Top 10 Greatest Symphony Finales

Top 10 Greatest Symphony Finales
I thought this was a fun video to showcase the most epic symphonic finales. Obviously, this is a subjective list, so feel free to agree/disagree with my placements! There are a TON of symphonies that exist, and I can't listen to all of them, so there is a high chance I may have missed a great one :)
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Links/Placements of the Symphonies:
10. Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 • Shostakovich - Symphon...
9. Brahms Symphony No. 4 • Video
8. Mahler Symphony No. 2 • Mahler: Symphony No. 2...
7. Sibelius Symphony No. 2 • Jean Sibelius: Symphon...
6. Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 • Video
5. Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 1 • Rachmaninov Symphony N...
4. Beethoven Symphony No. 9 • Beethoven Symphony No....
3. Bruckner Symphony No. 4 • Bruckner Romantic Symp...
2. Mahler Symphony No. 8 • Mahler's 8th symphony ...
1. Shostakovich Symphony No. 7 • Video

[@acactus2190]

Everyone! Before you comment “why is this symphony only at this place” please read the disclaimer at the beginning of the video!

[@zelop9632]

Its embarrassing that there even needs to be a disclaimer in the beginning. Classical music listeners just dont know what an opinion is or what it means for something to be subjective

[@remotoadamotroppovelocelaf868]

Mahler è melenso assai.Tanto caos come Berlioz. INASCOLTABILI.

[@ryanjeffers679]

Shosty 11 is SUCH an amazing piece absolutely love to see it here

[@CrsD-Assxssin]

The tocsin never fails to impress me. (I think that's what this movement is called)

[@longlifetometal1995]

Nastiest bass clarinet licks in the rep hands down

[@yvonneplant9434]

I wonder how often Stalin considered putting him in the Gulag. Shosh, I believe, reigned in some of his more radical music to prevent that.

[@Ginkgo_biloba]

Mahler 8 is an epic piece of music, and if I closed my eyes while listening to the version you posted here, I wouldn't have guessed it was performed by a youth orchestra. So well done, bravo!

[@neon2125]

really glad to see rachmaninoff's first symphony here, really underrated piece

[@zephthezquirrellord]

I think it has a great finale, but still doesn't make this list

[@Dylonely_9274]

Great list and I know there is no particular order, but I would still have put Mahler’s second in last or penultimate of the video. I am glad to see that you’re not only a connoisseur of classical piano music !

[@acactus2190]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@MotoMoto-ld9gi]

I love Mahler no.5’s ending, but to be fair after the first few minutes it falls flat.

[@wjtk7]

Hi! Would you ever consider ranking all of the Shostakovich symphonies?

[@wolfgangvanchopin4093]

Symphony 11 by Shostakovich is such a great piece

[@ethanberning6657]

Super fun list of underrated pieces

[@Dylonely_9274]

Underrated ???

[@braydonjackson7184]

FINALLY rach 1 getting the attention it deserves

[@gigogrom216]

I like the ending of Arthur Lemba's 1st symphony If you count Scriabin's symphonic works, then you must include Poem of Extase

[@romanmakarevych4483]

Good, at least one Bruckner symphony (though ending of 8th could also fit in here), still good to see knowing how much his music is despised lmao

[@mayankprajapat4591]

Shostakovich's 11th should be on first. It is so damn good. Those ominous bells omg, always sent shivers down my spine. It feels like i know the purpose of human existence after listening the whole symphony.

[@biketennis5993]

Great selections. I only wish more time would have been allowed between the endings so that the enjoyment of an ending could be experienced before the start of the next piece.

[@arseniylanin]

3 Schostakowitch symfonies? You are really his fun I guess) maybe I'd like to see in this top one of the Tchaikovsky symfonies, really like the 5th. Thank you for the video!)

[@acactus2190]

Thanks! Shostakovich is my go to for for symphonies lol

[@CrsD-Assxssin]

I agree lol. But still, the see is full of fish

[@mayankprajapat4591]

​@@acactus2190I wish we were friends, we can blast Shostakovich symphony together and just make life choices.

[@user_igorhoffman]

Чтобы показать эпичность финала 5 симфонии Чайковского, придется вставить ещё 3 предыдущие части

[@autoghg]

Very interesting list even though as a mahlerian I can't understand why Mahler 2 isn't in the top three :(( Shostakovich is always very very epic and I personnally like his 7th, 10th and 11th symphonies the most just like you... for the seventh you really have to watch/listen to the perfomance of Klaus Mäkelä (my favorite conductor ever... I also met him this summer and talked to him

[@acactus2190]

Thanks! But this list is in NO particular order!

[@autoghg]

​@@acactus2190ah well ok didn't know this but that makes it clearer. Thanks :))

[@neceon4586]

YESSS WE NEED MORE SCHOSTA 11 LOVE

[@matthew_cello]

completely agree with this list, but what about prokofiev 5?

[@acactus2190]

Oooh good one, missed that sorry 😢

[@wk3004]

I understand this is subjective… but no Tchaikovsky 4??

[@seanoslin5299]

Celibidache’s Bruckner 4… you have good taste

[@Richard-b5r9v]

I have played the timpani part to the end of Sibelius 2nd Symphony and because of the constant rolling required my wrists and arms were fatigued big time

[@tygrtales6319]

Yes finally sibeliussss❤

[@Musique_Splat]

You got me for putting Sibelius 2 up there! Great Video!

[@MrTonyHeath]

Were i choosing, this would not have been the only Sibelius but I would not have been daft enough to attempt such an impossible assignment.

[@fastasaswhale]

All epic! That is all I want in my classical music. No soft stuff!

