Six favourite symphonies 1840-1899

[vandermolen]

Rachmaninov Symphony 1
Taneyev Symphony 2
Bruckner Symphony 9
Glazunov Symphony 2
Berwald 'Singuliere'
Mahler Symphony 1

Not in any order.

Oh no, forgot Tchaikovsky's 'Pathetique' 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Following the "1 per composer" rule I get:

Bruckner 9
Brahms 2
Dvorak 7
Mahler 2
Schumann 2
Borodin 2

[Florestan]

Off the beaten track, 1 per composer, no particular order

Kalinnikov 1
Liszt Eine Faust-Symphonie
Raff 5 "Lenore"
Bizet C  Major
Balakirev 1
Bruch 1

[Brian]

This poll isn't hard enough.

Brahms 3
Brahms 4
Dvorak 7
Dvorak 8
Tchaikovsky 5
Bruckner 7
Mahler 1
Scheherazade (technically not a symphony)
Franck D minor

All those symphonies arrived in one 7-year stretch, 1883-1889. So why did you give us 60 years?!

EDIT: And the first version of Bruckner 8.

[Sergeant Rock]

Lots of D minor

Bruckner Symphony No.3 D minor
Dvorak Symphony No.7 D minor
Mahler Symphony No.3 D minor
Brahms Symphony No.4 E minor
Schmidt Symphony No.1 E major
Rott Symphony E major

[San Antone]

Your modulation through E Minor to E Major is nice.

[vandermolen]

Thanks for replies.

Raff No. 5 'Lenore' is one of my favourites and I should have included it, maybe instead of Berwald. Also the Rott Symphony is a great work.

[Ken B]

This poll isn't hard enough.

Brahms 3
Brahms 4
Dvorak 7
Dvorak 8
Tchaikovsky 5
Bruckner 7
Mahler 1
Scheherazade (technically not a symphony)
Franck D minor

All those symphonies arrived in one 7-year stretch, 1883-1889. So why did you give us 60 years?!

So you'd remember the Saint-Saens of course. The Franck doesn't get enough love.

I like this list, except for Mahler 1, but you need SS, Bruckner 9. So Dvorak 8 has to go. I had forgotten Scher, but you are right.

[Brian]

So Dvorak 8 has to go.

Bollocks. Dvorak 8 is my favorite of all.

Bruckner 9 is not "from" 1883-1889 but the first version of 8 is.

[springrite]

Mahler 1
Mahler 2
Brahms 1
Brahms 4
Chausson
Dvorak 7

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Brahms 1
Brahms 2
Bruckner 6
Bruckner 7
Mahler 1
Mahler 3

... Sibelius 1 (revised 1900 but if you don't count that...)
    Scheherazade (if you count that as a symphony)