15 Oct 2025-

Discover the Classical Top 400 at MgE!

You’d like to get acquainted with classical music, but where do you start? With thousands of classical works, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. The Classical Top 400 from NPO Klassiek offers some guidance. Listeners of the radio station, all Dutch enthusiasts of classical music, recently voted for their favourites. This week, the complete list is being broadcast. And quite a few of these works can also be heard live this season at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven! We’ve listed them for you.

Sun 19 Oct ’25 • Philip Glass Ensemble

78. Glass – Glassworks

Sat 25 Oct ’25 • Ivo Pogorelich

30. Chopin – Nocturnes
220. Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 8 “Pathétique”

Sun 2 Nov ’25 • Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Yuja Wang

36. Mahler – Symphony No. 5
275. Haydn – The Creation

Wed 12 Nov ’25 • Pynarello’s John Giovanni

205. Mozart – Don Giovanni

Thu 13 Nov ’25 • Gewandhausorchester

278. Brahms – Symphony No. 3

Sun 23 Nov ’25 • Sabine Meyjer, Nils Mönkemeyer & William Youn

322. Bartók – Romanian Folk Dances

Wed 3 Dec ’25 • Alicja Gescinska, Merel Vercammen, Dina Ivanova & Taylor Burgess

135. L. Boulanger – Nocturne

Thu 4 Dec ’25 • Elisabeth Leonskaja

280. Schubert – Sonatas

Wed 10 Dec ’25 • RIAS Chamber Choir

396. Britten – A Ceremony of Carols

Thu 18 Dec ’25 • Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

45. J.S. Bach – Christmas Oratorio

Sun 1 Feb ’26 • Le Concert Spirituel

81. Vivaldi – Gloria
221. Handel – Dixit Dominus

Thu 5 Feb ’26 • Maestro Jules reveals Carnival of the Animals

56. Saint-Saëns – Carnival of the Animals

Sun 8 Feb ’26 • Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra

60. Bruch – Violin Concerto No. 1
267. Dvořák – Symphony No. 8

Wed 11 Mar ’26 • Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

203. Pärt – Magnificat
234. Pärt – The Deer’s Cry
256. Pärt – Kanon Pokajanen

Thu 26 Mar ’26 • Netherlands Bach Society

1. J.S. Bach – St Matthew Passion

Sun 29 Mar ’26 • Thomas Beijer

21. Satie – Gymnopédie

Fri 24 Apr ’26 • Les Récréations

226. J.S. Bach – The Art of Fugue

Sun 26 Apr ’26 • Antwerp Symphony Orchestra & Jaap van Zweden

152. Wagner – Die Walküre

Curious about the full Top 400? You can find it on the NPO Klassiek website.