There are hundreds of epic moments in classical music; this doesn't say it's the top 10, it's just a personal selection with some very good examples. The ending of Gurre-Lieder is colossal, all of Rite of Spring and Turangalîla are epic, Britten War Requiem a masterpiece. That moment (5th door opening) in Bluebeards Castle is extraordinary but so few singers really nail that top C with power and accuracy - at least that I've heard.

Haydn for me - Op.74 No.1, Op.55 Nos 1& 2. Never bettered, never equalled, not even approached.

Huh? Nothing by Haydn or Mozart?

Nothing compares with The Late Quartets, Op. 131 and Op. 132 especially, probably in all of music (let alone among string quartets) and few things do in all of art. Easily at the top

All of this is indeed pretty epic! I see you resisted going with Carmina Burana, Verdi Requiem ,or any Mahler

Iolanta was premiered on a double bill with another Tchaikovsky work thst was written as filler as the opera was expected to be the hit. The other work was THE NUTCRACKER

Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Boccherini and Simpson in; Brahms, Borodin, Janacek, Ravel and Prokofiev out.

Very poor uninformed list obviously

Liszt sonata and godowsky sonata are good too

Very good list! A good one I would add would be the opening scene of Verdi's opera Otello...

that don giovanni recording sounds like it's from 1787

Turangalila remembers me Futurama

im so glad you included the first piano concerto, such an underrated and fun work

Fine selection

Roussel was actually born in 1869, not 1866, as erroneously indicated in the upload and description

chopin‘3d is definitely better than 2d

liszt's h-moll sonata should be in here somewhere

It's really difficult to pick my selections for my favorite pieces of Shostakovich! He wrote such great works!!

I really love your selections for Rachmaninov's greatest pieces! I would add some of his Etudes-Tableaux and the 4th moment musical, and of course his tremendous 1st symphony!

so great to see prokofiev sq2 at first; i played it w my quartet just recently and i have to say it’s one of the best chamber works of all time imo!

Absolutely great symphonies: Franz Berwald, Alberic Magnard, and Khachaturian’s 2nd.

No Schubert?

Haydn’s Deutschen hymn would have been nice.

What about Xenakis ?

It's wonderful that you recognize these neglected creators, giving an excerpt of their music with each. Though, along with the image of each, I wish you'd at least included a list of their major works. Or better still, a brief biography. Peter Warlock is an especially interesting figure, biographically, and it would have been great if you could have mentioned the possibly fictional idea that he was the music critic Philip Heseltine's multiple personality,, who was also his fiercest critic. There's a fascinating 1995 movie starring Jeremy Northam called Voices or, in America, Voices from a Locked Room. The late great Ken Russell was a fan of all things British classical music, and one of his last BBC films was a bio drama of Arnold Bax with him playing Bax and Glenda Jackson in her last film role before entering Parliament.

im perplexed that you didnt add any of the operas or Les animaux modelles with brilliant and dreamy orchestration. But i love them all never the less. I am to see a fellow poulencian

YEEEEEES POULENC BEST OF THEM ALL (if you didnt notice i am a bit of a poulenc fan) for a better enjoyment of the stabat mater you need to listen or to the Conductor Christoper Robinson (on youtube the video is a bit unsinked but the recording is gorgeus) or with the version of Seiji Ozawa. great versions

Where is Beethoven?? 😡

Von Holst has become one of my two favorite classical composers along with Shostakovich. Btw thoughts on Vasily Kalinnikov?

Great selection. A few surprises for me: The Messiean (short enough selection for me to grasp maybe; never yet been able to get into his music), and the Schoenberg (probably because it's pre-serial).

Rachmaninoff with the first notes of the famous Dies Irae is a love story.

2:42 The best here

Literally no Mozart or Haydn--The father of the string quartet? I get it you like the Romantic era, that's fair I guess.

Pade is a revelation, IMHO! Sorabji and Ginastera are hardly neglected, OTOH. They are quite well-known for different reasons.

This list is ridiculous.

Kodály is an interesting choice, since he is anything but neglected here in Hungary, but of course internationally he is much less well known. And even then I'd guess, ge's more famous for his educational work rather than his compisitions.

I love cello as an instrument with its lower tones and expressive highs, but can't stand any cello concerto apart from Haydn, Shostakovich and Prokofiev. Listened to Dvorak's and Elgar's concertos live a few months ago, a total disappointment.

How about Charles Villiers Stanford?

Amo demasiado este tipo de videos

16. Weinberg - String Quartet no. 6 15. Shostakovich - String Quartet no. 8 14. Bartok - String Quartet no. 5 13. Kabalevsky - String Quartet no. 2 12. Nielsen - String Quartet no. 1 11. Grieg - String Quartet no. 1 10. Lekeu - String Quartet 9. Novak - String Quartet no. 2 8. Lourie - String Quartet no. 1 7. Beethoven - String Quartet no. 7 6. Rochberg - String Quartet no. 3 5. Schubert - String Quartet no. 13 "Rosamunde" 4. Taneyev - String Quartet no. 3 3. Beethoven - String Quartet no. 14 2. Janacek - String Quartet no. 2 1. Beethoven - String Quartet no. 15 Because 10 is not enough 😃

What a tough and personal list to compile, but thank you. Pretty good selections, including Ravel's fantasy...

And where is Mozart?

……..nothing from Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Mahler, Strauß…..etc??????? But KITSCH Composer: Tschaikowsky, Rachmaninow, 😳😳😳

No way!!! The list lacks Boccherini!! I'm sure that he is one of the best composers who wrote cello pieces・・

Eight of the top ten from the 20th century, you need to get out more.

My choices for underrated lesser-known composers will be Kurt Atterberg, Hans Rott, Grete von Zieritz, Vasily Kalinnikov, and Alfredo Casella!

Where is Mozart and Mendelssohn.

A very interesting list! I really like your choices! Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique" is one of my top favorite symphonies as well. I do really love the symphonies of Shostakovich! For me it is really difficult to pick my favorite Shostakovich symphony. As for Prokofiev, the 7th symphony is my favorite, very lyrical, melancholic, touching... My other favorites are Hans Rott's symphony, Atterberg's 2nd and 6th symphonies, Rachmaninov's 1st and 2nd, Vasily Kalinnikov's 1st, and Tchaikovsky's 6th!

I just love the piano concertos of Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, and Ravel! Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto is also great, especially the 2nd movement! My other favorite piano concertos will be Atterberg's, Dvořák's, Artur Lemba's 1st, Shostakovich's 2nd, and Rachmaninov's 2nd! Aram Khachaturian's piano concerto is also interesting, as it includes the musical saw (or flexatone) in the 2nd movement.

I would add Kurt Atterberg, Hans Rott, and Charles Koechlin to this list!