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This just in via Antipixel — Things that make you go hmmmmm.

From the BBC news of a radio poll for the “favourite classical work of Classic FM listeners for the fourth year in a row”, “Classic FM” being apparently a British radio programme.

The top 20 list as reported by the BBC:

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

#18 ring a bell(iTunes link)? A long time favorite waltz for contra dancers, but most associated with the Ken Burns Civil War Documentary.