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Classic 100 Ten Years On (ABC)

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During 2010 the Australian radio station ABC Classic FM held a Classic 100 Ten Years On countdown. The survey recreated the Classic 100 Original countdown held in 2001.

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Voting for the countdown was held between 11 September 2010 and 1 October 2010, with each listener being permitted to vote for up to 10 works. The broadcasting of the results of the countdown began on 30 October 2010 and concluded on 7 November 2010.

Countdown results

The results of countdown are as follows:

* The following six songs were broadcast as No. 98 in the countdown:

  • Cäcilie – Opus 27 No. 2 (1894).
  • Ruhe, meine Seele! – Opus 27 No. 1 (1894).
  • Morgen! – Opus 27 No. 4 (1894).
  • Meinem Kinde – Opus 37 No. 3 (1898).
  • Wiegenlied – Opus 41 No. 1 (1899).
  • Zueignung – Opus 10 No. 1 (1885).

    • Programming

    For more information about the works broadcast (including performers and recording details), see ABC Classic FM's programming notes:

  • Day 1: Numbers 100 to 90
  • Day 2: Numbers 89 to 79
  • Day 3: Numbers 78 to 68
  • Day 4: Numbers 67 to 52
  • Day 5: Numbers 51 to 40
  • Day 6: Numbers 39 to 24
  • Day 7: Numbers 23 to 12
  • Day 8: Numbers 11 to 4
  • Day 9: Numbers 3 to 1

    • By Composer

    The following 48 composers were featured in the countdown:

    * Note that the number of works above totals to two more than the number of works in the countdown due to:

  • Albinoni and Giazotto being entered separately for the same work.
  • Mussorgsky and Ravel being entered separately for the same work.

    • Original Classic 100 survey

    The Original Classic 100 countdown was held in 2001. The following 28 works from the original did not appear in the 2010 countdown.

    The following composers included in the 2001 countdown did not appear in the 2010 countdown:

  • Caccini (or rather Vladimir Vavilov)
  • Gluck
  • Litolff
  • Verdi
  • Wagner

    • References

    Classic 100 Ten Years On (ABC) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA