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.