Friday 27 April 2007

Top 10 classical recordings

Thanks to Cecilia Mort who sent the Classic FM Top 10 recordings - voted for by listeners and broadcast in the station’s annual Easter weekend countdown of the top 500.

Grown-up music ratio? On this evidence, about 50%.

1 (3 last year) The Lark Ascending Vaughan Williams
2 (7) Cello Concerto Elgar
3 (2) Piano Concerto No 2 Rachmaninov
4 (1) Clarinet Concerto Mozart
5 (4) Piano Concerto No 5 Beethoven (“Emperor”)
6 (9) Enigma Variations Elgar
7 (5) Violin Concerto No 1 Bruch
8 (6) Symphony No 6 Beethoven (“Pastoral”)
9 (8) Symphony No 9 Beethoven (“Choral”)
10 (11) Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Vaughan Williams



Gerry Smith

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