Question:
Good symphonies to buy on iTunes?
anonymous
2009-01-17 19:36:42 UTC
Hey! I've always found listening to a full orchestra a huge treat. Getting to go to a local Philharmonic concert is like nothing else. I have some classical music on my iPod, but it's all solo piano, with the exception of Yo-Yo Ma playing The Swan. But recently I realized: I can buy full symphonies on iTunes! XD And get to listen to all the beauty that is an orchestra. My question is, which ones should I buy? I love emotional, Romantic-era pieces, preferably in a minor key. Thanks for any help!
Five answers:
cchamp27
2009-01-17 20:19:38 UTC
Here's a small list to get you started. I recommend you just go with what you are instantly drawn to at first and then branch out from there. If you like Romantic music you MUST indulge in the symphonies of Brahms, Dvorak, Beethoven, Mahler, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius: they will be your bread and butter, your best friends, you are the peanut butter, they are the jelly...



1. Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral" – Ludwig Van Beethoven

2. Symphony No. 5 in C minor – Ludwig Van Beethoven

3. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major "Eroica" – Ludwig Van Beethoven

4. Symphony No. 6 in B minor "Pathetique" – Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

5. Symphony No. 41 in C major "Jupiter" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

6. Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From The New World" – Antonin Dvorak

7. Symphony No. 6 in F major "Pastorale" – Ludwig Van Beethoven

8. Symphony No. 40 in G minor – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

9. Symphony No. 4 in E minor – Johannes Brahms

10. Symphony No. 9 in C major "The Great" – Franz Schubert

11. Symphonie Fantastique – Hector Berlioz

12. Symphony No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished" – Franz Schubert

13. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor – Gustav Mahler

14. Symphony No. 2 in D major – Jean Sibelius

15. Symphony No. 7 in A major – Ludwig Van Beethoven

16. Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection" – Gustav Mahler

17. Symphony No. 10 in E minor – Dmitri Shostakovich

18. Symphony No. 5 in D minor – Dmitri Shostakovich

19. Symphony No. 3 in F major – Johannes Brahms

20. Symphony No. 39 in E flat major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

21. Symphony No. 7 in E major "Lyric" – Anton Bruckner

22. Symphony No. 4 in F minor – Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

23. Symphony No. 1 in C minor – Johannes Brahms

24. Symphony No. 9 in D major – Gustav Mahler

25. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major "Romantic" – Anton Bruckner

26. Symphony No. 4 in A major "Italian" – Felix Mendelssohn

27. Symphony No. 38 in D major "Prague" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

28. Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Organ" – Camille Saint Saens

29. Symphony No. 94 in G major "Surprise" – Joseph Haydn

30. Symphony No. 101 in D major "The Clock" – Joseph Haydn

31. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major – Serge Prokofiev

32. Symphony No. 5 in E minor – Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky

33. Symphony No. 104 in D major "London" – Joseph Haydn

34. Symphony No. 9 in D minor – Anton Bruckner

35. Symphony No. 5 in E flat major – Jean Sibelius

36. Mathis der Maler – Paul Hindemith

37. Symphony No. 1 in D major "Classical" – Serge Prokofiev

38. Symphony No. 8 in C minor – Anton Bruckner

39. Symphony No. 8 in G major – Antonin Dvorak

40. Symphony No. 7 in D minor – Antonin Dvorak

41. Symphony No. 2 in D major – Johannes Brahms

42. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major "Rhenish" – Robert Schumann

43. Symphony No. 2 in E minor – Sergei Rachmaninoff

44. Symphony No. 4 in B flat major – Ludwig Van Beethoven

45. Symphony in D minor – Cesar Franck

46. Symphony No. 100 in G major "Military" – Joseph Haydn

47. Symphony No. 4 in D major – Gustav Mahler

48. Symphony No. 8 in E flat major "Symphony Of A Thousand" – Gustav Mahler

49. Symphony No. 2 in G major "London" – Ralph Vaughan Williams

50. Symphony No. 1 "Titan" in D major – Gustav Mahler

51. Symphony No. 103 in E flat major "Drum Roll" – Joseph Haydn

52. Symphony No. 8 in F major – Ludwig Van Beethoven

53. Symphony No. 5 – Carl Nielsen

54. Symphony No. 5 in D major – Ralph Vaughan Williams

55. Symphony No. 3 in A minor "Scottish" – Felix Mendelssohn

56. Symphony No. 1 in F minor – Dmitri Shostakovich

57. Symphony No. 7 in C major – Jean Sibelius

58. Symphony No. 4 in F minor – Ralph Vaughan Williams

59. Symphony No. 1 in B flat major "Spring" – Robert Schumann

60. Symphony No. 45 in F sharp minor "Farewell" – Joseph Haydn

61. Symphony No. 3 in D minor – Gustav Mahler

62. Symphony No. 92 in G major "Oxford" – Joseph Haydn

63. Symphony No. 3 "The Camp Meeting" – Charles Ives

64. Symphony No. 35 in D major "Haffner" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

65. Symphony No. 1 in E minor – Jean Sibelius

66. Symphony No. 4 in A minor – Jean Sibelius

67. Symphony No. 88 in G major – Joseph Haydn

68. Symphony No. 1 in A flat major – Edward Elgar

69. Symphony No. 6 in A minor "Tragic" – Gustav Mahler

70. Symphony No. 7 in E minor "Song of the Night" – Gustav Mahler

71. Symphony No. 4 – Charles Ives

72. Symphony No. 4 in D minor – Robert Schumann

73. Symphony No. 3 – Aaron Copland

74. Symphony No. 29 in A major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

75. Symphony No. 4 "Inextinguishable" – Carl Nielsen

76. Symphony in Three Movements – Igor Stravinsky

77. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major – Franz Schubert

78. Symphony No. 36 in C major "Linzer" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

79. Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor – William Walton

80. Turangalila Symphony – Oliver Messiaen

81. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major – Anton Bruckner

82. Symphony No. 3 for soprano or tenor & orchestra "Pastoral" – Ralph Vaughan Williams

83. Symphony No. 102 in B flat major – Joseph Haydn

84. Symphony No. 3 "Symphony of Sorrowful Songs" – Henryk Gorecki

85. Harold en Italie – Hector Berlioz

86. Symphony No. 2 – Charles Ives

87. Symphony No. 2 in C major – Robert Schumann

88. Faust Symphony – Franz Liszt

89. Symphony in C major – Georges Bizet

90. Symphony No. 3"Sinfonia Espansiva" – Carl Nielsen
anonymous
2009-01-18 05:21:19 UTC
Scheherazade- Rimsky-Korsakov

Symphonie Fantastique- Berlioz

New World Symphony- Dvorak

My current obession is Tchaikovsky Symphony 1 in G minor, titled Winter Daydreams, I believe.
Dawn C
2009-01-18 07:10:12 UTC
A few of my favorites:

Howard Hanson Symphony # 2 is a very romantic, emotional piece

Shostakovich Symphony # 5- wonderful, exciting and lush

Mahler's Symphony # 1 - my favorite for many years, a very romantic symphony
dzodiark
2009-01-18 04:00:26 UTC
All of the Beethoven ones are excellent, along with Dvorak's new world symphony and Tchaikovsky's fourth and fifth
J
2009-01-18 03:42:39 UTC
alright, they're actually a metal band, but the new Nightwish has many instrumental and orchestral versions of their songs. listen to "amaranth" and then see if you like the others (these are the new songs with Anette Olzon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj81PcKPn60&feature=related


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