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1 4CDs VOLUME I 1-55 TEN YEARS ON YOUR 100 FAVOURITE CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES AS VOTED BY LISTENERS TO ABC CLASSIC FM 13

2 What is the one piece of music you cannot live without? A lot can happen in ten years. When ABC Classic FM announced the original Classic 100 survey back in 2001, it was only a month before the launch of the ipod, which since then has transformed the listening habits of the nation. Music is in everyone s pockets, travelling with us wherever we go. Whole libraries of CDs can now be easily decanted into devices that fit in the palm of your hand. It s all about choice: you can pick the music you want to hear, when you want to hear it; you can even buy the music online, piece by piece, movement by movement. Or you can choose not to choose, and let the machine shuffle the music but of course, that s just another choice. The Classic 100 is all about choice too: your selection of the music that means the most to you. For each of us, the result of thousands of votes can be as unexpected as an ipod shuffle: the top 100 pieces in numerical order, just as the votes happened to fall. But there s something special about these 100 pieces. While they range across the spectrum of periods and genres and styles, they are united by the fact that they ve touched the hearts of many people. This music makes a difference: these are the pieces that you ve told us you can t live without. Of course, this isn t the first time we ve asked the question. Since the original Classic 100 ten years ago, we ve focussed on a number of specific types of music: piano, opera, chamber music, symphonies and concertos have each had their own Classic 100 survey. We ve even homed in on a single composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (in 2006, his 250th birthday year). Each of these surveys has revealed new facets of your musical tastes, as we ve looked more closely than usual into different areas of the vast and various landscape of music. Now, after a decade of zooming in, this Classic 100 has panned back out to see how the whole experience has changed the way we think about our favourite music. There have certainly been changes: in fact, there are only two pieces which appear in both the 2001 and 2010 Classic 100s in exactly the same spots: Elgar s Enigma Variations, at No. 24, and Rachmaninoff s Rhapsody on a Theme 2

3 of Paganini, at No. 51. Many of our other choices have been shifted and reordered. Mozart s Clarinet Concerto and Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending have lost their top two spots, and Beethoven has stepped up to take gold, silver and bronze. Mozart s Requiem and Allegri s Miserere, now numbers 8 and 35 respectively, have just about swapped places; Holst s The Planets has soared from 49 to 19; and Schubert s Nocturne, once number 19, has plunged to 99th place. Perhaps some of these changes have been influenced by the Classic 100 surveys themselves. Dvořák s New World Symphony, for example, has leapt almost 50 places since 2001 to take a place in the top ten, almost certainly riding the wave of its number one spot in 2009 s Classic 100 Symphony. Bruch s Violin Concerto didn t make it into the original Classic 100 at all, but the Classic 100 Concerto (where it came fourth) jogged our memories, and it hasn t been forgotten since, settling this time at number 11. Arvo Pärt s Spiegel im Spiegel, not the sort of piece that gets performed in mainstream concerts, clearly struck a chord with listeners when we heard it in the Classic 100 Chamber Music. There are also some completely new arrivals: some from the mainstream symphonic repertoire (Mahler s Symphony No. 1, Mussorgsky s Pictures at an Exhibition, Rimsky-Korsakov s Scheherazade and two pieces by Mendelssohn, who did seem to have been strangely neglected in the original Classic 100, with just one entry), two ballets (Tchaikovsky s Swan Lake and The Nutcracker), and the extraordinary 40-part motet Spem in alium, by Thomas Tallis the lone representative of the 16th century. As with the original Classic 100, however, it s the grand old men of classical music who dominate the field but there has been a shift here too: Bach, who was the clear winner in the earlier survey with 13 entries, now has only six. He has been overtaken by Mozart and Beethoven, with ten each, and also by Tchaikovsky, with seven. Between them, these four composers account for more than a third of all the works on this new Classic 100. The rest of the field is strongly weighted towards the Romantics, with a handful of Baroque and more modern works. Most of these names and many of their works are well known to us. Perhaps this demonstrates that despite the shifts in our tastes across a decade of constant change in culture and technology we retain a profound love for this great music and a deep connection with the creative genius of the composers whose gift it is to us. Richard Buckham, Manager, ABC Classic FM November

