best mahler recordings

well, it’s his birthday…

so why not? it’s something we mahler-lovers do, so…

and let me begin by presuming you to be a mahler newbie, if i may (and how i envy you, if true, you just starting out as you are on the journey into the world of mahler’s music. but to begin… the best/easiest place to start, if you are a complete newbie, is here, with his 4th

all excellent reading here…
a synoptic survey of mahler symphonies by tony duggan at music web

and then to move onto the 2nd, 1st, 3rd, 5th, 9th, 10th, 6th, 7th and 8th… and finally, to perhaps the end, where you might arrive where we are now… you will come to the song of the earth, to das lied von der erde… Enjoy!

ok, the artwise by candlelight choice of best mahler recordings

1st – NYPO with Bruno Walter – tony duggan on the 1st
2nd – NYPO with Bruno Walter – tony duggan on the 2nd
3rd – NYPO with Leonard Bernstein – tony duggan on the 3rd
4th – Cleveland Orchestra with George Szell – tony duggan on the 4th
5th – VPO with Leonard Bernstein – tony duggan on the 5th
6th – Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Georg Solti – tony duggan on the 6th
7th – NYPO with Leonard Bernstein tony duggan on the 7th
8th – London Symphonica with Wyn Morris – tony duggan on the 8th
9th – Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Carlo Maria Giulini – tony duggan on the 9th
10th – New Philharmonia Orchestra with Wyn Morris – tony duggan on the 10th

Das Lied Von Der Erde – VPO with Leonard Bernstein, James King and Dietrich Fischer Dieskau – tony duggan on das lied von der erde

and what about this? there i was looking around the youtube, found this, with glenn gould conducting… ain’t the internet just wonderful!