# The Essential Music Library: Classical

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**Created:** [September 26, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-classical/323445 "2005-09-26T04:35:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-classical/323445/41 "2005-10-11T03:00:03Z")

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Please, please, please let us put Rachmaninoff in the pre-1900 thread, where he belongs musically, rather than the 20th century.

Concerti #2 & 3  
Symphony #2  
Paganini Rhapsody  
So-called “Vespers”  
About a disk worth of solo piano & chamber pieces

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**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-essential-music-library-classical/323445/42 "2005-12-01T13:38:01Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
>
> Please, please, please let us put Rachmaninoff in the pre-1900 thread, where he belongs musically, rather than the 20th century.
> 
> Concerti #2 & 3  
> Symphony #2  
> Paganini Rhapsody  
> So-called “Vespers”  
> About a disk worth of solo piano & chamber pieces

**19/20th Century British composers**

**Elgar** - Enigma variations, Cello Concerto.  
**Holst** - Planets Suite  
**Vaughan Williams** - Symphonies 3, 5, 6, 7, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, The Lark Ascending, Five Variants on Dives and Lazurus, English Folk Song Suite.  
**Moeran** - Symphony in E  
**Bax** - Tintagel, at least one of his piano concertos

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