Favorite Symphonies Quiz


Pick your favorite composer for each symphony. You can’t use a composer more than once.

Here are my answers (at least today’s answers):
Symphony No. 1: Copland
Symphony No. 2: Hanson
Symphony No. 3: Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 4: Bruckner
Symphony No. 5: Shostakovich
Symphony No. 6: Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 7: Sibelius
Symphony No. 8: Mahler
Symphony No. 9: Beethoven

What are your picks? I’m looking forward to learning something.
128x128phomchick
PC--  I realize I'm in the minority on M8.  I've never liked it, and I only heard it live once.  LAPhil (forget who was conducting--prob. Dudamel during one of the Mahler cycles here) in the cavernous Shrine, easily the worst music venue in the world.  Now I love both the LAPhil and the LAChorale, but all that went through my mind the entire night was PLEASE! Get on with The Eternal Feminine so we can get the f. out of here!   (And meanwhile, let me put in another plug for the Gorecki 4th!)
1. Elgar
2. Mahler
3. Scriabin
4. Beethoven
5. Sibelius
6. Tchaikovsky
7. Atterberg
8. Dvorak
9. Bruckner
+1 phomchick on all Mahler
The LB cycle.
Or all of Cookie's recordings of Tilson Thomas with the SFS
Curse? You mean its not just pivoted tone arms? Symphonies are cursed too???! Dang. I know audiophiles believe in a lot of crazy stuff but come on, man!