Recordings
| Orchestra | Conductor | Record Company | Year of Recording | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | Kirill Kondrashin | Melodiya/Aulos | (see ref. below)* | CD |
| Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | Kirill Kondrashin | Melodiya | 1962 (Recording) | CD |
| Philharmonia Orchestra | Gennady Rozhdestvensky | BBC Legends | 1962(1) | CD |
| Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra | Kirill Kondrashin | Melodiya | 1966 (Recording included in the Complete Symphonies) | CD |
| Philadelphia Orchestra | Eugene Ormandy | Sony Classical | 1968(4) | CD |
| Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Kirill Kondrashin | RCO Live | 1971 | CD |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | André Previn | EMI Classics | 1977 | CD |
| BBC Symphony Orchestra | Gennady Rozhdestvensky | Medici Arts/Euroarts | 1978 | DVD |
| Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra | Ladislav Slovák | Naxos Records | 1988 | CD |
| St. Louis Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin | RCA Victor Red Seal | 1989 | CD |
| National Symphony Orchestra | Mstislav Rostropovich | Teldec | 1992(2) | CD |
| City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Sir Simon Rattle | EMI Classics | 1994 | CD |
| Philadelphia Orchestra | Myung-Whun Chung | Deutsche Grammophon | 1994 | CD |
| Prague Symphony Orchestra | Maxim Shostakovich | Supraphon | 1998(3) | CD |
| Kirov Orchestra | Valery Gergiev | Philips Classics | 2001 | CD |
| Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Mariss Jansons | EMI Classics | 2004 | CD |
| NHK Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy | Decca Records | 2006 | CD |
| London Symphony Orchestra | Mstislav Rostropovich | Andante | (2) | CD |
| London Philharmonic Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | Decca Records | 1979 | CD |
| WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne | Semyon Bychkov | Avie | CD | |
| Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | Andrey Boreyko | Hänssler Classic | CD | |
| Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Mark Wigglesworth | BIS Records | 2009 | CD |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | Bernard Haitink | CSO Resound | 2008 | CD |
* = the first recording, made by the performers who gave the premiere
(1) = aircheck of the western premiere, 1962 Edinburgh Festival
(2) = the first and second of two recordings made by the composer's close friend and colleague
(3) = the only recording made by the composer's son
(4) = the first Western studio recording
Source: arkivmusic.com (recommended recordings selected based on critics reviews)
The last two recordings include performances of the surviving original sketches of the Fourth Symphony's first movement.
- Rustem Hayroudinoff and Colin Stone (Chandos; first recording of the 1940s two-piano reduction)
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