1 January 2014
We invited you to vote for your current favourite works and the result is our annual listeners' poll, a whole day of music presented as a countdown to the most popular work. The following list is in the reverse order that we played them on New Year's Day 2014. i.e. Number 1 played just before 8pm.
We'll let you know later this year about voting in the next edition of Settling the Score.
6pm – 8pm
1. Strauss: Four Last Songs
Patricia Wright (sop), Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
2. Dvorak: Song to the Moon
Patricia Wright (sop), Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
3. Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
4. Bruch: Violin Concerto 1
Natalia Lomeiko (vln), Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
5. Dvorak: Cello Concerto
Eliah Sakakusch von Bismarck (cello), Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
6. Holst: The Planets
Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
7. Whitehead: Resurgences
Auckland Phil / Tecwyn Evans
(RNZ)
8. Mahler: Symphony No 5
Berlin Phil / Simon Rattle
Philips 442 269
9. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Michael Collins (cl), Swedish CO
Chandos CHAN 10756
10. Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Paris National Opera Orch / Philippe Jordan
Naive V5332
4pm – 6pm
11. Elgar: Cello Concerto
Natalie Clein (cello), Royal Liverpool Phil / Vernon Handley
EMI 501409
12. Beethoven: Symphony 9
West-Eastern Divan Orch / Daniel Barenboim
Warner 2564 63927 CD 5
13. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2
Simon Trpceski (pno), Royal Liverpool Phil / Vasily Petrenko
Avie AV 2192
14. Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
New Zealand SO / James Judd
Naxos 8.555.867
15. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Mariinsky Theatre Orch / Valery Gergiev
Mariinsky MAR 0503
16. Elgar: Nimrod
London SO / Adrian Boult
Classic CD ISSUE 83
17. Beethoven: Violin Concerto
Isabelle Faust (vln), Mozart Orch / Claudio Abbado
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2105
18. Shostakovich: Symphony 4
NHK SO / Vladimir Ashkenazy
Decca 475 8748 CD 4
19. Beethoven: Symphony 5
Bonn Beethoven Orch / Stefan Blunier
MDG 937 1756
3pm – 4pm
20. Bach: B minor Mass
The Rodolfus Choir, Southern Sinfonia / Ralph Allwood
Signum Classics SIGCD 218 CD 2
21. Beethoven: Symphony 6, 1st mvt
Anima Eterna / Jos van Immerseel
Zigzag ZZT 080 402-6 CD 4
22. Beethoven: Piano Concerto 5, 2nd mvt
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (pno), CO of Europe / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Teldec 0927 47334 CD 3
23. Bach: Brandenburg No 3
Concerto Italiano / Rinaldo Alessandrini
Naïve OP 30412
24. Prokofiev: Montagues & Capulets
Royal Phil / Daniele Gatti
BMG 75605 51343
12 noon – 3pm
25. Faure: Requiem, Introit, Pie Jesu, In Paradisum
Sara Macliver (sop), Cantillation, Sinfonia Australis / Antony Walker
ABC Classics 472 045
26. Farr: From the Depths Sound the Great Sea Gongs
New Zealand SO
Trust MMT 2021
27. Shostakovich: Violin Concerto 1, 4th mvt
Daniel Hope (vln), BBC SO / Maxim Shostakovich
Warner 2564 62546
28. Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Orch of the Age of Enlightenment / Vladimir Jurowski
Hyperion CDA 67795
29. Gorecki: Symphony No 3, 2nd mvt
Dawn Upshaw (sop), London Sinfonietta / David Zinman
Elektra Nonesuch 7559 79282
