ABC Classic FM - Classic 100 Symphonies
The countdown
  • No. 1. DVORAK Symphony No.9 in E minor 'From the New World'. Graham Abbott with the Melbourne Symphony live from Hamer Hall
  • No. 2. BEETHOVEN Symphony No.9 'Choral'. Graham Abbott with the Melbourne Symphony live from Hamer Hall
  • No. 3. BEETHOVEN Symphony No.6 'Pastoral'. Graham Abbott with the Melbourne Symphony live from Hamer Hall
  • No. 4. SAINT-SAENS Symphony No.3 in C minor 'Organ Symphony' Calvin Bowman, organ Graham Abbott with the MSO live from Hamer Hall
  • No. 5. BEETHOVEN Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92. Graham Abbott with the Melbourne Symphony live from Hamer Hall
  • No. 6. BEETHOVEN Symphony No5 in C minor. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Carlos Kleiber
  • No. 7. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op74 (Pathetique) - Russian National Orch / Mikhail Pletnev
  • No. 8. BEETHOVEN Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op55 (Eroica) - Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall
  • No. 9. SIBELIUS Symphony No 2 in D, Op43 - Royal Phil Orch / Sir John Barbirolli
  • No. 10. SCHUBERT Symphony No 9 in C, D944, 'The Great' - Orch of the Age of Enlightenment/Sir Charles Mackerras
  • No. 11. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 5 in E minor, Op 64 - Vienna Phil Orch/Valery Gergiev
  • No. 12. MOZART Symphony No 41 in C, K551, 'Jupiter' - Cleveland Orch/George Szell
  • No. 13. MOZART Symphony No.40 in G minor K550 - Chamber Orch of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
  • No. 14. MAHLER Symphony No. 2 in C min, 'Resurrection' - R.Illing E.Campbell; Sydney Phil Choir Sydney Symphony Orch Stuart Challender
  • No. 15. BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique, Op.14 - London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
  • No. 16. RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op27 - London Sym Orch / Andre Previn
  • No. 17. GORECKI Symphony No 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), Op36 - Zofia Kilanowicz, s; Polish National RSO Katowice/Antoni Wit
  • No. 18. MAHLER Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor - Royal Concertgebouw Orch / Riccardo Chailly
  • No. 19. SCHUBERT Symphony No 8 in B minor, D759, 'Unfinished' - Vienna Phil Orch / Josef Krips
  • No. 20. BRAHMS Symphony No 4 in E minor, Op 98 - Vienna Phil Orch / Carlos Kleiber
  • No. 21. MAHLER Symphony No 1 in D, 'Titan' - London Sym Orch / Sir Georg Solti
  • No. 22. Brahms Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 - Philharmonia Orch / Otto Klemperer
  • No. 23. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 4 in A, Op90 (Italian) - London Classical Players / Roger Norrington
  • No. 24. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op56 (Scottish) - Cleveland Orch / Christoph von Dohnanyi
  • No. 25. SIBELIUS Symphony No 5 in E flat, Op82 - London Sym Orch / Alexander Gibson
  • No. 26. SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 in D minor, OP 47 - Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg/ Valery Gergiev
  • No. 27. Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D, Op 25, 'Classical' - London Sym Orch / Andre Previn
  • No. 28. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 4 in F minor, OP 36 - Tchaikovsky Sym Orc of Moscow Radio / Vladimir Fedoseyev
  • No. 29. Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F, op.90 Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt
  • No. 30. Elgar Symphony No.1 in A flat, op.55 Halle Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli
  • No. 31. SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 7 in C, Op 60, 'Leningrad' - Chicago Sym Orch / Leonard Bernstein
  • No. 32. DVORAK Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88 - Columbia Sym Orch / Bruno Walter