4 TRACK RANK VOL. I CD1 [79 04] LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 Choral : IV. Allegro assai excerpt: An die Freude (Ode to Joy) Words by Friedrich Schiller Sydney Philharmonia Symphonic and Motet Choirs, Sydney Philharmonia Orchestra, Antony Walker conductor LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 2 2 Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 Emperor : II. Adagio un poco mosso 7 36 Gerard Willems Stuart & Sons piano, Sinfonia Australis, Antony Walker conductor LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 3 3 Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 Pastoral : I. Allegro ma non troppo (Pleasant, cheerful sensations awakened on arrival in the countryside) Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Clarinet Concerto in A major, KV622: II. Adagio 6 22 Craig Hill basset clarinet, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer director ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 From the New World : II. Largo Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka conductor GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Messiah, HWV56: For Unto Us a Child is Born 3 35 Words from the Bible (Isaiah 9: 6) selected by Charles Jennens Cantillation, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker conductor 4

5 TRACK RANK SERGEI RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18: I. Moderato 9 31 Alexander Lubiantsev piano, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, János Fürst conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 8 8 Requiem, KV626: Dies irae 1 43 Words: Traditional. Cantillation, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker conductor LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 9 9 Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61: III. Rondo 9 36 Richard Tognetti violin, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Halstead conductor EDWARD ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85: I. Adagio Moderato 8 26 Li-Wei cello, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite conductor VOL. I CD2 [79 12] MAX BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26: III. Finale (Allegro energico) 8 31 Niki Vasilakis violin, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing conductor ANTONIO VIVALDI The Four Seasons: Winter, RV297: II. Largo 1 25 Barbara Jane Gilby violin, Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players, Geoffrey Lancaster director CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 Organ : IIb. Maestoso Allegro 8 09 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Stanhope conductor 5

6 TRACK RANK RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (excerpt) 7 12 Dimity Hall violin, Sinfonia Australis, Antony Walker conductor JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (Purify yourself, my heart) 6 17 Words by Christian Friedrich Henrici Teddy Tahu Rhodes bass-baritone, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker conductor LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 6 16 Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto 8 54 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Willem van Otterloo conductor FRANZ SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A major, D667 The Trout : IV. Andantino Allegretto 7 43 Kathryn Selby piano, Dimity Hall violin, Irina Morozova viola, Julian Smiles cello, Kees Boersma double bass LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 8 18 Sonata, quasi una fantasia (Sonata No. 14) in C-sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2 Moonlight : I. Adagio sostenuto 6 39 Gerard Willems Stuart & Sons piano GUSTAV HOLST The Planets, Op. 32: III. Mercury, the Winged Messenger 4 16 Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite conductor RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 0 20 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (excerpt) 6 17 Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas conductor 6

7 TRACK RANK LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN! 21 Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio 6 23 Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti conductor JOAQUÍN RODRIGO 22 Concierto de Aranjuez: I. Allegro con spirito 5 57 Karin Schaupp guitar, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey conductor VOL. I CD3 [79 39] WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 1 23 Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), KV620: Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (Yes, I m the birdcatcher) 2 47 Words by Emanuel Schikaneder Teddy Tahu Rhodes bass-baritone, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Ola Rudner conductor EDWARD ELGAR 2 24 Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 Enigma : Nimrod (Variation No. 9) 3 16 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Myer Fredman conductor GEORGES BIZET Les pêcheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers): Au fond du temple saint (In the depths of the holy temple) 5 43 Words by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré David Hobson tenor, Teddy Tahu Rhodes bass-baritone, Sinfonia Australis, Thomas Woods conductor 7

