The White Hat Guide to the Top 100 Symphonies

Here is our incomplete list (in no particular order as yet)

1. Elgar Symphony No.1 in A flat major op.55

2. Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92

3. Beethoven Symphony No.9 in D minor, Op.125, Choral

4. Beethoven Symphony No.6 in F major, Op.68, Pastoral

5. Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E - The core of this gigantic symphony is the first movement, but the single cymbal stroke in the second movement (if you are listening to the version that contains it) always makes the hair on the back of our neck stand up.

6. Haydn Symphony No 31 "Horn Signal"

7. Bloch Israel Symphony

8. Sibelius Symphony No 7 in C, Op 105

9. Martinů Symphony No 4 - possibly the most joyous of Martinů's symphonies. The slow movement is one of White Hat's favourites.

Selected performances in Australia featuring concerti from White Hat's Top 100 Symphonies:

Australian Chamber Orchestra - Romantic Symphony Australian Chamber Orchestra with Richard Tognetti (Artistic Director and Lead Violin) perform: Greenwood Popcorn Superhet Receiver (Australian Premiere) Schubert Symphony No.8, Unfinished (one of White Hat's Top 100 Symphonies) Brahms Symphony No.1 (one of White Hat's Top 100 Symphonies) 2.30 pm, Sunday 6th June, and 8pm Monday 7 Jun, Hamer Hall, The Arts Centre, Melbourne 8pm, Saturday 29th May & Tuesday 1st June and 7pm Wednesday 2nd June, City Recital Hall, Angel Place, Sydney 2.30pm, Sunday 30th May, Sydney Opera House, Sydney - Enquiries: 1800 444 444