I append here, for interest, a list of performances in my possession which I have consulted while preparing this survey. There are other performances which I have listened to but do not own - there are doubtless also some recordings which have yet to make it into my database - so this list should not be considered exhaustive.
Symphony No. 1
PSONY/Mengelberg 1930
BBC SO/Toscanini 1937
VPO/Weingartner 1937
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
NBC SO/Toscanini 1951
VPO/Furtwängler 1952
VPO/Furtwängler 1952
BPO/Furtwängler 1953
Philharmonia/Karajan 1953
SDR SO/Furtwängler 1954
Vienna State Opera/Scherchen 1954
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1957
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
VPO/Monteux 1960
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
BPO/Karajan 1961
Unknown/unnamed orchestra/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Frankfurt Opera/Goehr 1963
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
Hallé/Barbirolli 1964
Cleveland/Szell 1965
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1967
NYPO/Bernstein 1968
Czech PO/Kletzki 1968
BSO/Leinsdorf 1969
VPO/Schmidt-Isserstedt 1969
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
CSO/Solti 1975
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1983
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1985
London Classical Players/Norrington 1987
CBSO/Weller 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1993
RCO/Sawallisch 1993
Symphony No. 1 (trans. Liszt)
Earl Wild 1985
Idil Biret 1985
Cyprien Katsaris 1988
Symphony No. 2
LSO/Weingartner 1938
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
VPO/Furtwängler 1948
NBC SO/Toscanini 1949
Philharmonia/Karajan 1953
LPO/Scherchen 1954
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1957
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
LSO/Monteux 1960
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Vienna State Opera/Gielen 1963
Cleveland/Szell 1965
BSO/Leinsdorf 1967
NYPO/Bernstein 1968
Czech PO/Kletzki 1968
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1969
CSO/Solti 1975
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
Beaux Arts Trio 1983
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
London Classical Players/Norrington 1986
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1988
CBSO/Weller 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1991
La Scala PO/Giulini 1991
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
Symphony No. 2 (trans. Liszt)
Idil Biret 1986
Cyprien Katsaris 1987
Symphony No. 3, Eroica
SO/Coates 1926
BPO/Pfitzner 1929
PSONY/Mengelberg 1930
VPO/Weingartner 1936
BPO/Jochum 1937
NBC SO/Toscanini 1938
NBC SO/Toscanini 1939
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
Preussische Staatskapelle/Karajan 1944
VPO/Furtwängler 1944
LPO/de Sabata 1946
Boston SO/Koussevitsky 1947
Niederösterreiches Tonkünstler-Orchester/Busch 1950
Concergetbouw/E. Kleiber 1950
BPO/Furtwängler 1950
RAI Rome SO/Furtwängler 1952
Philharmonia/Karajan 1952
VPO/Furtwängler 1952
VPO/Furtwängler 1952
BPO/Furtwängler 1952
BPO/Furtwängler 1952
WDR Cologne SO/E. Kleiber 1953
NBC SO/Toscanini 1953
Symphony of the Air/Walter 1954
CSO/Reiner 1954
VPO/E. Kleiber 1955
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1955
Bremer (Bremen?) PO/Knappertsbusch 1955
BPO/van Kempen 1955
SDR SO/E. Kleiber 1955
LPO/Boult 1956
SWDR SO/Horenstein 1957
VPO/Monteux 1957
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1957
Vienna State Opera/Scherchen 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Czech PO/von Matacic 1959
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1959
BPO/Fricsay 1960
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
Leningrad PO/Mravinsky 1961
BSO/Leinsdorf 1962
Concertgebouw/Monteux 1962
BPO/Karajan 1962
BBC SO/Barbirolli 1963
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Vienna State Opera/Gielen 1963
Orchestre National de France/Schuricht 1963
Czech PO/Szell 1963
NYPO/Bernstein 1965
Cleveland/Szell 1965
VPO/Schmidt-Isserstedt 1966
Czech PO/Kletzki 1967
Leningrad PO/Mravinsky 1968
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1969
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1969
BPO/Karajan 1969
VPO/Böhm 1972
BBC SO/Davis 1974
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
CSO/Solti 1975
Collegium Aureum/Maier 1976
BPO/Karajan 1977
LSO/Jochum 1978
LAPO/Giulini 1979
Concertgebouw/Kondrashin 1979
VPO/Bernstein 1980
Cincinnati SO/Gielen 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
USSR Academic SO/Svetlanov 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
ASMF/Marriner 1982
Berlin Radio/Markevitch 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
VPO/Abbado 1985
London Classical Players/Norrington 1987
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1987
