A Thanksgiving Tradition on WETA Classical
It's that time of year again! Limber up your voting fingers and get ready to take part in WETA Classical's annual listeners' choice competition — which lets YOU determine the most popular classical pieces in the DC area.
Classical Countdown voting is open November 8 through November 14, and we’ll play back the top 100 picks during Thanksgiving week, counting down to the top piece, which will air on Thanksgiving night.
The 2021 Classical Countdown
- Felix Mendelssohn|Symphony #4 "Italian": I
- Camille Saint-Saëns|Piano Concerto #2 in G Minor, Op. 22
- Hector Berlioz|Symphonie fantastique: IV & V (March & Dream)
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Brandenburg Concerto #1
- Sergei Rachmaninoff|Symphonic Dances
- Johann Strauss II|Blue Danube
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Symphony #4
- Gabriel Fauré|Pavane, Op. 50
- Johannes Brahms|Piano Concerto #2
- Ralph Vaughan Williams|Fantasia on Greensleeves
- Antonín Dvorák|Symphony #8
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Piano Concerto #20 in D Minor, K 466
- Sergei Prokofiev|Symphony #1 "Classical"
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56
- Edvard Grieg|Holberg Suite
- Franz Schubert|String Quintet in C Major
- Camille Saint-Saëns|Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
- Remo Giazotto|Adagio (after Tomaso Albinoni)
- Johannes Brahms|Symphony #4
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Symphony #40
- Aaron Copland|Hoe-Down (from "Rodeo")
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op. 13 "Pathétique"
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Toccata and Fugue D Minor (BWV 565)
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Nutcracker Suite
- Georg Philipp Telemann|Banquet Music, Part 3: Concerto in E-flat Major
- Georges Bizet|Carmen Suite
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Brandenburg Concerto #3
- Igor Stravinsky|Firebird: Lullaby & Finale
- Gustav Mahler|Symphony #1 "Titan"
- Gioachino Rossini|The Barber of Seville: Overture
- Antonín Dvorák|Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 #1
- Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov|Symphony #1: IV
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Orchestral Suite #3 in D Major, BWV 1068
- Frédéric Chopin|Polonaise A-flat Major "Heroic" (Op. 53)
- Joaquín Rodrigo|Concierto de Aranjuez
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Piano Concerto #21 in C Major, K 467
- Florence Price|Symphony #1 in E Minor
- Gustav Mahler|Symphony #5 in C-sharp Minor
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
- Max Bruch|Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
- Marin Marais|The Bells of St. Geneviève
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Symphony #5
- Ottorino Respighi|The Pines of Rome
- Leonard Bernstein|Candide: Overture
- George Frideric Handel|Music for the Royal Fireworks
- Richard Wagner|Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Concerto, BWV 1043
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Sheep May Safely Graze (from Cantata #208)
- Claude Debussy|Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
- Gustav Mahler|Symphony #2 "Resurrection"
- Clara Wieck Schumann|Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D Major, BWV 1050
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Swan Lake Suite
- Johannes Brahms|Violin Concerto: III
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Piano Sonata #14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27 #2 "Moonlight"
- Franz Schubert|Symphony #9 "Great": III
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
- Johannes Brahms|Symphony #1
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|Piano Concerto #1
- Sergei Rachmaninoff|Symphony #2 in E Minor, Op. 27
- Frédéric Chopin|Piano Concerto #1
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Violin Concerto
- Sergei Rachmaninoff|Piano Concerto #3 in D Minor, Op. 30
- Jean Sibelius|Finlandia
- Sir Edward Elgar|Enigma Variations: Nimrod
- Richard Addinsell|Warsaw Concerto
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Clarinet Concerto A Major (K. 622)
- Sergei Prokofiev|Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights
- Felix Mendelssohn|Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
- Antonín Dvorák|String Quartet #12 "American"
- Maurice Ravel|Bolero
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Symphony #3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica"
- Sergei Rachmaninoff|Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
- Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky|1812 Overture
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Symphony #41 "Jupiter"
- Claude Debussy|Clair de lune
- George Frideric Handel|Water Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Symphony #5 in C Minor, Op. 67
- Bedrich Smetana|Ma Vlast: The Moldau
- Ralph Vaughan Williams|Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
- Johann Sebastian Bach|Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata #147)
- Johann Pachelbel|Canon and Gigue
- Edvard Grieg|Piano Concerto A Minor
- Aaron Copland|Fanfare for the Common Man
- Samuel Barber|Adagio for Strings
- Gustav Holst|The Planets
- Modest Mussorgsky|Pictures at an Exhibition
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Piano Concerto #5 in E-flat Major, Op. 73 "Emperor"
- Camille Saint-Saëns|Symphony #3 in C Minor, Op. 78 "Organ"
- Aaron Copland|Appalachian Spring
- Ralph Vaughan Williams|The Lark Ascending
- Antonín Dvorák|Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104
- Antonio Vivaldi|The Four Seasons, Op. 8/1-4
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Symphony #6 "Pastoral"
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov|Scheherazade
- Sergei Rachmaninoff|Piano Concerto #2
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Symphony #7 in A Major, Op. 92
- George Gershwin|Rhapsody in Blue
- Antonín Dvorák|Symphony #9 "From the New World"
- Ludwig van Beethoven|Symphony #9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral"