Top 10 Symphony First Movements

[NorthNYMark]

There's still so much I have yet to hear, but of what I have heard, I'll go with:

1. Brahms 4 (and 1)
2. Beethoven 5 (and 6 and 9)
3. Mahler 7 (and 5 and 9)
4. Sibelius 4
5. Messiaen Turangalila

That actually adds up to 10, though I can't yet go the 10 different composer route.  I wish we could include concerti, if only for for Brahms's and Bartok's Piano Concerto 1, and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.

[kyjo]

I wish we could include concerti

I might indeed start a thread on that very subject!

[madaboutmahler]

Please let me count Mahler symphonies as one vote!!! All the first movements are my favourites.... especially 6 and 7, and the Adagio of 10.

But other composers....

Elgar 2
Shostakovich 5
Bruckner 5
Schubert 9
Schumann 4
Brahms 2
Tchaikovsky 6
Roussel 3
Nielsen 3
Stravinsky 3 Movements

+1 for the concerto thread!

[not edward]

Mahler 9.

Nothing else, unless I'm allowed to include Sibelius 7 in its entirety.