Beethovenhalle Bonn/Russell Davies 1988
Orchestra of St. Luke's/Tilson Thomas 1988
LSO/Morris 1988
CSR SO/Halasz 1988
CBSO/Weller 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
LPO/Tennstedt 1991
Scottish CO/Saraste 1992
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
La Scala PO/Giulini 1992
St. Petersburg Conservatory/Titov 1993
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1993
RCO/Sawallisch 1993
BBC PO/Kovacevich 1994
Symphony No. 3, Eroica (trans. Liszt)
Georges Pludermacher 1985
Idil Biret 1986
Symphony No. 4
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg Date Unknown
LPO/Weingartner 1933
BBC SO/Toscanini 1939
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
BPO/Furtwängler 1943
VPO/Furtwängler 1950
VPO/Furtwängler 1950
NBC SO/Toscanini 1951
VPO/Furtwängler 1953
Philharmonia/Karajan 1953
LPO/Scherchen 1954
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1957
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
LSO/Monteux 1960
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
BPO/Jochum 1961
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Frankfurt Opera/Goehr 1963
Cleveland/Szell 1965
BSO/Leinsdorf 1966
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1968
NYPO/Bernstein 1969
BBC SO/Davis 1975
CSO/Solti 1975
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
BRSO/Kleiber 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
Bavarian State Orchestra/Kleiber 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
London Classical Players/Norrington 1988
CBSO/Weller 1988
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1990
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1993
Symphony No. 4 (trans. Liszt)
Idil Biret 1985
Symphony No. 5
BPO/Strauss Date Unknown
SDR RSO/Celibidache Date Unknown
BPO/Nikisch 1913
BPO/Furtwängler 1926
LPO/Weingartner 1933
Philharmonic SO New York/Toscanini 1933
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1937
BPO/Furtwängler 1937
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
BPO/Furtwängler 1947
Vienna SO/Klemperer 1950
VPO/Furtwängler 1950
Concertgebouw/E. Kleiber 1952
RAI Rome SO/Furtwängler 1952
NBC SO/Toscanini 1952
LPO/Scherchen 1954
VPO/Furtwängler 1954
BPO/Furtwängler 1954
BPO/Furtwängler 1954
Philharmonia/Karajan 1954
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1955
SDR SO/E. Kleiber 1955
LPO/Boult 1956
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1957
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
Hamburg State PO/Keilberth 1961
LSO/Monteux 1961
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
NYPO/Bernstein 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Hamburg SO/Josefowitz 1963
Cleveland/Szell 1965
RTSI Orchestra/Scherchen 1965
NYPO/Bernstein 1966
Concertgebouw/Szell 1966
Czech PO/Kletzki 1967
BSO/Leinsdorf 1968
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1968
VPO/Schmidt-Isserstedt 1969
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
VPO/Kleiber 1975
CSO/Solti 1975
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
SDR RSO/Celibidache 1982
Berlin Radio/Markevitch 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1982
Hanover Band/Huggett 1983
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
CBSO/Weller 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1991
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
NYPO/Masur 1992
Orchestra "New Philharmony" St. Petersburg/Titov 1993
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1994
Symphony No. 5 (trans. Liszt)
Glenn Gould 1968
Idil Biret 1985
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral
RPO/Weingartner 1927
VPO/Schalk 1928
BBC SO/Toscanini 1937
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1938
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
BPO/Furtwängler 1947
Vienna SO/Klemperer 1950
Concertgebouw/E. Kleiber 1952
RAI Rome SO/Furtwängler 1952
NBC SO/Toscanini 1952
Philharmonia/Karajan 1953
WDR SO/E. Kleiber 1955
LPO/Boult 1956
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1957
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1957
LPO/E. Kleiber 1958
VPO/Monteux 1958
Vienna State Opera/Scherchen 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
Hamburg State PO/Keilberth 1961
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Vienna State Opera/Swarowsky 1963
NYPO/Bernstein 1965
Cleveland/Szell 1965
VPO/Schmidt-Isserstedt 1967
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1969
BSO/Leinsdorf 1969
CSO/Solti 1972
BBC SO/Boult 1972
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
LAPO/Giulini 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
SDR RSO/Celibidache 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
SWDR Baden-Baden/Gielen 1986
CBSO/Weller 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1990
La Scala PO/Giulini 1991
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1992
