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Mahler Symphony No. 4 discography

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Gustav Mahler in 1892

This is a discography of audio recordings of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony. The symphony premiered at the Kaim-Saal in Munich on 25 November 1901.[1] The symphony's first recording in 1930 by Hidemaro Konoye and the New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo is the first electrical recording of any Mahler symphony.[2]

The tabular list below is of recordings by symphony orchestras of Mahler's score. A separate list is provided, below the primary list of recordings of the full orchestra version, of chamber ensemble reductions of the work, principally of the version for 15 players by Erwin Stein.

Recordings

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Original full orchestra version

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Year of release Conductor Orchestra Soloist Label Catalog number[3][A] Notes
1930 Hidemaro Konoye New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo Sakaye Kitasawa Japanese Parlophone E 10009/14
1939 Willem Mengelberg Concertgebouw Orchestra Jo Vincent Philips Records PHM 500-040 Live performance from November 1939
1948 Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic Dési von Halban Columbia Records 11213-8D
1950 Karel Šejna Czech Philharmonic Maria Tauberová Supraphon SU40812 Album code from 2012 box set reissue
1952 Eduard van Beinum Concertgebouw Orchestra Margaret Ritchie Decca LXT 2718
1957 Paul Kletzki Philharmonia Orchestra Emmy Loose EMI 35570
1957 Leopold Ludwig Saxon State Orchestra Anny Schlemm Decca Records DL 9944
1960 Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony Orchestra Lisa Della Casa RCA Records LSC 2364
1962 Otto Klemperer Philharmonia Orchestra Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Angel Records S35829
1966 Leonard Bernstein New York Philharmonic Reri Grist Columbia Masterworks Records MS-6152
1966 Georg Solti Concertgebouw Orchestra Sylvia Stahlman London Recordings CS 6217
1966 George Szell Cleveland Orchestra Judith Raskin Columbia Masterworks Records MS-6833
1967 Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra Elly Ameling Philips Records 802 888 LY
1967 Lorin Maazel Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra Heather Harper Nonesuch Records 71259
1968 Maurice Abravanel Utah Symphony Netania Davrath Vanguard Records C-10042
1968 Rafael Kubelík Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Elsie Morison Deutsche Grammophon DG 139339
1970 Jascha Horenstein London Philharmonic Orchestra Margaret Price Classics for Pleasure CFP 159
1972 Kirill Kondrashin Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Galina Pisarenko Melodiya RCID17416511 CD reissue; fourth movement sung in Russian
1973 Hans Swarowsky Czech Philharmonic Gerlinde Lorenz Supraphon 1101346
1974 James Levine Chicago Symphony Orchestra Judith Blegen RCA Red Seal Records ARL1-0895
1976 Bruno Walter Vienna Philharmonic Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Bruno Walter Society 2-705 Live performance of 29 May 1960, Vienna Konzerthaus
1978 Claudio Abbado Vienna Philharmonic Frederica von Stade Deutsche Grammophon DG 2530 966
1979 Harold Farberman London Symphony Orchestra Corinne Curry Maybach Music Group 3-MMG 106X
1979 Herbert von Karajan Berlin Philharmonic Edith Mathis Deutsche Grammophon DG 419 863-2
1979 Zubin Mehta Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Barbara Hendricks Decca 430 756-2 Album code is for 1992 CD reissue
1979 André Previn Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Elly Ameling Angel Records SZ-37576
1981 Václav Neumann Czech Philharmonic Magdaléna Hajóssyová Supraphon Pro Arte PAL 1068
1983 Klaus Tennstedt London Philharmonic Orchestra Lucia Popp EMI/Angel DS-37954
1984 Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra Roberta Alexander Philips Records 412 119-1
1984 Lorin Maazel Vienna Philharmonic Kathleen Battle CBS Records IM 39072
1984 Sir Georg Solti Chicago Symphony Orchestra Kiri Te Kanawa London Recordings LDR 410 188
1985 Bruno Walter Vienna Philharmonic Irmgard Seefried Varèse Sarabande VCD 47228 Live recording from 24 August 1950
1986 Eliahu Inbal Frankfurt Radio Symphony Helen Donath Denon Records 33C37-7952
1986 Herbert Kegel Leipzig Radio Symphony Celestina Casapietra Tokuma Japan Communications 32TC-101
1987 Jean-Claude Casadesus Orchestre National de Lille Margaret Marshall Forlane UCD 16563
