Essential Stravinsky

• The Firebird Suite
• Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring")
• Les noces ("The Wedding")
  
• Petrushka
• Symphony in Three Movements
• Symphony of Psalms
• The Rake's Progress (opera)

Essential Prokofiev

• Symphonies Nos. 1 "Classical" and 5
• Piano Concerto No. 3
• Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
• Lieutenant Kije Suite
• Romeo and Juliet
• Peter and the Wolf
• Piano Sonata No. 7

Essential Rachmaninov

• Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2, and 3
• Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
• Symphony No. 2
• Preludes (Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2; Ten Preludes, Op. 23; Thirteen Preludes, Op. 32)
• Vespers

Essential Ravel

• Piano Concerto in G
• Daphnis et Chloe
• Bolero
• La valse
• Rapsodie espagnole ("Spanish Rhapsody")
• String Quartet in F
• Gaspard de la nuit ("Demons of the night", for piano)
• Le Tombeau de Couperin ("Tombeau for Couperin", for piano)
• Pavane pour une infante defunte ("Pavane for a dead infanta", for piano)

Essential Shostakovich

• Symphonies Nos. 1, 5, 7 "Leningrad", and 10
• Cello Concerto No. 1
• Piano Concerto No. 2
• String Quartet No. 8
• 24 Preludes and Fugues
• Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera)