Favorite Symphonies Quiz

I’ll start with #39 -- Mozart
It doesn’t help that I’ve got a weakness for Fourths -- Brahms, Mahler, Tchaikovsky.
Fifths give me fits, too.

Beethoven 9th Furtwangler
Sibelius 2nd
Alan Hovaness 22: symphony of light

Nice.  I'm having trouble w/ 1, so I'll just toss in Dmitri S. (I don't know that symphony at all, but I'm sure it's fine).  Took some shuffling (e.g., the obvious Gorecki 3 changed to 4, which if you haven't heard it ROCKS!), moving Mahler and Brahms etc.  Of course the best list would include Mahler in all positions except 8!

1. Shostakovich
2. Brahms
3. Mahler
4. Gorecki
5. Schubert
6. Haydn
7. Beethoven
8. Bruckner
9. Dvorak

jdane -- I dig your choices.  Love the Schubert Fifth.  I play some of those tunes on my fiddle.  It's better than whistling 'em!  The adagio in the Bruckner Eighth has some of the most powerful moments in all of music.  The Mahler Third is a vast wonderland.  Every choral group in the land should sing "Es sungen drei Engel" at least once each Christmas.