WQXR in New York Classical Countdown Top 15

[smitch124]

15. Messiah: Selections
George Frideric Handel

14. Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Samuel Barber

13. Symphony No. 41 in C, K. 551, "Jupiter"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

12. Four Seasons: Antonio Vivaldi (My absolute fav)

11. Requiem Mass in D Minor, K. 626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

10. Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
Ludwig van Beethoven

9. Brandenburg Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach

8. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral"
Ludwig van Beethoven

7. Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
Sergei Rachmaninoff

6. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major, Op. 73, "Emperor" (Love this one!!)
Ludwig van Beethoven

5. Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, "Resurrection"
Gustav Mahler

4. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven

3. Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, "From the New World" (Absolutely Awesome!)
Antonin Dvorak

2. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Ludwig van Beethoven

1. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"
Ludwig van Beethoven

As usual Beethoven Symphonies dominate, but give me his piano Sonatas and Concertos over them any day.

[Andy117]

Cool, thanks for posting this.

[pronk]

Whoever made that list is a big moron.
He missed
1 Chopin's piano concertos 1 & 2
2 Mendelsohn's Midsummer nights dream
3 Grieg's piano concerto
4 Mendelsohn's violin concerto
5 Hummel's piano concertos
6 Shubert's Death and a maiden
7 Sibelius Karelia
8 Part's Fratres
9 Smetana's Ma Vlast
And the list goes on and on and on.

[smitch124]

Whoever made that list is a big moron.
He missed
1 Chopin's piano concertos 1 & 2
2 Mendelsohn's Midsummer nights dream
3 Grieg's piano concerto
4 Mendelsohn's violin concerto
5 Hummel's piano concertos
6 Shubert's Death and a maiden
7 Sibelius Karelia
8 Part's Fratres
9 Smetana's Ma Vlast
And the list goes on and on and on.

It was a vote of the station's listeners'. Chopin was outrageously absent from the top 100*. In fact piano concertos and sonatas were mostly ignored. Much of your list, though, did appear in the top 100.

* Actually Chopin's Piano Concerto #1 was 81st, but still...

[pronk]

No wonder...
95% of the public can name only 2 composers: Beethoven & Mozart.