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Alceste (Viennese first version)
1767
Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Popular compositions
- Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244
- Barber: Adagio for Strings op. 11
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1 Sz. 36
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
- Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 C minor op. 111
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 F major op. 68 "Pastoral Symphony"
- Britten: Billy Budd
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Händel: Alcina HWV 34
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Mahler: Symphony No. 4 G major
- Massenet
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Mussorgsky: Pictures from an Exhibition (Piano)
- Puccini
- Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 F major op. 103 "The Egyptian"
- Tschaikowsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme op.33
Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Georg Friedrich Händel
- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Philharmonic Orchestra
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker