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KDFC Classical All-Stars 2011

Powerful, moving, exhilarating, …the best of the best.

We are counting down KDFC’s 2011 Top 100 Classical All-stars.

Here are the Classical Alstars as voted by KDFC listeners this year.

You’ll notice we ranked them based on votes by women, by men, and combined.

2011 Position Composer/Song Male Rating Female Rating 2010 Rating
#1 Beethoven Symphony #9 2 1 1
#2 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue 1 7 8
#3 Vivaldi Four Seasons 5 2 3
#4 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2 4 3 4
#5 Dvorak New World Symphony 3 8 4
#6 Bach Brandenburg Concertos 9 5 5
#7 Pachelbel Canon 14 4 7
#8 Beethoven Symphony #6 "Pastoral" 8 9 6
#9 Beethoven Piano Concerto #5 "Emperor" 13 6 13
#10 Beethoven Symphony #5 6 19 9
#11 Handel Messiah 12 18 27
#12 Beethoven Moonlight Sonata 20 10 19
#13 Beethoven Symphony #7 15 14 12
#14 Tchaikovsky Swan Lake 19 13 44
#15 Bach Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring 27 15 22
#16 Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 11 27 10
#17 Williams: Theme from "Star Wars" 7 37 94
#18 Debussy Clair de Lune 25 16 32
#19 Beethoven Symphony #3 "Eroica" 10 30 24
#20 Rachmaninoff Paganini Rhapsody 16 20 20
#21 Copland Appalachian Spring 21 12 11
#22 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade 18 17 22
#23 Grieg Piano Concerto 44 11 26
#24 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez 26 23 41
#25 Mozart Requiem 23 32 25
#26 Ravel Bolero 29 29 98
#27 Bizet Carmen 39 24 47
#28 Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia 50 21 28
#29 Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet 60 22 17
#30 Puccini Nessun Dorma 41 35 38
#31 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto 37 31 50
#32 Albinoni Adagio in g minor 49 28 23
#33 Dvorak Song to the Moon 73 26 39
#34 Beethoven Violin Concerto 17 44 36
#35 Chopin Piano Concerto #1 72 25 34
#36 Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending 30 39 30
#37 Smetana The Moldau 69 33 14
#38 Rachmaninoff Symphony #2 24 47 15
#39 Albeniz Asturias 31 45 87
#40 Bach Air on the G String 79 34 72
#41 Handel Water Music 75 36 63
#42 Barber Adagio for Strings 36 43 18
#43 Bach Concerto for 2 Violins 55 38 59
#44 Mozart Clarinet Concerto 33 59 35
#45 Strauss Blue Danube Waltz 42 52 55
#46 Mozart Magic Flute 40 64 65
#47 Bach Toccata & Fugue in d minor 35 48 29
#48 Bach Goldberg Variations 56 41 57
#49 Massenet Meditation from "Thais" 76 40 40
#50 Mahler Symphony #1 22 46 37
#51 Mozart Symphony #41 "Jupiter" 34 71 16
#52 Holst The Planets 32 42 33
#53 Satie Gymnopedies 48 60 69
#54 Wagner Ride of the Valkyries 54 61 49
#55 Brahms Violin Concerto 81 49 90
#56 Vaughan Williams Tallis Fantasy 61 68 25
#57 Mozart Piano Concerto #21 46 67 31
#58 Chopin "Grand Valse Brilliant" 82 50 51
#59 Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream 28 89 42
#60 Bach Mass in b minor 38 58 53
#61 Bruch Violin Concerto #1 59 69 43
#62 Handel Royal Fireworks Music 88 54 61
#63 Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo 84 57 71
#64 Grieg Peer Gynt 91 53 52
#65 Schubert Trout Quintet 94 51 54
#66 Handel Largo from "Xerxes" 74 63 75
#67 Dvorak Cello Concerto 83 55 67
#68 Brahms Symphony #4 71 62 79
#69 Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture 45 75 37
#70 Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 52 76 48
#71 Brahms Piano Concerto #2 57 73 46
#72 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 47 86 45
#73 Mozart Symphony #40 53 82 60
#74 Vivaldi Guitar Concerto in D 62 79 74
#75 Wagner Siegfried Idyll 43 92 76
#76 Ravel Pavane for a Dead Princess 64 77 58
#77 Beethoven Egmont Overture 70 72 83
#78 Brahms Symphony #1 58 74 74
#79 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 66 78 56
#80 Beethoven Piano Concerto #4 86 65 79
#81 Elgar Enigma Variations 87 66 80
#82 Faure Pavane 108 56 82
#83 Mozart Don Giovanni 51 94 83
#84 Khachaturian Spartacus Adagio 102 70 64
#85 Mozart Marriage of Figaro 67 81 70
#86 Schubert Symphony #9 "Great" 77 90 80
#87 Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings 90 84 n/a
#88 Rossini Barber of Seville overture 93 83 n/a
#89 Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music n/a 91 n/a
#90 Rossini: William Tell Overture 65 96 81
#91 Grieg Holberg Suite 100 80 93
#92 Boccherini Fandango Quintet 80 98 92
#93 Mozart Piano Concerto #20 68 100 86
#94 Strauss Der Rosenkavalier 89 95 n/a
#95 Beethoven Triple Concerto 96 87 n/a
#96 Mahler Adagietto 92 88 73
#97 Wagner Rienzi Overture 63 131 n/a
#98 Beethoven Romance #2 107 85 78
#99 Saint-Saens Piano Concerto #2 85 107 89
#100 Liszt La Campanella 103 93 n/a


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