  • No. 33. MAHLER Symphony No 4 in G, Rafael Druian, v; Judith Raskin, s; Cleveland Orch / George Szell
  • No. 34. BIZET Symphony in C, French National Radio Orch / Sir Thomas Beecham
  • No. 35. BRAHMS Symphony No 2 in D, Op. 73, Berlin Phil Orch / Herbert von Karajan
  • No. 36. Mahler Symphony No.8, - Soloists and choirs,Chicago Symphony/Sir Georg Solti
  • No. 37. Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F, Op 93 - London Classical Players/Roger Norrington
  • No. 38. Mozart Symphony No.39 in E flat, K543 - Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Sir Georg Solti
  • No. 39. Mahler Symphony No 3 in D minor - Helga Dernesch, c; Chicago Sym Orch / Sir Georg Solti
  • No. 40. SCHUBERT Symphony No 5 in B flat, D485 - Orch of the 18th Century / Frans Bruggen
  • No. 41. MAHLER Symphony No 9 in D - Concertgebouw Orch / Bernard Haitink
  • No. 42. FRANCK Symphony in D minor - French National Radio Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham
  • No. 43. SIBELIUS Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52 - Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra / Paavo Berglund
  • No. 44. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 5 in D - London Sym Orch / Richard Hickox
  • No. 45. HAYDN Symphony No 94 in G, 'Surprise' - Concertgebouw Orch / Sir Colin Davis
  • No. 46. BRUCKNER Symphony No 4 in E flat, 'Romantic', Chicago Sym Orch / Daniel Barenboim
  • No. 47. SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 10 in E minor, Op 93, USSR Ministry of Culture Sym Orch / Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
  • No. 48. SIBELIUS Symphony No 1 in E minor, Op 39, National Phil Orch / Leopold
  • No. 49. R.STRAUSS An Alpine Symphony, Op 64, Los Angeles Phil Orch / Zubin Mehta
  • No. 50. SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 11 in G minor, Op103, 'The Year 1905', Philadelphia Orch / Mariss Jansons
  • No. 51. MOZART Symphony No 38 in D, K504, 'Prague', Royal Phil Orch / Sir Thomas Beecham
  • No. 52. BRUCKNER Symphony No 8 in C minor, Vienna Phil Orch / Pierre Boulez
  • No. 53. Sibelius Symphony No 7 in C, Op 105 - Helsinki Phil Orch/Paavo Berglund
  • No. 54. MAHLER Symphony No 6 in A minor, 'Tragic', Vienna Phil Orch / Leonard Bernstein
  • No. 55. MOZART Symphony No 29 in A, K201 - Concertgebouw Orch / Count Nikolaus de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt
  • No. 56. MESSIAEN Turangalila Symphony - Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p; Dominique Kim, ondes martenot; Berlin Phil Orch / Kent Nagano
  • No. 57. ELGAR Symphony No 2 in E flat, Op 63, Halle Orch / Sir John Barbirolli
  • No. 58. HAYDN Symphony No 101 in D (The Clock) - Philharmonia Hungarica / Antal Dorati
  • No. 59. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 3 (Pastoral) - Margaret Price, s; New Philharmonia Orch / Sir Adrian Boult
  • No. 60. BEETHOVEN Symphony No 4 in B flat, Op60 - Columbia Sym Orch / Bruno Walter
  • No. 61. DVORAK Symphony No 7 in D minor, Op70 - Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam / Sir Colin Davis
  • No. 62. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 1, 'A Sea Symphony', London Sym Orch & Chorus / Andre Previn
  • No. 63. BEETHOVEN Symphony No 2 in D, London Classical Players / Roger Norrington
  • No. 64. RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3, Op 44 - London Sym Orch / Andre Previn
  • No. 65. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 2 in G, 'London' - London Sym Orch / Richard Hickox
  • No. 66. BRUCKNER Symphony No 7 in E - Royal Concertgebouw Orch / Bernard Haitink
  • No. 67. ROSS EDWARDS Symphony No 1 'Da Pacem Domine' - Sydney Sym Orch / David Porcelijn
  • No. 68. MOZART Symphony No 25 in G minor, K183 - Prague Chamber Orch / Sir Charles Mackerras
