Top Symphonies List

Music Lists - Classical Music

1. Beethoven's 9th (Choral) - a metaphysical sea of sound that ends with a glorious choral finale.
2. Beethoven's 5th - fate knocking at your door.  It's awesome what intense music Beethoven can weave with variations on just 4 notes.
3. Beethoven's 3rd (Eroica) - another unworldly musical wonder, dignity meets dissonance.  The Funeral March is to die for!
4. Berlioz Symphony Fantastique - delirious music from someone who must be on crack when he wrote it.  One of the most brillant piece of orchestration!
5. Brahms 4th - great romantic music with thick orchestral texture.
6. Tchaikovsky's 5th (Pathetique) - melodious and melancholic.  Strange waltz movement.
7. Sibelius 2nd - You can almost hear the grandeur of the Finnish landscape.
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8. Mahler's 1st - For me, the most accessible Mahler.  The "Freire Jacques" melody transformed to a funeral march is morbid music at its best.
9. Beethoven's 7th - from rollicking to profound.  The slow movement is very moving.
10. Mozart's 40th - the very popular restless melody of the first movement introduces you to a work of genius.