Vienna Philharmonic - Selection of Recordings

Selection of Recordings

• Beethoven, Complete Piano Concertos (this cycle was recorded with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini and Krystian Zimerman.
• Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 conducted by Felix Weingartner, also conducted by Erich Kleiber
• Beethoven, Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 7 conducted by Carlos Kleiber
• Beethoven, Complete Symphonies conducted by Karl Böhm; this cycle was also recorded with Leonard Bernstein, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Claudio Abbado, Simon Rattle and Christian Thielemann
• Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, also conducted by Valery Gergiev
• Bernstein Candide conducted by Zubin Mehta
• Borodin, Symphony No. 2 conducted by Rafael Kubelík
• Brahms, Symphony No. 2 conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler
• Brahms, Symphony No. 4 conducted by Carlos Kleiber
• Brahms, Complete Symphonies conducted by Karl Böhm; this cycle was also recorded with John Barbirolli, István Kertész, Carlo Maria Giulini and Leonard Bernstein
• Brahms, Complete Concertos, with Krystian Zimerman, piano, Gidon Kremer, violin and Mischa Maisky, cello, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The Orchestra has also recorded the Brahms piano concertos with Maurizio Pollini, with Karl Böhm conducting in No. 1 and Claudio Abbado conducting in No. 2
• Bruckner, Symphony No. 4 conducted by Karl Böhm
• Bruckner, Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 and 9 conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
• Dvořák, Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 and 9, conducted by Lorin Maazel, recordings of nos. 8 & 9 were also made under Herbert von Karajan and Seiji Ozawa. The Orchestra has also recorded Nos. 7 & 9 with Rafael Kubelík
• Dvořák, Symphonies Nos. 6 and 8, conducted by Myung-whun Chung
• Elgar, Enigma Variations conducted by Sir Georg Solti, also conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
• Holst, The Planets, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
• Khachaturian, excerpts from Spartacus and Gayane conducted by Aram Khachaturian
• Mahler, The Song of the Earth (Das Lied von der Erde) with Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), conducted by Bruno Walter, also conducted by Leonard Bernstein with James King and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Mahler, complete symphonies (1–9 plus the Adagio of Symphony No. 10) conducted by Lorin Maazel
• Mahler, Symphony No. 2 conducted by Pierre Boulez
• Mahler, Symphony No. 3 conducted by Pierre Boulez
• Mahler, Symphony No. 5 conducted by Pierre Boulez, also recorded with Leonard Bernstein
• Mahler, Symphony No. 6 conducted by Pierre Boulez
• Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 and another works conducted by Franz Welser-Möst and Fabio Luisi
• Mozart, Symphonies Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41 conducted by Karl Böhm, also recorded with Leonard Bernstein & James Levine
• Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro conducted by Erich Kleiber
• Mozart, Don Giovanni conducted by Josef Krips
• Mozart, Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Sir Georg Solti; the orchestra has also recorded the opera under Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan and James Levine
• Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel), conducted by Valery Gergiev
• Orff: Carmina Burana, conducted by André Previn
• Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, with Hermione Gingold, conducted by Karl Böhm
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, also conducted by André Previn
• Schubert, Symphony No. 8 conducted by Carl Schuricht
• Schubert, Symphony No. 9 conducted by Josef Krips, also conducted by Sir Georg Solti
• Schubert, Complete Symphonies conducted by István Kertész
• Schumann: Complete Symphonies, Cello & Piano Concertos conducted by Leonard Bernstein with Mischa Maisky & Justus Frantz
• Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5 and 7, conducted by Leonard Bernstein
• Smetana: Má vlast conducted by James Levine, also conducted by Rafael Kubelík
• Johann Strauss II and Strauss family, works recorded at the traditional New Year's Day concert conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Riccardo Muti etc. (See also: The New Year Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra)
• Stravinsky: The Firebird, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
• Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites conducted by James Levine, also recorded with Herbert von Karajan
• Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4–6 conducted by Valery Gergiev, also recorded with Rafael Kubelík and Herbert von Karajan
• Wagner, Die Walküre, first act, conducted by Bruno Walter
• Wagner, Die Walküre (complete), conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler
• Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen, conducted by Georg Solti, voted by Gramophone as the century's finest classical record.

Besides traditional recordings, the orchestra has also recorded samples for the Vienna Symphonic Library.