Stuff I Love: Top Ten Edition - Challenge 3 (Music)

Week 3 of the Top Ten of Stuff I Love, as promoted by dreamersdare  This week it's music.

Most of what I really love is western classical music, so I'll begin with composers:

1. Ludwig van Beethoven
My favourite composer, both for his symphonies such as the Fifth the Pastoral, the Choral, his concertos, such as the Emperor, and his sonatas.

2. Johann Sebastian Bach
With a wide selection of works both sacred and secular

Onto a selection of classical pieces:

3. Saint-Saens - Carnival of the Animals
Just great fun

4. Saint-Saens - Symphony No 3, the Organ Symphony
Makes the floor vibrate

5. Rachmaninoff - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
A piano concerto in one movement.  The 18th variation is the famous one.

6. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
With the brilliant clarinet opening

7. Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
Telling a gripping story in music, including the march to the scaffold

8. Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
And the awesome drum and trumpet opening

My favourite group:

9. Queen
I owned an LP of A Night at the Opera in my teens

And lastly my favourite hit song
10. Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody
Can't have Christmas without it