Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major 'Eroica'
Ludwig van Beethoven
11 recordingsTop Choice: Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia
Symphonies
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
11 recordingsTop Choice: Carlos Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 6 in F major 'Pastoral'
Ludwig van Beethoven
6 recordingsTop Choice: Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia
Symphony No. 7 in A major
Ludwig van Beethoven
8 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 9 in D minor 'Choral'
Ludwig van Beethoven
12 recordingsTop Choice: Ferenc Fricsay / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphonie fantastique
Hector Berlioz
4 recordingsTop Choice: Paul Paray / Detroit Symphony
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Johannes Brahms
6 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Johannes Brahms
7 recordingsTop Choice: Otto Klemperer / Philharmonia
Symphony No. 3 in F major
Johannes Brahms
7 recordingsTop Choice: Claudio Abbado / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 4 in E minor
Johannes Brahms
7 recordingsTop Choice: Carlos Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major 'Romantic'
Anton Bruckner
4 recordingsTop Choice: Karl Böhm / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
Anton Bruckner
4 recordingsTop Choice: Bernard Haitink / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 7 in E major
Anton Bruckner
7 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Anton Bruckner
9 recordingsTop Choice: Gunter Wand / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Anton Bruckner
8 recordingsTop Choice: Carlo Maria Giulini / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 7 in D minor
Antonín Dvořák
4 recordingsTop Choice: Neeme Järvi / Scottish National Orchestra
Symphony No. 8 in G major
Antonín Dvořák
4 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Hallé Orchestra
Symphony No. 9 in E minor 'From the New World'
Antonín Dvořák
6 recordingsTop Choice: Istvan Kertész / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony in D minor
César Franck
1 recordingTop Choice: Pierre Monteux / Chicago Symphony
'London' Symphonies (Nos. 93-104)
Joseph Haydn
4 recordingsTop Choice: Eugen Jochum / London Symphony
Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Titan'
Gustav Mahler
5 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Hallé Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
Gustav Mahler
8 recordingsTop Choice: Zubin Mehta / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Gustav Mahler
3 recordingsTop Choice: Jascha Horenstein / London Symphony
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Gustav Mahler
5 recordingsTop Choice: Jascha Horenstein / London Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor
Gustav Mahler
5 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / New Philharmonia
Symphony No. 6 in A minor
Gustav Mahler
3 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / New Philharmonia
Symphony No. 9 in D major
Gustav Mahler
8 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 in A minor 'Scottish'
Felix Mendelssohn
2 recordingsTop Choice: Peter Maag / London Symphony
Symphony No. 4 in A major 'Italian'
Felix Mendelssohn
4 recordingsTop Choice: Giuseppe Sinopoli / Philharmonia
Symphony No. 38 in D major 'Prague'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5 recordingsTop Choice: Peter Maag / London Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5 recordingsTop Choice: Karl Böhm / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 41 in C major 'Jupiter'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Classical'
Sergei Prokofiev
2 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
Sergei Prokofiev
2 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1 recordingTop Choice: Gennady Rozhdestvensky / London Symphony
Symphony No. 3 in C minor 'Organ'
Camille Saint-Saëns
1 recordingTop Choice: Charles Munch / Boston Symphony
Symphony No. 8 in B minor 'Unfinished'
Franz Schubert
5 recordingsTop Choice: Giuseppe Sinopoli / Philharmonia
Symphony No. 9 in C major 'The Great'
Franz Schubert
5 recordingsTop Choice: Wilhelm Furtwängler / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 5 in D minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
6 recordingsTop Choice: Neeme Järvi / Scottish National Orchestra
Symphony No. 7 in C major 'Leningrad'
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recordingTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Chicago Symphony
Symphony No. 10 in E minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
5 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Jean Sibelius
4 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Royal Philharmonic
Symphony No. 4 in A minor
Jean Sibelius
3 recordingsTop Choice: Lorin Maazel / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major
Jean Sibelius
3 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Symphony No. 7 in C major
Jean Sibelius
3 recordingsTop Choice: Lorin Maazel / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
5 recordingsTop Choice: Evgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic
Symphony No. 5 in E minor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
4 recordingsTop Choice: Evgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic
Symphony No. 6 in B minor 'Pathétique'
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
10 recordingsTop Choice: Evgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic
Symphony No. 1 in C major
Ludwig van Beethoven
3 recordingsTop Choice: Eugen Jochum / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2 in D major
Ludwig van Beethoven
3 recordingsTop Choice: Eugen Jochum / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major
Ludwig van Beethoven
5 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 8 in F major
Ludwig van Beethoven
5 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Harold en Italie (Harold in Italy)
Hector Berlioz
3 recordingsTop Choice: Nobuko Imai
Symphony in C
Georges Bizet
1 recordingTop Choice: Sir Thomas Beecham / Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française
Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Alexander Borodin
3 recordingsTop Choice: Kurt Sanderling / Staatskapelle Dresden
Symphony No. 3 in D minor 'Wagner'
Anton Bruckner
3 recordingsTop Choice: Karl Böhm / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 6 in A major
Anton Bruckner
3 recordingsTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony in B-flat major
Ernest Chausson
1 recordingTop Choice: Charles Munch / Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 3
Aaron Copland
1 recordingTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Symphony No. 5 in F major
Antonín Dvořák
1 recordingTop Choice: Karel Šejna / Czech Philharmonic
Symphony No. 6 in D major
Antonín Dvořák
1 recordingTop Choice: István Kertész / London Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 1 in A-flat major
Edward Elgar
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 in E-flat major
Edward Elgar
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Hallé Orchestra
Symphony No. 3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'
