Your 100 Best Tunes, 1959 - 2007
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YOUR HUNDRED BEST TUNES FINAL POLL
Here are the results of the final listener's poll, gathered by the late Alan Keith in 2003.
1. PEARL FISHERS DUET (1) BIZET 11. FINLANDIA (2) SIBELIUS 21. AVE VERUM CORPUS (28) MOZART 31. WHAT IS LIFE ? – ORFEO ED EURIDICE (30) GLUCK 41. FOUR SEASONS (--) VIVALDI 51. IN PARADISUM (REQUIEM) (--) FAURE 61. SANCTUS (GERMAN MASS) (20) SCHUBERT
71. SANCTUS (ST. CECILIA MASS) (--) GOUNOD 81. CASTA DIVA (NORMA) (--) BELLINI 91. CLAIR DE LUNE (--) DEBUSSY this page first published 12 January 2007
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(previous poll position in brackets)
2. NIMROD (ENIGMA VARIATIONS) (16) ELGAR
3. NABUCCO (HEBREW SLAVE) CHORUS (22) VERDI
4. VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 (12) BRUCH
5. CANON (52) PACHELBEL
6. CLARINET CONCERTO (33) MOZART
7. SYMPHONY NO. 6 (PASTORAL) (27) BEETHOVEN
8. PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 (8) RACHMANINOV
9. INTERMEZZO - CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (23) MASCAGNI
10. LARK ASCENDING (--) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
12. SYMPHONY NO. 9 (5) BEETHOVEN
13. PLANETS, THE (9) HOLST
14. LARGO - OMBRA MAI FU (17) HANDEL
15. PIANO CONCERTO NO. 21 (25) MOZART
16. ADAGIO FOR STRINGS (14) BARBER
17. PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 (EMPEROR) (24) BEETHOVEN
18. MEDITATION FROM THAIS (39) MASSENET
19. SYMPHONY NO. 9 (NEW WORLD) (36) DVORAK
20. FANTASIA ON A THEME OF THOMAS TALLIS (--) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
22. MISERERE - PSALM 51 (--) ALLEGRI
23. HALLELUJAH CHORUS (MESSIAH) (32) HANDEL
24. LAUDATE DOMINUM (--) MOZART
25. ROMANCE (THE GADFLY) (29) SHOSTAKOVITCH
26. ZADOK THE PRIEST (68) HANDEL
27. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA (38) HANDEL
28. PIANO CONCERTO (--) GRIEG
29. JESU, JOY OF MANS DESIRING – CANTATA 147 (85) BACH
30. CELLO CONCERTO (6) ELGAR
32. BAILERO (SONGS OF THE AUVERGNE) (18) CANTELOUBE
33. BLUE DANUBE (--) STRAUSS II
34. LISTEN TO THE MOCKING BIRD (42) HAWTHORNE
35. O SILVER MOON (RUSALKAS SONG) (4) DVORAK
36. BELLS ACROSS THE MEADOW (--) KETELBY
37. SYMPHONY NO. 3 (ORGAN) (--) SAINT-SAENS
38. POMP & CIRCUMSTANCE NO. 1 (31) ELGAR
39. VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR (40) MENDELSSOHN
40. CHE GELIDA MANINA (LA BOHEME) (89) PUCCINI
42. SYMPHONY NO. 5 (--) BEETHOVEN
43. PANIS ANGELICUS (13) FRANCK
44. I DREAMT I DWELT IN MARBLE HALLS (BOHEMIAN GIRL) (--) BALFE
45. PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 (--) TCHAIKOVSKY
46. GRAND MARCH (AIDA) (26) VERDI
47. LONDONDERRY AIR (59) TRAD ARR. GRAINGER
48. MERRY WIDOW, THE (67) LEHAR
49. NESSUN DORMA (TURANDOT) (51) PUCCINI
50. CANTIQUE DE JEAN RACINE (--) FAURE
52. SYMPHONY NO. 7 (--) BEETHOVEN
53. TOCCATA & FUGUE (--) BACH
54. ADAGIO FOR STRINGS IN G MINOR (--) ALBINONI
55. JUDEX (--) GOUNOD
56. RHAPSODY ON A THEME BY PAGANINI (--) RACHMANINOV
57. WARSAW CONCERTO (--) ADDINSELL
58. ADAGIO FROM SPARTACUS (--) KHACHATURIAN
59. ROMEO & JULIET (--) TCHAIKOVSKY
60. DON'T BE CROSS (THE MASTER MINER) (79) ZELLER
62. I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH (MESSIAH) (10) HANDEL
63. LOVE DUET (MADAME BUTTERFLY) (15) PUCCINI
64. FANTASIA ON GREENSLEEVES (--) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
65. SYMPHONY NO. 2 (--) RACHMANINOV
66. FINGALS CAVE (--) MENDELSSOHN
67. POLOTVSIAN DANCES (--) BORODIN
68. YEOMEN OF THE GUARD GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
69. SCHINDLERS LIST THEME JOHN WILLIAMS
70. SYMPHONY NO. 5 (ADAGIETTO) (--) MAHLER
72. SCHEHEREZADE (- -) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
73. OLD COMRADES (11) KARL TEIKE
74. MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (--) MOZART
75. NUNS CHORUS (CASANOVA) (7) STRAUSS II
76. 1812 OVERTURE (--) TCHAIKOVSKY
77. JERUSALEM (58) PARRY
78. MORNING - PEER GYNT (47) GRIEG
79. CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ (--) RODRIGO
80. DANCE OF THE BLESSED SPIRITS (--) GLUCK
82. NUTCRACKER SUITE (--) TCHAIKOVSKY
83. SOFTLY AWAKES MY HEART (SAMSON & DELILAH) (49) SAINT-SAENS
84. EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK (--) MOZART
85. AVE MARIA (43) SCHUBERT
86. O MIO BABBINO CARO (GIANNI SCHICCHI) (--) PUCCINI
87. MOONLIGHT SONATA (--) BEETHOVEN
88. SHEEP MAY SAFELY GRAZE (--) BACH
89. WHERE CORALS LIE (SEA PICTURES) (--) ELGAR
90. CONCERTO FOR 2 VIOLINS IN D MINOR (--) BACH
92. CREATION, THE (77) HAYDN
93. CROWN IMPERIAL (--) WALTON
94. ROAD TO MANDALAY (--) SPEAKS
95. ROMANCE NO. 2 IN F MAJOR (--) BEETHOVEN
96. WATERMILL, THE (35) BINGE
97. HOLY CITY (--) STEPHEN ADAMS
98. SUMMERTIME ON BREDON (--) PEEL
99. WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE (--) ROSSINI
100. O FOR THE WINGS OF A DOVE (--) MENDELSSOHN
last updated 12 January 2007