Recordings (in Chronological Order)
The Ninth Symphony has been recorded over a hundred times for commercial release on 78-rpm discs, LP, CD, or DVD. An incomplete list includes:
- Bruno Walter with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1938.
- Hermann Scherchen with the Vienna Symphony, 1950
- Jascha Horenstein with the Vienna Symphony, 1952
- Paul Kletzi with the Israel Philharmonic, 1954
- Hans Rosbaud with the Südwestfunk Symphonie Orchester, Baden-Baden, 1957
- Dmitri Mitropoulos with the New York Philharmonic, 1960
- Leopold Ludwig and the London Symphony Orchestra, 1960
- Dmitri Mitropoulos with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1960
- Bruno Walter with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, 1960
- Sir John Barbirolli, with the Berlin Philharmonic, 1964
- Kirill Kondrashin with the Moscow State Philharmonic, 1964
- Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic, 1965
- Jascha Horenstein with the London Symphony Orchestra, April, 1966
- Jascha Horenstein with the London Symphony Orchestra, September, 1966
- Karel Ancerl with the Czech Philharmonic, 1966
- Otto Klemperer and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, 1967.
- Rafael Kubelik with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1967
- Georg Solti with the London Symphony Orchestra, 1967
- Vaclav Neumann with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, 1967
- Maurice Abravanel with the Utah Symphony Orchestra, 1967
- Bernard Haitink, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1969
- Leonard Bernstein with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1971
- Carlo Maria Giulini with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1976 (Grammy Award winner)
- Wyn Morris with the Sinfonica of London, 1978
- James Levine with the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1979
- Kurt Sanderling with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra, 1979
- Klaus Tennstedt with the London Philharmonic, 1979
- Leonard Bernstein with the Berlin Philharmonic, 1979 (Grammy Award winner)
- Eliahu Inbal with the Japan Philharmonic, 1979
- Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic, 1979-80
- Vaclav Neumann with the Czech Philharmonic, 1982
- Georg Solti with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1982 (Grammy Award winner)
- Herbert von Karajan with the Berlin Philharmonic, 1982 (Gramophone Record of the Year)
- Lorin Maazel with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1984
- Leonard Bernstein with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1985
- Kazuo Yamada with the New Japan Philharmonic, 1986
- Eliahu Inbal with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1986
- Claudio Abbado with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1986
- Bernard Haitink, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1987
- Michael Gielen with the Südwestfunk Symphonie Orchester, Baden-Baden, 1990
- James Judd with the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchster, 1990
- Libor Pesek with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, 1990
- Gary Bertini with the Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, 1991
- Leif Segerstam with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra,1991
- Kurt Sanderling with the Philharmonia Orchestra, 1992
- Sir Simon Rattle with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1993
- Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic, 1994
- Michael Halasz with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, NAXOS 8.550535-36, 1994
- Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1995 (Grammy Award winner)
- Christoph von Dohnanyi with the Cleveland Orchestra, 1997
- Jesus Lopez-Cobos with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 1997
- James Levine with the Munich Phiharmonic, 1999
- Benjamin Zander with the Philharmonia Orchestra, 1999
- Claudio Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonic, 1999
- Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 2002
- Michael Gielen with the Südwestfunk Symphonie Orchester, Baden-Baden, 2003
- Riccardo Chailly with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 2004
- Michael Tilson Thomas with the San Francisco Symphony, 2005
- Robert Olson with the Colorado Mahler Festival Orchestra, 2005
- Gerard Schwarz with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, 2006
- Daniel Barenboim with the Staatskapelle Berlin, 2006 (CD)
- Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi with the Japan Philharmonic, 2006
- Zdenek Macal with the Czech Philharmonic, 2007
- Daniel Barenboim with the Staatskapelle Berlin, 2007 (DVD)
- Jonathan Nott with the Bamberg Symphony, 2008
- Sir Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic, 2009
- Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Philharmonia Orchestra, 2009
- Eiji Oue with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, Hamburg, 2009
- Alan Gilbert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, 2009
- David Zinman with the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, 2009
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste with the WDR Symphony Orchestra of Koln, 2009
- Sir Roger Norrington with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, 2010
- Seiji Ozawa with the Saito Kinen Orchestra, 2010
- Valery Gergiev with the London Symphony Orchestra, 2011
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