Top Ten Symphonies

[antongould]

I don't think it's that complicated is it? It's just about listing one's favourite symphonies!

The criteria to judge that will vary from person to person.

I agree completely just your own personal favourites, alright, at that point in time, but how you choose is down to you!

[Nick Armstrong]

1 Johann Baptist Vanhal: Symphony in C major 'Sinfonia comista'
2 Leopold Kozeluch: Symphony in Bb major 'l'irresoluto'
3 Anton Eberl: Symphony in d minor op 34
4 Charles-Valentin Alkan: Symphony for solo piano, op 39
5 JS Bach: Sinfonia 15, BWV 801
6 JC Bach: Symphony for Double Orchestra in Eb major, op 18 no 1
7 WF Bach: Symphony in D major, Fk 64
8 Hector Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Symphonie dramatique, op17
9 César Franck, Symphony in d minor
10 François-Joseph Gossec: Symphonie à grand orchestre 'la Chasse'

Mon cher Monsieur Vinteuil

Well I Nevers…!!!

Your list is a particularly fertile field for symphonic discoveries. I have only ever heard (or even heard of.. ) Nos. 8 & 9!

Having said that, the Franck is a bit of a bête noire of mine. I'm afraid to say I find it a mixture of boring and annoying (and that includes having played it - perhaps playing trombone 1 didn't give the best perspective on the piece).

Do Messrs Vanhal, Eberl, Kozeluch and Gossec really deliver in the symphonic stakes?? I am very tempted to find out (I suspect the major key ones will appeal to me more than Eberl in … d minor…)

However, most interesting!!

[Suffolkcoastal]

Actually L Kozeluch and Vanhal aren't bad at all. The Kozeluch G minor symphony was a real find for me several years ago and Vanhal is highly inventive.

[Bryn]

Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring (well Bernstein held it to be a symphony).
Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde
Renault - Sinfonia com um F1
Martin (Tony)? - Tenement Symphony

cont. p. 94.

[salymap]

This would be different tomorrow, but........

Haydn 90
Mozart 39
Dvorak 8
Mahler 4
Sibelius 7
Berlioz SF
Tchaikovsky 4
Schubert 5
Elgar 2
RVW 6

[french frank]

I don't, on the whole, do symphonies (all dat noise!) though I'm pleased to see Suffolkcoastal goes for Sibelius 4 - I thought I was the only person in the world to enjoy that one of Sib's above all ...

Some symphonies which have entered my collection for unexplained (or forgotten) reasons:

Korngold, Symphony op 40
Magnard, Symphonies 1-4
Gade, Symphonies 3 & 5
Voříšek, Symphony in D major (makropulos has this one too)
Svendsen, Symphonies 1 & 2
Nielsen, Symphonies 4 & 5
Scriabin, Symphonies 2 & 3
H. Brian, Symphony 3

[Roehre]

In alphabetical order (and a list valid only today :-) ):

Beethoven 3
Brahms 3
Hartmann 2
Haubenstock Ramati "K"
Kelterborn 4
Keuris S.in D
Schnebel "X"
Shostakovich 15
Sibelius 4
Webern op.21

[Basil]

Based on those I've listened to recently, in no particular order.

Shostakovich 11
Mendelssohn 5
Brahms 1
Mahler 2
Sibelius 2
Sibelius 7
Bizet Symphony in C
Bruckner 9
Dvorak 5
Glass Low Symphony

[Nick Armstrong]

Haubenstock Ramati "K"
Kelterborn 4
Keuris S.in D
Schnebel "X"

Shostakovich 15

[BBMmk2]

Good heavens, how do you choose a top ten list of symphoniers?
Well here are mine(in no particulkar order)

John Pickard: Gaia Symphony
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2
Bruckner: Symphony No.,7
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5
Mahlerr: Symphony No.6
Robert Simpson: No.9
Vaughan Williams: No.5
Bax: No.7
Sibelius: No.5
Beethoven: No.9

[BBMmk2]

What a good idea this! Here goes!

(in no partricular order)

John Pickard: Gaia Symphony
Beethoven: No.9
Rachmaninov: No.2
Sibelius: No.7
Bax: No.3
VW No.5
Mahler No.6
Shostakovich: No.5
Robert Simpson: No.9
Bantock: Pagan Symphony

[EdgeleyRob]

Vaughan Williams 5 and 9 (on any given day I could quite easily choose all 9 plus 1 other as my 10)
Elgar 1 and 2
Mahler 9
Brahms 1
Shostakovich 10
Bruckner 8
Mozart Prague
Beethoven 3

[johnb]

What a good idea this! Here goes!

(in no partricular order)

John Pickard: Gaia Symphony
...........

I went of two day courses, on Messiaen and Shostakovich, given by John Pickard at Bristol University (where he is now a Professor). He is an inspirational lecturer!

[amateur51]

I don't, on the whole, do symphonies (all dat noise!) though I'm pleased to see Suffolkcoastal goes for Sibelius 4 - I thought I was the only person in the world to enjoy that one of Sib's above all ...

Some symphonies which have entered my collection for unexplained (or forgotten) reasons:

Korngold, Symphony op 40
Magnard, Symphonies 1-4
Gade, Symphonies 3 & 5
Voříšek, Symphony in D major (makropulos has this one too)
Svendsen, Symphonies 1 & 2
Nielsen, Symphonies 4 & 5
Scriabin, Symphonies 2 & 3
H. Brian, Symphony 3

And with such guile & feigned innocence doth The Administrator seek to ignore the rules and to slip in a selection of FIFTEEN symphonies

You lickle tinker, Ma'am

[french frank]

I wasn't playing 'Top Ten Symphonies': I was playing 'Symphonies I've Got In My Collection'. Sorry, off-topic