Your Symphony Cycle

[Mirror Image]

Neither did Arnold!   0:)

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

I don't have any problems with that Arnold either.

[Cato]

I don't have any problems with that Arnold either.

Good to hear!

Another list with a kind of logic...

Hindemith: Symphony Mathis der Maler
Rachmaninov: The Bells (Okay, not called a "symphony," but look at its structure!)
Mozart: Symphony #27
C.P.E. Bach: Symphony in D minor Wq 182
Hartmann: Symphony #7
Kalinnikov: Symphony #1
Liszt: Faust Symphony

[San Antone]

This is sort of affirmation action list.  I could have selected the same ones that have already been mentioned, but chose to highlight some that have not:

1. Schnittke
2. Bernstein
3. Górecki
4. Shostakovich
5. Martinu
6. Weinberg
7. Wellesz
8. Rautavaara
9. Pettersson
10. Raff

[North Star]

This is sort of affirmation action list.  I could have selected the same ones that have already been mentioned, but chose to highlight some that have not:

1. Schnittke
4. Shostakovich
5. Martinu

Some mighty fine choices there.

[Brian]

1. Berlioz
2. Borodin
3. Sibelius
4. Brahms
5. Beethoven
6. Bruckner
7. Prokofiev
8. Dvorak
9. Shostakovich
10. Rontgen
11-37. Haydn
38-41. Mozart
42-106. Haydn
107-285. Segerstam (especially #265 "Ei! No!, Ei-no Lei(f)-no... despite 2x grandioso Masses of Morte!... (More Tea... hahhahh)...")

[Brian]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_by_Leif_Segerstam

#122 "Tsunamic Zoomings"
#129 "Spurting notative sounds"
#132 "Pasting Sounds thinking Numbers zig-zagly"
#171 "Skinpumply pumpskinned musical pumpkins"
#228 "Cooling my beard too (2) on "Sval"bard, "Spit"sbergen farewelling (on the "seal"ed waters) the blinding "spittingly" ice- (& eyes) cracking Sun (setstart on 22.8...!) with my Son (J. S.) remembering nostalgically "lace"- (spets-) coverings of (e.g.) Venusmountains as well as all those got... (lays...) - It is very windy on the tops, "the picked peaks for peeking into the ∞s...", "spets"-listening too... 2... 8!"
#252 "Surfing on Higg's bosons to Kepler - 22b" [sic]
#253 "Crazyly alone at Christmas, but in the family of universes of sounds"
#264 "2B - EIJING, AAAAA; NONONONONONO:: NOW!!!"
#276 "Successful mental & corpsal combinationcopulations in creative chaoses"
#280 "Feeling the Healing surfings in Clouds of Inspirative Iridescence streaming from Grandiose Grandchildren... "in the days After..." (with gratitude resonance vibrating eternally)"

You just can't make this shit up.

[Ken B]

1. Berlioz
2. Borodin
3. Sibelius
4. Brahms
5. Beethoven
6. Bruckner
7. Prokofiev
8. Dvorak
9. Shostakovich
10. Rontgen
11-37. Haydn
38-41. Mozart
42-106. Haydn
107-285. Segerstam (especially #265 "Ei! No!, Ei-no Lei(f)-no... despite 2x grandioso Masses of Morte!... (More Tea... hahhahh)...")

Hey! Dethpicable cheating!

[Karl Henning]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_symphonies_by_Leif_Segerstam

#122 "Tsunamic Zoomings"
#129 "Spurting notative sounds"
#132 "Pasting Sounds thinking Numbers zig-zagly"
#171 "Skinpumply pumpskinned musical pumpkins"
#228 "Cooling my beard too (2) on "Sval"bard, "Spit"sbergen farewelling (on the "seal"ed waters) the blinding "spittingly" ice- (& eyes) cracking Sun (setstart on 22.8...!) with my Son (J. S.) remembering nostalgically "lace"- (spets-) coverings of (e.g.) Venusmountains as well as all those got... (lays...) - It is very windy on the tops, "the picked peaks for peeking into the ∞s...", "spets"-listening too... 2... 8!"
#252 "Surfing on Higg's bosons to Kepler - 22b" [sic]
#253 "Crazyly alone at Christmas, but in the family of universes of sounds"
#264 "2B - EIJING, AAAAA; NONONONONONO:: NOW!!!"
#276 "Successful mental & corpsal combinationcopulations in creative chaoses"
#280 "Feeling the Healing surfings in Clouds of Inspirative Iridescence streaming from Grandiose Grandchildren... "in the days After..." (with gratitude resonance vibrating eternally)"

You just can't make this shit up.

Only, he probably did . . . .

[vandermolen]

That is a beauteous list.

