Favorite Symphonies Quiz

Other Composers who exceeded 9 include Havergal Brian, who I think wound up in the thirties but who is best known for his First, the Gothic, which calls for Mahler Eighth like playing forces, and Edmund Rubbra, a very under rated Symphonist well worth your attention, who made it into double digits.
  I’m struck by the paucity of references here to composers such as Nielsen, Sibelius, and Rachmaninov, and Brahms didn’t seem to get a lot of love either.  Mahler seems to be a clear favorite, and no one will get a rebuke from me about that....This being an Audiophile site, I wonder how much that enters into the equation?  Mahler’s music, with his full use of the Orchestra and spatial effects, is tailor made for a good system 

Yes l would. 104 over 40.https://youtu.be/VdytrWnQMC0?t=2

His first Symphony’s were superb  , when he could compose what he wanted do .!


https://youtu.be/69r1k8oUaGs?t=85
I have this LP , though I am down to about 1,000 LP's these days it would in the last 5  I would part with .

I love Gustav Mahler for his tunes.  For the way he can evoke a time, place and mood.  For the way he creates a world you can not only see & hear, but can touch and walk around in. 


His First Symphony evokes what for me is the first day of Planet Earth.  The first movement gives us a fine summer morning.  The sun rises rises over the forest.  In the second movement, the forest's plants and animals dance, free of all care.  The third movement introduces Man, in the person of a Stone Age family arduously pushing their stone-wheeled cart.  Yes, they have an ox out front but the ox is near exhaustion.  The fourth movement is the big storm, a storm that, of course, finally, gloriously clears.

I remember putting on the Bruno Walter performance of the First Symphony during a make-out session in college.  Yeah, I won't go into details, but the girl had to admit that the music really did create a universe.

@edcyn  Indeed, Mahler's First Symphony may be the best 1st symphony ever written. And many scholars suspect that is because it was not his first symphony, only his first publish one.  I too, love the Bruno Walter version.