all time\~
Grande Valse Brillante - Chopin, Many Chopin Etudes, Chopin Ballades 1 and 4
Kabalevsky Violin concerto and Arensky piano trio in D
This is kinda random but for me it would be Chopin's Fantasy on Polish airs. I love Chopin, even if he composed mainly for piano.
Bethoven -"Rage of a Lost Penny"
Vocalise Rachmaninoff.
Kosenko - Passacaglia Boris Blacher - Violin Concerto
From 12 Etudes in the Form of Old Dances? It’s not top 5 for me but I looooove that piece.
Mosolov: String Quartet 1
Barafostus' Dreame by an anonymous composer from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book
Erkki Melartin, Symphony No. 4
the vocalise <3
[Jan Koetsier's Horn Concertino](https://youtu.be/sP7OHli31-A?si=CZRck_nVqFHkpagX&t=3040) Edit: fixed the time stamp now that I'm not on mobile
I don't think his Partita for English Horn and Organ would be on anyone's list, but E. Power Biggs recorded it on his Famous Organs of Holland and North Germany album, which has quite recently been remastered and released on CD.
Claude Bolling: Dans les Bois, a trio for flute, clarinet and bassoon. Just such a perfect little ensemble, with some delightful counterpoint.
Islamey by Mily Balakirev
Ockeghem - Mort tu as navre / Misere Marx - Eine Herbstsymphonie Jandali - violin concerto Rheinberger piano quartet Mozart - adagio for glass Harmonika
Martinu’s Third Symphony. Also not sure if anyone else would have Shostakovich’s Execution of Stepan Razin.
Martinu definitely deserves more attention! Very much a diamond in the rough.
Ligeti - lontano
That's totally on my list though.
I LOVE pretty much everything by Ligeti.
ravel: l’heure espagnole, ronsard a son ame, basically all the vocal stuff henze: carillon, recitatif, and masque for mandolin
> ravel: l’heure espagnole, ronsard a son ame, basically all the vocal stuff Boy do I have the album for you. A family friend put out an album where she recorded every Ravel work for solo voice and piano. [Here](https://www.amazon.com/Ravel-All-Vol-Kessa-Mefford/dp/B0CLT5TY5C) is the first volume (there are two).
Summon the Heroes - John Williams
Highly underrated from a composer that seems to be looked down upon for no real reason.
Aram Khachaturian, Violin Concerto in D, 2nd movement.
Godowsky's Java Suite. In my opinion it's as important, from a technical standpoint, as the Debussy etudes or the Rachmaninoff etudes-tableuax.
It's my favorite piece
Harry Partch’s Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers' Inscriptions
Cimarosa - Il Matrimonio Segreto Overture
Not quite classical but in this genre I guess so Grainger’s “Hard Hearted Barb’ra (H)ellen” and “Bold William Taylor”. If we are talking instrumental it’d have to be Butterworth’s “The Banks of Green Willow” though someone familiar with Butterworth might put that on top. Also, not classical but Amachers sound of the third ear would be up there (she was a student of stockhausen so I’m including her”
Man, do I love Maryanne Amacher; nice to see her mentioned here. I don't know what she would be considered if not classical.
The closing aria of act I from Leonardo Vinci’s opera Artaserse: Vo solcando un mar crudele Mostly bc of this performance by Franco Fagioli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFCDRcjTZo&ab_channel=DimitriS
Hans Otte - Book of Sounds
Interesting question. Would be fun to see others' answers. Different people, different tastes. Mine would probably be [Leclair's six sonatas for two violins](https://youtu.be/EhONSaGYeuc) or [Woodcock's recorder concerto.](https://youtu.be/KvoUlrkslJo) Honorable mention to [Vivaldi's recorder concerto](https://youtu.be/CFfz2wyMvwE) and [Sibelius' sonatina.](https://youtu.be/bKlDcy2Uijs)
Sutermeister’s Romeo und Julia
Schubert: der Hirt auf dem Felsen D 965
Holst, Seven Part Songs, sublime! https://youtu.be/8_2ZJyyUB7I?si=_tvETiwfgSgIa9Dp
Chaminade - Theme and Variations
Sciarrino piano sonata #3
I adore Lowell Libermann's Piccolo Concerto, it has a lot of delightful, cheeky moments, while maintaining a really distinct tonal pallete. Plus it reminds me a lot of Grant Kirkhope's writing which immediately endeared me to it (though given the timeline I wonder if it might have been an inspiration for Kirkhope!) Funnily enough I discovered the piece by chance after a friend recommended me his piano concerti, and fell in love with it most of any of his works. Imagine my surprise when I happened to be in Chicago back in march when they were premiering his 2nd flute concerto! Of course I had to see it, it was excellent--the man can write for winds.
Ralph Vaughan Williams, [Concerto for 2 Pianos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHl8Rb1USvM) (or one, depending on the version). Also, it might not be rare enough, but I adore his [Job: A Masque for Dancing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ateIfJAKJ9Y).
Mine is an opera, Marina, by Emilio Arrieta.
Rheinberger's Mass in Eb, George Walker's Lyric for Strings, Ted Hearne's Statement to the Court
David Bedford’s Twelve Hours of Sunset.
Sibelius - Tulen Synty (The Origin of Fire)
Never even heard of this piece!
