Your Favorite 15 (sequential) Symphonies

[Karl Henning]

I do like this list...

Ararat is top-shelf Hovhaness, too; nothing at all of compromise in the list.

[springrite]

You could give Mahler the 10th and let Shostakovich have the 11th...

[dyn]

hmm... not much of a symphony person, and most of the composers i like wrote very few &/or didn't number them. a better thread title might be "your favourite late-romantic/early-twentieth-century traditional symphonies" since that's what this is obviously aimed at.

1 - Schoenberg, Kammersymphonie
2 - Stravinsky, Symphony in C
3 - Lutoslawski
4 - Brahms
5 - Vaughan Williams
6 - Nielsen
7 -
8 - Beethoven
9 - Schubert
10 -
11 -
12 -
13 -
14 - Shostakovich
15 -

how many people even wrote 15(+) symphonies anyway?

[Karl Henning]

You could give Mahler the 10th and let Shostakovich have the 11th...

A good solution!

[Todd]

how many people even wrote 15(+) symphonies anyway?

A decent number, as it turns out, especially in the 18th Century.

[springrite]

There should be a contest to guess (bet on) how many symphonies Segerstam will compose eventually (and if any will ever be performed or recorded after he is gone).

[Fafner]

A good solution!

That is what I did. 

[DaveF]

2 - Stravinsky, Symphony in C
...
6 - Nielsen

Good to see the Sinfonia Semplice on a list - probably my favourite Nielsen symphony although, by the deals and compromises you have to cut with yourself while playing this game, it didn't make it onto my list.

And sorry to spoil yours, but the Symphony in C is actually Stravinsky's 3rd - in order they go E flat, Psalms, C, Three Movements.  Do you like Lutosławski's 2nd... ?

DF

[springrite]

Good to see the Sinfonia Semplice on a list - probably my favourite Nielsen symphony although, by the deals and compromises you have to cut with yourself while playing this game, it didn't make it onto my list.

And sorry to spoil yours, but the Symphony in C is actually Stravinsky's 3rd - in order they go E flat, Psalms, C, Three Movements.  Do you like Lutosławski's 2nd... ?

DF

Well, he considered Stravinsky's E flat as his 0th (alla Bruckner), which makes the C second! Ha!

[DaveF]

Well, he considered Stravinsky's E flat as his 0th (alla Bruckner), which makes the C second! Ha!

Brilliant, Holmes, brilliant.

[dyn]

i actually forgot about the Symphony in E flat, but i like springrite's explanation better ;>

and yes, i like Lutoslawski's 2nd as well, but i had to pick one

[Madiel]

the highlights among the early Symphonies are 7-9 -- the spurious "Daytime" trilogy

Spurious??

[jlaurson]

Spurious??

Spurious only, as I understand it, the titles of "Le Matin" and "Le Soir" (which might still be by Haydn, actually...), not the wonderful firecracker show-off music!

[not edward]

Let's see:

1: Popov
2: Honegger
3: Lutoslawski
4: Brahms
5: Nielsen
6: Prokofiev or Hartmann (deciding between these two is like deciding whether to lose an arm or a leg).
7: Sibelius (leaving out Henze is harsh but we're talking Sibelius 7 here).
8: Beethoven (or Bruckner, again an impossible decision between two works that are so very different).
9: Mahler
10-13: no nominations
14: DSCH
15: once again,  no nominations

[vandermolen]

Let's see:

1: Popov
2: Honegger
3: Lutoslawski
4: Brahms
5: Nielsen
6: Prokofiev or Hartmann (deciding between these two is like deciding whether to lose an arm or a leg).
7: Sibelius (leaving out Henze is harsh but we're talking Sibelius 7 here).
8: Beethoven (or Bruckner, again an impossible decision between two works that are so very different).
9: Mahler
10-13: no nominations
14: DSCH
15: once again,  no nominations

Super list! I prefer Honegger 3,4 or 5 but love the Popov choice - a great work.

[kyjo]

Just discovered this thread! This should be fun! One per composer, going up to 9:

1: Brian/Walton/Elgar
2: Mahler/Rachmaninov/Sibelius
3: Honegger/Atterberg/Casella
4: Braga Santos/Schmidt/Melartin
5: Shostakovich/Nielsen/Arnold
6: Tchaikovsky/VW/Hartmann
7. Rubbra/Meulemans
8. Holmboe
9. Bruckner

[North Star]

E:
And now try a list with one per composer, and one per no.

[kyjo]

E:
And now try a list with one per composer, and one per no.

OK, OK, fine!

1: Elgar
2: Mahler
3: Atterberg
4: Braga Santos
5: Shostakovich
6: Tchaikovsky
7: Rubbra
8: Holmboe
9: Bruckner