Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
Deutsche Grammophon · 4745372 · 84 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Awards — 1984 — Winner – Orchestral
- Gramophone Awards — 1984 — Recording of the Year
- Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
“It is masterly, wonderfully paced and finely detailed. The Berlin Philharmonic has never sounded like this since the 1980s.”
— Penguin Guide, 2011 edition
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Sir Simon Rattle
BR Klassik · 900205 · 78 minutes
Awards:
- International Classical Music Awards — 2023 — Nominated – Symphonic Music
- Gramophone Magazine — December 2022 — Editor’s Choice
- Opus Klassik Awards — 2023 — Nominated – Conductor of the Year
“This new release of Mahler’s profoundest symphony is a live recording with all the detailed eloquence and intensity one might expect from Simon Rattle in concert. Yet it also suggests a maturing…”
— BBC Music Magazine, December 2022,4 out of 5 stars
Arleen Augér (soprano – Symphony No. 2), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo -Symphony No. 2), Birgit Remmert (contralto – Symphony No. 3), Amanda Roocroft (soprano – Symphony No. 4), Christine Brewer (soprano), Soile Isokoski (soprano), Juliane Banse (mezzo-soprano), Birgit Remmert (mezzo-soprano), Jane Henschel…
Warner Classics · 9029586917 · 12 hours 57 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Awards — 1988 — Recording of the Year
- Gramophone Awards — 1988 — Winner – Engineering
- Gramophone Awards — 1988 — Winner – Orchestral
- Gramophone Awards — 2000 — Recording of the Year
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Gilbert
BIS · BISSACD1710 · 82 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine — November 2009 — Editor’s Choice
“On a technical level this must, I think, be the finest recording the work has received. Every note is audible – and the achievement of the orchestra (still more extraordinary than that of the…”
— Gramophone Magazine, November 2009
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Channel Classics · CCSSA36115 · 75 minutes
Awards:
- Presto Recording of the Week — 18th May 2015
- Gramophone Magazine — June 2015 — Editor’s Choice
- Presto Recordings of the Year — Winner 2015
“You can always expect insights from Iván Fischer’s energised Budapest Festival Orchestra, and he has his own distinctive view on this most traumatic and ultimately transcendent of symphonies…for…”
— BBC Music Magazine, August 2015
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
LPO · LPO-0139 · 78 minutes
Awards:
- Gramophone Magazine — February 2026 — Editor’s Choice
“Listeners will have their own pantheon of classic Mahler Ninth recordings but here is one that demands to be heard…First choice or not, this is a memorably bracing take on a masterpiece that…”
— Gramophone Magazine, February 2026
Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
BIS · BIS2476 · 81 minutes
Awards:
- BBC Music Magazine — July 2023 — Recording of the Month
- Presto Recordings of the Year — Finalist 2023
“The emphasis here is on beautifully judged line and flow, allowing the music’s expressive extremes to speak for themselves without any need for exaggeration…This is one of those special listening…”
— BBC Music Magazine, July 2023,5 out of 5 stars
Mahler Academy Orchestra, Philipp von Steinaecker
Alpha · ALPHA1057 · 81 minutes
Awards:
- International Classical Music Awards — 2025 — Nominated – Symphonic Music
“The reach of the strings (breadth and depth) in the valedictory final movement is noticeably diminished from what can be so readily achieved with modern instruments but countering that the honesty…”
— Gramophone Magazine, September 2024
