Rachmaninov tops Classic FM poll

LONDON, UK (Classic Fm Website) - Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No 2" was yesterday declared Britain�s most popular piece of classical music - for the fourth time in a row.

The Top 300 featured on Classical FM�s Hall of Fame were played over the Easter weekend.
Mozart remained the most prolific of the 104 composers in the chart with 20 entries and Beethoven came next with 19 entries, followed by Tchaikovsky with 14 and Johann Sebastian Bach with 12.

Classic Fm 2004 Top 20 list:
1 Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
2 Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
3 Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
4 Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
5 Grieg: Piano Concerto
6 Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
7 Elgar: Enigma Variations
8 Jenkins: The Armed Man (A Mass for Peace)
9 Elgar: Cello Concerto
10 Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
11 Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2
12 Shore: The Lord of the Rings
13 Beethoven: Symphony No.9
14 Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme of Tallis
15 Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 (Organ)
16 Pachelbel: Canon in D
17 Barber: Adagio for strings
18 Ungar: The Ashokan Farewell
19 Sibelius: Finlandia
20 Holst: The Planets Suite