1988 Leonard Bernstein Concertgebouw Orchestra Helmut Wittek (boy soprano) Deutsche Grammophon DG 423607-1
1988 Michael Gielen Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Christine Whittlesey Saphir Records INT 830.856
1988 Otto Klemperer Cologne Radio Symphony Elfriede Trötschel Memoria 991-005 Live recording from 1954
1988 Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra Kiri Te Kanawa Philips Records 422 072-2
1988 Franz Welser-Möst London Philharmonic Orchestra Felicity Lott EMI Eminence CD-EMX 2139
1989 Wyn Morris London Symphony Orchestra Patricia Rozario Collins Classics 10442
1989 Bruno Walter Orchestre National de France Maria Stader Nuova Era 2233 Live performance from 1955
1990 Michiyoshi Inoue Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Yvonne Kenny ASV Records ASV CD RPO 8017
1990 Leonard Bernstein Vienna Philharmonic Edith Mathis Deutsche Grammophon DG video 072 223 Concert performance from 1975
1990 Andrew Litton Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Ann Murray Virgin Classics Erato 3632772 (2006 reissue)
1990 Alexander Gibson Royal Scottish National Orchestra Margaret Marshall Chandos CHAN 6505
1990 Hiroshi Wakasugi Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra Kiyomi Toyoda Fontec FOCD 9020
1990 Bruno Walter New York Philharmonic Irmgard Seefried Music & Arts CD 656 Live performance from 1953
1990/1991 Gary Bertini Cologne Radio Symphony Lucia Popp EMI Classics CDC 7 54178
1991 Milan Horvat Zagreb Radio and TV Symphony Éva Andor Digital Concerto 2 CCT 731-2
1991 Neeme Järvi Royal Scottish Orchestra Linda Finnie Chandos Records CHAN 8951
1991 Armin Jordan Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Edith Wiens Erato Records 2292–45628
1991 Otto Klemperer Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Elisabeth Lindermeier Arkadia Records 2 CDHP 590 Live performance from 19 October 1956
1991 Neville Marriner Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Mitsuko Shirai Capriccio 10358
1991 Stanisław Skrowaczewski Hallé Orchestra Alison Hargan IMP Classics PCD 972
1991 Shunsaku Tsutsumi Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra Ruri Usami Ray FHCR-1001
1991 Bruno Walter Vienna Philharmonic Hilde Güden Deutsche Grammophon DG 435 334 Live recording from 1955
1992 John Barbirolli BBC Symphony Orchestra Heather Harper Intaglio INCD 7291 Live recording from 1967
1992 Esa-Pekka Salonen Los Angeles Philharmonic Barbara Hendricks Sony Classical Records SK 48380
1992 Antoni Wit Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Lynda Russell Naxos Records 8.550527
1993 James Conlon Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne
Cologne Philharmonic
Soile Isokoski EMI Classics CDC 4 78235-2
1993 Bernard Haitink Berlin Philharmonic Sylvia McNair Philips Records 434 123-2
1993 Giuseppe Sinopoli Philharmonia Orchestra Edita Gruberová Deutsche Grammophon DG 437 527
1994 Christoph von Dohnányi Cleveland Orchestra Dawn Upshaw London Recordings 440 315
1994 Hartmut Haenchen Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Alexandra Coku LaserLight 14 139
1995 Edo de Waart Radio Filharmonisch Orkest Charlotte Margiono RCA Red Seal Records 74321 276052
1995 Charles Mackerras BBC Symphony Orchestra Sheila Armstrong BBC Radio Classics BBCRD 9101 Live recording from 1977
1996 Emil Tabakov Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra Lyudmila Hadzhieva Capriccio C49051
1997 Simon Rattle City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Amanda Roocroft Warner Classics 9029 58691-7[4]
1999 Bernard Haitink Concertgebouw Orchestra Maria Ewing Philips 464 321-2 Live recording from Kerstmatinee (Christmas Matinee) of 25 December 1982
1999 Georg Solti New York Philharmonic Irmgard Seefried New York Philharmonic Special Editions NYP 9801-NYP 9812 Live performance from 13 January 1962
2000 Pierre Boulez The Cleveland Orchestra Juliane Banse Deutsche Grammophon 463 257-2
2000 Riccardo Chailly Concertgebouw Orchestra Barbara Bonney Decca 466 720-2
2001 Benjamin Zander Philharmonia Orchestra Camilla Tilling Telarc 209947
2002 Leif Segerstam Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Eva Johansson Chandos CHAN9386
2002 Andrew Litton Dallas Symphony Orchestra Heidi Grant Murphy Delos DE-3261
2003 Michael Tilson Thomas San Francisco Symphony Laura Claycomb SFS Media SFS 0004[4]
2003 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Orchestre Métropolitain Karina Gauvin ATMA Classique ACD22306
2005 Claudio Abbado Berlin Philharmonic Renée Fleming Deutsche Grammophon 289 477 557 4
2005 Otto Klemperer Vienna Philharmonic Teresa Stich-Randall Testament SBT1397 live performance of 21 June 1955