Henryk Górecki
1 recordingTop Choice: Dawn Upshaw
Symphony No. 3
Roy Harris
2 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Symphony No. 44 in E minor 'Trauer' (Mourning)
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice: Roy Goodman / The Hanover Band
Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor 'Farewell'
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice: Antal Doráti / Philharmonia Hungarica
Symphony No. 48 in C major 'Maria Theresa'
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice:
Symphony No. 49 in F minor 'La Passione'
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice:
Symphonies Nos. 82-87 'Paris Symphonies'
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Symphony No. 88 in G major
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice: Wilhelm Furtwängler / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 92 in G major 'Oxford'
Joseph Haydn
1 recordingTop Choice: Karl Böhm / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony 'Mathis der Maler'
Paul Hindemith
2 recordingsTop Choice: William Steinberg / Boston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 (for strings and trumpet)
Arthur Honegger
1 recordingTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 'Symphonie Liturgique'
Arthur Honegger
1 recordingTop Choice: Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2
Charles Ives
1 recordingTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 'The Camp Meeting'
Charles Ives
1 recordingTop Choice: Ludovic Morlot / Seattle Symphony
Symphony No. 4
Charles Ives
1 recordingTop Choice: Ludovic Morlot / Seattle Symphony
A Faust Symphony
Franz Liszt
2 recordingsTop Choice: John Mitchinson
Symphony No. 7 in E minor
Gustav Mahler
4 recordingsTop Choice: Jascha Horenstein / New Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Gustav Mahler
4 recordingsTop Choice: Jascha Horenstein / London Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor 'Reformation'
Felix Mendelssohn
1 recordingTop Choice: Charles Munch / Boston Symphony Orchestra
Turangalîla-Symphonie
Olivier Messiaen
2 recordingsTop Choice: Antoni Wit / Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 25 in G minor 'Little G Minor'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1 recordingTop Choice: Josef Krips / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Symphony No. 29 in A major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordingsTop Choice: Benjamin Britten / English Chamber Orchestra
Symphony No. 31 in D major 'Paris'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordingsTop Choice: Daniel Barenboim / English Chamber Orchestra
Symphony No. 35 in D major 'Haffner'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordingsTop Choice: George Szell / The Cleveland Orchestra
Symphony No. 36 in C major 'Linz'
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
2 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 'Sinfonia Espansiva'
Carl Nielsen
2 recordingsTop Choice: Myung-Whun Chung / Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 4 'The Inextinguishable'
Carl Nielsen
2 recordingsTop Choice: Jean Martinon / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 5
Carl Nielsen
2 recordingsTop Choice: Jascha Horenstein / New Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor
Sergei Prokofiev
1 recordingTop Choice: Yevgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
Franz Schubert
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir Thomas Beecham / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major 'Spring'
Robert Schumann
2 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2 in C major
Robert Schumann
2 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major 'Rhenish'
Robert Schumann
2 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 4 in D minor
Robert Schumann
3 recordingsTop Choice: Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic
Symphony No. 1 in F minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recordingTop Choice: Eugene Ormandy / The Philadelphia Orchestra
Symphony No. 4 in C minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recordingTop Choice: Kirill Kondrashin / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recordingTop Choice: Yevgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 9 in E-flat major
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recordingTop Choice: Neeme Järvi / Scottish National Orchestra
Symphony No. 11 in G minor 'The Year 1905'
Dmitri Shostakovich
1 recordingTop Choice: Leopold Stokowski / Houston Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 13 in B-flat minor 'Babi Yar'
Dmitri Shostakovich
2 recordingsTop Choice: Vitaly Gromadsky
Symphony No. 14
Dmitri Shostakovich
2 recordingsTop Choice: Galina Vishnevskaya, Mark Reshetin
Symphony No. 15 in A major
Dmitri Shostakovich
2 recordingsTop Choice: Kurt Sanderling / Berliner Symphoniker (Berlin Symphony Orchestra)
Symphony No. 1 in E minor
Jean Sibelius
3 recordingsTop Choice: Mariss Jansons / Oslo Philharmonic
Symphony No. 3 in C major
Jean Sibelius
2 recordingsTop Choice: Vladimir Ashkenazi / Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphony No. 6 in D minor
Jean Sibelius
3 recordingsTop Choice: Vladimir Ashkenazi / Philharmonia Orchestra
Asrael Symphony
Josef Suk
1 recordingTop Choice: Karel Ančerl / Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden
Symphony No. 1 in G minor 'Winter Daydreams'
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1 recordingTop Choice: Mariss Jansons / Oslo Philharmonic
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Little Russian'
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1 recordingTop Choice: Antal Doráti / London Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 3 in D major 'Polish'
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1 recordingTop Choice: Igor Markevitch / London Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Symphony
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
2 recordingsTop Choice: Riccardo Muti / Philharmonia Orchestra
Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir John Barbirolli / Hallé Orchestra
Symphony No. 3 'A Pastoral Symphony'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Heather Harper
Symphony No. 5 in D major
Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 recordingsTop Choice: Bryden Thomson / London Symphony Orchestra
Symphony No. 1 'A Sea Symphony'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Isobel Baillie, John Cameron
Symphony No. 4 in F minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
2 recordingsTop Choice: Sir Adrian Boult / London Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Sir Adrian Boult / London Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 7 'Sinfonia Antartica'
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Sir John Gielgud
Symphony No. 8 in D minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Sir Adrian Boult / London Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 9 in E minor
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1 recordingTop Choice: Sir Adrian Boult / London Philharmonic Orchestra
Symphony No. 1 in B-flat minor
William Walton
2 recordingsTop Choice: André Previn / London Symphony Orchestra