Your Favorite 15 (sequential) Symphonies

[jlaurson]

I've always made this list up in my head; never put it down on 'ether'.

Here's the deal:

Your favorite 15 Symphonies... but they have to be 1 through 15 and one symphony per composer, only.

Edit: OK... I realize that 15 Symphonies is too ambitious. Let's cut it to 11...

So you might like Vaughan Williams 1, Beethoven 2, Mahler 3, and Bruckner 4... but you might not want to make those choices if you also don't want to miss out on Schumann or Brahms.
Get the picture? It makes sense to stack  the composers that wrote plenty Symphonies (i.e. DSCH, even if you like his 7th best) later, to keep room for great composers that wrote fewer symphonies. Schubert counts in the old fashioned way (1-6, 8, 9).

Perhaps easiest by naming multiple candidates for each, then whittling it down. At least that's how I'll construct this. Piece by piece.

1-15	1-11
1.) ......... / Brahms 2.) Mendelssohn / Sibelius / ... 3.) Schumann / ... 4.) Brahms / Nielsen? / Mendelssohn? 5.) Sibelius / Schubert / Nielsen 6.) Dvorak / Bruckner / Mahler 7.) Beethoven / Dvorak / Sibelius 8.) Bruckner / Haydn / 9.) Schubert / Mahler 10.) Diamond? / Mahler 11.) 12.) 13.) 14.) 15.) DSCH	1.) ......... / Brahms 2.) Mendelssohn 3.) Schumann / ... 4.) Brahms / Nielsen? / Beethoven? 5.) Schubert 6.) Dvorak 7.) Sibelius 8.) Bruckner 9.) ...Beethoven? 10.) Mahler 11.) DSCH

knowingly ignored so far: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Hovhaness, Simpson, Myaskovsky?, Schuman, Barber
not figured out which one, if any: Langgaard, Rubbra, Sallinen, Vaughan Williams, Aho, Schnittke, Arnold, Bax, Brian, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Michael Haydn, Milhaud, Petterson, Honegger, Villa-Lobos, Holmboe, Glass, Elgar?

Wow, Jens. You were one of the last people I was expecting to create this sort of thread. (I mean, just the thread creation part. Everyone makes lists, of course. )

Yes, you're right. It's not me. I got bored and thought I'd step out of character for once. I hope I didn't disappoint too much.

[Opus106]

Wow, Jens. You were one of the last people I was expecting to create this sort of thread. (I mean, just the thread creation part. Everyone makes lists, of course. )

So, on to thread duty:

1 -
2 - Mahler/Beethoven (like, srsly!)
3 - .../Schumann/Saint-Saëns
4 - Brahms
5 - Nielsen/Mahler
6 - Mahler/Beethoven/Tchaikovsky
7 - Dvořák
8 - Schub/Bruckner
9 - Beethoven
10 -
11 - Shostakovich

12 -
13 -
14 -
15 -

Shosty will probably figure somewhere in 11-15, although I'm not familiar with any other composer who wrote such high-numbered symphonies barring Mozart and Haydn.

There! One can't get any more conservative than that!

[Karl Henning]

Do I really like the symphonies of 15 composers? I suppose I must ; )

But, finding five composers other than Shostakovich who wrote 10+ symphonies, whose work I like . . . that's quite a poser you've devised, Jens.

[Opus106]

May is Symphony No. > 9 Month!

[Karl Henning]

Myaskovsky, Milhaud and Brian fans, rejoice!

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I give up in advance. I can't think of anyone's 12th Symphony that I like, and for 13-15 I can only think of Shostakovich.

[TheGSMoeller]

1. Berlioz
2. Elgar
3. Beethoven
4. Ives
5. Bruckner
6. Haydn
7. Prokofiev
8. Glass
9. Schubert 
10.
11.
12.
13.
14. Langgaard
15. Shostakovich

[Opus106]

Myaskovsky, Milhaud and Brian fans, rejoice!

And there's a contemporary one with over a 100 whose name escapes me at the mo.

[Karl Henning]

Segerstam. Interesting to see if he makes anyone's cut : )

[Karl Henning]

Well, possibly I can play, in good conscience, given Schuman, Hovhaness . . . must check what Brian symphonies I've got. Haydn is a natural fit here . . . not sure I'd really endorse a Mozart symphony from so young.  But let me investigate . . . .

[Sergeant Rock]

1 and 15 are really easy

1 - Havergal Brian
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 -
6 -
7 -
8 -
9 -
10 -
11 -
12 -
13 -
14 -
15 - Shostakovich


The rest I'll have to fill in later. Time to take the halibut out of the oven.

It's later:

1 - Havergal Brian
2 - Elgar
3 - Nielsen
4 - Brahms
5 - Sibelius
6 - Mahler
7 - Dvorak
8 - Vaughan Williams
9 - Bruckner
10 - Langgaard "Yon Hall of Thunder" (With a name like that, ya gotta love it    )
11 - Raff (A minor "Der Winter")
12 - Lloyd
13 - Miaskovsky
14 - Pettersson
15 - Shostakovich


Sarge

[Karl Henning]

That piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah . . . .

[Opus106]

Segerstam. Interesting to see if he makes anyone's cut : )

Ah yes, he's the one. All I remembered of him was a large white beard, and for an instant confused him with Pendericki.

not sure I'd really endorse a Mozart symphony from so young.  But let me investigate . . . .

But it'll certainly be time well spent.

[ibanezmonster]

1. Mahler
2. Mahler
3. Mahler
4. Mahler
5. Mahler
6. Mahler
7. Mahler
8. Mahler
9. Mahler
10. Mahler
11-15. Who cares?



Just kidding. But not too far off. 

[Brian]

1. Mahler, or Berlioz if it counts (hon. men.: Barber, Sgambati)
2. Rachmaninov (hon. men.: Elgar, Schubert)
3. Beethoven (hon. men.: Dvorak)
4. Brahms
5. Sibelius
6. Shostakovich
7. Beethoven
8. Dvorak (hon. men.: Atterberg)
9. Schubert
10. Shostakovich

I seem to have ignored the rules. Oh well. 

[TheGSMoeller]

I would have picked differently if I can use unnumbered symphonies.

[jlaurson]

Game misconduct: Greg is ejected outright, Brian has received a two minute penalty for a first infraction. Off into the box you go.

[TheGSMoeller]

Game misconduct: Greg is ejected outright, Brian has received a two minute penalty for a first infraction. Off into the box you go.

What!? No Yellow Card first? (for both Gregs?)

I see what I did...

...one per composer.

[Brian]

What!? No Yellow Card first? (for both Gregs?)

I see what I did...

...one per composer.

He was talking about Anime Greg.

[AnthonyAthletic]

A nice exercise after a hard days slog 

01. Elgar
02. Sibelius
03. Gliere (recent discovery via Stoki and now Johanos) Love this work!
04. Brahms
05. Vaughan Williams
06. Tchaikovsky
07. Beethoven
08. Bruckner
09. Dvorak
10. Mahler (ish) are we counting Das Lied as 8 so my 10 would be the marvellous 9th? LOL 
11. Shostakovich

12 - 15. Hmmm Gets rather difficult.....