2005 Roger Norrington Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Anu Komsi SWR Music SWR 19524CD[4]
2005 Daniel Harding Mahler Chamber Orchestra Dorothea Röschmann Erato 5456652
2006 Hartmut Haenchen Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Alexandra Coku Brilliant Classics 93277
2007 Bernard Haitink Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Christine Schäfer RCO Live RCO 07003 Live performance from 2006, the 50th anniversary of Haitink's 1956 debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra
2007 Markus Stenz Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Yvonne Kenny ABC Classics ABC4766339
2008 David Zinman Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich Luba Orgonášová RCA Red Seal G0100013329367
2008 Iván Fischer Budapest Festival Orchestra Miah Persson Channel Classics Records CCS SA 26109[4]
2008 Hans Vonk St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Esther Heideman Pentatone PTC5186323
2009 Claudio Abbado Lucerne Festival Orchestra Magdalena Kožená EuroArts 205 7988[4]
2010 Valery Gergiev London Symphony Orchestra Laura Claycomb LSO Live LSO0662
2010 Sir Charles Mackerras Philharmonia Orchestra Sarah Fox Signum SIGCD219
2010 Jonathan Nott Bamberg Symphony Mojca Erdmann Tudor TUD7151
2010 Markus Stenz Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne Christiane Oelze Oehms Classics OC649
2011 Philippe Herreweghe Orchestre des Champs-Élysées Rosemary Joshua PHI LPH001
2012 Riccardo Chailly Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra Christina Landshamer Accentus Music ACC 20257 [4] DVD
2012 Iván Fischer Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Miah Persson RCO Live DVD; live performance from April 2010
2012 Klaus Tennstedt Boston Symphony Orchestra Phyllis Bryn-Julson ica classics ICAD5072 DVD, live performance of 15 January 1977
2013 Rudolf Kempe BBC Symphony Orchestra Joan Alexander ica classics ICAC5117 May 1957 studio recording at BBC Maida Vale Studios
2014 Antonello Manacorda Het Gelders Orkest Lisa Larsson Challenge Classics CC72659 -
2015 Marc Albrecht Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra Elizabeth Watts Pentatone PTC5186487 -
2015 Mariss Jansons Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Dorothea Röschmann RCO Live RCO 015004 -
2015 Valery Gergiev World Orchestra for Peace Camila Tilling C Major 731304 DVD, live performance of 5 August 2010, Prom 26, Royal Albert Hall
2015 Paavo Järvi Frankfurt Radio Symphony Genia Kühmeier C Major 719204 DVD
2016 Ádám Fischer Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra Hanna-Elisabeth Müller AVI Music AVI 8553378[4]
2017 Valery Gergiev Munich Philharmonic Genia Kühmeier Münchner Philharmoniker 9305211300
2018 Daniele Gatti Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Julia Kleiter RCO Live RCO18004
2018 Gustavo Gimeno Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra Miah Persson Pentatone PTC5186651
2019 Vladimir Jurowski London Philharmonic Orchestra Sofia Fomina LPO LPO 0113[4]
2019 Bernard Haitink Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Juliane Banse BR Klassik 900174 Live performance from November 2005
2020 Osmo Vänskä Minnesota Orchestra Carolyn Sampson BIS BIS2356 -
2020 Leif Segerstam Turku Philharmonic Orchestra Hanna-Elisabeth Müller Alba ABCD454
2020 Hans Rosbaud SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Eva-Maria Rogner SWR Music SWR19099CD Performance of 14 May 1959
2021 Jakub Hrůša Bamberg Symphony Anna Lucia Richter Accentus Music ACC30532 -
2022 Semyon Bychkov Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Chen Reiss Pentatone PTC5186972 -
2022 Gabriel Feltz Stuttgart Philharmonic Jeanette Wernecke Dreyer Gaido DGCD21140 -
2022 Mariss Jansons Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Miah Persson BR Klassik 900719 Live recording from December 2010
2022 François-Xavier Roth Les Siècles Sabine Devieilhe harmonia mundi HMM905357 -
2023 Otto Klemperer Vienna Philharmonic Hilde Gueden Musicas/ORF 699029 Live recording from 24 August 1947, Salzburg
2023 Simon Gaudenz Jenaer Philharmonie Lina Johnson Odradek Records ODRCD440 -
2023 Walter Goehr London Symphony Orchestra Teresa Stich-Randall SOMM Recordings ARIADNE 5022-2 BBC studio recording from 9 February 1960
2024 Yannick Nézet-Séguin Berlin Philharmonic Christiane Karg Berliner Philharmoniker BPHR200364 Live recording from March 2014, Philharmonie Berlin
2024 Norichika Iimori Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen Alison Browner ebs EBS6130 -

