Favorite Symphonies Quiz

It seems not possible to me to make such a marriage of pure love
between a violin and the sublime winds .
In the over 8,000 recordings I owned and 2,000 live Classic concerts I’ve been to in the last 60 years this is the Zenith for me .

I’ve heard it live 3 times and many tears flew in all .Listen to it every day and will in the little time I have left.God Willing
.Vaughan Williams started this just before WW I started and though he was to old to be a soldier , he spent the entire war as a ambulance man and saw many thousands of wounded and dead British and Canadian soldiers.
He finished it when he came back and as a combat soldier myself I am sure was not the same man.
A lark takes off in a long , high spiral , I think of the piece as the soul of a soldier wending his way to heaven .

1. Brahms 2.Haydn 3.Mozart 4.Schubert 5.Beethoven 6.Schumann 7.Dvorak. 8. Sibelius 9. Vaughan Williams
Hard to live Tchaikovsky out but Vaughan Williams (or Elgar) wrote the best of modern English Symphonies .

IMO he wrote the most just plain beautiful piece ever written .

https://youtu.be/-mHgucSz1hs?t=1

Yes l would. 104 over 40.https://youtu.be/VdytrWnQMC0?t=2

His first Symphony’s were superb  , when he could compose what he wanted do .!


https://youtu.be/69r1k8oUaGs?t=85
I have this LP , though I am down to about 1,000 LP's these days it would in the last 5  I would part with .