Your Symphony Cycle

[Karl Henning]

Hmmmm. Eb, Psalms, C, 3 Mvts.

This sucks for me as I'll have to either bump Beethoven, so I really want to count C as a Symphony 2.

So Karl, how do justify this counting???

I guess that in spite of its name, I unthinkingly consider the Symphony of Psalms a choral work;  might even argue (in spite of Igor Fyodorovich's near-sophistry of saying it is the Psalms which are being symphonized) that the title was a matter of Serge Koussevitsky commissioning a new symphony.

[Ken B]

I guess that in spite of its name, I unthinkingly consider the Symphony of Psalms a choral work;  might even argue (in spite of Igor Fyodorovich's near-sophistry of saying it is the Psalms which are being symphonized) that the title was a matter of Serge Koussevitsky commissioning a new symphony.

Sold!
*looks faintly shame-faced but determined*

[Ken B]

1 Franck (Barber)
2 Stravinsky [Symphony in C] (Brahms)
3 Beethoven
4 Brahms (Bruckner)
5 Sibelius 
6 Beethoven (Mahler)
7 Sibelius
8 Schubert (Beethoven) (Bruckner)
9 Bruckner (Simpson)

[Mirror Image]

I'll give this a try but I'll compile it begrudgingly...

1. Walton
2. Elgar
3. Nielsen
4. Sibelius
5. RVW
6. Milhaud
7. Mahler
8. Shostakovich
9. Arnold

...and I am not fully satisfied with this list. Change is imminent.

[Cato]

Using my evening brain, and just following my stream of consciousness, which will have a "kind of logic" to it...

Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony #2
George Antheil: Symphony #1
Alexander Tcherepnin: Symphony #2
Beethoven: Symphony #3
Borodin: Symphony #2
Bruckner: Symphony #9 (Completed version: why not?!)
Mahler: Symphony #8
Scriabin: Symphony #5  Prometheus
Ives: Symphony #1
Jerome Moross: Symphony
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Mozart: Symphony #39
Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony

[springrite]

Out of compliance, Paul!  0:)

1: Barber
2: Beethoven
3: Nielsen
4: Brahms
5: Sibelius
6: Mahler
7: Rubbra
8: Schubert
9: Mahler
10:Brian

[Karl Henning]

I'll give this a try but I'll compile it begrudgingly...

1. Walton
2. Elgar
3. Nielsen
4. Sibelius
5. RVW
6. Milhaud
7. Mahler
8. Shostakovich
9. Arnold

...and I am not fully satisfied with this list. Change is imminent.

"Not fully satisfied" with the list? You mean, you included symphonies which you don't like all that much?    0:)

[Karl Henning]

1: Barber
2: Beethoven
3: Nielsen
4: Brahms
5: Sibelius
6: Mahler
7: Rubbra
8: Schubert
9: Mahler
10:Brian

Thanks!  I was interested to know which of the Mahler you would feel you need to retain 

And thanks, too, for reminding me that I omitted Sibelius (see exercise in the impossible, above)

[Mirror Image]

"Not fully satisfied" with the list? You mean, you included symphonies which you don't like all that much?    0:)

I love these symphonies, but I'm not happy that I'm limited to these choices.

[Karl Henning]

I love these symphonies, but I'm not happy that I'm limited to these choices.

Okay . . . for a moment there, I thought you were racked with "Arnold remorse"   

[Mirror Image]

Okay . . . for a moment there, I thought you were racked with "Arnold remorse"   

Hah, "Arnold remorse". I never heard of that one.

[Cato]

Hah, "Arnold remorse". I never heard of that one.

Neither did Arnold!   0:)

Actually, on second thought, I think he did hear a lot of remorse! 

[Karl Henning]

Neither did Arnold!   0:)

Actually, on second thought, I think he did hear a lot of remorse! 

Never any remorse have I experienced with that Arnold! 

[North Star]

Berlioz fantastique
RVW 2
Nielsen 3
Brahms 4
Sibelius 5
Tchaikovsky 6
Hartmann 7
Dvorak 8
Bruckner 9
Mahler 10
Shostakovich 11

[Karl Henning]

Berlioz fantastique
RVW 2
Nielsen 3
Brahms 4
Sibelius 5
Tchaikovsky 6
Hartmann 7
Dvorak 8
Bruckner 9
Mahler 10
Shostakovich 11

That is a beauteous list.

[Cato]

Berlioz fantastique
RVW 2
Nielsen 3
Brahms 4
Sibelius 5
Tchaikovsky 6
Hartmann 7
Dvorak 8
Bruckner 9
Mahler 10
Shostakovich 11

Nice to see the Hartmann Seventh Symphony in there, and the Mahler Tenth!!!

[North Star]

That is a beauteous list.

Nice to see the Hartmann Seventh Symphony in there, and the Mahler Tenth!!!

Cheers, gents. Too bad Rakhmaninov, Stravinsky, Lutoslawski, Beethoven, Schumann, Schuman, Ives, Dutilleux and Prokofiev didn't make it. 

[Klaze]

Hah, I fell into the trap of seriously thinking this through, it's indeed impossible. FWIW, this is what popped out now, more reflective of current listening habits than anything else I guess:

1. Prokofiev
2. Vermeulen 'Prelude a la nouvelle journee'
3. Nielsen
4. Martinu
5. Bruckner
6. Mahler
7. Beethoven
8. Vaughan Williams
9. Shostakovich
10. Martin - Petite symphonie concertante

[Sergeant Rock]

And thanks, too, for reminding me that I omitted Sibelius (see exercise in the impossible, above)

I too cannot believe I forgot Sibelius, whose Fifth is one of my Top 5 symphonies of all time 

Sarge

[Cato]

I too cannot believe I forgot Sibelius, whose Fifth is one of my Top 5 symphonies of all time 

Sarge

So it is time for another stream-of-consciousness list! ( With a "kind of logic" through it...  0:)   )

Sibelius: Symphony #3
Vermeulen: Symphony #2
Etienne Mehul Symphony #4
Dvorak: Symphony #3
Dutilleux: Symphony #2
Schumann: Symphony #4
Schubert: Symphony #6
Bruckner: Symphony #1
Alexander Tcherepnin: Symphony #4
Kalliwoda: Symphony # 7
Rachmaninov: Symphony #3