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WGUC's Top 100

Your response to our Top 100 list of classical music was so outstanding it became the Top 150. Here is the final list of WGUC listeners’ favorite classical music.

Here are the top 150 vote recipients:

  Composer / Title
1
Antonin Dvorák:  Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
2
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Symphony No. 9
3
Samuel Barber:  Adagio for Strings
4
George Gershwin:  Rhapsody in Blue
5
Antonio Vivaldi:  The Four Seasons
6
Sergei Rachmaninoff:  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
7
Carl Orff:  Carmina Burana
8
Johann Pachelbel:  Canon in D
9
Sergei Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto No. 2
10
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Symphony No. 7
11
Aaron Copland:  Fanfare for the Common Man
12
Gustav Holst:  The Planets
13
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Toccata and Fugue in d minor
14
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
15
Bedrich Smetana:  The Moldau, from Ma Vlast
16
Modest Mussorgsky:  Pictures at an Exhibition
17
Edward Elgar:  Enigma Variations
18
Ralph Vaughan Williams:  Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
19
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Violin Concerto
20
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:  Scheherazade
21
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Violin Concerto
22
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Symphony No. 5
23
Peter Tchaikovsky:  1812 Overture
24
Felix Mendelssohn:  Violin Concerto in e minor, opus 64
25
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Symphony No. 6
26
Gustav Mahler:  Symphony No. 1
27
Aaron Copland:  Appalachian Spring
28
Claude Debussy:  Claire de lune
29
Leonard Bernstein:  Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
30
Sergei Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto No. 3
31
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Piano Sonata “Moonlight"
32
Igor Stravinsky:  Firebird
33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Clarinet Concerto
34
Joaquin Rodrigo:  Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar and orchestra
35
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Piano Concerto 5
36
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Piano Concerto No. 1
37
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
38
Sergei Prokofiev:  Symphony No. 1 “Classical”
39
George Frederic Handel:  Hallelujah Chorus
40
Camille Saint-Saëns:  Symphony No. 3 in c minor “Organ Symphony”
41
Hector Berlioz:  Symphonie fantastique
42
Gioachino Rossini:  William Tell Overture
43
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto 3
44
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Overture: Marriage of Figaro
45
Maurice Ravel:  Bolero
46
Sergei Prokofiev:  Lieutenant Kije Suite for Orchestra
47
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:  Russian Easter Festival Overture
48
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:  Capriccio espagnol
49
Antonin Dvorák:  Symphony No. 8
50
Jules Massenet:  Meditation from Thaďs
51
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Symphony No. 40
52
Edvard Grieg:  Piano Concerto in a minor
53
Alexander Borodin:  Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
54
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 6
55
Leonard Bernstein:  Candide Overture
56
Edvard Grieg:  Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
57
Ralph Vaughan Williams:  The Lark Ascending
58
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 4
59
Jean Sibelius:  Symphony No. 2
60
Franz Joseph Haydn:  Trumpet Concerto
61
Franz Liszt:  Les Preludes
62
Giacomo Puccini:  Exerpts from La boheme
63
Felix Mendelssohn:  A Midsummer Night‘s Dream Incidental Music
64
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Air on the G String
65
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto 1
66
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 5
67
Max Bruch:  Violin Concerto No. 1 in g minor
68
Max Bruch:  Scottish Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra
69
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Concerto for Flute and Harp
70
Richard Wagner:  Exerpts from Tannhauser
71
Johannes Brahms:  Variations on a Theme of Haydn
72
Modest Mussorgsky:  Night on Bald Mountain
73
Johannes Brahms:  Violin Concerto
74
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Sleeping Beauty
75
Tomaso Albinoni:  Adagio in g minor
76
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Fur Elise
77
Igor Stravinsky:  Petrouchka
78
Richard Strauss:  Also sprach Zarathustra
79
Sergei Rachmaninoff:  Symphony No. 2
80
Felix Mendelssohn:  Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
81
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
82
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Piano Concerto No. 23
83
Franz Joseph Haydn:  "London" Symphonies 93-104
84
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Horn Concerto No. 3
85
George Gershwin:  Porgy and Bess
86
George Gershwin:  An American in Paris
87
Antonin Dvorák:  String Quartet No. 12 “American”
88
Claude Debussy:  Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
89
Aaron Copland:  Rodeo
90
Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 1
91
Frederic Chopin:  Nocturnes
92
Jean Sibelius:  Finlandia
93
Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 4
94
Richard Wagner:  Prelude to Tristan und Isolde
95
Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 3
96
Georges Bizet:  Carmen
97
Camille Saint-Saëns:  Danse Macabre
98
Georges Bizet:  Carmen Orchestral Suites
99
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto 2
100
Franz Schubert:  Quintet in A for Piano and Strings “Trout”
101
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Exerpts from The Nutcracker
102
Franz Schubert:  Ave Maria
103
Giacomo Puccini:  Exerpts from Turandot
104
Johann Strauss II:  Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz
105
Franz Schubert:  Symphony No. 9
106
Peter Tchaikovsky:  Romeo and Juliet
107
Frederic Chopin:  Piano Concerto No. 1 in e minor
108
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto 5
109
Frederic Chopin:  Polonaises
110
Peter Warlock:  Capriol Suite
111
Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 2
112
Howard Hanson:  Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"
113
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Piano Concerto 4
114
Alan Hovhaness:  Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"
115
Paul Dukas:  The Sorcerer‘s Apprentice
116
George Frederic Handel:  Water Music Suites No. 1
117
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Orchestral Suite 1
118
Jacques Offenbach:  Gaite parisienne
119
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Overture: The Magic Flute
120
Antonin Dvorák:  Symphony No. 7
121
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Violin Concerto No. 3
122
Sergei Prokofiev:  Symphony No. 5
123
Aaron Copland:  Billy the Kid
124
Giacomo Puccini:  Exerpts from Madama Butterfly
125
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Symphony No. 3
126
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Brandenburg Concerto 6
127
George Frederic Handel:  Water Music Suites No. 2
128
Frederic Chopin:  Ballades
129
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Violin Concerto No. 5
130
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Horn Concerto No. 4
131
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Piano Concerto No. 26
132
Leos Janácek:  Sinfonietta
133
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Orchestral Suite 2
134
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Piano Concerto No. 21
135
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Piano Concerto No. 20
136
Franz Liszt:  Piano Concerto No. 1
137
Felix Mendelssohn:  Symphony No. 3 “Scottish”
138
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Symphony No. 39
139
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:  Symphony No. 25
140
Johann Sebastian Bach:  Orchestral Suite 3
141
George Frederic Handel:  Music for the Royal Fireworks
142
Jeremiah Clark:  Prince of Denmark's March "Trumpet Voluntary"
143
Benjamin Britten:  A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
144
Franz Schubert:  Symphony No. 8
145
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Piano Sonata "Pathetique"
146
Aram Khachaturian:  Sabre Dance 
147
Robert Schumann:  Piano Concerto in a minor
148
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Piano Sonata "Appassionata"
149
Robert Schumann:  Symphony No. 3 in E-flat “Rhenish”
150
Ludwig van Beethoven:  Piano Sonata "Waldstein"

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