Last May the BBC Music Magazine launched an online vote to find the Top 50 most loved pieces of chamber music in the repertoire, now the result, revealed as voted for, the top chamber work is Schubert’s String Quintet.
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And the unwrapped top 50 is list below:
BBC Music Magazine readers’ top 50 chamber works
| 1. Schubert | String Quintet |
| 2. Mendelssohn | String Octet |
| 3. Schubert | Piano Quintet in A major (‘Trout Quintet’) |
| 4. Mozart | Clarinet Quintet K581 |
| 5. Beethoven | String Quartet op. 130 (including the Grosse Fugue) |
| 6. Schubert | String Quartet No. 13 (‘Death and the Maiden’) |
| 7. Brahms | Clarinet Quintet in B minor |
| 8. Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8 |
| 9. Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 (‘American’) |
| 10. Beethoven | String Quartet Op. 131 |
| 11. Messiaen | Quartet for the End of Time |
| 12. Beethoven | String Quartet Op. 132 |
| 13. Schumann | Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44 |
| 14.Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 9 (‘Kreutzer’) |
| 15. Beethoven | Piano Trio, Op. 97 (‘Archduke’) |
| 16. Bach, JS | The Art of Fugue (for string quartet) |
| 17. Brahms | Piano Quintet in F minor |
| 18. Schoenberg | Verklarte Nacht (for string sextet) |
| 19. Ravel | String Quartet |
| 20. Bach, JS | Violin Sonata No. 2 |
| 21. Borodin | String Quartet No. 2 |
| 22. Bach, JS | A Musical Offering |
| 23. Mozart | Serenade No. 10 (‘Gran Partita’) |
| 24. Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 (‘Intimate Letters’) |
| 25. Franck | Violin Sonatas |
| 26. Beethoven | String Quartet Op. 135 |
| 27. Bartók | String Quartet No 4 |
| 28. Dvořák | Piano Quintet No. 2 |
| 29. Ravel | Introduction and Allegro |
| 30. Debussy | String Quartet No. 1 |
| 31. Shostakovich | Piano Quintet |
| 32. Rachmaninov | Cello Sonata |
| 33. Ravel | Piano Trio |
| 34. Schubert | Octet |
| 35. Bartók | String Quartet No. 5 |
| 36. Tchaikovsky | String Sextet, Op. 70 (‘Souvenir de Florence’) |
| 37. Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 5 (‘Spring’) |
| 38. Elgar | Piano Quintet |
| 39. Janáček | String Quartet No. 1 (‘Kreutzer Sonata’) |
| 40. Bartók | Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion |
| 41. Schubert | Piano Trio No. 2 |
| 42. Bach, JS | Flute Sonata BWV1030 |
| 43. Brahms | Horn Trio |
| 44. Debussy | Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp |
| 45. Mozart | Divertimento in E flat K563 |
| 46. Shostakovich | Piano Trio No. 2 |
| 47. Sibelius | String Quartet, Op. 56 (‘Voces Intimae’) |
| 48. Beethoven | Piano Trio Op. 70, No. 1 (‘Ghost’) |
| 49. Brahms | String Sextet No. 1 |
| 50. Nielsen | Wind Quintet Op. 43 |
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