This thread is an experiment in having a thread dedicated to a composer. This one can be a place to collect useable Web resources about Gustav Mahler and offer personal suggestions about recordings and collections. There are plenty of Mahler resources on the Web and perhaps better to aggregate those links than attempt to replace what they do.
Anyway, kindly contribute suggestions, favorite recordings, and thoughts, or whatever Mahler related, as you please.
Suggested Recordings: There are as many interpretations as there are conductors and as many opinions as listeners. Pictures are clickable.
Redbook CD Mahler Collections, etc.
- EMI 3402382 - "If you want to know what Mahler's all about, conveniently and inexpensively, this is the set to have." under $30 here
- Sony 88697 453692 - classic performances
Vinyl Mahler Collections, etc.
- SFS Media/Michael Tilson Thomas Mahler Project - also on SACD commentary
Has anyone heard the
Zinman cycle?
Individual works, etc.
- Channel Classics SACD: Symphony 2, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, top notch sound and performance
- San Francisco Media SACD: Symphony 3, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
- Channel Classics SACD: Symphony 4, Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra
- DG CD: Symphony 6, Leonard Berstein and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- LSO Live SACD: Symphony 8, Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra
- EMI CD: Symphony 9, Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- San Francisco Media SACD: Songs with Orchestra, Thomas Hampson (baritone), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra - 5 star sonics & performance
- EMI CD: Des Knaben Wunderhorn,Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) George Szell and the London Symphony Orchestra - "indispensable"
... more coming
Mahler Resources
MahlerReviews.com: Find reviews of Mahler recordings by work or conductor.
gustavmahlerboard.com: Discussion forum on the life and music of Gustav Mahler.
musicweb-international.com: Excellent collection of recording reviews for each Symphony and the Rückert Lieder, plus more.
Gustav Mahler: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Collection Noël-Vallerand: Les disques Gustav Mahler, a nice collection of listings at McGill's music library
"My Time is Yet to Come" - The Symphonies of Gustav Mahler on Record
5/10/2021
NOTE: Many of the references in this thread originally had album cover pictures accompanying them. Many of those came from various sources on the Web which have now removed the picture or changed its location. I've tried maintaing these but it is an endless task. I downloaded many album cover pictures and put them in an AA album and displayed them from there, however available AA space ran out. Hopefully one can use an album's catalog number when present. I ask please for all future album references to include catalog numbers. Thank you.