We've celebrated choral music all month long during April, our Voices of Spring month.
But we certainly didn't do it alone; this has been a shared celebration. Early in the month, we asked you, our listeners, to nominate your choral favorites. After assembling a ballot of the top 100, we asked you to vote.
After carefully tabulating those votes, today, we present the top 25 as voted by you.
Listen 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. as we play them on the air, and watch this page as we reveal your top 25:
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1. Brahms: German Requiem
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2. Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
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3/4. Handel: Messiah
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3/4. Gawthrop: Sing Me to Heaven
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5. Bach: B Minor Mass
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6. Mozart: Requiem
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7/8. Biebl: Ave Maria
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7/8. Faure: Requiem
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9: Randall Thompson: Alleluia
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10. Christiansen (arr.): Beautiful Saviour
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11. Whitacre: Lux Arumuque
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12. Runestad: I Will Lift Mine Eyes
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13. Orff: Carmina Burana
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14/15. Durufle: Requiem
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14/15. Rachmaninoff: Vespers
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16. Bach: St. Matthew Passion
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17. Paulus: Pilgrims' Hymn
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18/19. Clausen: Set Me as a Seal
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18/19. Durufle: Ubi Caritas
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20. Allegri: Miserere
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21/22. Bach: SInget dem Herrn
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21/22. Rutter: Gloria
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23. Barber: Agnus Dei
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24. Britten: War Requiem
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25. Lauridsen: Sure on this Shining Night
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