The 90.5 WKAR Classic Top 60 can be referenced in alphabetical order by composer. Listen to 90.5 WKAR during the coming year for these and other favorites, played by Mark Schwitzgoebel and Jody Knol on 90.5 Classical.
1 Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
2 Bach: Duet from Cantata No. 7 3 Bach: Goldberg Variations 4 Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 5 Barber: Adagio for Strings 6 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor” 7 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8, “Pathetique” 8 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in c minor 9 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F, “Pastoral” 10 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in d minor, “Choral” 11 Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in c minor 12 Bruch: “Scottish Fantasy” for Violin & Orchestra
13 Copland: Appalachian Spring 14 Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo 15 Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in e minor, “New World”
16 Elgar: Enigma Variations
17 Gershwin: An American in Paris
18 Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
19 Grieg: Piano Concerto in a minor
20 Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites
21 Handel: Messiah highlights
22 Handel: Royal Fireworks Music
23 Handel: Water Music
24 Hanson: Symphony No. 2
25 Haydn: Symphony No. 94, “Surprise”
26 Holst: “The Planets”
27 Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in c minor, “Resurrection”
28 Massenet: Meditation from “Thais” 29 Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings 30 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, “Scottish” 31 Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, “Italian” 32 Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C
33 Mozart: Marriage of Figaro excerpts 34 Mozart: Serenade in G, “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”
35 Mozart: Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
36 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
37 Orff: Carmina Burana
38 Pachelbel: Canon in D
39 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
40 Puccini: Tosca excerpts
41 Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in c minor
42 Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
43 Respighi: Pines of Rome
44 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
45 Rossini: Overture to “The Barber of Seville” 46 Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals 47 Schubert: Quintet for Piano & Strings, “Trout” 48 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C, “Great”
49 Schumann: Piano Concerto in a minor
50 Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish” 51 Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D
52 Smetana: The Moldau
53 Tarrega: Recollections of the Alhambra 54 Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in b-flat minor 55 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D 56 Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in b minor, “Pathetique” 57 Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite 58 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
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