Your Hundred Best Tunes: The Top 20

Grand March and Ballet (Aida)

Giuseppe Verdi - Aida: Atto II, scena 2. Gran Finale II “Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside” (Popolo, Sacerdoti)

Carlo Franci, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Piano Concerto no. 5 "Emperor": 3rd movement

Ludwig van Beethoven - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 5 in E-flat major, op. 73 “Emperor”

Georg Solti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon)

George Frideric Handel - Solomon, HWV 67: Act III. Sinfonia “The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba”

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Cantata no. 147)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantate, BWV 147 “Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben”: Teil II, X. Choral “Jesus bleibet meine Freude”

George Guest, Peter Gilbert White

Méditation (Thaïs)

Jules Massenet - Thaïs: Acte II. Entr’acte “Méditation”

Nigel Kennedy, Richard Bonynge, National Philharmonic Orchestra

Ave Verum Corpus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus, K. 618

George Guest, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Peter Gilbert White

Ode to Joy (Symphony no. 9 "Choral")

Ludwig van Beethoven - Ode an die Freude

Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Clarinet Concerto: 2nd movement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Clarinet in A major, K. 622

Gervase de Peyer, Peter Maag, London Symphony Orchestra

Romance (The Gadfly)

Dmitri Shostakovich - The Gadfly Suite, op. 97a

Owain Arwel Hughes, The Hallé

Kanon

Johann Pachelbel - Canon and Gigue in D major, P. 37, T. 337

Karl Münchinger, Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra

Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah)

George Frideric Handel - Messiah, HWV 56: Part II, no. 44. Chorus: “Hallelujah”

László Heltay, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Piano Concerto no. 2: 1st movement

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18

André Previn, Vladimir Ashkenazy, London Symphony Orchestra

Intermezzo (Cavalleria usticana)

Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

Gianandrea Gavazzeni, National Philharmonic Orchestra

Piano Concerto no. 21 "Elvira Madigan": 2nd movement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Concerto for Piano no. 21 in C major, K. 467

Uri Segal, English Chamber Orchestra

Finlandia

Jean Sibelius - Finlandia, op. 26

Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia Orchestra

Pastoral Symphony: Finale

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony no. 6 in F major, op. 68 “Pastorale”

Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Nimrod (Enigma Variations)

Edward Elgar - Variations on an Original Theme (‘Enigma’), op. 36

Georg Solti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco)

Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco: Parte III, scena 2. Coro “Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate” (Coro)

Lamberto Gardelli

Violin Concerto no. 1: 2nd movement

Max Bruch - Violin Concerto no. 1 in G minor, op. 26

Rudolf Kempe, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kyung-wha Chung

The Pearl Fishers Duet

Georges Bizet - Les Pêcheurs de perles : Acte I. No. 2 Duo « Au fond du temple saint » (Zurga, Nadir)

National Philharmonic Orchestra