Top 10 Favorite Symphonies of the 20th Century

[Best Music Art]

I think his Second Symphony is a much greater work, though. It's been a while since I've heard the Toch, but I recall being more impressed by his Third and Fifth symphonies. Where can the complete list of 200 be found, per chance?

I also like Third and Fifth symphonies by Toch.
If you write in Google "200 best symphonies", you can easily find my list.

[SymphonicAddict]

It's the century with the most of my favorite symphonies ever, so this is challenging:

Nielsen - 5
Mahler - 6
Langgaard - 4
Shostakovich - terribly hard choice, but let's say the 11th
Holmboe - 8
Vaughan Williams - 2
Sibelius - 2
Tubin - 2
Walton - 1
Martinu - 6

[Christo]

At the moment, they include (as it appears I never filled in this list, probably missing the thread  ) in chronological order:

1922  Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
1940  Stanley Bate: Symphony No. 3
1945  Herman D. Koppel: Symphony No. 3
1947  Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6
1947  Arnold Cooke: Symphony No. 1
1948  William Wordsworth: Symphony No. 2
1949  Joly Braga Santos: Symphony No. 3
1951  Vagn Holmboe: Symphony No. 8 'Sinfonia boreale'
1952  Camargo Guarnieri: Symphony No. 3
1954  Eduard Tubin: Symphony No. 6

That was six year ago, not long after having 'discovered' for myself the Koppel, Bate, Cooke and Wordsworth. I would now perhaps add:
1918  Tournemire, Symphony No. 6
1922  Bliss, A Colour Symphony
1926  Brian, Symphony No. 1 'Gothic'
1937  Moeran, Symphony in G minor
1940  Ben-Haim, Symphony No. 2
1940  Goossens, Symphony No. 1
1944  Barber, Symphony No. 2
1950  Honegger, Symphony No. 5 'Di tre re'
1961  Arnold, Symphony No. 5
1971  Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15
1997  Kinsella, Symphony No. 7

[vandermolen]

That was six year ago, not long after having 'discovered' for myself the Koppel, Bate, Cooke and Wordsworth. I would now perhaps add:
1918  Tournemire, Symphony No. 6
1922  Bliss, A Colour Symphony
1926  Brian, Symphony No. 1 'Gothic'
1937  Moeran, Symphony in G minor
1940  Ben-Haim, Symphony No. 2
1940  Goossens, Symphony No. 1
1944  Barber, Symphony No. 2
1950  Honegger, Symphony No. 5 'Di tre re'
1961  Arnold, Symphony No. 5
1971  Shostakovich, Symphony No. 15
1997  Kinsella, Symphony No. 7

Great choices as are Cesar's above. 'Great' in the sense that I agree with them all!


Here's another list for fun:

Bate: Symphony 4
Santoro: Symphony 4
Goossens: Symphony 1
Gliere: Symphony 3
Miaskovsky: Symphony 27
Bax: Symphony 7
Ivanovs: Symphony 20
Moeran: Symphony
Tubin: Symphony 2 'Legendary'
Shostakovich: Symphony 11 'The Year 1905'