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Choral Countdown 2014: Your Top 25

Wayzata High School Concert Choir
Wayzata High School Concert Choir
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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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