What are your favourite orchestral works

[lalo57]

Just curious... Mine would be:

Mozart's Requiem
Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture
Beethoven's 6th, 9th, 3th, 5th and 7th Symphony
Shostakovich's 10th Symphony
Dvorak's last four symphonies
Händel's water music
Rameau's Les surprises de l'amour
Schütz's Musikalischem Exequiem

And so many others... What about you?

 

[theholygideons]

Sorry.. i don't listen to orchestral works in general, but when I do... 

Scriabin symphony no.1
Scriabin symphony no.2
Scriabin symphony no.3
Scriabin symphony no.4
Lyapunov symphony no.1 + 2
Balakirev symphony no. 1 + 2

[ted]

The symphonies of Havergal Brian, especially the later ones, most of Delius, many more though.

[j_menz]

Pits. The deeper the better.

[thalbergmad]

If I do wander away from the piano, orchestrally I am usually drawn to Bax & Vaughan Williams.

Thal

[visitor]

hmm a bunch, to start off
David Diamond Symphonies (ie number 2 is probably the greatest american symphony of the 20th century) first mvmt

can link to other mvmnts from the video 

[hardy_practice]

Mozart 39, 40, 41 and all other Mozart!

[awesom_o]

Mozart 39, 40, 41 and all other Mozart!

You can play those 3 on the piano with a friend! Great fun!

For me, there are too many to list.... just too many

[hardy_practice]

You can play those 3 on the piano with a friend! Great  fun!

The reason I got more ernest on the piano - I was sick of hearing them murdered by the amateur orchestras I play in.

[indianajo]

I'm so conventional.
Moussorgski Pictures at an Exhibition
Katchaturian Ganya Ballet especially Sabre Dance
Tchaikovsky Capriccio Italien
Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espanol
Mendelssohn Midsummer Night's Dream
Beethoven Sixth Symphony
Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Prokofiev Classical Symphony
Shostakovich Symphony #5
Elgar Enigma Variations
These don't get much airplay anymore on the FM band. Most are too long to fit the commercials of the new non-profitt FM band format (since 1978).  It seems every other track on the WFMT affiliates is either a guitar adaptation of something, often JS Bach, or Mozart.  As a response I've stocked up on LP's from the charity resale store and listen to radio a lot less now.