Chamber ensemble versions

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Unless otherwise indicated, the recordings listed below of the chamber orchestra version of the work are of the Erwin Stein arrangement from 1921.

  • Howard Griffiths, Northern Sinfonia, Daniel Hellmann (boy soprano from Zürich Boys Choir) (Novalis 150-156-2, 1999)
  • Linos Ensemble, Alison Browner (Capriccio C10863, 2001; no conductor identified)
  • John Harding, Sydney Soloists, Clare Gormley (ABC Classics ABC4618272, 2004)
  • Douglas Boyd, Manchester Camerata, Kate Royal (Avie AV2069, 2005)
  • Thomas Christian Ensemble, Christiane Oelze (MDG MDG6031320, 2006; no conductor identified)
  • Kenneth Slowik, Smithsonian Chamber Players and Santa Fe Pro Musica, Christine Brandes (Dorian DOR-90315, 2007)
  • Oxalys, Laure Delcampe (Fuga Libera FUG548, 2009; no conductor identified)
  • David Curtis, Orchestra of the Swan, Heather Shipp (Somm SOMMCD245, 2011)
  • Trevor Pinnock, Royal Academy of Music Ensemble, Sonia Grane (Linn CKD438, 2013)
  • Festival Ensemble Spannungen, Christian Tetzlaff, Benjamin Beilman, Tanja Tetzlaff, Volker Jacobsen; Christiane Oelze (Avi Music AVI8553334, 2015; no conductor identified)
  • Graziella Contratto, MythenEnsemble, Rachel Harnisch (Claves CD1709, 2017)
  • Henk Guittart, Gruppo Montebello, Lies Vandewege (Etcetera KTC1620, 2018)
  • Dario Garegnani, Ensemble "Giulio Rusconi", Beatrice Binda (Da Vinci Classics, C00618, 2022)
  • Rolf Verbeek, Camerata RCO, Barbara Hannigan (Alpha ALPHA872, 2022)
  • Alejandro Muñoz, Camerata Gala, Raquel Lojendio (arrangement by Carlos Domínguez-Nieto) (IBS Classical, IBS142022, 2023)

Footnotes

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  1. ^ Recordings are from Smoley 1996 unless otherwise cited.

References

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  1. ^ Mahler Foundation.
  2. ^ Smoley 1996, p. 93.
  3. ^ Smoley 1996, pp. 81–105.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Gutman 2020.

Sources

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  • Gutman, David (3 December 2020). "Mahler's Symphony No 4: a complete guide to the best recordings". Gramophone. Retrieved 14 September 2021.
  • Smoley, Lewis M. (1996). Gustav Mahler's Symphonies: Critical Commentary on Recordings Since 1986. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-29771-1.
  • "1901 Concert Munich 25-11-1901 – Symphony No. 4 (Premiere)". Mahler Foundation. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
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