Top 10 "Must Own" Classical Pieces

I can never seem to remember which pieces have appeared in commercials and movies, but thankfully one of my colleagues came up with a list that should help! All of the titles listed below can be found in any number of moving pictures and many are typically use as gag music. You know, where some Looney Tunes character drops an anvil on another Looney Tunes character? I know there's more out there than just these top 10, so add more when you hear em! (Would be cool to list where you heard it too...)

1. Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 by Samuel Barber (8.559088)
2. Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176 by Richard Strauss (8.550182)
3. The Nutcracker by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky (8.550324-25)
4. Carmen by Georges Bizet (8.660005-07)
5. The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi (8.550056)
   
6. Der Ring by Richard Wagner (8.550211)
7. Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (8.557893)
8. Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland (8.550282)
9. Gayane by Aram Il'yick Khachaturian (8.550085)
10. Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi (8.660013-14)