30. Sibelius: Karelia Suite
Lahti SO / Osmo Vanska
BIS CD 918
31. Messiaen: Turangalila, Jardin du sommeil
Francois Weigel (pno), Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot), Polish National Radio SO / Antoni Wit
Naxos 8.554478 CD 1
32. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Freddy Kempf (pno), Bergen Phil / Andrew Litton
BIS SACD 1940
33. Saint-Saens: Symphony 3, 2nd mvt
Gillian Weir (org), Ulster Orch / Yan Pascal Tortelier
Chandos CHAN 8822
34. Rodrigo: Concierto d’Aranjuez, 2nd mvt
Kaori Muraji (gtr), Galicia SO / Victor Pablo Perez
Decca 478 0076
35. Beethoven: Symphony 7, 3rd mvt
Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Joshua Bell
Sony 88765 44881
36. Tchaikovsky: Violin Cco, 3rd mvt
Hilary Hahn (vln), Royal Liverpool Phil / Vasily Petrenko
DG 477 8777
37. Mozart: Piano Cco 21, 2nd mvt
Mitsuko Uchida (pno), The Cleveland Orch
Decca 478 3539
38. Barber: Adagio for Strings
New Zealand SO / James Sedares
Universal 399 8782
39. Webern: 6 Pieces Op 6
London SO / Pierre Boulez
Sony SM3K 45845
9am – 12 noon
40. Vivaldi: Four Seasons, Summer
Nigel Kennedy (vln), English CO
EMI CDC 7 49557
41. Ravel: Bolero
London SO / Yan Pascal Torterlier
Resonance CD RSN 3020
42. Mahler: Symphony 4, Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden
Barbara Bonney (sop), Vienna Phil / Riccardo Muti
Radio Netherlands 1995A CD 5
43. Sibelius: Finlandia
Estonian National SO / Paavo Järvi
Virgin 5 45561
44. Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Dietmar Schwalke (cello), Alexander Malter (pno)
ECM 1591
45. Brahms: Symphony 1, 3rd mvt
Gewandhaus Orch, Leipzig / Kurt Masur
Pentatone PTC 5186 182 CD 1
46. Bruch: Kol Nidrei
Pieter Wispelwey (cello), German Chamber Phil, Bremen
Channel Classics CCS SA 16501
47. Brahms: Violin Concerto, 3rd mvt
Rachel Barton (vln), Chicago SO / Carlos Kalmar
Cedille CDR 9000 0068
48. Schubert: String Quartet No 14, Death & the Maiden, 4th mvt
Takacs Quartet
Hyperion CDA 67585
No 49:
Chopin: Piano Concerto 1, 3rd mvt
Evgeny Kissin (pno), Moscow Phil / Dmitri Kitaenko
RCA 09026 68378
No 50:
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, Finale
James Ehnes (vln), Montreal SO / Mario Bernardi
CBC SMCD 5222
51. Shostakovich: Symphony 10, 2nd mvt
Mariinsky Orch / Valery Gergiev
Mariinsky MAR 0511
52. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Tuileries, Bydlo, Baba-Yaga
Russian National Orch / Carlo Ponti
Pentatone PTC 5186 332
53. Satie: Gymnopedies
Katia & Marielle Labeque
KML Recordings KML 1120
54. Schubert: String Quintet in C, 4th mvt
Tokyo String Quartet, David Watkin (cello)
Harmonia Mundi HMU 807427
55. Mussorgsky arr Rimsky-Korsakov: A Night on the Bare Mountain
Bavarian State Orch / Wolfgang Sawallisch
EMI CDD 763 893
8am – 9am
56. Verdi: Va pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves), from Nabucco
Chorus & Orch of the National Academy of St Cecilia / Myung-Whun Chung
DG 459 146
57. Bach: Cello Suite No 1
Sergei Istomin (cello)
Analekta FL 2 3114
58. Bizet: Au fond du temple saint, from The Pearl Fishers
Jussi Björling (ten), Robert Merrill (bar), RCA Victor SO / Renato Cellini
RCA GD 87799
59. Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, A ball & March to the Scaffold
National Orch of Lyon / Leonard Slatkin
Naxos 8.572886
60. Handel: Zadok the Priest
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music
EMI 2 28944