  • No. 69. BRUCKNER Symphony No 9 in D minor - Columbia Sym Orch / Bruno Walter
  • No. 70. MOZART Symphony No 35 in D, K385, 'Haffner' - Concertgebouw Orch, Amsterdam / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
  • No. 71. BORODIN Symphony No 2 in B minor - London Sym Orch / Jean Martinon
  • No. 72. MOZART Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) - Australian Brandenburg Orch / Paul Dyer, fp
  • No. 73. SCHUMANN Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op97 (Rhenish) - London Classical Players / Sir Roger Norrington
  • No. 74. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 1 i G minor, Op 13 (Winter Dreams) - Royal Concertgebouw Orch / Riccardo Chailly
  • No. 75. TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony, Op. 58, NBC Sym Orch / Arturo Toscanini
  • No. 76. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 7, 'Sinfonia Antartica', Catherine Bott, s; Roderick Elms, o; London Sym Orch & Chorus/Bryden Thomson
  • No. 77. WALTON Symphony No 1 in B flat- Hugh Wolff - Sydney Symphony Orchestra
  • No. 78. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 5 in D 'Reformation' - Orch of the 18th Century/ Frans Bruggen
  • NO. 79. HAYDYN Symphony No 104 in D, "London"- La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken
  • No. 80. SIBELIUS Symphony No 4 in A minor- Philharmonia Orch/Vladimir Ashkenenazy
  • No. 81. PHILIP BRACANIN Symphony No 2 'CHORAL'-Margaret Schindler/Brisbane Choral-Queensland Sym Orch/Werner Andreas Albert
  • No. 82. RACHMANINOFF Symphony No 1 - St Petersburg Phil Orch / Mariss Jansons
  • No. 83. SEAN O'BOYLE, River Symphony - Jane Sheldon, s; Anna Fraser, s; Willoughby Sym Choir; Queensland Orch / Sean O'Boyle
  • No. 84. MAHLER The Song of the Earth, Christa Ludwig, ms; Fritz Wunderlich, t; Philharmonia Orch; New Philharmonia Orch / Otto Klemperer
  • No. 85. HAYDN Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor, 'Farewell', Orch of the Age of Enlightenment / Frans Bruggen
  • No. 86. PROKOFIEV Symphony No 5 in B flat Op 100, London Sym Orch / Valery Gergiev
  • No. 87. BERLIOZ Harold in Italy, Op 14, Yehudi Menuhin, viola; Philharmonia Orch / Sir Colin Davis
  • No. 88. TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No 2 in C minor 'Little Russian', Russian National Orch / Mikhail Pletnev
  • No. 89. MENDELSSOHN Symphony No 2 'Hymn of Praise' - Chorus Musicus Cologne; Das Neue Orch / Christoph Spering
  • No. 90. NEILSEN Symphony No 4 'The Inextinguishable', Gothenburg Sym Orch / Neeme Jarvi
  • No. 91. NIELSEN Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra/ Thomas Dausgaard
  • No. 92. SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op.43 London Philharmonic Orchestra/ Bernard Haitink
  • No. 93. SIBELIUS Symphony No.6, in D minor Op.104 Boston Symphony Orchestra/ Sir Colin Davis
  • No. 94. STRAVINSKY Symphony of Psalms Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Robert Shaw
  • No. 95. RACHMANINOV The Bells, Opus 35 Marina Mescheriakova Russian National Orchestra
  • No. 96. DVORAK Symphony No 6, Czech Phil Orch / Vaclav Neumann
  • No. 97. SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1 'Spring', Orch des Champs Elysees / Philippe Herreweghe
  • No. 98. DVORAK Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76, London Sym Orch / Istvan Kertesz
  • No. 99. GLASS Symphony No. 4 'Heroes', American Composers Orch / Dennis Russell Davies
  • No. 100. HAYDN Symphony No. 100 'Military', Royal Concertgebouw Orch / Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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This list of symphonies was published by ABC Classic FM during voting time to help people choose what to vote for. I have no idea how comprehensive it is but it certainly covers a lot. It's in PDF format and I have it courtesy of @frindly