My Mahler "essential recordings" list, plus further listening:
Symphony No. 1 ('Titan')
Bruno Walter (1939) (Music & Arts, IDIS)
F. Charles Adler (Tahra)
Sir John Barbirolli (Dutton)
Leonard Bernstein (DG)
Rafael Kubelik (DG)
Further listening: Bruno Walter (1954 live) (Urania), Dimitri Mitropoulos (1940) (Sony, Enterprise), Carlos Païta (Lodia), Ernest Borsamsky (Forgotten Records), Hermann Scherchen (MCA), Rafael Kubelik (1979) (Audite), Bruno Walter (1954 studio) (Sony), Jascha Horenstein (1970) (Unicorn), Georg Solti (1964) (Decca)
Symphony No. 2 ('Resurrection')
Sir John Barbirolli (1970) (EMI, Hunt, Arkadia, Living Stage)
Otto Klemperer (1965) (EMI)
Otto Klemperer (1962) (EMI)
Zubin Mehta (Decca)
Simon Rattle (EMI)
Further listening: Otto Klemperer (1951) (Decca, Guild, Archipel, Verona), Bruno Walter (1948 NYPO) (Bruno Walter Society, Music in the Mail), Hermann Scherchen (1959) (MCA), Leopold Stokowski (BBC), Leonard Bernstein (1963) (Sony), Bruno Walter (1957) (Music & Arts), Rafael Kubelik (DG), Claudio Abbado (1976) (DG), Georg Solti (1964)
Symphony No. 3
F. Charles Adler (1952 studio) (Harmonia Mundi, Music & Arts)
Jascha Horenstein (Unicorn)
Sir John Barbirolli (1969) (BBC)
Leonard Bernstein (Sony)
Further listening: Dimitri Mitropoulos (1960) (Tahra, ICA, Archipel), Claudio Abbado (1982) (DG), Bernhard Haitink (1966) (Philips), Hermann Scherchen (1950) (Tahra), Rafael Kubelik (Audite), James Levine (RCA)
Symphony No. 4
Jo Vincent/Willem Mengelberg (Philips, Grammofono, Dante Lys, Iron Needle)
Heather Harper/Sir John Barbirolli (BBC)
Hilde Güden/Bruno Walter (1955) (DG, Andromeda)
Margaret Price/Jascha Horenstein (CfP)
Further listening: Irmgard Seefried/Bruno Walter (1950) (MCA, Orfeo, Tahra), Irmgard Seefried/Bruno Walter (1953) (Tahra, Music & Arts), Emmy Loose/Paul Kletzki (EMI), Judith Raskin/George Szell (Sony), Kathleen Battle/Lorin Maazel (Sony), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf/Otto Klemperer (EMI), Lucia Popp/Klaus Tennstedt (EMI)
Symphony No. 5
Sir John Barbirolli (EMI)
Jascha Horenstein (Pristine)
Frank Shipway (RPO)
Rudolf Schwarz (Everest)
Leonard Bernstein (DG)
Further listening: Václav Neumann (1967) (Philips, Brilliant Classics), Bruno Walter (Sony), Hermann Scherchen (1953) (Westminster), Dimitri Mitropoulos (Music & Arts), Hermann Scherchen (1962) (Stradivarius, Living Stage), Rafael Kubelik (1951) (Tahra), Rudolf Barshai (Brilliant Classics), James Levine (1978) (RCA), Klaus Tennstedt (1988), Claudio Abbado (DG), Herbert von Karajan (DG)
Symphony No. 6
Sir John Barbirolli (EMI)
Eduard van Beinum (Tahra)
Leonard Bernstein (DG)
Jascha Horenstein (1969) (BBC)
Further listening: Sir John Barbirolli (Testament), Dimitri Mitropoulos (1955) (Archipel, NYPO), Hermann Scherchen (1961) (Tahra), Leonard Bernstein (Sony), Herbert von Karajan (DG), Thomas Sanderling (Real Sound)
Symphony No. 7
Otto Klemperer (EMI)
Jascha Horenstein (Music & Arts, BBC)
Hermann Scherchen (1965) (Music & Arts)
Claudio Abbado (1984) (DG)
Further listening: Kirill Kondrashin (1975) (Melodiya), Sir John Barbirolli (BBC, Barbirolli Society), Leonard Bernstein (DG), Sir Simon Rattle (EMI), Daniel Barenboim (Warner)
Symphony No. 8 ('Symphony of a thousand')
Jascha Horenstein (BBC)
Dimitri Mitropoulos (Orfeo, Music & Arts)
Leonard Bernstein (DG)
Georg Solti (Decca)
Further listening: Wyn Morris (Pickwick), Hermann Scherchen (Tahra), Leopold Stokowski (1950) (Archipel, United Classics), Eduard Flipse (RPO, Scribendum), Claudio Abbado (1995) (DG), Klaus Tennstedt (EMI), Giuseppe Sinopoli (DG)
Symphony No. 9
Sir John Barbirolli/Torino RAI SO (1960) (IDIS, Archipel)
Sir John Barbirolli/Berlin PO (1964) (EMI)
Bruno Walter/Vienna PO (1938) (EMI, Dutton)
Herbert von Karajan/Berlin PO (1982) (DG)
Otto Klemperer/New Philharmonia Orch. (1967) (EMI)
Jascha Horenstein (1966) (Music & Arts)
Further listening: Kirill Kondrashin/Moscow PO (1964) (Melodiya), Karel Ancerl/Czech PO (1966) (Supraphon), Leonard Bernstein/Berlin PO (1979) (DG), Sir Simon Rattle/Berlin PO (2007) (EMI), Jascha Horenstein/Vienna SO (1953) (Vox), Bernard Haitink/Concertgebouw Orch. (1969) (Philips), Bruno Walter/Columbia SO (1961) (Sony), Carlo Maria Giulini/Chicago SO (1977) (DG), Dimitri Mitropoulos (Archipel, Music & Arts, Andante), Hans Rosbaud/SWR Symph. Baden-Baden (1954) (SWR, Andromeda, Arkadia), Herbert von Karajan (1980) (DG)
Das Lied von der Erde
Kathleen Ferrier/Julius Patzak/Bruno Walter (live) (Tahra, Andromeda)
Kersten Thorborg/Carl Martin Ohman/Carl Schuricht (Minerva)
Alfreda Hodgson/John Mitchinson/Jascha Horenstein (BBC)
Janet Baker/Waldemar Kmentt/Rafael Kubelik (Audite)
Christa Ludwig/Fritz Wunderlich/Otto Klemperer (EMI)
Further listening: Kathleen Ferrier/Richard Lewis/Sir John Barbirolli (APR, Dutton), Kathleen Ferrier/Julius Patzak/Bruno Walter (Decca), Kersten Thorborg/Charles Kullmann/Bruno Walter (Dutton, Naxos), Janet Baker/John Mitchinson/Raymond Leppard (BBC), Maureen Forester/Richard Lewis/Bruno Walter (Music & Arts), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau/Murray Dickie/Paul Kletzki (EMI), Brigitte Fassbaender/Francisco Arraiza/Carlo Maria Giulini (Testament), Nan Merriman/Ernt Haefliger/Eduard van Beinum (Philips), Janet Baker/James King/Bernhard Haitink (Philips)
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