Cast Your Vote
We need your votes to help decide which pieces make it into our End-of-Year Playlist.
Final Round: October 28 – December 8
We’ve compiled your entries. Now we need your help ranking the pieces. Please pick up to 10 of your favorites from the list below, and enter the corresponding letter/number of each (i.e. 1, 2, B1, L6—see photo for example). Then tune in at the end of the year to find out which pieces made it to the top.
The Rules
We made every effort to interpret each entry, but may have been unable to include a few if we weren’t able to determine the selection. KHFM retains the right to change the rules for voting as deemed necessary and maintains editorial control over the final playlist.
Sample
2024 Choices
1.
3 Penny Opera
Kurt Weill
2.
7th Voyage of Sinbad score
Bernard Hermann
A1.
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
A2.
Agave Baroque album Peace in Our Time
Reginald Mobley
A3.
Alleluia
Randall Thompson
A4.
Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland
A5.
Arabesque #1
Claude Debussy
A6.
Ave Verum Corpus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
B1.
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Johann Sebastien Bach
C1.
Canon and Gigue
Johann Pachelbel
C2.
Cello Concerto in B minor
Antonín Dvořák
C3.
Cello Concerto #1 in E-Flat Major
Dmitri Shostakovich
C4.
Choctaw Nights
George Quincy
C5.
Concerto for Orchestra
Béla Bartók
C6.
Concierto de Aranjuez
Joaquin Rodrigo
D1.
the difficulty of crossing a field
David Lang
E7.
Etude E minor, Op. 25 No. 5
Frederic Chopin
F1.
Fantasie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124
Camille Saint-Saëns
F2
Farewell Symphony
Franz Joseph Haydn
F3.
Fire in my mouth
Julia Wolfe
F4.
Four Last Songs
Richard Strauss
G1.
Gabriel’s Oboe (from The Mission)
Ennio Morricone
G2.
Grand Tarantelle
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
H1.
Holy art Thou from Xerxes
George Frideric Handel
L1.
La Mer
Claude Debussy
L2.
Lacrimosa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
L3.
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams
L4.
Legacy
Deantha Edmunds
L5.
Lemminkainen Suite
Jean Sibelius
L6.
Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger
L7.
Lullaby For Strings
George Gershwin
L8.
Lyric Pieces
Edvard Grieg
M1.
Madama Butterfly humming chorus
Giacomo Puccini
M2.
“The Moldau”
Bedřich Smetana
N1.
Navajo Vocables
Connor Chee
N2.
Nessun dorma
Giacomo Puccini
N3.
New World Symphony
Antonín Dvořák
N4.
Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky
N5.
North by Northwest score
Bernard Hermann
O1.
Overture of Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner
P1.
Pathetique sonata
Ludwig van Beethoven
P2.
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel
P3.
Piano Concerto
Maurice Ravel
P4.
Piano Concerto #3
Sergei Rachmaninoff
P5.
Piano Concerto in F
George Gershwin
P6.
Piano Concerto #5
Ludwig van Beethoven
P7.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky
P8.
Pines of Rome
Ottorino Respighi
Q1.
Quintet in C, D. 956
Franz Schubert
R1.
The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky
R2.
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
S1.
Scheherazade
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
S2.
Schelomo
Ernest Bloch
S3.
Sensemaya
Silvestre Revueltas
S4.
Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
Johannes Brahms
S5.
Spem in Alium
Thomas Tallis
S6.
Spiegel Im Spiegel
Arvo Part
S7.
Star Trek II Wrath of Khan score
James Horner
S8.
String Quartet #12 – American
Antonín Dvořák
S9.
“The Swan of Tuonela”
Jean Sibelius
S10.
Symphony #2
Jean Sibelius
S11.
Symphony #3 “Organ”
Camille Saint-Saëns
S12.
Symphony #5
Gustav Mahler
S13.
Symphony #5
Dimitri Shostakovich
S14.
Symphony #6
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
S15.
Symphony #7
Ludwig van Beethoven
S16.
Symphony #7
Dmitri Shostakovich
S17.
Symphony #9
Ludwig van Beethoven
S18.
Symphony #41, “Jupiter”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
V1.
Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Rachmaninoff
V2.
Violin Concerto in G minor
Max Bruch
W1.
Water Music
George Frideric Handel