The show was the follow-up to a countdown of pop recordings, The People's Chart, which was aired by the station at Easter and revealed the most-played pop recording as Procol Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale.
This chart can truly claim to be the people's classical favourites:
- Kurt Eichhorn
Orff - O Fortuna From 'Carmina Burana'
- Bernard Haitink
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis
- Charles Mackerras
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
- Mikhail Pletnev
Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty
- Joseph Cooper
Schumann - Romance In F Sharp Major Op.28/2
- Richard Bonynge
Delibes - Sylvia
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2
- James Loughran
Holst - The Planets
- Valery Gergiev
Tchaikovsky - The Sleeping Beauty
- Neville Marriner
Schubert - Symphony No.5
- Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto No.2
- Giuseppe Sinopoli
Bizet - Carmen
- John Eliot Gardiner
Holst - The Planets
- Sarah Chang
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
- Robert Clark
Zipoli - Elevazione For Cello And Oboe
- John Eliot Gardiner
Beethoven - Symphony No.6, 'Pastoral'
- Krystian Zimerman
Grieg - Piano Concerto
- Charles Dutoit
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake
- Peter Donohoe
Litolff - Scherzo (From 'Concerto Symphonique No.4')
- Simon Rattle
Holst - The Planets
- Nigel Kennedy
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
- Julian Bream
Rodrigo - Concierto De Aranjuez
- Myung-Whun Chung
Saint-Saens - Symphony No.3, 'Organ'
- Jacqueline Du Pre
Elgar - Cello Concerto
- Maxim Vengerov
Bruch - Violin Concerto No.1
- John Eliot Gardiner
Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 In A Major,'Italian'
- Riccardo Muti
Orff - O Fortuna From 'Carmina Burana'
- Seiji Ozawa
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade
- David Mathias Lloyd-Jones
Holst - The Planets
- Yoel Levi
Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream