Top 47 Listener Favorites

We celebrated our 47th birthday in 2014 by playing your Top 47 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. 

1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" 
2. Vivaldi: Four Seasons
3. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
4. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
    Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
    Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy
7. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
8. Chopin: Polonaise in Ab major, "Heroic"
9. Barber: Adagio
    Ravel: Bolero
11. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
      Copland: Appalachian Spring
      Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
      Handel: Messiah
15. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor"
      Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
17. Mozart: Requiem
      Orff: Carmina Burana
19. Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
      Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
21. Pachelbel: Canon in D
      Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
23. Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
      Smetana: The Moldau
25. Debussy: Clair de lune
      Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
      Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
28. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in d minor
      Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
      Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major
      Mozart: Magic Flute
      Sibelius: Finlandia
      Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
34. Holst: The Planets
      Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
36. Bach: Cello Suites
      Bach: Mass in b minor
      Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
      Brahms: German Requiem
      Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
      Handel: Water Music
      Rossini: William Tell Overture
43. Chopin: Ballade No. 1
      Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
      Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
      Puccini: Nessun Dorma (Turandot)
      Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
      Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending

Because of the number of tie votes, the survey results contain 48 pieces in total.