Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Classical Compositions of… the 1890s

This hasn't got any easier. *dons blindfold; throws rubber dart at monitor*

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

I was the Grieg vote in the end. Narrowed it down to my most striking new discovery to overcome choice paralysis. I think I said in a previous decade that I hadn't knowingly heard his solo piano works before. Whoever observed that he sometimes Debussy'd it up was totes onto something.

I also recommend checking out the string sextet original, which is how I was first swept away by the piece. Recording-wise, the Arditti and Artemis Quartets (both with Thomas Kakuska and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartett, incidentally) are each wonderful in their own way.

Noted, merci!

Love the three-way tie for the top spot.

Glad, albeit not surprised, to see the Gnossiennes get some love. Probably my favourite Satie pieces, along with the late Nocturnes.

Not a single vote for the so-called 'Resurrection', though? Now that's surprising.

I failed to really bloviate on this one!

Good results- I ended up crowning Brahms op. 118 (along with another ilxor!?!) largely because like the grieg set its concluding piece is just so staggering. And though my core trinity are all present now (Debussy Sibelius Mahler) they will all be getting votes from me in the ensuing decades.

For Mahler I would have gone with the 3rd. The first Mahler to catch my imagination - I spent like half a year comparing as many versions as I could afford back when there was no such thing as free listening
Lemminkainen is indeed the top Sibelius choice this decade.

Late Tchaikovsky is great but tbrr my favorite of his symphonies is the first! It’s the most Sibelian sucthing as