In the deep midwinter, with time on my hands, I put together my list of 65 twentieth century symphonies by 65 different composers. If you have time on your hands why not Youtube away and get some idea about the good stuff most of which they don’t really want you to listen to.

William Alwyn Symphony No 1, Malcolm Arnold Symphony No 5, Kurt Atterberg Symphony No 6, Mily Balakirev Symphony no 2, Granville Bantock Pagan Symphony, Arnold Bax Symphony No 6, Arthur Bliss Colour Symphony, Joly Braga Santos Symphony No 3, Havergal Brian Symphony No 7, Benjamin Britten Symphonia da Requiem, Alan Bush Symphony No 4 ‘Lascaux’, Aaron Copland Dance Symphony, Paul Dukas Symphony, George Enescu Symphony No 1,  Einar Englund Symphony No 5, Alexander Glazunov Symphony No 7, Rheinhold Gliere Symphony No 3, Eivind Groven Symphony No 1, Jesus Guridi Pyrenean Symphony, Roy Harris Symphony No 3, Paul Hindemith Symphony Mathis der Maler, Gustav Holst Cotswolds Symphony, Charles Ives Symphony Number 4, Mikhail Ippolitov- Ivanov Symphony, Rudolf Karel Symphony No 3, Uuno Klami Symphony No 2, Erich Korngold Symphony, Oliver Knussen Symphony No 3, Laszlo Lajtha Symphony No 7, Rued Langgaard Symphony No 4, George Lloyd Symphony No 5, Witold Lutoslawsi Symphony No 4, Alberich Magnard Symphony No 3, Gustav Mahler Symphony no 7, Joan Manén Symphony No 2, Boruslav Martinu Symphony No 2, William Mathias Symphony No 1, Olivier Messiaen Symphony Tarangalila, Ernest Moeran Symphony, Carl Nielsen Symphony No 5,Michael Nyman Symphony No 6, Allan Petterson Symphony No 8, Hans Pfitzner Symphony in C Major, Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 3, Sergei Rachmaninov Symphony ‘The Bells’, Einojuhani Rautavaara Symphony No? Ottorino Respighi Symphony Dramatica, Albert Roussel Symphony No 3, Franz Schmidt Symphony no 2, Alexander Scriabin Symphony No 2, Joanna Senfter Symphony No 4, Dimitri Shostakovich Symphony No 8, Jean Sibelius Symphony No 3, Robert Simpson Symphony No 4, Igor Stravinsky Symphony in 3 Movements, Josef Suk Asrael Symphony, Karol Szymanowski Symphony No 2, Michael Tippett Symphony No 2, Charles Tournemire Symphony No 2, Eduard Tubin Symphony No 3, Harold Truscott Symphony, Heitor Villa-Lobos Symphony No 7, Kurt Weill Symphony No 2, Vaughan Williams Symphony No 9, William Walton Symphony No 1, Alexander Zemlinsky Lyric Symphony,