8 TRACK RANK GABRIEL FAURÉ Requiem, Op. 48: In paradisum (May angels lead you into Paradise) 3 10 Words: Traditional. Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis, Antony Walker conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART 5 27 Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), KV492: Voi, che sapete (You ladies, who know what love is) 2 57 Words by Lorenzo da Ponte Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton conductor PYOTR IL YICH TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 Pathétique : II. Allegro con grazia 7 39 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Oleg Caetani conductor PYOTR IL YICH TCHAIKOVSKY 7 29 Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23: I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (excerpt) 3 50 Simon Tedeschi piano, The Queensland Orchestra, Richard Bonynge conductor ARVO PÄRT b Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in Mirror) 9 19 Sally Maer cello, Sally Whitwell piano LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 9 31 Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55 Eroica : III. Scherzo 5 34 Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn conductor 8

9 TRACK RANK FELIX MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto No. 2 in E minor, Op. 64: III. Allegretto non troppo Allegro molto vivace 6 56 Niki Vasilakis violin, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing conductor RICHARD STRAUSS ! 33 Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs): I. Frühling (Spring): Allegretto 3 11 Words by Hermann Hesse Yvonne Kenny soprano, Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Fritzsch conductor WOLFGANG AMADEUS 34 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, KV467 Elvira Madigan : II. Andante 6 54 Vera Kameneva piano, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood conductor GREGORIO ALLEGRI Miserere (excerpt) 5 23 Words from the Bible (Psalm 51). Jane Sheldon soprano, Cantillation, Antony Walker conductor GEORGE GERSHWIN $ 36 Rhapsody in Blue (excerpt) 4 26 Isador Goodman piano, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Patrick Thomas conductor SERGEI RACHMANINOFF % 37 Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30: I. Allegro ma non troppo (excerpt) 6 57 Roberto Cominati piano, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edvard Tchivzhel conductor 9

10 TRACK RANK VOL. I CD4 [79 15] JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1 38 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV1043: I. Vivace 3 18 Richard Tognetti violin I and director, Helena Rathbone violin II, Australian Chamber Orchestra JEAN SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43: I. Allegretto 8 58 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer conductor PYOTR IL YICH TCHAIKOVSKY 3 40 Swan Lake, Op. 20: Dance of the Little Swans 1 30 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Elyakum Shapirra conductor GEORGES BIZET 4 41 Carmen: Près des remparts de Séville (Seguidilla) 2 25 Words by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Milton conductor FRANZ SCHUBERT 5 42 String Quintet in C major, D956: II. Adagio (excerpt) 5 38 Takács String Quartet (Gábor Takács-Nagy, Károly Schranz violins, Gábor Ormai viola, András Fejér cello), Miklós Perényi cello GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C minor Resurrection : IV. Urlicht (Original Light) 5 40 Words: Anonymous. Elizabeth Campbell mezzo-soprano, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender conductor 10

11 TRACK RANK GIACOMO PUCCINI La bohème: Sì, mi chiamano Mimì (They call me Mimì) 4 28 Words by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Antoinette Halloran soprano, The Queensland Orchestra, Stephen Mould conductor JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 8 45 Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565: Toccata 2 47 Michael Dudman organ JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 9 46 Mass in B minor, BWV232: Christe eleison 4 53 Words: Traditional. Sara Macliver soprano, Sally-Anne Russell mezzo-soprano, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Antony Walker conductor SERGEI PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64: Montagues and Capulets 4 49 West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey conductor JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH! 48 Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, joy of man s desiring) from Cantata BWV147 Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life) 2 22 Words by Martin Jahn c.1620-c Cantillation, Orchestra of the Antipodes, Brett Weymark conductor LUDWIG VAN 49 Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58: II. Andante con moto 5 10 Gerard Willems Stuart & Sons piano, Sinfonia Australis, Antony Walker conductor 11