[@robertagregory7177]

This is fun, thanks! And thanks for showing the orchestras too. People definitely have different taste in music and definitions of Epic. A few here I would choose. I’d add Dvorak 9, Tchaikovsky 5, Saint-Saens 3, and Schubert 9, and a different Brahms, probably the over the top 2, and probably a Mahler but not two of them, too many other good composers.

[@stephenjcarr1]

Some of my favorite symphonies in this list

[@jesemepardens9151]

Not an honorable mention for Mahler 3 or Shostakovich 9 ? 😢

[@acactus2190]

Sorry! The honorable mentions got too long :/

[@thomasvendetti3742]

Great choices! Add Bruckner 5

[@vigokovacic3488]

I was expecting Mozarts 41st somewhere in here but okay! It's a subjective list!

[@Dylonely_9274]

This symphony is particularly great from Mozart, but don’t compare it to Bruckner Mahler and Shostakovich !

[@vigokovacic3488]

@@Dylonely_9274 I think one should consider the times when the symphonies were made. In that context, Mozart's should rival that of Bruckner, Mahler or Shostakovich, if not exceed them!

[@villain7140]

@@Dylonely_9274Mozart is 10x the composer any of them are.

[@nicomatf]

Same!

[@vladislavkorotkov9911]

3 Шостаковича из 10 Чайковский покинул чат

[@ikmarchini]

Da

[@integral_icecream]

Saint-Saens - Symphony no.3 (Jarvi)

[@Eddy525_violin]

Mendelssohn scottish symphony

[@Richard-b5r9v]

At 10:45 the soundtrack and visuals are not in sync as you can see when the timpanist is playing

[@чел-н2ы]

Where is the Liszt Faust Symphony? 😢😢😢

[@acactus2190]

I really like the first movement, the ending is probably top 20

[@thegasmaskguy111]

Beethovens 9th finale is the best in my opinion

[@AlexanderSuppermann]

Well, technically the final of Beethoven symphony n.9 is a cancan

[@marcinbaranowski2282]

wHeRe Is AlKaN sYmPhOnY fOr SoLo PiAnO!!1!

[@JWP452]

Mozart Symphony No. 1 in E flat major, K. 16, written in 1764 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the age of eight.

[@villain7140]

Love hearing the Beethoven finale which is a masterpiece by itself then comes something by Bruckner which (imo of course!) sounds like something and music student could write and something Beethoven could write in his sleep

[@furdiebant]

Write it then

[@villain7140]

@@furdiebantI won’t because you’re right an tremolo ostinato played in a chord progression for 3 min is absolutely transcendental and extraordinary genius which poor Beethoven could never approach. Same with the Shostakovich after it

[@CaradhrasAiguo49]

​@@villain7140besides this poor attempt at sarcasm, Bruckner's 8th doesn't have any ostinati in its finale coda...

[@villain7140]

@@CaradhrasAiguo49 Im glad you could figure out the sarcasm but what you failed to figure out is that the Bruckner symphony I'm referring to and describing is the one featured in the video, not one that is not. I'm sure his others are more impressive but then out of all the ones I didn't mention you only give one counterexample so maybe not

[@CaradhrasAiguo49]

@@villain7140 the 8th is mentioned elsewhere in the comments here and does show up in other "great symphonic finales" lists

[@lionelmenguina658]

Mozart 41 ?

[@joaocorreia524]

Glazunov would have been decent in top 10 to 20

[@potrelviewer9536]

Sometimes, apotheoses in finales don't have to be ultra loud. Take for example the very end of Gliere's 3rd Symphony.

[@BillDeef]

German or Russian, take your choice.

[@COOLBEANSOFFICIAL]

These are all great but nothing can beat Mahler imo

[@einarkristjansson6812]

What is true music? This list is a list of pop music symphonies from the 19th and 20th centuries. What about the finale of Mozart´s Jupiter, which is by many experts said to be one or not the greatest finale ever written. You have to be from America. You always have to rate everything the best or number one, score goals every day.

[@hillcresthiker]

Rach and Brahms dont even belong on this list. I dont agree with your order but you did pick 8 of the biggies

[@ShadowCXC-ok4ff]

Why don't you do a video about best suite endings? i'm sure that holst mars suite would be high on the tp

[@angelavanness415]

And Firebird finale

[@v_munu]

mahler 2 at number EIGHT is a fucking crime

[@acactus2190]

This list is in no order!

[@MD-md4th]

Loud and long-winded. Blaring brass and crashing cymbals. No harmonic resolution. A weak, pretentious, and grossly overrated work.

[@v_munu]

@@MD-md4th you are on some serious fucking crack to say that mahler 2 has "no harmonic resolution" bro what- ive researched numerous criticisms of mahler's work from the early 20th century and i stg complaining about "blaring brass" and it being "weak and pretentious" fits right in with how shallow and thoughtless many of them are.

[@MD-md4th]

@@v_munu Fucking, bro, crack, etc…🤡 I doubt you can even read music.

[@GUILLOM]

​@@MD-md4thwhat?

[@Arthur-hj8nx]

Rachma is way to overrated

[@acactus2190]

Not rlly imo, I don’t see it getting talked about too much

[@unnamed_boi]

rachmaninov is sort of overrated and underrated at the same time... people love him just for the melodies and he is usually dumped for that as well, like just a composer that sweeps people but not that deep. however, his pieces are really quite meticulously composed and very well integrated. as for the symphony featured here, the first symphony i think is rach's best especially with the way he, again, integrated it with the motto theme. all of rach's symphonies have a motto theme and the first is probably the most effectively implemented of them all.

[@ikmarchini]

Some masterpieces. Some junk. You figure it out.

[@acactus2190]

Really? Junk? That’s a bit harsh