Top99 Vote
The Top 99 Countdown is over for 2009. Maybe you couldn't listen to the entire 83 hours of music, but you still want to know the top 99 choices for best Classical music. In that case...here's the list!

Compare this year's winners to the 12 previous years, HERE.
To print our Top99 list, click here.
# 2009
(numbers in "( )" denote the piece's ranking last year)
1 Beethoven:
Symphony #9, "Choral" (1)
2 Dvorak:
Symphony #9, "New World" (2)
3 Beethoven:
Symphony #5 (4)
4 Massenet
Meditation from "Thaïs" (47)
5 Tchaikovsky:
1812 Overture (7)
6 J. Strauss II:
Blue Danube Waltz(34)
7 Vivaldi:
The Four Seasons (3)
8 Barber:
Adagio for Strings" (67)
9 Pachelbel:
Canon in D (11)
10 Rossini:
William Tell Overture (14)
11 Debussy:
Clair de lune (8)
12 Smetana:
Ma Vlast - The Moldau (22)
13 Gershwin:
Rhapsody in Blue (5)
14 Ravel:
Bolero (6)
15 Rimsky-Korsakov:
Scheherazade (19)
16 Holst:
The Planets (20)
17 Sibelius:
Finlandia (48)
18 Rachmaninov:
Symphony #2 (not on the 2008 list)
19 Mozart:
Piano Concerto #21 (31)
20 Tchaikovsky:
Sleeping Beauty (not on the 2008 list)
21 Copland:
Appalachian Spring (12)
22 Orff:
Carmina Burana (9)
23 Beethoven:
"Moonlight" Sonata (13)
24 Tchaikovsky:
Piano Concerto #1 (35)
25 Beethoven:
Piano Concerto #5, "Emperor" (40)
26 Rachmaninov:
Piano Concerto #2 (23)
27 Tchaikovsky:
The Nutcracker (29)
28 Bach:
Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 (27)
29 Beethoven:
Symphony #6, "Pastorale" (10)
30 Vaughan Williams:
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis (36)
31 Beethoven:
Symphony #7 (21)
32 Copland:
Fanfare for the Common Man (not on the 2008 list)
33 Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (18)
34 Saint-Saëns:
Symphony #3, "Organ" (34)
35 Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto (15)
36 Tchaikovsky:
Swan Lake (45)
37 Wagner:
Ride of the Valkyries (37)
38 Bach:
Air on a G String (73)
39 Handel:
Messiah (24)
40 Mozart:
A Little Night Music (16)
41 Bach:
Sheep May Safely Graze (94)
42 Mozart:
Symphony #40 (not on the 2008 list)
43 Rodrigo:
Concierto de Aranjuez (28)
44 Grieg:
Peer Gynt Suite (Hall of Mountain King) (33)
45 Schubert:
Symphony #9 "Great C Major" (91)
46 Rachmaninov:
Piano Concerto #3 (52)
47 Bizet:
Carmen (51)
48 Mozart:
Symphony #41, "Jupiter" (25)
49 Grieg:
Piano Concerto (not on the 2008 list)
50 Tchaikovsky:
Marche slave (not on the 2008 list)
51 Bach:
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (30)
52 Gershwin:
An American in Paris (not on the 2008 list)
53 Mahler:
Symphony #5 (86)
54 Stravinsky:
The Rite of Spring (56)
55 Bernstein:
Candide Overture (not on the 2008 list)
56 Borodin:
Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" (not on the 2008 list)
57 Chopin:
Piano Concerto #1 (not on the 2008 list)
58 Fauré:
Requiem (not on the 2008 list)
59 Elgar:
Enigma Variations (44)
60 Mendelssohn:
Symphony #4, "Italian" (59)
61 Beethoven:
Für Elise (53)
62 Debussy:
La Mer (not on the 2008 list)
63 Brahms:
Symphony #1 (32)
64 Handel:
Water Music (42)
65 Mozart:
Overture: The Marriage of Figaro (not on the 2008 list)
66 Tchaikovsky:
Symphony #4 (not on the 2008 list)
67 Rossini:
Overture: The Barber of Seville (not on the 2008 list)
68 Albinoni:
Adagio in G minor (92)
69 Beethoven:
Choral Fantasy (not on the 2008 list)
70 Prokofiev:
Peter and the Wolf (90)
71 Elgar:
Cello Concerto (not on the 2008 list)
72 Copland:
Rodeo (not on the 2008 list)
73 Tchaikovsky:
Violin Concerto (80)
74 Brahms:
Symphony #4 (not on the 2008 list)
75 Dvorak:
Cello Concerto (not on the 2008 list)
76 Sousa:
Stars and Stripes Forever (50)
77 J. Strauss II:
Tales from the Vienna Woods (not on the 2008 list)
78 Puccini:
"Nessun dorma"/Turandot (not on the 2008 list)
79 Stravinsky:
The Firebird (65)
80 Mahler:
Symphony #2, "Resurrection" (54)
81 Bach:
Mass in b minor (81)
82 Beethoven:
Symphony #3 "Eroica" (not on the 2008 list)
83 Mendelssohn:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (not on the 2008 list)
84 Bruch:
Violin Concerto #1 (not on the 2008 list)
85 Berlioz:
Requiem (not on the 2008 list)
86 Enesco:
Romanian Rhapsody #1 (not on the 2008 list)
87 Beethoven:
Violin Concerto (not on the 2008 list)
88 Chopin:
Polonaise, Op. 53 "Heroic" (62)
89 Liszt:
Hungarian Rhapsody #2 (38)
90 Franck:
Symphony in D minor (not on the 2008 list)
91 Ravel:
Pavane (not on the 2008 list)
92 Respighi:
The Pines of Rome (72)
93 Sibelius:
Symphony #2 (not on the 2008 list)
94 Vaughan Williams:
The Lark Ascending (not on the 2008 list)
95 Grofé:
Grand Canyon Suite (not on the 2008 list)
96 Puccini:
Madame Butterfly (not on the 2008 list)
97 Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique (not on the 2008 list)
98 Mahler:
Symphony #1, "Titan" (89)
99 Tchaikovsky:
Romeo and Juliet (not on the 2008 list)
The numbers in ( ) denotes that piece's ranking in the previous year
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