Klara top 100 2017

The Flemish public radio station Klara broadcasts a top 100 of classical music every year, based on votes from listeners. This is their top 100 as it was broadcasted in the weekend of November 25 and 26 2017. My list starts with number 99, and ends with number1. Works I left out because I couldn't find them here: 100, 97, 85, 79, 74, 67, 63, 62, 52, 48, 42, 37, 33, 30 and 29.

The original list with youtube links: https://top100.klara.be/

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List Summary

81 Works 44 Composers 20 Genres

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Piano SonataPiano ConcertoSymphonyOperaBalletUnsorted OrchestralLieder / SongSymphonic PoemChoral orchestralViolin ConcertoCello ConcertoPiano TrioMass / RequiemString soloWind ConcertoChantOrganUnsorted ChamberVoice and OrchestraViolin Sonata

1. Gnossiennes

83 Erik Satie Piano Sonata 1897 Play

2. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23

1067 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto 1875 Play

3. Symphony No. 4 in G Major

35 Gustav Mahler Symphony 1900 Play

4. Don Giovanni, K. 527

629 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera 1787 Play

5. Les Indes galantes

11 Jean-Philippe Rameau Ballet 1735 Play

6. Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 in G Major), K. 525

874 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Unsorted Orchestral 1787 Play

7. Erlkönig, D. 328

31 Franz Schubert Lieder / Song 1815 Play

8. In the Steppes of Central Asia

15 Alexander Borodin Symphonic Poem 1880 Play

9. Stabat Mater, RV 621

19 Antonio Vivaldi Choral orchestral 1712 Play

10. Turandot

30 Giacomo Puccini Opera 1924 Play

11. Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21

27 Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto 1830 Play

12. West Side Story

12 Leonard Bernstein Unsorted Orchestral 1957 Play

13. Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

1670 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony 1808 Play

14. Rinaldo, HWV 7

8 George Frideric Handel Opera 1711 Play

15. Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

28 George Frideric Handel Unsorted Orchestral 1749 Play

16. Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47

649 Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto 1905 Play

17. Kol Nidrei (All Vows), Op. 47

6 Max Bruch Cello Concerto 1880 Play

18. Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61

671 Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto 1806 Play

19. L'Orfeo, SV 318

80 Claudio Monteverdi Opera 1607 Play

20. Porgy and Bess

12 George Gershwin Opera 1934 Play

21. Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D. 929

26 Franz Schubert Piano Trio 1827 Play

22. Adagio in G Minor

44 Tomaso Albinoni Unsorted Orchestral Play

23. Norma

8 Vincenzo Bellini Opera 1831 Play

24. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor (Moonlight Sonata), Op. 27

1128 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata 1801 Play

25. Ave verum corpus in D Major, K. 618

433 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Choral orchestral 1791 Play

