What's your Top Ten Classical Pieces Ever?

What's your Top Ten Classical Pieces Ever? (Renaissance-Modern). No soundtracks are allowed. After compiling my last, several things I noticed: 1)Bach makes it thrice, Mozart zilch. 2) I typically favor Baroque and Romanticism (most of the would be honorable mentions were also from those eras). 3) Gustav Holst is English. I had no idea.

Alec Bach

1. Air on G String–Johann Sebastian Bach–Baroque
2. Canon in D–Johann Pachelbel–Baroque
3. Missa Papae Marcelli: Kyrie–Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina–Renaissance
4. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring–Johann Sebastian Bach–Baroque
5. Jupiter–Gustav Holst–Early Modern
6. 9th Symphony–Ludwig van Beethoven–Classical/Romantic
7. Rhapsody on Paganini–Sergei Rachmaninoff–Romantic
8. Cello Suite No. 1–Johann Sebastian Bach–Baroque
9. Piano Concerto No. 1–Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky–Romantic
10. The Swan–Camille Saint-Saëns–Romantic

What's your list?

Comments

  1. Jordan M. PossFebruary 24, 2012 at 3:30 PM

    I'm surprised, in compiling a top ten from my current favorites, to see two "modern" composers on my list and only one piece each by Mozart and Beethoven, who have been my favorites since high school. In no particular order:

    9th Symphony--Beethoven
    Hallelujah, from Messiah--Händel
    1812 Overture--Tchaikovsky
    Walkürenritt (The Ride of the Valkyries) from Die Walküre--Wagner
    Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt (Siegfried's Rhine Voyage) from Götterdämmerung--Wagner
    Requiem--Mozart
    Air on the G String--Bach
    Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis--Ralph Vaughan-Williams
    Toccata and Fugue in D Minor--Bach
    O Fortuna, from Carmina Burana--Carl Orff

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  2. UnknownFebruary 24, 2012 at 5:17 PM

    Toughie, but here goes.
    I just found out Holst was English too. Got it an argument with my Dad over it.

    10. Ravel's Gaspard De La Nuit
    9. Satie's Gymnopedies
    8. Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4, 2nd Movement
    7. Mozart Requiem, Lachrymosa
    6. Piano Concerto #3, Movement 2 - Bartok
    5. Debussy: Reflects dans l'eau
    4. Six Pianos (Piano Counterpoint) - Steve Reich
    3. Arvo Part: Fratres (Cello & Piano)
    2. St. Matthew's Passion - Bach
    1. Chopin Mazurka Opus 17 No. 4

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  3. egartenSeptember 17, 2012 at 1:32 PM

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