Throughout the month of December, we asked listeners to vote for
50 favorite pieces of classical music. Hundreds of you took our
survey and many of you wrote in with suggestions of your own.
Here are the final results of the 2010 Classical Countdown.
Thank you to everyone who participated.
1. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony
No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
2. Antonin Dvorak - Symphony
No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World"
3. Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburg
Concerti
4. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony
No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
5. Gustav Mahler - Symphony
No. 2 in C Minor "Resurrection"
6. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony
No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
7. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony
No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
8. Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto
for Piano No. 5 in E flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor"
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
in D Minor, K. 626
10. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto
for Piano No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
11. Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto
for Violin in D Major, Op. 61
12. George Frederic Handel - Messiah
13. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony
No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony
No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 "Jupiter"
15. Samuel Barber - Adagio
for Strings
16. Johannes Brahms - Ein
Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
17. Gustav Mahler - Symphony
No. 1 in D Major "Titan"
18. George Gershwin - Rhapsody
in Blue
19. Giuseppe Verdi - Messa
da Requiem
20. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Concerto
for Violin in D Major, Op. 35
21. Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia
on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
22. Jean Sibelius - Symphony
No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
23. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony
No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
24. Gustav Mahler - Symphony
No. 5 in C Sharp minor
25. Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg
Variations, BWV 988
26. Johann Sebastian Bach - Jesu
Joy of Man's Desiring
27. Bedrich Smetana - The
Moldau
28. Camille Saint-Saens - Symphony
No. 3 in C minor, Op.
78 "Organ"
29. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Concerto
for Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op.
30
30. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony
No. 6 in B minor, Op.
74 "Pathetique"
31. Johann Pachelbel - Canon
and Gigue in D Major
32. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
33. Giacomo Puccini - Madame
Butterfly
34. Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade,
Op. 35
35. Richard Wagner - Gotterdammerung:
Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
36. Johannes Brahms - Symphony
No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
37. Igor Stravinsky - The
Rite of Spring
38. Frederic Chopin - Polonaise
in A flat, "Heroic"
39. Johannes Brahms - Concerto
for Piano No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83
40. Johann Sebastian Bach - Mass
in B minor, BWV 232
41. Richard Strauss - Der
Rosenkavalier: Suite (1945)
42. Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Symphony
No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
43. Antonin Dvorak - Symphony
No. 8
44. Hector
Berlioz - Symphonie
Fantastique, Op. 14
45. Franz
Schubert - Symphony
No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished"
46. Claude
Debussy – Suite
Bergamasque: Clair de Lune
47. Edward
Elgar - Concerto
for Cello in E minor, Op. 85
48. Sergei
Rachmaninoff - Symphony
No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
49. Aaron
Copland - Appalachian
Spring
50. Peter
Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Romeo
and Juliet