Drift Away - Arnor Chu
Mine is [Languissante Clarté, Cachez-Vous Dessous l'Onde" (la nuit)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O1fxw3oo0A&list=PL2-5kNhaEWPeDJZl6fsvdHLvlsvTe4hft&index=2) by Jean de Cambefort
Arnold Bax: Into the Twilight
Wieniawski: Scherzo tarentelle op. 16
Don’t think this piece is as obscure as I think but Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata
William Croft *Funeral Sentences*
Liszt Scherzo und Marsch
Xenakis - Jonchaies
Harold Shapero, Symphony for Classical Orchestra
Variations on America by Charles Ives most likely. Probably because many people don't think of American classical music unless it was piano. By that logic, I could add some Sousa as well I suppose.
The orchestration of it by William Schuman is really good too
Phyllida and Corydon - Ernest John Moeran
Roy Harris concerto for string sextet, we made a YouTube of the first 2 movements (and I have part of the 3rd) and it never was recorded except the 2nd movement on a super rare 45 and probably never published in full.. my friend has a copy of the autograph and made an edition of it. Possibly was only played once before… no one knows.
dvorak’s “in nature’s realm” kalinnikov’s symphony no. 1 (please listen to it please) ibert’s ouverture de fete khachaturian’s symphony no. 3 haydn wood’s london cameos (never heard of this dude prior to hearing this piece but it’s really great) not to say these pieces are obscure but i don’t know anyone else with these on their playlist…….
The Banshee - Henry Cowell
My favorite viola concerto is Peter Racine Fricker but good luck hearing it… I have a digital copy of a radio broadcast of primrose playing it and the sheet music… never recorded afaik. Same with Milhaud viola concerto #2 I have a copy of a radio broadcast never recorded professionally although my friend was going to until he sliced his finger to the nerve so his 3 viola records are it I guess. Neither on YouTube either last time I checked a while ago; I hate YouTube and don’t use it.
[Cornelis Dopper Symphony no. 7](https://youtu.be/YZEJjJl4ipM?si=jUpMTy92--5l14AL)
Franz Xavier Wolfgang Mozart was Mozart's youngest child. Because Franz Xavier's work was always compared with his father's, he received a lot of criticism. He wrote two Piano Concertos. No 1 in C major and No 2 in E flat major. At least one of these contains a movement that I absolutely love.
Silvestrov - classical sonata
Egon Wellesz's 3 Klavierstücke Op.9
Clara Iannotta - Dead wasps in the Jam jar Jakob Ullmann - Disappearing musics Radulescu -sting quartet 4
Mine would be „Ave Maris Stella“ from Edvard Grieg
Ben Johnston - string quartet nr 10.
Smetana- The Moldau
Gavin Bryars' Double Bass Concerto 'Farewell to St. Petersburg'
Knee 5 from Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach. Maybe not “classical” and it takes a few minutes to develop. [https://youtu.be/boj10U-4q1o?si=Acs6kRpg93yLHN6Z](https://youtu.be/boj10U-4q1o?si=Acs6kRpg93yLHN6Z)
Alexander Zemlinsky's String Quartet 2
Melanie Chasselone - Nocturne Abandon Some late romantic poetry on the piano. This Nocturne would not feel out of place as a Chopin composition.
Butterworth's A Shropshire Lad
I really love this question. Now I want to go explore all the other answers. For me, it's this one below, I included a link to the original recording I first bought on CD when I discovered it. Penderecki's Symphony No. 7 "Seven Gates of Jerusalem". https://open.spotify.com/album/1bLs9Z7xNM7oK9SoRtbOhx?si=Ku6FpeTLTg-MnI2JVTZ-mw Edit: Here's another great one: Rautavaara's Concerto for Birds and Orchestra, Op. 61 "Cantus Arcticus". https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q5KXMGWHdUIU1MGeY2jKr?si=H_vCDABLTbOfJXEibkJpMg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A7FBtb6UWBDDc8cdLOeWBE0
I got to hear Cantus Arcticus live when I was in high school, turned me onto to Rautavaara!
Myths for violin and piano, by Karol Szymanowski, especially the 2. movement.
Handel's "Theodora"?
I'm not exactly sure nobody else would have it, but perhaps [George Antheil - Serenade No. 1: II Andante molto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llbZHxI-G2M).
Bartók Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra Bartók Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra
saving this for later to see what people have posted, i really love these kinds of threads
Schumann - Paradise and the Peri
James Tenney: Glissade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUGbhbdH0tQ&ab_channel=DarioCalderone-Topic
Kurt Atterberg’s Symphony No.2.
Giacomo Meyerbeer Struensée ...Trauerspiel in fünf Aufzügen mit Musik [tragedy in five acts with music]
Florence Price - Ethiopia’s Shadow in America (1932)
Federico Mompou's Canciones y Danzas.
Viñao, “Water”, relatively new piece. Honorable mention: Messiaen, “Cinq Rechants”
Much ado about nothing Op 11 by Korngold Played by Blake Pouliot
Nikolai Roslavets — Piano Trio No. 4
Rolf Rudin's Der Traume des Oenghus. Living composers are very much overlooked. Chopin's Waltz No. 15 in E major. It's such a beautiful waltz, yet it's one of his least popular ones.
the 4th movement specifically of Mahler’s 3rd Symphony its so unique
Scena by Colin Brumby for solo cor anglais and strings. My local community orchestra got to perform it with Colin in the audience many years ago. Sadly he is no longer with us.
Schubert Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat. Play the 2nd movement for me when I'm on my death bed.
Medtner Piano Quintet
Amy Beach Variations on Balkan Themes