Your Top 100 lists
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2023 |
2022 |
2021
Support for Your Top 100 comes from
Dayton Performing Arts Alliance
with additional support from
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We've tallied the votes for Your Top 100 and will count down the winning pieces the week after Christmas. We'll also share stories listeners told us about why the music is meaningful: it was played at a wedding, heard during an unforgettable concert, or it brings to mind an important friend or family member.
1 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Symphony No. 9 "Choral" |
2023: 1 |
2 |
Antonin Dvorak |
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" |
6 |
3 |
Aaron Copland |
Appalachian Spring |
8 |
4 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Symphony No. 5 |
2 |
5 |
Samuel Barber |
Adagio for Strings |
3 |
6 |
George Gershwin |
Rhapsody in Blue |
7 |
7 |
Edward Elgar |
"Enigma" Variations |
5 |
8 |
Gustav Holst |
The Planets |
4 |
9 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Piano Concerto No. 2 |
13 |
10 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Symphony No. 7 |
14 |
11 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral" |
17 |
12 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Brandenburg Concertos |
44 |
13 |
George Friedric Handel |
Messiah |
20 |
14 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
The Lark Ascending |
12 |
15 |
Antonio Vivaldi |
The Four Seasons |
33 |
16 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Piano Concerto No. 3 |
29 |
17 |
Ralph Vaughan Williams |
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis |
22 |
18 |
Igor Stravinsky |
The Rite of Spring |
43 |
19 |
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Scheherazade |
45 |
20 |
Samuel Barber |
Violin Concerto |
37 |
21 |
Gustav Mahler |
Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection" |
24 |
22 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" |
47 |
23 |
Richard Strauss |
Four Last Songs |
N/A |
24 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" |
9 |
25 |
Modest Mussorgsky |
Pictures at an Exhibition |
52 |
26 |
Carl Orff |
Carmina Burana |
46 |
27 |
Maurice Ravel |
Le Tombeau de Couperin |
15 |
28 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Piano Concerto No. 1 |
48 |
29 |
Ferde Grofe |
Grand Canyon Suite |
36 |
30 |
Aaron Copland |
Rodeo |
26 |
31 |
Camille Saint-Saens |
Symphony No. 3 "Organ" |
35 |
32 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Violin Concerto |
31 |
33 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" |
11 |
34 |
Aaron Copland |
Fanfare for the Common Man |
50 |
35 |
Johannes Brahms |
A German Requiem |
38 |
36 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
57 |
37 |
Bedrich Smetana |
The Moldau from My Homeland |
10 |
38 |
Igor Stravinsky |
The Firebird |
49 |
39 |
Edvard Grieg |
Piano Concerto |
53 |
40 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
The Nutcracker |
54 |
41 |
Johann Pachelbel |
Canon |
N/A |
42 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Clarinet Concerto |
51 |
43 |
Felix Mendelssohn |
Violin Concerto No. 1 |
62 |
44 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
1812 Overture |
55 |
45 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Symphony No. 5 |
56 |
46 |
William Grant Still |
Symphony No. 1 "Afro American" |
27 |
47 |
Jean Sibelius |
Finlandia |
58 |
48 |
Claude Debussy |
Clair de Lune |
28 |
49 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" |
23 |
50 |
Maurice Ravel |
Daphnis and Chloe |
64 |
51 |
Jules Massenet |
Meditation from Thais |
59 |
52 |
Ottorino Respighi |
Pines of Rome |
60 |
53 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Swan Lake |
65 |
54 |
Howard Hanson |
Symphony No. 2 "Romantic" |
61 |
55 |
Aram Khachaturian |
Spartacus |
63 |
56 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Requiem |
41 |
57 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Cello Suites |
16 |
58 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Serenade No. 13 "A Little Night Music" |
N/A |
59 |
Franz Schubert |
Symphony No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished" |
76 |
60 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Sheep May Safely Graze |
73 |
61 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3 |
67 |
62 |
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" |
68 |
63 |
Georges Bizet |
Carmen |
32 |
64 |
Felix Mendelssohn |
Symphony No. 4 "Italian" |
30 |
65 |
Antonin Dvorak |
Symphony No. 8 |
69 |
66 |
George Friedric Handel |
Water Music |
70 |
67 |
Leonard Bernstein |
West Side Story |
75 |
68 |
Joseph Haydn |
Symphony No. 104 "London" |
N/A |
69 |
Gioachino Rossini |
William Tell Overture |
66 |
70 |
Richard Strauss |
Der Rosenkavalier |
N/A |
71 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Bagatelle "Fur Elise" |
40 |
72 |
George Gershwin |
Concerto in F |
74 |
73 |
Sergei Prokofiev |
Romeo and Juliet |
71 |
74 |
Erik Satie |
Three Gymnopedies |
42 |
75 |
Johann Strauss, Jr |
The Blue Danube Waltz |
83 |
76 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Violin Concerto |
72 |
77 |
Edvard Grieg |
Peer Gynt |
25 |
78 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
The Marriage of Figaro |
34 |
79 |
Modest Mussorgsky |
Night on Bald Mountain |
77 |
80 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Piano Concerto No. 21 |
N/A |
81 |
Franz Schubert |
Piano Quintet "The Trout" |
80 |
82 |
Max Bruch |
Violin Concerto No. 1 |
82 |
83 |
Giacomo Puccini |
La Boheme |
N/A |
84 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Symphony No. 40 |
79 |
85 |
Mark O'Conor |
Johnny Appleseed Suite |
N/A |
86 |
Sergei Rachmaninoff |
Symphony No. 2 |
85 |
87 |
Antonin Dvorak |
String Quartet No. 12 "American" |
88 |
88 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring |
81 |
89 |
Edward Elgar |
Cello Concerto |
78 |
90 |
Maurice Ravel |
Bolero |
87 |
91 |
George Gershwin |
An American in Paris |
N/A |
92 |
Johann Sebastian Bach |
Toccata and Fugue in D minor |
21 |
93 |
Giacomo Puccini |
"Nessun dorma" from Turandot |
N/A |
94 |
Joaquin Rodrigo |
Concierto de Aranjuez |
94 |
95 |
Johannes Brahms |
Piano Concerto No. 2 |
84 |
96 |
Aaron Copland |
The Tender Land |
86 |
97 |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique" |
98 |
98 |
Richard Wagner |
Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkuere |
93 |
99 |
Alexander Borodin |
Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor |
99 |
100 |
Johannes Brahms |
Violin Concerto in D Major |
N/A |