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KMFA LISTENERS' FAVORITES RESULTS
The results are in!
It's KMFA's 46th birthday! We celebrated by playing your Top 46 favorites.
We asked our listeners,"What are your favorite classical works?" and you responded
in a big way. Hundreds of people replied, and we've counted down to the number one
favorite.Here are the finalists (below). If you'd like to download the individual tracks from Amazon,
the widget shown to the right lists ALL the songs in the order of their rank in this survey. By clicking through this widget, a portion of all the purchases made on the Amazon site are donated back to KMFA.We've had so many requests for these masterworks, and compiled together they would
be an amazing music collection. Enjoy!1. Vivaldi: Four Seasons
2. Beethoven: Symphony #9
3. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos
4. Copland: Appalachian Spring
5. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
6. Barber: Adagio for Strings
7. Beethoven: Symphony #5
8. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
9. Beethoven: Symphony #7
10. Dvorak: Symphony #9 “From the New World”
11. Mozart: Requiem
12. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
13. Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
14. Pachelbel: Canon in D
15. Beethoven: Symphony #6
16. Puccini: La Boheme
17. Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
18. Ravel: Bolero
19. Sibelius: Finlandia
20. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto #2
21. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
22. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
23. Smetana: The Moldau
24. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
25. Delibes: Flower Duet from “Lakme”
26. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
27. Handel: Water Music
28. Mahler: Symphony #2 “Resurrection”
29. Brahms: German Requiem
30. Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
31. Satie: Gymnopedies (1 & 2)
32. Bizet: Duet from “The Pearl Fishers”
33. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
34. Handel: Hallelujah Chorus from “Messiah”
35. Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
36. Debussy: Clair de lune from “Suite Bergamasque”
37. Orff: Carmina Burana
38. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
39. Elgar: Enigma Variations
40. Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
41. Bach: Goldberg Variations
42. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
43. Saint-Saens: Symphony #3 “Organ”
44. Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 “Emperor”
45. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
46. Bach: Mass in B minor
47. Gershwin: An American in Paris
48. Puccini: “Nessun Dorma” from Turandot
49. Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite
50. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Note: there are more than 46 selections due to some pieces being in a "tie"!
Thanks to ALL our listeners who voted in this fun survey, and to those who called and emailed to wish us birthday greetings!
