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Is Beethoven’s 9th Symphony still #1?
Eighteen years ago, Classical 94.5 asked listeners to submit their “Top 10” favorite pieces of classical music, which were then compiled into The (Classical) Top 40. (View list from 1990 here.)
We are currently compiling your submissions into a new list for today’s classical music fans. We will post the new list soon!
Don’t forget to listen to Classical 94.5 to hear your favorite selections.
What would our on-air hosts choose?
“Top 10” Lists of Classical 94.5 Staff
Peter Hall
 “How am I ever going to be able to do this?
Do I pick my personal favorites or what I
think should be on a top 40 list?”
1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat (“Eroica”)
2. Beethoven: Violin Concerto
3. Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat
4. Puccini: Tosca
5. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
6. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
7. Respighi: Adagio and Variations for Cello and Orchestra
8. Schubert: “Trout” Quintet (Piano Quintet in A)
9. Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2
10. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Shari Barbour
 “These are my nominations at this moment,
could be different tomorrow or next month.”
1. Barber: Agnus Dei (choral version of the famous Adagio)
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”)
3. Bizet: “Habanera” from the opera Carmen.
4. Brahms: Hungarian Dances
5. Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (“From the New World”)
6. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
7. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467
8. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, K. 622
9. Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre (“Fantasy for a Gentleman)
10. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
And an “extree:” Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
Stratton Rawson
 “I gave myself some rules.
Just one piece from a composer; no arrangements;
no single movements. And remember I play the ‘cello.”
1. J.S. Bach: Suite No. 3 in C for unaccompanied ‘cello
2. Barber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
3. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (“Choral”)
4. Berlioz: Harold in Italy
5. Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
6. Dvorak: Cello Concerto
7. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
8. Mozart: Divertimento (String Trio) in E-flat, K. 563
9. Schubert: String Quintet in C
10. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
Jim Berryman
1. Adams: – Violin Concerto
2. Barber: – Knoxville Summer 1915
3. Brahms: – Alto Rhapsody
4. Beethoven: – Symphony #6 in F (Pastoral)
5. Chopin: – Piano Sonata #2 in B-flat minor
6. Diamond: – Rounds for String Orchestra
7. Elgar: – Sea Pictures
8. Hovhaness: – Symphony #6 (Celestial Gate)
9. Ravel: - Sonatine
10. Schubert: – String Quartet #14 in D minor (Death and the Maiden)
Marty Wimmer
 "These are the pieces I would carry with me if I were going on a three-hour tour aboard the S.S. Minnow - just in case! I'd also carry the scores, a piano and a manually rechargeable CD player."
1. J. S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier
2. Debussy: Complete Piano Preludes (Books I & 2)
3. Chopin: Complete Piano Preludes
4. Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
5. Faure: Pelleas and Melisande Suite
6. Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (“Symphony of a Thousand”)
7. Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5
8. Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
9. Faure: Requiem
10. Wagner: Tristan and Isolde (Complete Opera)
Ed. Simone
 “They are in no particular order… just they way they came to me.”
1. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G, Op. 58
2. Ives: Symphony No. 2
3. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
4. Milhaud: Le Boeuf sur le Toit, Op. 58
5 Albeniz: Iberia (all four books, original piano version)
6. Debussy: La Mer
7. Ravel: Piano Concerto in D (for the Left Hand)
8. Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
9. Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D
10. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete version)
John Andres
“There were so MANY more that I wanted to add to the list.”
J.S. Bach: Brandenbuurg Concerto #5
1. L. Beethoven : Symphony #7
2. J. Brahms : Variations on a Theme of Haydn
3. A. Dvorak: String Quartet # 12 American
4. E. Elgar : Enigma Variations
5. H. Hanson: Symphony # 2 Romantic
6. W. Mozart: Piano Concerto #26
7. M. Praetorius: Dances from Terpsichore
8. S. Prokofiev: Symphony # 1 “Classical”
9. N. Rimsky-Korsakov: Rhapsody Espagnole
10. P. Warlock: Capriol Suite
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