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! ...

[abishai]

40 Williams: Theme from "Star Wars"

84 Shore: Lord of the Rings

Are those considered classical?

[Mike Darancette]

Wagner had 2 also and should of had more.
Wagner: Pilgrims Chorus.
Wagner: Good Friday Music.
Rogers: Victory at Sea.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Just to get a rise out of you guys - Ravel - “10” - Bo Derek - “Bolero” - hair beads

[Kommodor]

I wonder how many of these were featured in Fantasia...

[Sirius Lee]

Haydn - The Creation

Excellent, and it truly is Classical, specifically.

[kingu]

*sigh* Yet again, no love for Ferde Grofé - The Grand Canyon Suite. A shame, an intense experience to hear it live.

[Boogieman]

A few of my favs:

Grieg - Solveig's Song

Grieg - Anitra's Dance

Mozart - Marriage of Figaro Overture

Strauss - Perpetuum Mobile

Strauss - Egyptian March

Orff - O Fortuna

Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral March

John Williams - The Map Room: Dawn

Morricone - Gabriel's Oboe/Nella Fantasia

[Sirius Lee]

I'll take Spem in alium by Morley for Rennaissance B minor Mass by J.S. Bach for top Baroque.
The Magnificat by C.P.E. Bach for top Gallant.
Mass in C Minor by Mozart for top Classical.
Winterreisse by Schubert for top Classical to Romantic transitional period.
Ballade in f minor by Chopin for top early Romantic
Carmen by Bizet for mid Romantic
Alpine Symphony by R. Strauss for late Romantic
La Mer by Debussy for Impressionist
Le Sacre du Printemps by Stravinsky for early 20th Century.
3rd symphony by Aaron Copland for mid 20th Century.
Violin Concerto by Samuel Barber for neo-Romantic.

[Boogieman]

Yes, music doesn’t have to be old to be classical.

[Sir_Ed]

I’m going to see Carmina Burana at The Britt, man, I’m looking forward to it!

Ed

[EveningStar]

I have heard it many times and I like it. Did you notice what place it came in on the list? Interesting, huh? :)

[Sir_Ed]

Beethoven’s 9th, Berlin Philharmonic version, Herbert von Karajan conducting...magnificent, especially the 4th movement!

Ed

[EveningStar]

Yes. It’s not unusual for the best film music to make it onto a classical program.

[SomeCallMeTim]

So have I. And I agree. Although Faure’s Requiem is a very close third for me.

[EveningStar]

Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor
Beethoven: Symphony #6 “Pastoral”
Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

[EveningStar]

Faure’s Requiem

Beautiful. :)

[EveningStar]

This is the version that KUSC played last night:

Vienna Philharmonic / Sir Simon Rattle
Barbara Bonney, soprano
Birgit Remmert, alto
Kurt Streit, tenor
Thomas Hampson, baritone
City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus

My rating: *** out of ****

[EveningStar]

And he orchestrated Rhapsody in Blue for Gershwin.

[Misterioso]

Richard Strauss chamber music.

[Hiddigeigei]

As I said before, the problem is (somewhat like Tigger), I often decide the piece I happen to be listening to at the moment is my favorite.
Most of the choices mentioned here are orchestral, but I will pick some vocal arrangements. When the artist happens to be beautiful, it often helps me decide.
Here is Elīna Garanča singing Panis Angelicus by César Franck.
On a somewhat lighter vein, I also recently enjoyed Du sollst der Kaiser meiner Seele sein by Robert Stolz sung by Angelika Kirshschlager. I also find the love lyrics touching.