Your Favorite 15 (sequential) Symphonies

[Opus106]

Someone's going to get at least a one-match ban.

(Oops! Didn't see the thread had moved on to the second page.)

[AnthonyAthletic]

Someone's going to get at least a one-match ban.

Never take on a German Gentleman, they always win.....damned Penalties everywhere 

[Brian]

Langgaard

That might be an interesting name for my #2 spot.  Definite winner for #13.

[Todd]

1 – Tchaikovsky
2 – Brahms
3 – Beethoven
4 – Schumann
5 – Prokofiev
6 – Dvorak
7 – Sibelius
8 – Bruckner
9 – Mahler
10 – Tubin
11 – DSCH


[EDIT: Replaced Rautavaara's 8th with Bruckner's.  It only makes sense.]

[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 . . . .

Of course, I was forgetting Langgaard & Holmboe . . . I can certainly play.

[Sergeant Rock]

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

[MishaK]

If we can't repeat composers then:

1 Berlioz
2 Sibelius
3 Saint-Saens
4 Mendelssohn
5 Mahler
6 Beethoven
7 Vaughan Williams
8 Bruckner
9 Schubert
10
11
12
13
14
15 Shostakovich

[Brian]

10 - Langgaard "Yon Hall of Thunder" (With a name like that, ya gotta love it    )

10 – Tubin

And there's my afternoon playlist chosen for me.

God, I wish the George Lloyd symphony cycle was easier to collect.

[Cato]

Does the Bruckner Symphony #1 count as Schubert's or Beethoven's Tenth ?   0:)   

And maybe Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony ≈ Mahler's Eleventh ?   

If so, then I could make a list too!   0:)

[ibanezmonster]

With repetition:

1. Brahms
2. Mahler
3. Mahler
4. Shostakovich
5. Prokofiev
6. Mahler
7. Bruckner
8. Bruckner
9. Mahler
10. Mahler
11. Shostakovich
12. Shostakovich
13. Shostakovich
14. Shostakovich
15. Shostakovich


Without:
1. Brahms
2. Schumann
3. Rachmaninoff
4. Penderecki
5. Prokofiev
6. Schnittke
7. Bruckner
8. Rautavaara
9. Mahler
10. Shostakovich

11 isn't really possible...

[jlaurson]

Does the Bruckner Symphony #1 count as Schubert's or Beethoven's Tenth ?   0:)   

No

And maybe Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony ≈ Mahler's Eleventh ?   

Yes

11 isn't really possible...

What isn't really possible? Too many choices? Not too few, as we've established. Get ye on Spotify or Qobuz or whatever it takes. There's tons of (potentially) great stuff out there.
Also: You get a demerit for trying to be clever with your Fourth pick. 

[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

A few adjustments, added Berlioz as no. 1 and Langgaard no. 14

[Sergeant Rock]

10. Mahler (ish) are we counting Das Lied as 8 so my 10 would be the marvellous 9th? LOL 

Clever, Tony, very clever 


Sarge

[Cato]

Does the Bruckner Symphony #1 count as Schubert's or Beethoven's Tenth ?   0:)   

No

And maybe Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony ≈ Mahler's Eleventh ?   

If so, then I could make a list too!   0:)

Yes

Looks like I am batting .500!  (Baseball term, for all of you soccer people out there!)   0:)

Better than batting my eyelashes, which, being a guy, would impress nobody, or at least nobody I know of! 

So let me start with that composer-on-the-bench who deserves more respect:

11. Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony ≈ Mahler's Eleventh

And I will try to be eclectic and be semi-international and multi-century, even though a work might not be my most favorite:

10. Mahler

9. Bruckner

8. Karl Amadeus Hartmann

7. Beethoven

6. Prokofiev

5. Tchaikovsky

4. Charles Ives (I know, this is supposed to a list of symphonies and not train wrecks, but...open those ears, Waldo!

3. Dvorak

2. Taneyev

1. Hans Rott

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

OK now I can play:

1. Elgar
2. Brahms
3. Beethoven
4. Vaughan Williams
5. Sibelius
6. Martinu
7. Bruckner
8. Dvorak
9. Mahler
10. Shostakovich
11. Simpson

[TheGSMoeller]

I can't believe I forgot Ives! Thanks, Cato, for reminding me of that train wreck! 
Ives now replaces Vaughan Williams in the 4th.

[Fafner]

It's a fun exercise!

I tried choosing only one name per symphony and no repeats. (And that's tough. I had a hard time keeping Ludwig Van and DSCH from hogging multiple spots.)

This is what I came up with:

1. Walton
2. Hanson
3. Beethoven
4. Brahms
5. Sibelius
6. Tchaikovsky
7. Bruckner
8. Schubert
9. Dvořák
10. Mahler
11. Shostakovich

[Cato]

I can't believe I forgot Ives! Thanks, Cato, for reminding me of that train wreck! 
Ives now replaces Vaughan Williams in the 4th.

Aye Ives, Greg!  Sail on!

The Hans Rott First Symphony (the only one for him) reminds me of an intention to start a topic for soliciting opinions on the best - and worst - first symphonies by a major (including those sitting on the bench) composer.

e.g. (and I know some who will dispute the following choice, and I like the work, but it is an early piece: Dvorak for worst, Bruckner for best.

Maybe I will start that tomorrow!   0:)

[kishnevi]

Hmm, let's see how hard this is

Unnumbered: Stravinsky Symphony in C
0-Bruckner
1  Brian
2  Brahms
3  Rachmaninov
4  Tchaikovsky
5  Sibelius
6  Haydn
7  Beethoven
8  Schubert
9  Mahler
10 Villa Lobos
11 Shostakovich

[Moo Yai]

A bit of a challenge this one! - I would choose:

1. Sibelius
2. Mahler
3. Schumann
4. Dvorak
5. Prokofiev
6. Tchaikovsky
7. Bruckner
8. Vaughan Williams
9. Schubert
10. Villa-Lobos
11. Shostakovich