The Symphony Cyclist

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An impressive list/discography of Russian/Soviet symphonies can be found here:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/Russian_Discography/Soviet_Symphonies1.htm


Denmark has produced many more symphony composers than those mentioned in the survey so far:

The 9 symphonies of Ib Nørholm (1931 Denmark -  ) have been recorded by the Kontrapunkt label about a decade ago. He has an often innovative and original approach to the genre, sometimes incorporating vocal soloists.

Herman David Koppel (1908-1998) wrote 7 well-crafted symphonies, released by Dacapo; Johann Ernst Hartmann´s 4 can be heard on CPO.
Poul Ruders has only written the two recorded so far.

Johannes Frederik Fröhlich, Poul Schierbeck, and Franz Syberg each wrote a symphony, also recorded on CD.

Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann wrote two (Dacapo).

Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse wrote 7 that have been recorded, issued originally on the DaCaPo label.

The Late-Romantic works by Louis Glass (7 Symphonies) and Victor Bendix (4) were released by Danacord, but the Glass set especially suffers from very lifeless playing. hopefully CPO will make further plans for recordings, apart from their Rudolph Simonsen and Ludolf Nielsen cycles.

EDIT: there´s a good list of recorded Danish symphonies here:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,256.msg279526/topicseen.html#msg279526


The Norwegian 20th-century composer Finn Mortensen wrote an impressive Symphony, issued on CD.

EDIT: there´s a good list of recorded Norwegian symphonies here also 

And the Slovak Alexander Moyzes´ 12 symphonies, released by Marco Polo, should defininitely be mentioned as well. It will be nice to hear the symphonies by his countryman Karel Boleslav Jirak (6), when someone decides to record them; so far, only no.5 exists, to my knowledge. Likewise the complete symphonies of the Dane Paul von Klenau, despite his regrettable political views (DaCaPo), and that of the talented Peter Arnold Heise.