Classical Countdown Playlist – 2017

WRR CLASSICAL COUNTDOWN – DECEMBER 29-31, 2017

2017 Rank           Composer/Title

1              Vivaldi:  The Four Seasons

2              Beethoven:  Symphony #9 in d minor “Choral”

3              Dvorak:  Symphony #9 in e minor “From the New World”

4              Gershwin:  Rhapsody in Blue

5              Handel:  Messiah

6              Rachmaninoff:  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

7              Copland:  Appalachian Spring

8              Barber:  Adagio for Strings

9              Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto #2 in c minor

10           Saint-Saens:  Symphony #3 “Organ Symphony”

11           Pachelbel:  Canon in D

12           Rimsky-Korsakov:  Scheherezade

13           Holst:  The Planets

14           Vaughan-Williams:  Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

15           Beethoven:  Symphony #5 in c minor

16           Tchaikovsky:  1812 Overture

17           Smetana:  The Moldau

18           Bach, J.S.:  Brandenburg Concertos

19           Copland:  Fanfare for the Common Man

20           Debussy:  Clair de Lune

21           Beethoven:  Piano Concerto #5 in E flat “Emperor”

22           Respighi:  The Pines of Rome

23           Mussorgsky:  Pictures at an Exhibition

24           Mozart:  Requiem

25           Vaughan-Williams:  The Lark Ascending

26           Sibelius:  Finlandia

27           Orff:  Carmina Burana

28           Ravel: Bolero

29           Bach, J.S.:  Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

30           Beethoven:  Symphony #6 in F “Pastoral”

31           Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto #3 in d minor

32           Beethoven:  Symphony #7 in A

33           Tchaikovsky:  Piano Concerto #1 in b flat minor

34           Mozart:  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

35           Sousa:  Stars and Stripes Forever

36           Beethoven:  Fur Elise

37           Bach, J.S.:  Toccata and Fugue in d minor

38           Tchaikovsky:  Symphony #5 in e minor

39           Wagner:  The Ride of the Valkyries

40           Handel:  Water Music Suites