What’s Your Favourite Symphony?

[ahinton]

Impossible choice, but Mahler 6 & 9, bruckner 8 and Shostakovich 4 must be up there...

[Beef Oven!]

Impossible choice, but Mahler 6 & 9, bruckner 8 and Shostakovich 4 must be up there...

[Bella Kemp]

Warning: there is an excellent chance that at some point during the finale you may start jumping around the room.

I look forward to it!

[jayne lee wilson]

Warning: there is an excellent chance that at some point during the finale you may start jumping around the room.

Yes, but it's when that Martinu Motto starts yearning, yearning ever upward to fly free.....
THAT's what just kills it, and kills me, with it, EVERY time....

It's mine, and I love it, and it's with me for ever....

[Barbirollians]

Followed JLW first symphony and recording that came into my head .Beethoven Symphony No 3 - VPO/ Erich Kleiber though I suspect by tomorrow it will be Elgar 1 with the Philharmonia/Barbirolli and then the Bruno Walter Mahler 1 etc etc

[LMcD]

I honestly can't see why some folk have a problem in answering this question...Surely, your favourite symphony is (as against has been, or will be next time the subject crops up) the first one that comes to mind as soon as you read the question. If I were to answer it again, I would very probably come up with a different answer. It's only a bit of fun, surely, not a matter of life and death?

[Alison]

I’m going for Elgar 2 today.

Perhaps all the Elgar 1 votes have nudged me.

[HighlandDougie]

I’m going for Elgar 2 today.

Perhaps all the Elgar 1 votes have nudged me.

I’m going to hear it tonight at the Barbican so, yes, my favourite too, at least for the day

[waldo]

Mozart 41

(Closely followed by Mahler 2)

[Alison]

I’m going to hear it tonight at the Barbican so, yes, my favourite too, at least for the day

Nice programme Doug. Arriving in time for the Piano Quintet? Bonus.

[kea]

The first symphony that came to mind (without thinking, as it were) was Haydn No.49 in f.

[gurnemanz]

Shostakovich 15

[CallMePaul]

Schubert 9 (or should that be 8 - there seems to be a dispute as to whether the sketched but incomplete E major work should count as No7 - but anyway I mean the "Great C Major"). My favourite recording is currently Berlin Phil/ Rattle.

[Jonathan]

Liszt's Faust symphony (at the moment)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Schubert 9 (or should that be 8 - there seems to be a dispute as to whether the sketched but incomplete E major work should count as No7 - but anyway I mean the "Great C Major"). My favourite recording is currently Berlin Phil/ Rattle.

Before it was no. 9, it was number 7!