Also, if you like your music symphonic and poetic, you can't go far wrong with Smetana's symphonic poem (see what I did there?
) Vltava. Still my all-time favourite orchestral piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49WNphaiwNY
And another vote for Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - either his original piano composition, or Ravel's famous arrangement for symphony orchestra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49WNphaiwNY
And another vote for Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition - either his original piano composition, or Ravel's famous arrangement for symphony orchestra.