firsty_ferret Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I've recently begun listening to more symphonic work and i was curious as to what everyone on YC found to be their top 5 favourite symphonies? Appologies if this has already been covered in a thread My favourites thus far are: 1. Symphony 7 - Ralph Vaughan Williams 2. Symphony 3 - Felix Mendelssohn 3. Symphony 6 - Jean Sibelius 4. Symphony 4 - Havergal Brian 5. Symphony 7 - Ludwig van Beethoven Oscar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackballoons Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I'll list my top five, in no particular order: Barber: Symphony No. 1 Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 (That police whistle in the 2nd movement still haunts me to this day...) Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 (5?); "From the New World" (Beautiful music...and also very screamo, for classical. Fiery!) Piston: Symphony No. 6 Rouse: Symphony No. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qmwne235 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 My top 5, in no particular order, with the exception that Sib 7 is No. 1: 1. Barber, Symphony No. 2 2. Sibelius, Symphony No. 7 3. Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 3 4. Berio, Sinfonia 5. Messiaen, Turangalila-Symphonie Honorable Mentions: Webern, Symphonie, Bruckner, Symphony No. 9, Carter, Symphony No. 1, Janacek, Sinfonietta I need to listen to Ustvolskaya's Symphony No. 5. Something I've been procrastinating on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siwi Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 1. Sibelius: Symphony No. 3 2. Elgar: Symphony No. 2 3. Richard Strauss: An Alpine Symphony 4. Brahms: Symphony No. 2 5. Sibelius: Kullervo Symphony Honourable Mentions; Hindemith: Mathis der Maler Symphony; Mahler: Symphony No.7; Thomas Ades: Tevot (a symphony in all but name) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SYS65 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 I'm afraid I have more than 5 "favorites" but I think in these ones: 1 Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 2 Mahler - Symphony No.6 3 Mahler - Symphony No.7 4 Bruckner - Symphony No.9 5 Beethoven - Symphony No.9 Also Gorecki, Honegger and others... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamma Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 1. Rachmaninoff - Symphony No.2 2. Prokofiev - Symphony No.5 3. Mahler - Symphony No.1 4. Alkan - Symphony for solo piano 5. Dvorak - Symphony No.9 Not really in order of favorites 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voce Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Shostakovich - Symphony No. 14 Berio - Sinfonia Schnittke - Concerto Grosso No. 4/ Symphony No. 5 Webern - Symphonie Bart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeckelphoneNYC Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Symphony no. 4- Sibelius Symphony no. 7- Sibelius Symphony no. 6- Arnell Symphony no. 9- Bruckner Symphony of a thousand- Mahler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Spoon284 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 1. Olivier Messiaen - Turangalila Symphonie 2. Robert Simpson - Symphony No. 9 (GO LISTEN TO THIS, NOW.) 3. Henri Dutilleux - Symphony No. 2 4. Witold Lutoslawski - Symphony No. 3 5. Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 13 Honorable mentions: Penderecki - Symphony No. 8, Mahler - Symphony No. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
composerorganist Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Brahms - Symphony 3 Prokofiev - Symphony 5 Beethoven - Symphony 8 (and 1st movement of 9) Mendelssohn - Symphony 3 (Italian) Bach - Opening Sinfonia of St john's Passion (hey you said symphony) Honorable mentions - Webern Symphonies, Hadyn's No 48 (St Theresa), Mahler 9 Yes, fairly conservative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
composerorganist Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Corbin - LOL - you only gave top 3! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YC26 Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 Corbin - LOL - you only gave top 3! Symphony bars come in 3 flavors... that accounts for the other two. :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamvParr Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 1. Mahler 5 2. Mozart 40 3. Brahms 3 4. Nielsen 1 5. Shostakovich 5 =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Dunn-Rankin Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 In no particular order, and among many more: 1. Sibelius 2 2. Mahler 6 3. Lutoslawski 3 4. Webern 1 5. Rouse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romanticist Posted August 17, 2009 Share Posted August 17, 2009 1. Mahler Symphony 8 2. Bruckner Symphony 9 3. Sibelius Symphony 7 4. Prometheus Symphony (Scriabin) 5. Turangilila Symphony (Messiaen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myrtle Esmeralde Posted August 21, 2009 Share Posted August 21, 2009 1. 2nd Symphony - J. Sibelius 2. 6th Symphony - G. Mahler 3. 9th Symphony - L. V. Beethoven 4. 45th ("Farewell") and 94th ("Surprise") - J. Haydn 5. 1st ("Classical") - S. Prokofiev I know that they're all very famous, but that's my top 5... if it had been "Major orchestral works" and not "symphonies" I'd have more interesting things to mention... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voce Posted August 22, 2009 Share Posted August 22, 2009 I totally forgot to add Dvorak's 8th (sometimes referred to as the 4th) in G Major, which I think is one of the best things ever written in the history of anything, ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zepoha Heampe Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 1st Symphony (Rachmaninov) 6th Symphony (Sibelius) 7th Symphony (Dvorak) 7th Symphony (Mahler) 13th Symphony (Shostakovich) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrcramer Posted August 24, 2009 Share Posted August 24, 2009 many favorites (I know its impossible :D but I cannot choose) I usually listen a period the complete symphonies of one composer and after a while another, so all symphonies kind of mix up in my head... Shostakovich 10 (and 1 and 4 are funny, 5 and 6 are great. The war-triology (7-9) is superb, 11 and 12 are slow but massive. 13 is the first I heard of him, opening is huge!) Prokofiev 5 (1 is funny, 2 and 3 are crazy :D ; 4 is relaxed 5 till 7 are great too...) Brahms 1 and 3 (2 is okay... 4 too, it used to be a fav, still a beauty, but heard it too often) Tschaikofksy's Manfred symphony , and 5th and 6th, in fact all are good, 2 and 3 oh... (anyone said him already?) Mahler only the 6th (maybe 1 and 2 also...) I like to mention the symphonietta by Poulenc, and the 2nd by Khrennikov as honorary mentions 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JairCrawford Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 In no particular order: Beethoven's 9th Beethoven's 10th (Unfinished) Mahler's 8th Mahler's 9th Mahler's 10th (Unfinished) Rachmaninoff's 1st Rachmaninoff's 3rd My 7 favs. That's 5 if you don't include the two unfinished ones. :P A few notes about the two unfinished symphonies: Beethoven's 10th was realized from mainly a few sketches. Mahler's 10th was more complete though, even though it had to be realized. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsaxophone Posted July 2, 2010 Share Posted July 2, 2010 Not in any real order, Mahler Symphony 8 Glass Symphony 4 Beethoven symphony 3 Mahler symphony 5 Beethoven symphony 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jahreszeiten13 Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 1. Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 100 "Military" 2. Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" 3. Wolfgang Mozart - Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" 5. Leopold Mozart - Symphony "Peasant's Wedding" 4. Samuel Wesley - Symphony in B flat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkho Posted August 20, 2010 Share Posted August 20, 2010 Tough to pick only five but the ones I'll always have on my playlist are: 1. Beethoven's 7th 2. Brahms' 1st 3. Mahler's 2nd 4. Mozart's 40th 5. Tchaikovsky's 4th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeckelphoneNYC Posted August 22, 2010 Share Posted August 22, 2010 In order, Sibelius 4 Bruckner 9 (4 movement versions) Sibelius 7 Alkan symphony for piano (does this count?) Jon Liefs 1 Arnell 3 Mahler 10 Stravinsky "symphony in 3 movements" Edit: Sorry I forgot we were supposed to do 5 :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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