Symphony No. 6, Pastoral (trans. Liszt)
Glenn Gould 1968
Idil Biret 1986
Symphony No. 7
NYPO/Toscanini 1935
VPO/Weingartner 1936
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
VSO/Wöss 1950
VPO/Furtwängler 1950
Concertgebouw/E. Kleiber 1950
Vienna State Opera/Scherchen 1951
Philharmonia/Karajan 1951
NBC SO/Toscanini 1951
BPO/van Kempen 1953
NBC SO/Monteux 1953
VPO/Furtwängler 1954
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1955
SWF SO Baden-Baden/Rosbaud 1955
Philharmonia/Cantelli 1956
LPO/Boult 1956
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1957
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1957
RPO/Beecham 1957
Leningrad PO/Mravinsky 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
BPO/Keilberth 1960
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1960
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
LSO/Monteux 1961
BPO/Fricsay 1962
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Vienna State Opera/Gielen 1963
Cleveland/Szell 1965
BSO/Leinsdorf 1966
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1967
NYPO/Bernstein 1969
Marlboro Festival/Casals 1971
RPO/Davis 1971
Bavarian Radio SO/Kubelik 1971
CSO/Giulini 1971
Cleveland/Stokowski 1971
Osaka PO/Asahina 1972
CSO/Solti 1972
NPO/Stokowski 1975
LSO/Davis 1976
VPO/Kleiber 1976
BPO/Karajan 1977
LSO/Jochum 1979
VPO/Bernstein 1980
BRSO/Kleiber 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Collegium Aureum/Maier 1981
SDR RSO/Celibidache 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
Philharmonia/Ashkenazy 1983
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
CBSO/Weller 1988
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
BSO/Bernstein 1990
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1992
Symphony No. 7 (trans. Liszt)
Ronald Smith 1983
Idil Biret 1986
Symphony No. 8
BBC SO/Boult 1932
VPO/Weingartner 1936
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1938
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
Stockholm PO/Furtwängler 1948
NBC SO/Toscanini 1952
BPO/van Kempen 1953
VPO/Furtwängler 1954
LPO/Scherchen 1954
SWF SO Baden-Baden/Rosbaud 1955
Philharmonia/Karajan 1955
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1957
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1957
LSO/Krips 1959
Columbia SO/Walter 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
VPO/Monteux 1960
RPO/Leibowitz 1961
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Vienna State Opera/Gielen 1963
Hallé/Barbirolli 1964
Cleveland/Szell 1965
Marlboro Festival/Casals 1966
Czech PO/Kletzki 1967
BSO/Leinsdorf 1969
VPO/Schmidt-Isserstedt 1969
NYPO/Bernstein 1969
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1969
CSO/Giulini 1971
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
Munich PO/Kempe 1974
CSO/Solti 1975
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
Berlin Radio/Markevitch 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
CBSO/Weller 1988
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1988
COE/Harnoncourt 1990
Osaka PO/Asahina 1992
La Scala PO/Giulini 1992
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1992
Symphony No. 8 (trans. Liszt)
Idil Biret 1986
Symphony No. 9, Choral
Unnamed SO/Coates 1925
LSO/Weingartner 1926
VPO/Weingartner 1935
NBC SO/Toscanini 1938
Concertgebouw/Mengelberg 1940
BPO/Furtwängler 1942
LPO/Walter 1947
BSO/Koussevitsky 1949
Danish Radio Orchestra/Busch 1950
VPO/Furtwängler 1951
Bayreuth Festival/Furtwängler 1951
NBC SO/Toscanini 1952
VPO/Furtwängler 1953
Vienna State Opera/Scherchen 1954
VPO/E. Kleiber 1955
Philharmonia/Karajan 1955
Philharmonia/Karajan 1955
VSO/Horenstein 1956
Philharmonia/Klemperer 1957
BPO/Fricsay 1958
Paris Conservatoire/Schuricht 1958
LSO/Krips 1959
Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny 1960
BPO/Karajan 1962
Pittsburgh SO/Steinberg 1963
BPO/Cluytens 1963
Frankfurt Radio SO/Goehr 1963
RPO/Leibowitz 1963
Cleveland/Szell 1965
Orchestra of the RSI (Switzerland)/Scherchen 1965
BSO/Leinsdorf 1969
NYPO/Bernstein 1969
LSO/Stokowski 1969
Concertgebouw/Jochum 1969
BPO/Karajan 1970
LSO/Giulini 1973
LSO/Giulini 1973
CSO/Solti 1975
BPO/Karajan 1977
VPO/Bernstein 1980
VPO/Böhm 1980
Hungarian PO/Ferencsik 1981
Dresden PO/Kegel 1982
BRSO/Kubelik 1982
Osaka PO/Asahina 1985
Hanover Band/Goodman 1988
CBSO/Weller 1988
BRSO & Members of Dresden, Kirov, LSO, NYPO, Paris/Bernstein 1989
Boston PO/Zander 1990
RLPO/Mackerras 1991
COE/Harnoncourt 1991
Osaka PO/Asahina 1991
Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique/Gardiner 1992
Orchestra of the 18th Century/Brüggen 1992
RCO/Sawallisch 1992
Symphony No. 9, Choral (arr. Liszt)
Alain Planés, Georges Pludermacher 1987
Symphony No. 9, Choral (trans. Liszt)
Cyprien Katsaris 1983
Idil Biret 1986
Symphony No. 10 (real. Cooper)
CBSO/Weller 1988
Symphony No.9, "Choral"
Survey Menu