Wednesday, July 31, 2019

My top 10 symphonies


Ludwig van Beethoven
Op. 60: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major (1807)
Op. 125: Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1824)

Camille Saint-Saëns
Op 78: Symphony No. 3 in C minor (1886 - Organ Symphony)

Jean Sibelius
Op. 7: Kullervo (1892 - suite of symphonic movements)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Op. 74: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (1893 - Pathétique Symphony)

Louis Vierne
Op. 14: Organ Symphony No. 1 in D minor (1899)

Sergei Rachmaninoff
Op. 27: Symphony No. 2 in E minor (1908)

Charles Ives
Symphony No. 4 (1924)

Dmitri Shostakovich
Op. 65: Symphony No. 8 in C minor (1943)

Henryk Górecki
Op. 36: Symphony No. 3 (1976 - Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)

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