A New Year List of favourites, symphonies 1 to 9

[cloughie]

1. Elgar
2. Rachmaninov
3. Beethoven
4. Strauss (I suppose it's the 4th)*
5. Vaughan Williams
6. Tchaikovsky
7. Buckner
8. Dvorak
9. Mahler

*no surprise there then Alps!

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

1. Elgar
2. Borodin
3. Sibelius
4. Shostakovich
5. Tchaikovsky
6. Mahler
7. Beethoven
8. Dvorak
9. Schubert

When we played this game over on the old R3 boards - Ron's Hogmanay Symphonic Desert Island Sudoku (6 years ago... where does time fly?) - we were allowed a tenth to cover 'un-numbered' symphonies, such as Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. There was also a rule to enable symphonies with a higher number to be included by adding the numerals together, hence Mozart's Jupiter would be number 5 (4+1).

[salymap]

I'd pay $$ to see that

More fun than a croose with some I could mention

[Sir Velo]

Breaking the rules somewhat (I was always the naughty schoolboy):

1. Berlioz
2. Vaughan Williams
3. Zemlinsky
4. Brahms
5. Nielsen
6. Haydn
7. Sibelius
8. Schubert
9. Bruckner
10. Shostakovich

[amateur51]

More fun than a croose with some I could mention

Now where's that 'hand-on-hip' emoticon

[Beef Oven]

Breaking the rules somewhat (I was always the naughty schoolboy):

1. Berlioz
2. Vaughan Williams
3. Zemlinsky
4. Brahms
5. Nielsen
6. Haydn
7. Sibelius
8. Schubert
9. Bruckner
10. Shostakovich

No Beethoven!!!?? Have you lost your mind sir!!?

[scottycelt]

I rather share ferney's expression of utter certainty in such matters, but here goes, anyway ...

1) Messiaen (if disqualified by Saly .. Sibelius)
2) Borodin
3) Gliere
4) Tchaikovsky
5) Bruckner (by a musical country mile)
6) Prokofiev
7) Dvorak
8) Shostakovich
9) Mahler

[teamsaint]

OK. Here is my list. I hope Salymap will forgive me, I thought I would do a list where each symphony is special to me in some way, even if it's not my absolute favourite for that number. And I cheated on no 4.

1. Sibelius.
2.Schubert
3. Alwyn
4. Bliss. Ok its not no 4 , but it has 4 colours, and I love it, and its new year.
5 DSCH
6 RVW
7 Rubbra
8 Bruckner.
9. Arnold.

[Boilk]

1. Searle
2. Maxwell Davies
3. Tippett
4. Shostakovich
5. Mahler
6. Rubbra
7. Beethoven
8. Bruckner (actually his 10th)
9. Hovhaness

[salymap]

OK. Here is my list. I hope Salymap will forgive me, I thought I would do a list where each symphony is special to me in some way, even if it's not my absolute favourite for that number. And I cheated on no 4.

1. Sibelius.
2.Schubert
3. Alwyn
4. Bliss. Ok its not no 4 , but it has 4 colours, and I love it, and its new year.
5 DSCH
6 RVW
7 Rubbra
8 Bruckner.
9. Arnold.

That's okay, I cheated on no 9. Fed up with Beethoven Choral but wanted to get on with something else.

[Sir Velo]

No Beethoven!!!?? Have you lost your mind sir!!?

Many years ago - too much youthful excess!

Tricky one this. Beethoven could easily fill slots 3 -9 (well maybe not 4, 6 & 8). Stupid game really.

[Sir Velo]

1) Messiaen

Like your thinking!

5) Bruckner (by a musical country mile)

Beethoven? Sibelius? VW? Country mile? A centimetre maybe!

[Nick Armstrong]

More fun than a croose with some I could mention

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ferney, did you used to be indecisive but now you're not so sure?

Um, well, possibly.


EDIT: AND I forgot to add Mendelssohn in the "Fourths"!

[Beef Oven]

Many years ago - too much youthful excess!

Tricky one this. Beethoven could easily fill slots 3 -9 (well maybe not 4, 6 & 8). Stupid game really.

Yes, Lvb could legitimately rock through 3-9, no question! Youthful excess? We're all paying for it now