Can you recommend me symphonies in which the Trumpet is very important?

[IlikeMahler]

Can you recommend me symphonies in which the Trumpet is very important?
I mean, like Mahler's fifth, I really like that first movement.

Thanks to everybody

[Dr. Dread]

Welcome to the board.

[snyprrr]

I'll just recommend Vainberg's Trumpet Cto.

[DavidW]

Tchaikovsky's 4th

[Daverz]

Honegger, Symphony No. 2

[hornteacher]

Final movement of Dvorak's 8th.

[Dana]

      Shostakovich's 1st Symphony. Also (although it's not really a symphony) his first piano concerto, for piano, strings, and trumpet. Be careful who you take this information from - trumpet players tend to say "all of them!"

[IlikeMahler]

Thanks to everybody a lot!

With these recommendations I have music for a long time!

[Brian]

Tchaikovsky's 4th

The last movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th, also! Especially the Ormandy recording on Sony - they must have placed one of the microphones right in front of the trumpets. 

[DavidW]

The last movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th, also! Especially the Ormandy recording on Sony - they must have placed one of the microphones right in front of the trumpets. 

Yeah that's a good un!

[Keemun]

Scriabin: Symphony No. 4, "Poem of Ecstasy"

[(poco) Sforzando]

The opening of Carter's "Symphony of Three Orchestras" has one of the most marvelous solo trumpet lines ever written, if I recall correctly a depiction of a bird in flight over the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Obvious choice for a guy called "I like Mahler" - Franz Schmidt's 4th Symphony, which opens with a long trumpet solo (and it's a fine symphony throughout, very haunting). Schmidt actually played under Mahler in the VPO for a while.

Also, Janacek's Sinfonietta is Trumpet City - it uses 12 of 'em! 

[jochanaan]

And here are a couple of pieces that aren't quite symphonies but have important trumpet parts:
Charles Ives: The Unanswered Question
Paul Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass

[vandermolen]

Shostakovich Symphony No 8 (movement 3)

[Brian]

Also, Janacek's Sinfonietta is Trumpet City - it uses 12 of 'em!  

14: 9 trumpets in C, 3 trumpets in F, and 2 bass trumpets. Let me tell ya, bass trumpets are funny-looking things! (I was lucky enough to see the Sinfonietta in concert last year, but they only used 9 trumpets...)

[Dana]

The last movement of Tchaikovsky's 5th, also! Especially the Ormandy recording on Sony - they must have placed one of the microphones right in front of the trumpets. 

Nah, I bet the principle was just afraid that he wasn't going to be loud enough, so he played even louder than usual

[Tapio Dmitriyevich]

Shostakovich's 1st Symphony.

The best 1. Symphony ever I must say I especially love mvmts 1-3. The Lento has some very special mystery.  And as I already mentioned there's a Darth Vader ancestor in the 2nd mvmt

[Joe Barron]

I second Carter's Symphony of Three Orchestras.

No one has mentioned Mahler's Fifth, which begins with an important trumpet fanfare. Oh, and there's Bruckner's Third, which Wagner nicknamed "The Trumpet." Or maybe he called Brucker that after seeing the score of the Third. I don't remember much from the 19th century.

Ralph Vaughn-Williams's wonderful Pastoral Symphony (No. 3) has a lovely trumpet solo in the second movment. And then there's Aaron Copland's Quiet City, a short tone poem which is actually a kind of a double concerto for trumpet and English horn.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Obvious choice for a guy called "I like Mahler" - Franz Schmidt's 4th Symphony, which opens with a long trumpet solo (and it's a fine symphony throughout, very haunting). Schmidt actually played under Mahler in the VPO for a while.

Yes!

Here is the best performance - VPO/Mehta:

http://rapidshare.com/files/139952716/Franz_Schmidt_-_Symphony_No_4__Mehta_.rar

No one has mentioned Mahler's Fifth, which begins with an important trumpet fanfare.

Because the topic starter already did so, Joe...