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Complete symphonies

Berlin PO/Andre Cluytens EMI 3877392 review
Hungarian State O/János Ferencsik Hungaroton HCD41007 review
Philharmonia O/Herbert von Karajan EMI 5158632 review
Scottish CO/Sir Charles Mackerras Hyperion CDS44301/5 review review
Russian Ntl O/Mikhail Pletnev DG 4776409

Symphony 1

Royal Phil Soc O/Sir George Henschel Symposium 1362 review
Minnesota O/Osmo Vanska BIS SACD1716 review
NBC SO/Bruno Walter Arbiter 138 review

Symphony 2

Sydney SO/Eugene Goossens ABC 4765957 review
London SO/Bernard Haitink LSO Live LSO0582 review
RTF NO/Pierre Monteux Music Arts CD1182 review

Symphony 3

London PO/Adrian Boult Vanguard ATMCD1191 review
O of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen Philips 4220522 review
Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard Simax PSC1281 review
Berlin PO/Wilhelm Furtwangler Melodiya MELCD1001106 review
Deutsche SO Berlin/Kent Nagano Arthaus 101429 review
London PO/Victor de Sabata Andromeda ANDRCD5071 review
London PO/Klaus Tennstedt EMI 3714622 review
Minnesota O/Osmo Vanska BIS SACD1516 review review
Symphony of the Air/Bruno Walter Archipel ARPCD0370 review
Vienna PO/Felix Weingartner Pristine PASC071 review

Symphony 4

Munich PO/Sergiu Celibidache ArkivCD 56521 review
Royal Flemish PO/Philippe Herreweghe Talent DOM2929100 review review
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Paavo Järvi RCA 88697 129332 review
Concertgebouw O/Erich Kleiber Tahra TAH681-83 review
Moscow PSO/Kirill Kondrashin Melodiya MELCD1001007 review
Residentie O/Willem van Otterloo Challenge CC72142
National SO/Sir Malcolm Sargent Beulah 3PD13 review
Cleveland O/George Szell ArkivCD 48158 review

Symphony 5

Halle O/John Barbirolli BBC Legends BBCL41932 review
New York PO/Leonard Bernstein Sony 82876 787402 review
London PO/Adrian Boult Vanguard ATMCD1191 review
Munich PO/Sergiu Celibidache ArkivCD 56521 review
Simón Bolívar Youth O/Gustavo Dudamel DG 4776228 review
Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan Euroarts 2072118 review
Cologne RSO/Erich Kleiber Medici MM0022 review
NWD RSO/Erich Kleiber Tahra TAH681-83 review
Berlin PO/Hans Knappertsbusch Tahra TAH606-09 review
San Francisco SO/Pierre Monteux Music & Arts CD1192 review
New York PO/Victor de Sabata Andromeda ANDRCD5071 review
National SO/Sir Malcolm Sargent Beulah 3PD13 review
Concertgebouw O/George Szell ArkivCD 420771 review

Symphony 6

London PO/Sir Adrian Boult Medici MM019-2
Berlin PO/Wilhelm Furtwangler Melodiya MELCD1001102 review
London SO/Bernard Haitink LSO Live LSO0582 review
Cologne RSO/Erich Kleiber Medici MM0022 review
Cologne RSO/Erich Kleiber Tahra TAH681-83 review
RAI Torino SO/Charles Munch Tahra TAH590 review
O dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia di Roma/Victor de Sabata Andromeda ANDRCD5071 review
NBC SO/Leopold Stokowski Cala CACD0545 review review
London PO/Klaus Tennstedt EMI 3714622 review
London PO/Klaus Tennstedt EMI 5089932 review review
Minnesota O/Osmo Vanska BIS SACD1716 review
Vienna PO/Bruno Walter Naxos 8.111032 review

Symphony 7

Simón Bolívar Youth O/Gustavo Dudamel DG 4776228 review
Budapest Festival O/Ivan Fischer Channel CCSSA25207 review
London SO/Bernard Haitink LSO Live LSO0078 review
Royal Flemish PO/Philippe Herreweghe Talent DOM2929100 review review
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Paavo Järvi RCA 88697 129332 review
RTF NO/Pierre Monteux Music Arts CD1182 review
Cleveland O/George Szell ArkivCD 48158 review

Symphony 8

Swedish CO/Thomas Dausgaard Simax PSC1282 review
RTF NO/Pierre Monteux Music Arts CD1182 review
Residentie O/Willem van Otterloo Challenge CC72142
New York PO/Victor de Sabata Andromeda ANDRCD5071 review
London PO/Klaus Tennstedt EMI 3714622 review
London PO/Klaus Tennstedt EMI 5089932 review review
USSR State Academy SO/Yuri Temirkanov Brilliant 8818 review
Minnesota O/Osmo Vanska BIS SACD1516 review review

Symphony 9

Waltraud Meier, René Pape, West-Eastern Divan O/Daniel Barenboim Warner 2564 639272 review
Royal PO/Thomas Beecham BBC Legends BBCL42092 review
various Os/Leonard Bernstein Euroarts DVD 2072038 review
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Bayreuth Festival Ch & O/Wilhelm Furtwangler Naxos 8.111060 review review
Bayerischen RSO/Mariss Janssons Arthaus 101457 review
RAI Rome O/Herbert von Karajan Tahra TAH611-13
Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter, Vienna PO/Herbert von Karajan EMI 4768782 review
RTF NO/Pierre Monteux Music Arts CD1182 review
Residentie O/Willem van Otterloo Challenge CC72142
Cleveland O/Franz Welser-Most DG 4777132



 

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