+1

[vandermolen]

List No.2

1: Walton
2: Rootham
3: David Diamond
4: Shostakovich
5: Honegger
6: Havergal Brian 'Tragica'
7: Pettersson
8: Rubbra
9: Vaughan Williams
+ Miaskovsky Symphony 27

[Symphonic Addict]

Lately I've been thinking about a continuous list without repeating composers. My fixed choices are for Nos. 5 and 6, those are Nielsen 5 and Mahler 6. The others are quite tough, but I did my best:

1-Walton
2-Casella
3-Melartin
4-Langgaard
5-Nielsen
6-Mahler
7-Sibelius
8-Holmboe
9-Bruckner
10-Tubin
11-Kinsella
12-Aho
13-Shostakovich
14-Badings
15-Röntgen
16-Brian
17-Myaskovsky

[Wanderer]

That's always a fun question. Per today's mood, that would be my repertoire list if I were to program works for an imaginary numerical-as-specified festival:

1 - Vaughan Williams
2 - Elgar
3 - Beethoven
4 - Brahms
5 - Mendelssohn
6 - Beethoven
7 - Sibelius
8 - Mahler
9 - Bruckner (with the finale)
10 - Shostakovich

No number - Debussy: La mer

Another list:

1 - Brahms
2 - Mendelssohn
3 - Schumann
4 - Bruckner
5 - Sibelius
6 - Mahler
7 - Beethoven
8 - Mahler
9 - Vaughan Williams

[Sergeant Rock]

0 - Bruckner
1 - Havergal Brian "Gothic"
2 - Ives
3 - Nielsen "Espansiva"
4 - Brahms
5 - Sibelius
6 - Mahler
7 - Dvorak
8 - Vaughan Williams
9 - Shostakovich
10 - Mahler

[foxandpeng]

OK. Today. Nothing surprising.

1. Bax
2. RVW
3. Rubbra
4. Tubin
5. Glazunov
6. Holmboe
7. Pettersson
8. Rautavaara
9. Arnold

[Holden]

1. Mahler#
2. Borodin
3. Beethoven#
4. Brahms# (Tchaikovsky, Mahler)
5. Tchaikovsky (Shostakovich)
6. Beethoven#
7. Dvorak (Beethoven)
8. Shostakovich# (Schubert Unfinished)
9. Schubert C major# (Bruckner)

Because of composer restrictions these are not my absolute favourite for each one and I've added some alternatives in brackets. (The asterisks are either at or close to top of my list). For example, I could easily have had Mahler at #4 or #2. I would also have put the Beethoven at #7 instead of the Dvorak. Bruckner or Dvorak could also have gone in at #9 so it was also a matter of balancing things out.

With no composer restrictions my list would look like this:

1. Mahler
2. Brahms
3. Beethoven
4. Mahler
5. Beethoven
6. Beethoven
7. Beethoven
8. Shostakovich
9. Schubert.

In some places the last two Schubert symphonies are listed as 7 & 8. If I'd used thatconvention it would also have made a difference.

[Symphonic Addict]

OK. Today. Nothing surprising.

1. Bax
2. RVW
3. Rubbra
4. Tubin
5. Glazunov
6. Holmboe
7. Pettersson
8. Rautavaara
9. Arnold

A quite neat list. We share many musical interests.

[vandermolen]

A quite neat list. We share many musical interests.

Me too!

Now let's see:

1 Klaus Egge
2 Tubin 'Legendary'
3 David Diamond
4 Braga Santos
5 Weinberg
6 Miaskovsky
7 Moyzes
8 Rubbra
9 Vaughan Williams
10 Havergal Brian

[foxandpeng]

A quite neat list. We share many musical interests.

Me too!

Now let's see:

1 Klaus Egge
2 Tubin 'Legendary'
3 David Diamond
4 Braga Santos
5 Weinberg
6 Miaskovsky
7 Moyzes
8 Rubbra
9 Vaughan Williams
10 Havergal Brian

I'm watching your recommendations eagerly 🙂

[Mirror Image]

Let's see what my list may look like now (w/o repeating composers):

1 - Martinů
2 - Stenhammar
3 - Mahler
4 - Shostakovich
5 - Vaughan Williams
6 - Sibelius
7 - Dvořák
8 - Bruckner
9 - Arnold

I'm still not satisfied with this list. I had to leave off Nielsen, Glazunov, Casella, Copland, Diamond, Ives, W. Schuman, Weinberg, Tubin, Atterberg, Hindemith, Saint-Saëns, Roussel,  et. al.

[foxandpeng]

Let's see what my list may look like now (w/o repeating composers):

1 - Martinů
2 - Stenhammar
3 - Mahler
4 - Shostakovich
5 - Vaughan Williams
6 - Sibelius
7 - Dvořák
8 - Bruckner
9 - Arnold

I'm still not satisfied with this list. I had to leave off Nielsen, Glazunov, Casella, Copland, Diamond, Ives, W. Schuman, Weinberg, Tubin, Atterberg, Hindemith, Saint-Saëns, Roussel,  et. al.

Big +1 for the Stenhammar