KUSC Classical Top 100 Countdown

KUSC FM91.5 Los Angeles ^ | April 22-29, 2015

[EveningStar]

What’s your favorite piece of classical music? KUSC asked you to pick your favorites, and during the last week in April, we counted them down. Now, we present to you The KUSC Classical Top 100 - as chosen by you! ...

[EveningStar]

Last month, KUSC asked people to vote in a survey to determine the top 100  classical music pieces of all time. People were asked to vote on their favorites.

We had a thread on it, here.

Last night, after a week of playing the 100 favorites in coundown order, KUSC posted the final result (see the source URL).

In most such surveys, there is one particular piece that usually comes out as the number one selection. Not surprisingly, that piece was number one in this survey too.

The following composers had more than one work on the list. Listed is the name of the composer and the number of his works that appeared on the list:

Beethoven - 10
Bach and Mozart - 9
Tchaikovsky - 5
Brahms and Rachmaninoff - 4
Mendelssohn, Schubert, and Wagner - 3
Chopin, Copland, Debussey, Dvorak, Grieg, Handel, Mahler, Mussorgsky, Puccini, Ravel, Sibelius, and Vaughan Williams - 2

[dfwgator]

Stravinsky - The Firebird

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Blue Danube Waltz - Strauss

[EveningStar]

Pinging all the people I pinged last time plus all the people who replied to last month’s thread.

[Uncle Miltie]

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

[Uncle Miltie]

And I’ve both sung and been in the audience for major productions of both Beethoven’s 9th and Carmina Burana.

Top 2 Choral Works of all time, IMHO.

[Mariner]

Beethoven’s Fifth...PIANO CONCERTO.

[rhinohunter]

Handel - Water Music

[Calpublican]

Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, op. 61

Try it; you’ll like it.

[DoodleDawg]

I have never understood the popularity of Rhapsody in Blue. Not that I hate it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to it.

I see that The Four Seasons is on there but I honestly think his Fifth Violin Concerto "La tempesta di mare" is better. Link

Still no Chabrier. Link

[IronJack]

His only violin concerto. And one of the masterpieces of the genre.

But who would expect less from Beethoven?

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Bach Well Tempered Clavier

[IronJack]

HAHAHA! I called it on the original thread. There is no music on this earthly plane that can compare to the Ode to Joy. It is beyond mere art into the realm of the sublime.

[real saxophonist]

My Alma Mater Spirit of Atlanta Drum & Bugle Corps did a lot of Gerswhin in the ‘80s.

[IronJack]

I actually like the Emperor more than the Blue Danube. You’d never guess that powerful entre was written by Johann Strauss.

[sitetest]

Classical Music Ping List ping.

[real saxophonist]

Current favourite is still Gustav Holst.

[Chode]

coming in at #19 Holst The Planets...

[paolop]

Haydn - The Creation

[Slyfox]

Anything Mozart makes me happy.