Gramophone's Mahler cycle recommendations

[Russell]

Gramophone magazine has published 6 Mahler cycle recommendations for the centenary of GM's death:

http://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/focus/six-symphony-cycles-to-mark-mahlers-centenary?utm_source=ADESTRA&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_content=The%20Gramophone%20Mahler%20cycle&utm_campaign=GRM%20Mahler%20anniversary%20email

Click through the pages to find their recs for a standard/general cycle, a cycle by living conductors, a 'live' cycle, a not-so-obvious cycle, a historical cycle, and a DVD cycle.  Some interesting choices there, though of course the usual suspects (Simon Rattle & the Barbirolli M5, anyone?) pop up, as expected....

Russell

[barry guerrero]

I refuse to look. It'll just get me worked-up.

[Russ Smiley]

I refuse to look. It'll just get me worked-up.

Good choice.
Better still, give us 'the Guerrero cycle'!
No 1 –  orchestra / conductor (you can skip telling us where to buy it!)
No 2 –
No 3 –
No 4 –
No 5 –
No 6 –
No 7 –
No 8 –
No 9 –
No 10 –

[barry guerrero]

Please understand that I could easily choose many, many, MANY alternatives to what I'm listing here. In no way is this set in stone.

No 1 –  Kobayashi/Czech Phil./Canyon
           (dvd) - Fabio Luisi/Dresden Staatskapelle/Euroarts

No 2 –  Ivan Fischer/BFO/Channel Classics
           (dvd) - Boulez/Staatskapelle Berlin

No 3 –  Ashkenazy/DSO Berlin/Decca;  Kobayashi/Czech Phil./Canyon

No 4 –  I. Fischer/BFO/Channel Classics;  M. Stenz/Gurzenich Orch./Oehms

No 5 –  Karajan/BPO/DG;  Stenz/Melbourne S.O./ABC Classics

No 6 –  J-P. Saraste/Oslo Phil./Simax
           special mention to D. Zinman's "Going Against Fate" DVD

No 7 – Noseda/BBC Phil./BBC Magazine; Barenboim/Staatskapelle Berlin/Warner; Macal/Czech Phil./Exton

No 8 –  Colin Davis/Bav. R.S.O./RCA;  Zinman/Tonhalle Zurich/RCA; Bertini/Cologne RSO/EMI
           (dvd) - Bernstein/VPO/DG (at the Wiener Konzerthaus)

No 9 –  (1 disc) Gilbert/Royal Stockholm Phil./BIS; (2 disc) Karajan/BPO/'79 studio recording (I now agree with John Kim on this)

No 10 – (Cooke 1) Ormanday/Philly/Columbia
            (Cooke 3) Noseda/BBC Phil./Chandos
            (suped-up Cooke version) K. Sanderling/DSO Berlin/some Japanese label
            (Carpenter) both Litton and Zinman are very good, and in different ways
            (Samale/Mazzuca) Sieghart/Arnhem Phil./Exton
            (Mazzetti, first version)  Slatkin/SLSO/RCA
            I don't care for either the Wheeler or Barshai versions.

DLvdE - there are many, MANY really good ones - most of them from earlier times. I guess if I had to choose just one at gun-point,
            I guess it would be the M. De Young/Eji Oue/Minnesota S.O. one on Reference Recordings. I don't care for versions that
            employ a baritone instead of a mezzo or contralto.

DKW - Stenz/Gurzenich Orch./Oehms

DKL - (revised version) MTT/SFSO/RCA
        (first version) Nagano/Halle Orch./Erato

KTL/5RL/LEFG - there are tons of these that I like. A fun one is the one that Boulez/VPO/DG did with 3 different singers. There are plenty of crappy ones too, especially for the Kindertotenlieder. In the Funf Ruckert Lieder, the climax to "Um Mitternacht" often times misfires as well (it's a strange climax).

Good composer; I rather like Mahler.

[stillivor]

I'm a little pleased that the one list where I know most of the performances is the historical cycle.

I'm 65, y'know :-)

Ivor