26. Cello Concerto in B Minor, 104, B. 191

548 Antonín Dvořák Cello Concerto 1895 Play

27. Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90

582 Richard Wagner Opera 1859 Play

28. Symphony No. 5

966 Gustav Mahler Symphony 1902 Play

29. Ich habe genug, BWV 82

6 Johann Sebastian Bach Choral orchestral 1727 Play

30. St John Passion (Passio secundum Johannem), BWV 245

19 Johann Sebastian Bach Choral orchestral 1724 Play

31. Für Elise (Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor), WoO 59

985 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata 1810 Play

32. Finlandia, Op. 26

56 Jean Sibelius Unsorted Orchestral 1900 Play

33. Adagio for Strings

771 Samuel Barber Unsorted Orchestral 1936 Play

34. Gloria, RV 589

35 Antonio Vivaldi Choral orchestral Play

35. Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85

577 Edward Elgar Cello Concerto 1919 Play

36. Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48

541 Gabriel Fauré Mass / Requiem 1890 Play

37. Gymnopédies

1340 Erik Satie Piano Sonata 1888 Play

38. L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea), SV 308

4 Claudio Monteverdi Opera 1643 Play

39. Danse macabre, Op. 40

136 Camille Saint-Saëns Symphonic Poem 1874 Play

40. The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du printemps)

1222 Igor Stravinsky Unsorted Orchestral 1913 Play

41. Vespro della Beata Vergine, SV 206

12 Claudio Monteverdi Choral orchestral Play

42. Carmen

1088 Georges Bizet Opera 1874 Play

43. The Lark Ascending

38 Ralph Vaughan Williams Violin Concerto 1914 Play

44. Recuerdos de la Alhambra

15 Francisco Tárrega String solo 1896 Play

45. Enigma Variations, Op. 36

485 Edward Elgar Unsorted Orchestral 1899 Play

46. Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012

815 Johann Sebastian Bach String solo 1723 Play

47. Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92

1447 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony 1812 Play

48. Rusalka, Op. 114

6 Antonín Dvořák Opera 1900 Play

49. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 26

541 Max Bruch Violin Concerto 1866 Play

50. Thaïs

14 Jules Massenet Opera 1894 Play

51. Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531

6 Franz Schubert Lieder / Song 1817 Play

52. Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051

1585 Johann Sebastian Bach Unsorted Orchestral 1721 Play

53. Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622

53 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wind Concerto 1791 Play

54. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

969 Johann Sebastian Bach Piano Sonata Play

55. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major (Emperor Concerto), Op. 73

942 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto 1811 Play

56. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 636

18 Henry Purcell Opera 1688 Play

57. Symphony No. 9 (From the New World), Op. 95, B. 178

1390 Antonín Dvořák Symphony 1893 Play

58. Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243

439 Johann Sebastian Bach Choral orchestral 1731 Play

59. The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte), K. 620

1143 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Opera 1791 Play

60. Boléro

1093 Maurice Ravel Unsorted Orchestral 1928 Play

61. Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125

2608 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony 1824 Play

62. Peer Gynt, Op. 46, 55

674 Edvard Grieg Unsorted Orchestral 1875 Play

63. Lakmé

13 Léo Delibes Opera 1882 Play

64. Miserere

365 Gregorio Allegri Chant Play

65. Messiah, HWV 56

902 George Frideric Handel Choral orchestral 1741 Play

66. Rhapsody in Blue

1069 George Gershwin Unsorted Orchestral 1924 Play

67. Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565

1638 Johann Sebastian Bach Organ Play

68. Canon in D

1046 Johann Pachelbel Unsorted Chamber Play

69. Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18

1274 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 1901 Play

70. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30

97 Sergei Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 1909 Play

71. Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Eurydice), Wq. 30

8 Christoph Willibald Gluck Opera 1762 Play

72. The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagioni)

3084 Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto 1723 Play

73. Carmina Burana

759 Carl Orff Voice and Orchestra 1936 Play

74. Nabucco

25 Giuseppe Verdi Opera 1841 Play

75. Má vlast, JB 1:112

64 Bedřich Smetana Unsorted Orchestral 1879 Play

76. Requiem in D Minor, K. 626

2578 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mass / Requiem 1791 Play

77. Christmas Oratorio (Weihnachts-Oratorium), BWV 248

13 Johann Sebastian Bach Choral orchestral 1734 Play

78. Symphony No. 6 in F Major (Pastoral Symphony), Op. 68

1125 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony 1808 Play

79. Spiegel im Spiegel

20 Arvo Pärt Violin Sonata 1978 Play

80. St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244

760 Johann Sebastian Bach Choral orchestral 1727 Play

81. Stabat Mater

34 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Choral orchestral 1736 Play

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This is very interesting, but that top 100 link doesn't work. I am excited to know the rest!

Thanks @skender, I've never heard of this top list until now. As for the missing works:

100: Karl Jenkins is still missing, so I'll try to add him in the incoming days.
98: Tchaikovsky's piano concerto no. 1 exists
97: There is already a plan to add an "anonymous" composer profile to add popular unattributed works like Greensleves
96: Mahler's symphony no. 4 exists
85: Asturias by Albeniz is still missing, I'll add very soon
79: Jesu, Meines Lebens Leben will be added
74: Lodewijk Mortelmans will be added
72: this is the Moonlight Sonata, it's available

@geonver Thanks! I got kicked out for making too many requests, but I'm back in now, and completed the list of what I could find. I'll also add the ones you found.

I sincerely apologize for that! We imposed a rate limit of 300 requests/hour for security and performance reasons but I now found it could be passed easily with creating long lists. This shall be fixed before the weekend. I apologize again.

@geonver No problem. I needed a break somewhere halfway anyhow :-)

Very weird, was Pergolesi's Stabat Mater chosen as the top work or I am missing something here?

@karim332 Pergolisi's Stabat Mater was indeed the top work. In this list, it has been the number 1 since 2014, when it replaced "Erbarme dich" from Bach's Matthäuspassion at the top of the list.

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