Вока́льная симфо́ния (также хорова́я или хора́льная симфо́ния; англ. choral symphony) — общее название симфонических произведений, написанных для хора a cappella, либо для хора и/или солистов-вокалистов в сопровождении каких-либо исполнителей-инструменталистов, вплоть до расширенного состава участников большого симфонического оркестра^[1].

Бетховен:

• Симфония No. 9 (1824)

Берлиоз

• Симфония «Ромео и Джульетта» (1835)

Мендельсон

• Симфония No. 2 (1840)

Лист

• «Фауст-симфония» (1854)
• «Данте-симфония» (1856)

Малер

• Симфония No. 2 (1894)
• Симфония No. 3 (1896)
• Симфония No. 8 (1907)

Скрябин

• Симфония No. 1 (1900)

Рахманинов

• Симфоническая поэма «Колокола» (1913)

Шимановский

• Симфония No. 3 (1916)

Энеску

• Симфония No. 3 (1921)

Холст

• «Хоральная Симфония» (1924)

Шостакович

• Симфония No. 2 «Октябрю» (1927)
• Симфония No. 3 «Первомайская» (1929)
• Симфония No. 13 «Бабий Яр» (1962)

Стравинский

• «Симфония Псалмов» (1930)

Бриттен, Бенджамин

• «Весенняя Симфония» (1947)

Бернстайн

• «Symphony Kaddish» (1963)

Шнитке

• Симфония No. 2 «Saint Florian» (1979)
• Симфония No. 4 (1984)

Хаханов

• Симфония No. 6 (1982)

Ованнес

• Symphony No. 58, «Sinfonia Sacra» (1985)

Пендерецкий

• Symphony No. 7, «Seven Gates of Jerusalem» (1996)
• Symphony No. 8 «Songs of Transitoriness» (2005)

Гренвилл Банток:

• Atalanta in Calydon (1911)
• Vanity of Vanities (1913)
• A Pageant of Human Life (1913)

Рой Харрис:

• Symphony for Voices (1935)

Малколм Уильямсон:

• Symphony for Voices (1962)

Евгений Станкович

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