Your Top Ten Symphonies

[71 dB]

I'm surprised so few people have Elgar symphonies in their top 10 list. I wonder where people put Elgar symphonies in their lists? Top 100?

Edit: I just noticed if you put a 8 with a parenthesis, it turns into Mr. Sunglasses, also happened to someone above me.

Old forum technicality. 

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm surprised so few people have Elgar symphonies in their top 10 list. I wonder where people put Elgar symphonies in their lists? Top 100?

If it were a Top 20 list Elgar would have made the cut...I'd choose the Second but I love the First and Third too.

Sarge

[bwv 1080]

Mozart Linz
Mahler 6
Mahler 9
Stravinsky Sym in C
Dutilleux Metaboles
Messiaen Les Canyons
Carter Symphonia
Carter Symphony of 3 orch
Luto 3
Schnittke 5

[Greta]

1) Pettersson 7

Yep, I know how you feel. A recent favorite of mine. It was at my #10 until I realized I didn't even have one Haydn....

And Elgar 2nd was the next after.

[karlhenning]

I'm surprised so few people have Elgar symphonies in their top 10 list. I wonder where people put Elgar symphonies in their lists? Top 100?

Tough call.  Possibly Top 50.  Definitely my Top 100, though, so perhaps a simple yes will serve here.

[greg]

1- Mahler 9
2- Mahler 2
3- Gorecki 3
4- Mahler 10
5- Mahler 6
6- Mahler 3
7- Brahms 1
8- Brahms 4
9-  Brahms 2
10- Mahler 7 (just for the 1st movement)

[greg]

here's my list if Mahler never existed:

1- Gorecki 3
2- Brahms 1
3- Brahms 4
4- Brahms 2
5- Brahms 3
6- Prokofiev 5
7- Prokofiev 2
8- Scriabin 4
9- Scriabin 5
10- Shostakovich 14

[karlhenning]

here's my list if Mahler never existed:

What's Mahler? 

[greg]

What's Mahler? 

wtf....... sounds like a person who goes to the mall.... you plan on coining that word?

[marvinbrown]

   My top symphonies:

   1) Beethoven 5 & 9  Tie for 1st Place (I won't choose  ...not now...... not ever)
   2) Mozart 40 (for sentimental reasons)
   3) Mozart 41 (for obvious reasons)
   4) Mozart 25 (I have always had a soft spot for this one)
   5) Beethoven 3 & 6 & 7 (Eroica, Pastoral, and lets name the 7th Remarkable shall we?)
   6) Tchaikovsky 6 (do we really need to justfy this one?)
   7) Brahms 3   (this one took me by surprise, can't stop playing it....delightfull)
   8 ) Schubert 8 Unfinished (perfect as it is ......unfinished)
   9) Beethoven 8
  10) Brahms 2

   Bascially....Beethoven = Symphony 'nuff said!

   PS (notice how Mahler is deliberately absent from the list  )

   marvin

[dtwilbanks]

No order, except the first one.

LvB 9
Brahms 4
Mahler 1
LvB 7
LvB 5
Dvorak 9
Mahler 2

Well, that's seven anyway. 

[greg]

then again, Ubloobideega's 171st is pretty good....... it should make it on my list 

[karlhenning]

Well, that's seven anyway. 

Dave, Dave! 

[dtwilbanks]

Dave, Dave! 

I've heard dozens of others, but I don't really listen to them very much.

I'm a chamber-sized guy.

[oops, that came out wrong] 

[DavidW]

No order, except the first one.

LvB 9
Brahms 4
Mahler 1
LvB 7
LvB 5
Dvorak 9
Mahler 2

Well, that's seven anyway. 

Well that's better than my list, I have only one so far!

[karlhenning]

Today, in no strict order . . . .

[1] Shostakovich Fifteenth
[2] Sibelius Fourth
[3] Vaughan Williams Third
[4] Tchaikovsky Fifth
[5] Prokofiev Seventh
[6] Shostakovich Fourteenth
[7] Stravinsky Symphony in C
[8] Nielsen Third
[9] Sibelius Seventh
[10] Nielsen Fourth

[71 dB]

If it were a Top 20 list Elgar would have made the cut...I'd choose the Second but I love the First and Third too.

Sarge

Okay. Acceptable. 

Tough call.  Possibly Top 50.  Definitely my Top 100, though, so perhaps a simple yes will serve here.

Considering what Elgar's symphonies mean to me I can't imagine a heaven where there would be 50 even better symphonies! 

[beclemund]

I'm surprised so few people have Elgar symphonies in their top 10 list. I wonder where people put Elgar symphonies in their lists? Top 100?

Honestly, I'm not familiar with his symphonies... Does anyone have an opinion on this recording?

[71 dB]

Honestly, I'm not familiar with his symphonies... Does anyone have an opinion on this recording?

I am not familiar with that recording but I can recommend Elgar symphonies on Naxos.

First: George Hurst - 8.550634
Second: Sir Edward Downes - 8.550635
Third (elaborated by Anthony Payne): Paul Daniel - 8.554719

[The new erato]

I watched Blade Runner yesterday and discovered who db 71 was - is your user name from that movie?