2018 Top 40 Countdown

The forty favorite classical works chosen by you, our listeners, and aired New Year’s Eve, 2018 and New Year’s Day, 2019.

1             Vivaldi:  The Four Seasons

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

3             Handel:  Messiah

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

5             Gershwin:  Rhapsody in Blue

6             Copland:  Appalachian Spring

7             Debussy:  Clair de Lune

8             Rimsky-Korsakov:  Scheherazade

9             Tchaikovsky:  1812 Overture

10           Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto #2 in c minor

11           Mozart:  Requiem

12           Holst:  The Planets

13           Rachmaninoff:  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

14           Pachelbel:  Canon in D

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

16           Beethoven:  Symphony #5 in c minor

17           Mussorgsky:  Pictures at an Exhibition

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

19           Barber:  Adagio for Strings

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

21           Vaughan-Williams:  The Lark Ascending

22           Copland:  Fanfare for the Common Man

23           Smetana:  The Moldau

24           Beethoven:  Piano Sonata #14 “Moonlight”

25           Bach, J.S.:  Brandenburg Concertos

26           Tchaikovsky:  The Nutcracker Suite

27           Bach, J.S.:  Sheep May Safely Graze

28           Sibelius:  Finlandia

29           Elgar:  Enigma Variations

30           Ravel: Bolero

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

32           Beethoven:  Symphony #7 in A

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

34           Orff:  Carmina Burana

35           Sousa:  Stars and Stripes Forever

36           Respighi:  The Pines of Rome

37           Rodrigo:  Concierto de Aranjuez

38           Wagner:  The Ride of the Valkyries

39           Rossini:  William Tell Overture

40           Strauss, Johann:  The Blue Danube Waltz