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2023 Top 100 Countdown

December 26 - 31

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"

2022: 1

2

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 5

4

3

Samuel Barber

Adagio for Strings

7

4

Gustav Holst

The Planets

6

5

Edward Elgar

"Enigma" Variations

9

6

Antonin Dvorak

Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"

2

7

George Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

5

8

Aaron Copland

Appalachian Spring

3

9

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"

28

10

Bedrich Smetana

The Moldau from My Homeland

41

11

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight"

36

12

Ralph Vaughan Williams

The Lark Ascending

17

13

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 2

8

14

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 7

10

15

Maurice Ravel

Le Tombeau de Couperin

46

16

Johann Sebastian Bach

Cello Suites

68

17

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

18

18

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Russian Easter Overture

N/A

19

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on "Greensleeves"

N/A

20

George Friedric Handel

Messiah

14

21

Johann Sebastian Bach

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

N/A

22

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

19

23

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"

59

24

Gustav Mahler

Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"

23

25

Edvard Grieg

Peer Gynt

90

26

Aaron Copland

Rodeo

31

27

William Grant Still

Symphony No. 1 "Afro American"

37

28

Claude Debussy

Clair de Lune

64

29

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Piano Concerto No. 3

13

30

Felix Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 4 "Italian"

72

31

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto

35

32

Georges Bizet

Carmen

67

33

Antonio Vivaldi

The Four Seasons

11

34

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Marriage of Figaro

93

35

Camille Saint-Saens

Symphony No. 3 "Organ"

49

36

Ferde Grofe

Grand Canyon Suite

24

37

Samuel Barber

Violin Concerto

22

38

Johannes Brahms

A German Requiem

47

39

Jean Sibelius

Violin Concerto

N/A

40

Ludwig van Beethoven

Bagatelle "Fur Elise"

65

41

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Requiem

56

42

Erik Satie

Three Gymnopedies

98

43

Igor Stravinsky

The Rite of Spring

12

44

Johann Sebastian Bach

Brandenburg Concertos

15

45

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Scheherazade

20

46

Carl Orff

Carmina Burana

21

47

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

25

48

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Piano Concerto No. 1

30

49

Igor Stravinsky

The Firebird

27

50

Aaron Copland

Fanfare for the Common Man

29

51

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Clarinet Concerto

40

52

Modest Mussorgsky

Pictures at an Exhibition

33

53

Edvard Grieg

Piano Concerto

32

54

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker

39

55

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1812 Overture

38

56

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 5

42

57

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

43

58

Jean Sibelius

Finlandia

44

59

Jules Massenet

Meditation from Thais

52

60

Ottorino Respighi

Pines of Rome

34

61

Howard Hanson

Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"

54

62

Felix Mendelssohn

Violin Concerto No. 1

45

63

Aram Khachaturian

Spartacus

58

64

Maurice Ravel

Daphnis and Chloe

55

65

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake

53

66

Gioachino Rossini

William Tell Overture

62

67

Johann Sebastian Bach

Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3

73

68

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique"

51

69

Antonin Dvorak

Symphony No. 8

77

70

George Friedric Handel

Water Music

50

71

Sergei Prokofiev

Romeo and Juliet

81

72

Ludwig van Beethoven

Violin Concerto

75

73

Johann Sebastian Bach

Sheep May Safely Graze

48

74

George Gershwin

Concerto in F

82

75

Leonard Bernstein

West Side Story

70

76

Franz Schubert

Symphony No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished"

83

77

Modest Mussorgsky

Night on Bald Mountain

69

78

Edward Elgar

Cello Concerto

89

79

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Symphony No. 40

66

80

Franz Schubert

Piano Quintet "The Trout"

84

81

Johann Sebastian Bach

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

97

82

Max Bruch

Violin Concerto No. 1

86

83

Johann Strauss, Jr

The Blue Danube Waltz

80

84

Johannes Brahms

Piano Concerto No. 2

N/A

85

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphony No. 2

81

86

Aaron Copland

The Tender Land

N/A

87

Maurice Ravel

Bolero

71

88

Antonin Dvorak

String Quartet No. 12 "American"

88

89

Franz Schubert

Ave Maria

96

90

Franz Liszt

Symphonic Poem No. 3 "Les Preludes"

100

91

George Friedric Handel

Largo from Xerxes

94

92

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

N/A

93

Richard Wagner

Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkuere

85

94

Joaquin Rodrigo

Concierto de Aranjuez

N/A

95

Claude Debussy

La mer

92

96

Leos Janacek

Sinfonietta

N/A

97

Gabriel Faure

Pavane

N/A

98

Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata No. 8 "Pathetique"

99

99

Alexander Borodin

Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor

91

100

George Friedric Handel

Music for the Royal Fireworks

95