Your Top Four Brahms Symphonies

[RebLem]

14 (very close, then large gap), then 32.

[Sergeant Rock]

4321...he just kept getting better and better.

Sarge

[Florestan]

2-3-4-1

[Maciek]

Hey, there are "only" 4*3*2*1=24 options in this! Why don't you add a poll? It would make it easier to see which options are most popular. And it would make the thread even more meaningful (if that is even possible).

Here, I'll write them down for you:

1234
1243
1324
1342
1423
1432
2134
2143
2314
2341
2413
2431
3124
3142
3214
3241
3412
3421
4123
4132
4213
4231
4312
4321

Weeeeee! That was fun!

[MISHUGINA]

Three
Four
One
Two

[karlhenning]

4321, though 3 and 4 keep changing places.

I'll sign on here.

[karlhenning]

Hey, there are "only" 4*3*2*1=24 options in this! Why don't you add a poll? It would make it easier to see which options are most popular. And it would make the thread even more meaningful (if that is even possible).

Here, I'll write them down for you:

1234
1243
1324
1342
1423
1432
2134
2143
2314
2341
2413
2431
3124
3142
3214
3241
3412
3421
4123
4132
4213
4231
4312
4321

Weeeeee! That was fun!

You Polish janitors have entirely too much time on your hands! 

[Harry]

1234

[Harry Collier]

Four -- I like very much, especially the first and fourth movements.
Three -- comes second, but I agree with someone about the boring slow movement. The third movement is great, however.
Two -- a long way behind.
One -- in fifty years of listening, I  have never taken to this piece. I just find it rather noisy and have given up trying to appreciate it.

[karlhenning]

Three -- comes second, but I agree with someone about the boring slow movement. The third movement is great, however.

Ach! You're both mad.  That Andante is some of the most exquisite music ever to come out of Germany!

[Sergeant Rock]

I will probably place the Fourth at the top forever.

Me too.

(It was the first one I heard, thanks to Bruno Walter's recording.)

In my case it was Karajan '64.

Sarge

[greg]

i've changed my opinion many times over time....
but i'd have to go with:
1243

[Mark G. Simon]

My favorite Brahms symphony is generally the one I've heard most recently.

At the moment, that would be no. 2.

[Joe Barron]

Hey, there are "only" 4*3*2*1=24 options in this! Why don't you add a poll? It would make it easier to see which options are most popular.

Done, but I can see only the forst four choices on my screen. Oh, well ...

[johnshade]

.
1 4 2 3 or 1 4 3 2

[BachQ]

3.14

[George]

I'd have to go with

Three
One
Four
Two ...

What are your picks, in order?

Where's 3,2,1,4 on the poll?

[George]

Where's 3,2,1,4 on the poll?

Oh, I see you are adding them now. Thanks. 

[Joe Barron]

yeah, this was hard. I found I could only add one option at a time, and I had to save after each one. But they're all there now. And the data will be absolutely meaningless, as they are in all good polls. I have a feeling if we graph the results, it will be a flat line.   

[BachQ]

I can easily identify the top 3 ....... But I'm having difficulty with the 4th spot ........