12 TRACK RANK JOHANN PACHELBEL Canon in D major 4 47 Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, David Stanhope conductor SERGEI RACHMANINOFF $ 51 Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43: 18th Variation 3 10 Ayako Uehara piano, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Edvard Tchivzhel conductor PYOTR IL YICH TCHAIKOVSKY % 52 The Year 1812: Festival Overture in E-flat major, Op. 49 (excerpt) 3 49 Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Stuart Challender conductor JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH ^ 53 Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen (Aria with diverse variations), BWV988 Goldberg Variations : Aria 1 17 Ian Munro piano JEAN SIBELIUS & 54 Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47: III. Allegro, ma non tanto 7 31 Adele Anthony violin, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer conductor CLAUDE DEBUSSY * 55 Clair de lune (Moonlight) from Suite bergamasque 4 43 John Chen piano 12

13 The Classic 100 Ten Years On Complete List 1 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 Choral 2 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 Emperor 3 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 6 Pastoral 4 MOZART Clarinet Concerto 5 DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 9 From the New World 6 HANDEL Messiah 7 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 8 MOZART Requiem 9 BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto 10 ELGAR Cello Concerto 11 BRUCH Violin Concerto No VIVALDI The Four Seasons 13 SAINT-SAËNS Symphony No. 3 Organ 14 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending 15 JS BACH St Matthew Passion 16 BEETHOVEN Symphony No SCHUBERT Piano Quintet in A major The Trout 18 BEETHOVEN Moonlight Sonata 19 HOLST The Planets 20 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis 21 BEETHOVEN Symphony No RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez 23 MOZART The Magic Flute 24 ELGAR Enigma Variations 25 BIZET The Pearl Fishers 26 FAURÉ Requiem 27 MOZART The Marriage of Figaro 28 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6 Pathétique 29 TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No PÄRT Spiegel im Spiegel 31 BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 3 Eroica 32 MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto No R STRAUSS Four Last Songs 34 MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21 Elvira Madigan 35 ALLEGRI Miserere 36 GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue 37 RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No JS BACH Concerto for Two Violins 39 SIBELIUS Symphony No TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake 41 BIZET Carmen 42 SCHUBERT String Quintet in C major 43 MAHLER Symphony No. 2 Resurrection 44 PUCCINI La bohème 45 JS BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor 46 JS BACH Mass in B minor 47 PROKOFIEV Romeo and Juliet 48 JS BACH Jesu, Joy of Man s Desiring 49 BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No PACHELBEL Canon 51 RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 52 TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture 13

14 53 JS BACH Goldberg Variations 54 SIBELIUS Violin Concerto 55 DEBUSSY Clair de lune 56 RAVEL Boléro 57 SIBELIUS Finlandia 58 MAHLER Symphony No TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto 60 MOZART Ave verum Corpus 61 SATIE Trois Gymnopédies 62 ORFF Carmina burana 63 BARBER Adagio for Strings 64 GRIEG Piano Concerto 65 SCHUBERT String Quartet No. 14 Death and the Maiden 66 STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring 67 MAHLER Symphony No TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition 70 MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night s Dream 71 MASSENET Thaïs 72 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade 73 TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker 74 JS BACH Cello Suite No GRIEG Peer Gynt 76 MOZART Don Giovanni 77 BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto 78 DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto 79 MENDELSSOHN The Hebrides (Fingal s Cave) 80 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique 81 PUCCINI Madama Butterfly 82 BRAHMS Violin Concerto 83 RACHMANINOFF Symphony No KHACHATURIAN Spartacus 85 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 The Great 86 SMETANA Má Vlast 87 TALLIS Spem in alium 88 MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana 89 PURCELL Dido and Aeneas 90 BRAHMS Piano Concerto No SIBELIUS Symphony No HANDEL Zadok the Priest 93 MOZART Clarinet Quintet 94 CHOPIN Piano Concerto No ALBINONI Adagio in G minor 96 GÓRECKI Symphony of Sorrowful Songs 97 MOZART Cosí fan tutte 98 R STRAUSS Four Songs, Op SCHUBERT Nocturne 100 MOZART Symphony No

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THE TOP 10 476 6406 YOUR 100 FAVOURITE CONCERTOS AS VOTED BY LISTENERS TO ABC CLASSIC FM What is the one concerto you cannot live without? The Classic 100 Concerto If this is the first Classic 100 you