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End of Year Playlist 2025

Your voice shapes the music!

Vote now to help build KHFM’s End-of-Year Playlist—a celebration of the classical pieces our community loves most. Pick as many as you like from our list of 100 plus works or nominate your own. Share what makes your suggested piece special. Your story could be featured on air.

Voting is open from
November 10–December 10, 2025

What music lifts your morning or inspires you through the day? Whether it’s a timeless masterpiece, a new discovery, or a piece you can’t get enough of—we want your votes!

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Tune in to KHFM on-air or online for ideas. See the schedule or scroll down to revisit last year’s playlist.

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  • The Best of 2024

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    1.
    Brandenburg Concerto #5
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    2.
    The Lark Ascending
    Ralph Vaughan Williams

    3.
    Symphony #9
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    4.
    Adagio for Strings
    Samuel Barber

    5.
    Scheherazade
    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    6.
    Appalachian Spring
    Aaron Copland

    7.
    New World Symphony
    Antonín Dvořák

    8.
    Pathetique sonata
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    9.
    Nessun dorma
    Giacomo Puccini

    10.
    Water Music
    George Frideric Handel

    11.
    Canon and Gigue
    Johann Pachelbel

    12.
    The Moldau
    Bedřich Smetana

    13.
    Pavane for a Dead Princess
    Maurice Ravel

    14.
    Piano Concerto #3
    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    15.
    Variations on a Theme of Paganini
    Sergei Rachmaninoff

    16.
    La Mer
    Claude Debussy

    17.
    Symphony #41, “Jupiter”
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    18.
    Lacrimosa
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    19.
    12 Navajo Vocables
    Connor Chee

    20.
    Piano Concerto in F
    George Gershwin

    21.
    Violin Concerto in G minor
    Max Bruch

    22.
    The Rite of Spring
    Igor Stravinsky

    23.
    Spiegel Im Spiegel
    Arvo Part

    24.
    Symphony #3 “Organ”
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    25.
    Symphony #7
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    26.
    Ave Verum Corpus
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    27.
    Cello Concerto in B minor
    Antonín Dvořák

    28.
    Night on Bald Mountain
    Modest Mussorgsky

    29.
    Overture of Tristan und Isolde
    Richard Wagner

    30.
    Pictures at an Exhibition
    Modest Mussorgsky

    31.
    Pines of Rome
    Ottorino Respighi

    32.
    String Quartet #12 – American
    Antonín Dvořák

    33.
    Etude E minor, Op. 25 No. 5
    Frederic Chopin

    34.
    Holy art Thou from Xerxes
    George Frideric Handel

    35.
    Lullaby For Strings
    George Gershwin

    36.
    Piano Concerto #5
    Ludwig van Beethoven

    37.
    Quintet in C, D. 956
    Franz Schubert

    38.
    Symphony #5
    Gustav Mahler

    39.
    Concierto de Aranjuez
    Joaquin Rodrigo

    40.
    Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    41.
    “The Swan of Tuonela”
    Jean Sibelius

    42.
    Symphony #5
    Dimitri Shostakovich

    43.
    Symphony #6
    Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    44.
    Arabesque #1
    Claude Debussy

    45.
    Madama Butterfly humming chorus
    Giacomo Puccini

    46.
    Symphony #2
    Jean Sibelius

    47.
    Gabriel’s Oboe (from The Mission)
    Ennio Morricone

    48.
    Alleluia
    Randall Thompson

    49.
    Piano Concerto
    Maurice Ravel

    50.
    Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
    Johannes Brahms

    51.
    Star Trek II Wrath of Khan score
    James Horner

    52.
    Symphony #7
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    53.
    Four Last Songs
    Richard Strauss

    54.
    Lemminkainen Suite
    Jean Sibelius

    55.
    Spem in Alium
    Thomas Tallis

    56.
    Cello Concerto #1 in E-Flat Major
    Dmitri Shostakovich

    57.
    Fantasie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124
    Camille Saint-Saëns

    58.
    Farewell Symphony
    Franz Joseph Haydn

    59.
    3 Penny Opera
    Kurt Weill

    60.
    Concerto for Orchestra
    Béla Bartók

    61.
    Lincolnshire Posy
    Percy Grainger

    62.
    North by Northwest score
    Bernard Hermann

    63.
    Schelomo
    Ernest Bloch

    64.
    Choctaw Nights
    George Quincy

    65.
    the difficulty of crossing a field
    David Lang

    66.
    Agave Baroque album Peace in Our Time
    Reginald Mobley

    67.
    Lyric Pieces
    Edvard Grieg

    68.
    7th Voyage of Sinbad score
    Bernard Hermann

    69.
    Fire in my mouth
    Julia Wolfe

    70.
    Grand Tarantelle
    Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    71.
    Sensemaya
    Silvestre Revueltas

    72.
    Legacy
    Deantha Edmunds