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!
Need some inspiration?
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
Preview the list below by clicking the Play button or click on the title—Your Favorite Pieces of 2024—to listen on Spotify.
Scroll down to see a list of the your favorite pieces of 2024.
1.
Brandenburg Concerto #5
Johann Sebastian Bach2.
The Lark Ascending
Ralph Vaughan Williams3.
Symphony #9
Ludwig van Beethoven4.
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber5.
Scheherazade
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov6.
Appalachian Spring
Aaron Copland7.
New World Symphony
Antonín Dvořák8.
Pathetique sonata
Ludwig van Beethoven9.
Nessun dorma
Giacomo Puccini10.
Water Music
George Frideric Handel11.
Canon and Gigue
Johann Pachelbel12.
The Moldau
Bedřich Smetana13.
Pavane for a Dead Princess
Maurice Ravel14.
Piano Concerto #3
Sergei Rachmaninoff15.
Variations on a Theme of Paganini
Sergei Rachmaninoff16.
La Mer
Claude Debussy17.
Symphony #41, “Jupiter”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart18.
Lacrimosa
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart19.
12 Navajo Vocables
Connor Chee20.
Piano Concerto in F
George Gershwin21.
Violin Concerto in G minor
Max Bruch22.
The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky23.
Spiegel Im Spiegel
Arvo Part24.
Symphony #3 “Organ”
Camille Saint-Saëns25.
Symphony #7
Ludwig van Beethoven26.
Ave Verum Corpus
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart27.
Cello Concerto in B minor
Antonín Dvořák28.
Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky29.
Overture of Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner30.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky31.
Pines of Rome
Ottorino Respighi32.
String Quartet #12 – American
Antonín Dvořák33.
Etude E minor, Op. 25 No. 5
Frederic Chopin34.
Holy art Thou from Xerxes
George Frideric Handel35.
Lullaby For Strings
George Gershwin36.
Piano Concerto #5
Ludwig van Beethoven37.
Quintet in C, D. 956
Franz Schubert38.
Symphony #5
Gustav Mahler39.
Concierto de Aranjuez
Joaquin Rodrigo40.
Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky41.
“The Swan of Tuonela”
Jean Sibelius42.
Symphony #5
Dimitri Shostakovich43.
Symphony #6
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky44.
Arabesque #1
Claude Debussy45.
Madama Butterfly humming chorus
Giacomo Puccini46.
Symphony #2
Jean Sibelius47.
Gabriel’s Oboe (from The Mission)
Ennio Morricone48.
Alleluia
Randall Thompson49.
Piano Concerto
Maurice Ravel50.
Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118
Johannes Brahms51.
Star Trek II Wrath of Khan score
James Horner52.
Symphony #7
Dmitri Shostakovich53.
Four Last Songs
Richard Strauss54.
Lemminkainen Suite
Jean Sibelius55.
Spem in Alium
Thomas Tallis56.
Cello Concerto #1 in E-Flat Major
Dmitri Shostakovich57.
Fantasie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124
Camille Saint-Saëns58.
Farewell Symphony
Franz Joseph Haydn59.
3 Penny Opera
Kurt Weill60.
Concerto for Orchestra
Béla Bartók61.
Lincolnshire Posy
Percy Grainger62.
North by Northwest score
Bernard Hermann63.
Schelomo
Ernest Bloch64.
Choctaw Nights
George Quincy65.
the difficulty of crossing a field
David Lang66.
Agave Baroque album Peace in Our Time
Reginald Mobley67.
Lyric Pieces
Edvard Grieg68.
7th Voyage of Sinbad score
Bernard Hermann69.
Fire in my mouth
Julia Wolfe70.
Grand Tarantelle
Louis Moreau Gottschalk71.
Sensemaya
Silvestre Revueltas72.
Legacy
Deantha Edmunds
