Lists of The Greatest Classical Works

[ai4i]

Such lack of agreement with each other and with me.
I recently heard an old Rafael Mendez recording and became enamored with the Trumpet Concerto in Eb; could not stop humming it.
After checking several lists of "the greatest hits of all time", FJ Haydn's name was not even on many of them. How come, oppinions?

[Trumpetmaster]

I agree, Haydn should be up there....

BUT we also have.... Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, ...........

and then there is Ravel - Bolero... "ouch"

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

........... and then there is Ravel - Bolero... "ouch"

(Which I quite like)

I would have to put some of Haydn's stuff into any "greatest" collection. I, personally, would leave out any of that appalling "tone poem" stuff that has no tune. If I can't whistle it, it isn't music.

[Shapley]

This list puts his work 'The Creation' at number 96.

This list of best all-time recordings lists his String Quartets, performed by the Lindsays, as #4 on their Chamber Music List, and his Symphonies 93-104 by Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as #2 on their orchestral list.

[Trumpetmaster]

This list puts his work 'The Creation' at number 96.

This list of best all-time recordings lists his String Quartets, performed by the Lindsays, as #4 on their Chamber Music List, and his Symphonies 93-104 by Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as #2 on their orchestral list.

Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb should be in the top 100.