I use Presonus's Notion 5 for my first choice score writing program,it's superb and much cheaper than Sibelius,plus it's very easy to use and you can use vsti's easily within it,I write my electronic music also with it.
Hi all.
My current top 5 in no particular order.
1.Mahler 10 (Deryck Cooke performing version)
2.Beethoven 9
3.Bax 3
4.Tchaikovsky 'Manfred' Symphony (shamefully neglected masterpiece this one)
5.Bruckner 7.