Your Top Ten Symphonies

[Danny]

Everyone else is doing it!

1 )  Dvorak No. 9
2 )  Shostakovich No. 10
3 )  Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
4 )  Prokofiev No. 5
5 )  Mahler No. 5
6 )  Mozart No 41
7 )  Brahms No. 4
8 )  Bruckner No. 6
9 )  Stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements
10) Schubert No 9

[Don]

1.  Mahler's 4th
2.  Berlioz's Sym. Fantastique
3.  Shostakovich's 10th
4.  Beethoven's 9th
5.  Mozart's 39th
6.  Bruckner's 7th
7.  Bruckner's 9th
8.  Shostakovich's 8th
9.  Mahler's 3rd
10. Mahler's 6th

[BachQ]

1. Beethoven 9
2. Bruckner 8
3. Brahms 4
4. Mahler 2
5. Bruckner 9
6. Tchaikovsky 5
7. Mozart 41
8. Shosty 5
9. Mahler 6/3/9
10. Brahms 1/3

[Solitary Wanderer]

Today its...

Mahler #2
Beethoven #3
Brahms #1
Gorecki #3
Vaughan-Williams #4
Shostakovich #7
Mendelshonn #3
Wagner C Maj
Nielsen #4

and ummm...


Haydn #102  

[Mark]

As ever, extremely difficult to select a definitive Top Ten. So I went for the ten symphonies I most often reach for from my shelves, and assembled these into order of listening preference.

1. Beethoven's No. 3
2. Bantock's 'Celtic'
3. Brahms' No. 1
4. Saint-Saens' No. 3
5. Beethoven's No. 9
6. Dvorak's No. 9
7. Sibelius' No. 3
8. Elgar's No. 1
9. Shostakovich's No. 11
10. Haydn's No. 6

If you asked for an 11th choice, I'd go with the Walton No. 1.

[Michel]

How on earth can Haydn's 6th be on there, thats crazy.

[Don]

How on earth can Haydn's 6th be on there, thats crazy.

But it is at the bottom of his list.

[cx]

Bruckner's 8th
Bruckner's 9th
Beethoven's 9th
Hartmann's 6th
Webern's Op.21
Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique
Shostakovich's 8th
Prokofiev's 6th
Sibelius' 4th
Nielsen's 4th

[Todd]

1.) Beethoven 3
2.) Mahler 9
3.) Brahms 2
4.) Bruckner 8
5.) Beethoven 6
6.) Beethoven 9
7.) Schubert 3
8.) Haydn 104
9.) Mahler 4
10.) Szymanowski 3

[71 dB]

Top 10 symphonies? Let's see...

• Elgar 2
• Elgar 1
• Elgar/Payne 3
• Nielsen 4
• Nielsen 3
• Saint-Saëns 3
• Beethoven 6
• Mozart 39
• Nielsen 5
• Walton 1

[BachQ]

Top 10 symphonies?

• Elgar 2
• Elgar 1
• Elgar/Payne 3

I forgot those . . . . . . gotta redo my list . . . . . . .

[Steve]

1. Beethoven No. 3
2. Shostakovich No. 10
3. Mahler No. 9
4. Beethoven No. 7
5. Brahms No. 4
6. Sibelius No. 2
7. Mahler No. 3
8. Shostakovich No. 15
9. Brahms No. 1
10. Schubert No. 9

[PerfectWagnerite]

Mahler: Sym. 1-10, in no particular order.

[hornteacher]

Oh boy another "list" thread.  I love 'em!  Keep them comming!

1- Beethoven 9th
2- Dvorak 9th
3- Beethoven 5th
4- Mozart 40th
5- Beethoven 7th
6- Dvorak 8th
7- Beethoven 3rd
8- Mozart 36th
9- Brahms 1st
10- Copland's 3rd

[not edward]

Let's see:

Mahler 6
Mahler 9
Bruckner 9
Bruckner 7
Beethoven 8
Sibelius 4
Nielsen 5
Prokofiev 6
Hartmann 6
Brahms 4

That'll do for a first iteration, anyway.

[quintett op.57]

How on earth can Haydn's 6th be on there, thats crazy.

Why? That's a great work

[AB68]

Mahler 3
Bruckner 8
Beethoven 7
Brahms 1
Mozart 40
Tchaikovsky 6
Mahler 6
Bruckner 7
Schumann 4
Mozart 35

[quintett op.57]

It could be different next month.
In chronological order:

Haydn 96
Haydn 104
Beethoven 6
Harold in Italy
Bruckner 5
Bruckner 9
Nielsen 3
Shostakovich 7
Shostakovich 10
Pettersson 7

[karlhenning]

Today, in no strict order . . . .

[1] Shostakovich Fourth
[2] Sibelius Sixth
[3] Vaughan Williams Sixth
[4] Tchaikovsky Fourth
[5] Prokofiev Second
[6] Shostakovich Tenth
[7] Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments (how's that for cheating?)
[8] Berlioz Romeo & Juliet
[9] Dutilleux Symphony No. 2 Le double
[10] Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra

[mahlertitan]

1. Mozart 40
2. Mahler 1
3. Bruckner 4
4. Bruckner7
5. Bruckner 9
6. Beethoven 3
7. Schubert 5
8. Schubert 8
9. Schubert 9
10. Mahler 9