Thanks!

1. Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No.2
2. Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.2
3. Wagner - Der Ring der Nibelungen
4. Liszt - Transcendental Studies
5. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
6. Mahler - Symphony No.2
7. Brahms - Piano Concerto No.1
8. Mozart - Requiem
9. Chopin - Ballades
10. Beethoven - Piano Concerto No.4

Schubert - String Quartet No.14 "Death and the Maiden"
Brahms - Violin Concerto
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde
Mozart - Piano Concerto No.20
Purcell - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring

1. Chopin - Ballade No. 1 (con fuoco at 7:15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqLZbHRH ... plpp_video)
2. Chopin - Nocturne No. 20 (transcribed for violin)
3. Rachmaninov - Prelude in C# (by Gilels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtuMVBLE ... plpp_video
4. Chopin - Polonaise No. 6
5. Beethoven - Turkish March (Rubinstein arrangement) (Kissin's version is my favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtg8Gi11 ... plpp_video)
6. Mozart - Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major
7. Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King

followed by (no particular order)

Prokofiev - Montagues and Capulets (Romeo and Juliet)
Brahms - Hungarian Dance No. 5
Mozart - Sull'aria

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Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" performed by Mario Del Monaco (I think he's better than Pavarotti, especially 0:50>)

Love your number 1 (it's my number 2).

Have you heard the full ballet the Montagues and Capulets is plucked from? If not I highly recommend it (particularly if you can get the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra performance with Loren Maazal at the helm. And is that the suite version you're referring too (because if so it includes as it's meat the Dance of the Knights which is the coolest part of the ballet).

I haven't heard whole suite, I'm into classical for about half a year.

Now I'm into harpischrd, especially Jean-Philippe Rameau.

I like the most part 0:30 - 1:00, I've never saw it on any list, and it's fabolous rondo


5:13 to the end, also fantastic as hell

Because I'm far too indecisive to pick just 10...here are some of my (unordered) favorites

Charles Ives - Three Places in New England
Claude Debussy - La Mer
Claude Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un Faune
Georges Bizet - Habanera
Gustav Holst - The Planets
György Ligeti - Atmospheres
György Ligeti - Requiem
Iannis Xenakis - Eonta
Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Maurice Ravel - Boléro
Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
William Grant Still - Symphony No. 4

Listen to the whole opera of The Valkyries it's marvellous from start to finish.

The Threnody by Penderecki is great. I'd recommend Polymorphia, Dimensions of Time and Sound, and his 3rd symphony if you haven't heard them.

Some pieces I've always enjoyed most

1. The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky
2. One-Winged Angel - Nebuio Umatsu
3. The Firebird - Stravinsky
4. String Quartet no. 8 in C minor - Shostakovich
5. The Toccata and Fugue in D minor - Bach
6. String Quartet no. 4 - Bartok
7. Symphony no. 10 in E minor - Shostakovich
8. The Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima - Penderecki
9. Summa - Arvo Part
10. The Adagio For Strings - Barber
11. Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor - Shostakovich
12. String Quartet no. 15 in E flat minor - Shostakovich
13. Symphony no. 2 in C minor - Mahler
14. Symphony no. 40 in G minor - Mozart
15. A Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
16. String Quartet no. 1 - Bartok
17. Symphony no. 1 in D major - Mahler
18. Symphony no 11 in G minor - Shostakovich
19. The Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
20. Clair De Lune - Debussy
21. String Quartet no. 10 in A flat major - Shostakovich
22. Piano Quintet in G minor - Shostakovich
23. Symphony no. 3 - Penderecki
24. Piano Sonata in C major K. 545 - Mozart
25. The Planets - Holst

For starters