Best Symphonies

The TC Top 150 Recommended Symphonies


 1. Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
 2. Mahler    - Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
 3. Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
 4. Mozart    - Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
 5. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5
 6. Mozart    - Symphony No. 40 "Great"
 7. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5
 8. Beethoven - Symphony No. 7
 9. Schubert  - Symphony No. 9 "Great"
10. Brahms   - Symphony No. 4
11. Dvořák   - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
12. Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"
13. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"
14. Schubert - Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
15. Mahler   - Symphony No. 5
16. Sibelius - Symphony No. 5
17. Mahler   - Symphony No. 6 "Tragic"
18. Mahler   - Symphony No. 9
19. Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 "The Apocalyptic"
20. Mahler   - Symphony No. 4
 
21. Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
22. Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5
23. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
24. Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
25. Bruckner - Symphony No. 9
26. Nielsen - Symphony No. 5
27. Brahms - Symphony No. 1
28. Mozart - Symphony No. 39
29. Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 2
30. Mozart - Symphony No. 38 "Prague"
31. Sibelius - Symphony No. 2
32. Haydn - Symphony No. 104
33. Mahler - Symphony No. 1 "Titan"
34. Beethoven - Symphony No. 8
35. Brahms - Symphony No. 3
36. Dvořák - Symphony No. 8
37. Bruckner - Symphony No. 7 "The Lyric"
38. Haydn - Symphony No. 94 "Surprise"
39. Mozart - Symphony No. 36 "Linz"
40. Haydn - Symphony No. 103 "The Drumroll"
41. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5
42. Prokofiev - Symphony No. 6
43. Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 "Organ"
44. Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie
45. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 2 "A London Symphony"
46. Sibelius - Symphony No. 4
47. Nielsen - Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable"
48. Dvořák - Symphony No. 7
49. Mozart - Symphony No. 25
50. Schubert - Symphony No. 5
51. Mahler - Symphony No. 8
52. Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 "Classical"
53. Webern - Symphony
54. Schumann - Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish"
55. Beethoven - Symphony No. 4
56. Brahms - Symphony No. 2
57. Franck - Symphony in D minor
58. Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 "Scottish"
59. Honegger - Symphony No. 3 "Liturgique"
60. Glière - Symphony No. 3 "Ilya Muromets"
61. Sibelius - Symphony No. 7
62. Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"
63. Prokofiev - Symphony No. 3
64. Martinů - Symphony No. 6
65. Hindemith - Mathis der Maler
66. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 4
67. Haydn - Symphony No. 100 "Military"
68. Liszt - Faust Symphony
69. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905"
70. Górecki - Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs"
71. Sibelius - Symphony No. 6
72. Myaskovsky - Symphony No. 6
73. Elgar - Symphony No. 1
74. Bizet - Symphony in C
75. Janáček - Sinfonietta
76. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 7 "Sinfonia Antartica"
77. Stravinsky - Symphony in C
78. Mozart - Symphony No. 35 "Haffner"
79. Bruckner - Symphony No. 5
80. Bax - Symphony No. 1
81. Mahler - Symphony No. 3
82. Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No. 1
83. Schumann - Symphony No. 4
84. Berwald - Symphony No. 3 "Singulière"
85. Berio - Sinfonia
86. Copland - Symphony No. 3
87. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 7
88. Alfvén - Symphony No. 4
89. Prokofiev - Symphony No. 2
90. Ives - Symphony No. 4
91. Stravinsky - Symphony in Three Movements
92. Mahler - Symphony No. 7
93. Nielsen - Symphony No. 3 "Sinfonia Espansiva"
94. Roussel - Symphony No. 3
95. Scriabin - Symphony No. 4 "The Poem of Ecstasy"
96. Rautavaara - Symphony No. 8 "The Journey"
97. Suk - Asrael Symphony
98. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5
99. Penderecki - Symphony No. 3
100. Beethoven - Symphony No. 2
101. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 8
102. Brian - Symphony No. 1 "Gothic"
103. Haydn - Symphony No. 88
104. Schoenberg - Chamber Symphony No. 2
105. Ives - Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting"
106. Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4
107. Mozart - Symphony No. 31 "Paris"
108. Schumann - Symphony No. 1 "Spring"
109. Hovhaness - Symphony No. 2 "Mysterious Mountain"
110. Bantock - Hebridean Symphony
111. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 4
112. Sibelius - Symphony No. 3
113. Walton - Symphony No. 1
114. Beethoven - Symphony No. 1
115. Elgar - Symphony No. 2
116. Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
117. Mozart - Symphony No. 29
118. Glazunov - Symphony No. 4
119. Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"
120. Raff - Symphony No. 5 "Lenore"
121. Schnittke - Symphony No. 1
122. Berlioz - Roméo et Juliette
123. Haydn - Symphony No. 82 "A Bear"
124. Tchaikovsky - Manfred Symphony
125. Simpson - Symphony No. 9
126. Berlioz - Harold en Italie
127. Beach - Gaelic Symphony
128. Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3
129. Hanson - Symphony No. 2 "Romantic"
130. Shostakovich - Symphony No. 9
131. Haydn - Symphony No. 101 "The Clock"
132. Lutoslawski - Symphony No. 3
133. Bruckner - Symphony No. 6
134. Szymanowski - Symphony No. 3 "Song of the Night"
135. Bruckner - Symphony No. 3
136. Popov - Symphony No. 1
137. Bruckner - Symphony No. 2
138. Taneyev - Symphony No. 4
139. Mozart - Symphony No. 28
140. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 3 "Polish"
141. Sibelius - Symphony No. 1
142. Dvořák - Symphony No. 6
143. Schubert - Symphony No. 4 "Tragic"
144. Prokofiev - Symphony No. 7
145. Schubert - Symphony No. 6 "Little"
146. Barber - Symphony in One Movement
147. Rimsky-Korsakov - Symphony No. 2 "Antar"
148. Schmidt - Symphony No. 4
149. Kraus - Symphony in C Minor
150. Borodin - Symphony No. 2