My Favorite Symphonies

"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything" - Gustav Mahler


Here is a list of my favorite symphonies, try listening to all or some of them.  There's the uplifting and emotional symphonies by Beethoven;  Shostakovich's haunting and macbre Soviet era Symphony No. 5.  Dvorak wrote his ninth symphony based on American folk music.  Haydn is considered the father of the symphony with over one-hundred beautiful compositions.  The boy genius, Mozart, started writing symphonies when he was still in single digits.  And Beethoven wrote his magus opus, the Ninth, when he was 100% deaf.   Try Rachmaninoff's 2nd, it contains some of the most beautiful and innate music you have ever heard!

Enjoy!!


Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5

Mahler
Symphony No. 1 (Titian)
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 6

Mozart
Symphony No. 40
Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)

Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
Symphony No. 5 (Fate)
Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral)
Symphony No. 7
Symphony No. 9 (Choral / Ode to Joy)

Debussy
La Mer

Rachmaninoff
Symphony No. 2

Brahms
Symphony No. 3
Symphony No. 4

Dvorak
Symphony No. 9 (The New World Symp.)

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique)

Haydn
Symphony 94 (Surprise)
Symphony 95

Next month:
Favorite Piano Concertos!!