[#1/100] Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

The results are in, the #1 place in the 2017 KUSC Top 100 Countdown is...

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FYI, the playlist seems to be hiding #6 and #5.  The must be a conspiracy against certain works.  :)

But I digress...

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... Beethoven's 9th!  For the third year in a row, the symphony also scored first in 2016 and 2015!  You can see why Jim Svejda always plays it at the end of every pledge drive.

I don't know since when, but they play the choral symphony in Japan every end-of-the-year.  The Pacific Symphony played it last summer.  It is spread everywhere, no wonder it is so popular!  :)

"Symphony #9 "Choral" in d Op 125" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performance by Gundula Janowitz, soprano, Hilde Rossel-Majdan, alto, Waldemar Kmentt, tenor, Walter Berry, baritone, Vienna Singverein, Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

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