Settling the Score: Your 100 favorite classical pieces from 2019

Ranking 

Work 

1 

VERDI: Grand March from Aida

2 

STRAUSS: Four Last Songs 

3 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending 

4 

MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A K622 

5 

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 2 in C minor Op 18 

6 

ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme Op 36, Enigma 

7 

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 5 in Eb Op 73, Emperor 

8 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125, Choral 

9 

K JENKINS: The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace 

10 

PART: Spiegel im Spiegel 

11 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 6 in F Op 68, Pastoral 

12 

BIZET: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers 

13 

ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor Op 85 

14 

HANDEL: Messiah 

15 

HAYDN: The Creation 

16 

ALLEGRI: Miserere mei, Deus 

17 

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 

18 

SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A D667, Trout 

19 

DVORAK: Symphony No 9 in E minor, From the New World 

20 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A Op 92 

21 

RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez 

22 

SAINT-SAENS: Symphony No 3 in C minor Op 78, Organ 

23 

BACH: Cello Suite (s) 

24 

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade 

25 

HAYDN: Cello Concerto No 1 in C

26 

BRUCH: Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor Op 26 

27 

BARBER: Adagio for Strings (and choral version, Agnus Dei) 

28 

CHOPIN: Nocturne (s) 

29 

MOZART: Requiem in D minor K626 

30 

BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Op 61 

31 

HOLST: The Planets Suite 

32 

DVORAK: Cello Concerto in B minor Op 104 

33 

FAURE: Cantique de Jean Racine 

34 

VIVALDI: Four Seasons 

35 

FAURE: Requiem Op 48 

36 

TALLIS: Spem in alium 

37 

GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue 

38 

GRIEG: Piano Concerto in A minor Op 16 

39 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 5 in C minor Op 67 

40 

BACH: St Matthew Passion

41 

MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness 

42 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35 

43 

BORODIN: In the Steppes of Central Asia 

44 

BACH: Brandenburg Concerto (s) 

45 

SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast 

46 

GORECKI: Symphony No 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs 

47 

SIBELIUS: Finlandia 

48 

SCHUBERT: Symphony No 9 in C D944, Great 

49 

BACH: Mass in B minor 

50 

SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C D956 

51 

MOZART: Piano Concerto No 21 in C K467 

52 

LILBURN: Aotearoa Overture 

53 

BACH: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV565 

54 

PACHELBEL: Canon in D 

55 

PURCELL: When I am laid in earth, from Dido & Aeneas 

56 

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No 14 in C# minor, Moonlight 

57 

DVORAK: Song to the moon, from Rusalka 

58 

MAHLER: Symphony No 5 in C# minor 

59 

SIBELIUS: Karelia Suite 

60 

MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64 

61 

BRAHMS: A German Requiem Op 45 

62 

JENNINGS: Bat 

63 

BACH: Concerto in D minor for two violins BWV1043 

64 

SCHUBERT: Notturno in Eb D897 

65 

SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47 

66 

BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 3 in Eb Op 55, Eroica 

67 

SATIE: Gymnopédies 

68 

ELGAR: Sea Pictures Op 37 

69 

CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor Op 11 

70 

HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in Eb Hob. VIIe/1 

71 

MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition 

72 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 6 in B minor Op 74, Pathétique 

73 

LILBURN: Four Canzonas 

74 

JENNINGS: The Leading Violinist (tied with All the World’s A Stage) 

75 

BEETHOVEN: Triple Concerto in C Op 56 

76 

FARR: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs 

77 

BACH: Goldberg Variations BWV988 

78 

TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 Overture 

79 

HAYDN: Symphony No 94 in G, Surprise 

80 

LAURIDSEN: Lux Aeterna 

81 

RACHMANINOV: Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 27 

82 

MOZART: The Marriage of Figaro 

83 

WAGNER: Die Walküre 

84 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No 5 in E minor Op 64 

85 

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 5 in Eb Op 82 

86 

TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No 1 in Bb minor Op 23 

87 

DELIBES: Flower Duet, from Lakmé 

88 

SAINT-SAENS: Danse macabre 

89 

HAMILTON: The Moon is Silently Singing 

90 

SIBELIUS: Symphony No 2 in D Op 43 

91 

COPLAND: Appalachian Spring 

92 

RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No 3 in D minor Op 30 

93 

BORODIN: String Quartet No 2 in D 

94 

DEBUSSY: Suite bergamasque 

95 

BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No 4 in G Op 58 

96 

ALBINONI: Adagio in G minor 

97 

DEBUSSY: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune 

98 

KHACHATURIAN: Adagio of Spartacus & Phrygia, from Spartacus 

99 

WIDOR: Toccata, from Symphony No 5 in F minor 

100 

GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No 1