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Interesting compilation some of which I have yet to hear. However, I disagree with you re. Jansons for the 7th and would recommend trying to get hold of the magnificent Paavo Berglund recording with the Bournemouth SO; it was last released on an EMI Classics 'double forte' "CD set with his equally superb recording of the 11th, and it's still availble on Amazon.

It is not easy to be perfect all the time, still I'm overjoyed that You do not disagree on more points of my list! But as You know, lists and what ends up on them comes and goes, Jansons was the choice of the day!
Today I might have chosen Ashkenazy or Ancerl or Segerstam or Kubelik or any of the something like 25 Seventh's I have on my shelf...

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So is the Berglund/Bournemouth recording one of those 25?

Yes, on vinyl..

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Not mentioned yet: http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/101/MI0001101023.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

Ancerl is very good in the seventh to!

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Kirill Kondrashin with The Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra on Melodiya (today) is generally my basic recommendation for a first complete Symphony Cycle. I generally feel that Haitink is a bit to safe and uninvolved, he coincidently got the gig with Decca to record the complete symphonies because of Kondrashin's (who was contracted to conduct) untimely death, the little I have heard of Kondrashin's work with the Concertgebouw this would have been a dynamite cycle!

If You want to mix and match there are loads of good recordings, here's my top ten list of this moment:

1: Andrey Boreyko/RSO Stuttgart (Hänssler)
2: Neeme Järvi/Gothenburg SO (DG)
3: Neeme Järvi/Gothenburg SO (DG)
4: Kirill Kondrashin/Staatskapelle Dresden (Hänssler Profil)
5: Istvan Kertesz/l'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (Testament)
6: Yuri Temirkanov/St. Petersburg PO (RCA)
7: Mariss Jansons/Concertgebouw Orkest (RCO Live)
8: Semyon Bychkov/Berliner Philharmoniker (Philips)
9: Vasily Petrenko/Royal Liverpool PO (Naxos)
10: Eugene Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra (CBS)
11: Semyon Bychkov/Berliner Philharmoniker (Philips)
12: Yevgey Mravinsky/Leningrad Philharmonic (Erato)
13: Kirill Kondrashin/Vitaly Gromadsky/Moscow PO (Russian Disc)
14: Rudolf Barshai/Margrita Miroshnikova/Jevgenij Vladimirov/Moscow CO (Melodiya)
15: Kurt Sanderling/Cleveland Orchestra (Erato)

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