Most played classical works of the last 75 years.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

The top 30 most played works over the past three-quarters of a century were revealed on BBC Radio 2 programme The People's Classical Chart yesterday, presented by comic and musician Bill Bailey.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1238977/X-Factor-tops-charts--time-sinister-tune-composed-70-years-ago.html#ixzz0b3dmrqN2

The People's Classical Chart Top 30
(conductor or featured artist in brackets):
1 Orff - O Fortuna From Carmina Burana (Kurt Eichhorn)
2 Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis (Bernard Haitink)
3 Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade (Charles Mackerras)
4 Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty (Mikhail Pletnev)
5 Schumann - Romance In F Sharp Major Op 28/2 (Joseph Cooper)
6 Delibes - Sylvia (Richard Bonynge)
7 Rachmaninov - Symphony No 2 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
8 Holst - The Planets (James Loughran)
9 Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty (Valery Gergiev)
10 Schubert - Symphony No 5 (Neville Marriner)
11 Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No 2 (Vladimir Ashkenazy)
12 Bizet - Carmen (Giuseppe Sinopoli)
13 Holst - The Planets (John Eliot Gardiner)
14 Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending (Sarah Chang)
15 Zipoli - Elevazione For Cello And Oboe (Robert Clark)
16 Beethoven - Symphony No 6, Pastoral (John Eliot Gardiner)
17 Grieg - Piano Concerto (Krystian Zimerman)
18 Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake (Charles Dutoit)
19 Litolff - Scherzo (From Concerto Symphonique No 4) (Peter Donohoe)
20 Holst - The Planets (Simon Rattle)
21 Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Nigel Kennedy)
22 Rodrigo - Concierto De Aranjuez (Julian Bream)
23 Saint-Saens - Symphony No 3, Organ (Myung-Whun Chung)
24 Elgar - Cello Concerto (Jacqueline Du Pré)
25 Bruch - Violin Concerto No 1 (Maxim Vengerov)
26 Mendelssohn - Symphony No 4 In A Major, Italian (John Eliot Gardiner)
27 Orff - O Fortuna From Carmina Burana (Riccardo Muti)
28 Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade (Seiji Ozawa)
29 Holst - The Planets (David Mathias Lloyd-Jones)
30 Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream (Yoel Levi)

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1238977/X-Factor-tops-charts--time-sinister-tune-composed-70-years-ago.html#ixzz0b3dmrqN2


Note:I have never heard of #15 and #19.

[Iggo]

1. Brits don't like Bach, then?

If you watch commercial TV in America, you hear the intro to Cello Suite # 1 a half dozen times per day.

Also, is "O Fortuna" that crazy/scary music from Excalibur and from the opening to Ozzy shows with the huge-sounding chorus shouting at me in Latin? (I'm at work and I can search, but I can't listen right now...)

[Swamp Rat]

4. Yep

I'm transcribing Cello Suite #1 for guitar right now.... just finished the prelude. :)

[Twillig]

2. Obviously, they don't watch YouTube guitar shred videos 'cause it's Pachebel's Canon in D

or "Canon Rock"

And Gustavo Guerra is the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hof5_i8PuAg

[Iggo]

3. zOMG!