Recommended Recordings of the Works of Gustav
Mahler (An evolving list)
Symphony No. 1 “Titan” 1888/89
No recordings available. (Score is incomplete)
Symphony No. 1 “Titan” 1893 (Hamburg) with “Blumine” movement
Wakasugi Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Fontec (OoP)
Wynn Morris New Philharmonia Orchestra
EMI (OoP)
Ole Kristian Ruud Symfoniorkester
Norrkoping Simax (Better than nothing, but that's not
saying much)
Symphony No. 1 1897
Leonard Bernstein Concertgebouw Orchestra
DG
Rafael Kubelik Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks Audite
Jascha Horenstein London Symphony
Unicorn (Oop) or Brilliant
Georg Solti London Symphony Decca
Bruno Walter Columbia Symphony Sony
Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic
Sony (mono)
Kirill Kondrashin NDR Symphony EMI (Germany)
Symphony No. 2
Otto Klemperer Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks EMI
Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic
DG
Zubin Mehta New York Philharmonic
NYP Editions
Oskar Fried Berlin Staatsoper Orchester
Naxos Historical
Symphony No. 3
Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic
Sony
Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic
DG
James Levine Chicago Symphony
RCA/BMG
Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips (Live)
Maurice Abravanel Utah Symphony Orchestra
Vanguard/Artemis/Silverline (DVD-Audio)
Symphony No. 4
George Szell Cleveland Orchestra
Sony
Benjamin Britten London Symphony
BBC Legends (mono)
Georg Solti Concertgebouw Orchestra
Decca
Willem Mengelberg Concertgbebouw
Orchestra Q-Disc
Symphony No. 5
Zubin Mehta New York Philharmonic Warner/Teldec
Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic
DG
Rafael Kubelik Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks Audite
Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips (1971) (Now available on a Pentatone SACD)
Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic
Sony (mono)
Pierre Boulez Vienna Philharmonic DG
Symphony No. 6
Dimitri Mitropoulos New York Philharmonic
NYP Editions
Jascha Horenstein Stockholm Philharmonic
Unicorn (OoP)
Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic
Universal (DVD Video)
Bernard Haitink Orchestra National de
France Naïve
Pierre Boulez Vienna Philharmonic DG
Charles Mackerras BBC Philharmonic BBC Music Magazine (features 3rd
hammer blow & Andante-Scherzo movement order)
Symphony No. 7
Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips (1969)
Kirill Kondrashin Concertgebouw Orchestra
Tahra (Live)
Vladimir Ashkenazy Czech Philharmonic
Exton (Available from Japan).
James Levine Chicago Symphony
RCA/BMG
Symphony No. 8
Maurice Abravanel Utah Symphony
Vanguard/Artemis
Leopold Stokowski New York Philharmonic
NYP Editions
Georg Solti Chicago Symphony Decca
Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic
Universal (DVD Video)
Klaus Tennstedt London Philharmonic EMI
Robert Olson Colorado MahlerFest
Orchestra MahlerFest
Das Lied von der Erde
Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic
Sony
Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips
George Szell Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland O (OoP)
Bernard Haitink Gustav Mahler Jugend
Orchester GNP (Live) Available from Japan.
Bruno Walter Vienna Philharmonic
EMI (1936)
Symphony No. 9
Bruno Walter Columbia Symphony Sony
Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips (1969)
Rafael Kubelik Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen
Rundfunks Audite (Live)
Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic
DG (1982 Live Berlin Festwochen)
Symphony No. 10 (Adagio & Purgatorio Movements)
George Szell Cleveland Orchestra
Sony
Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra
Philips (Adagio Only)
Symphony No. 10 (completed Deryck Cooke Version I)
Jean Martinon Chicago Symphony CSO
Editions
Symphony No. 10 (completed Deryck Cooke Version II and beyond)
James Levine Philadelphia Orchestra
RCA/BMG (Adagio movement is analog) Available from Japan.
Kurt Sanderling Berlin Symphony
Deutsche Schallplatten (with additions by Sanderling)
Kurt Sanderling New York Philharmonic Rare Moth
(Live) Available from Japan.
Mark Wigglesworth BBC National Orchestra of
Wales BBC Magazine (Cooke II + additions by the
Matthews Brothers)
Riccardo Chailly Berlin Radio Symphony
Decca
Symphony No. 10 (Completed Clinton Carpenter)
Andrew Litton Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Delos
Symphony No. 10 (Completed Joe Wheeler)
Robert Olson Colorado MahlerFest
Orchestra MahlerFest
Symphony No. 10 (Completed Remo Mazzetti Jr.)
No recommendations at this time.
Symphony No. 10 (Completed Rudolph Barshai)
Barshai Junge Deutsche Philharmonie Brilliant
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