Vienna Philharmonic discography

This is an undated alphabetical list of audio and video recordings by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. Founded in 1842, the orchestra has a long history of recording music dating back to 1905. The orchestra has made numerous critically acclaimed recordings, of which several have been ranked as the greatest classical recordings of all time, such as Beethoven's Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 with Carlos Kleiber and Wagner's complete Ring des Nibelungen with Sir Georg Solti.{{cite web |title=The 50 greatest recordings of all time |url=https://www.classical-music.com/features/recordings/50-greatest-recordings-all-time |website=classical music |access-date=February 24, 2024}}{{cite web |title=250 greatest recordings of all time: chosen by 35 of the world's leading musicians |url=https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/250-greatest-recordings-of-all-time-chosen-by-35-of-the-world-s-leading-musicians |website=Grammophone |access-date=February 24, 2024}} The orchestra has primarily made recordings with the Deutsche Grammophon, EMI and Decca labels.

Audio 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
Berg : the Wozzeck and Lulu operas, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, also conducted by Valery Gergiev and Bernard Haitink
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, James Levine, Carlo Maria Giulini and Leonard Bernstein
Brahms : Ein Deutsches Requiem conducted by Herbert von Karajan, also recorded by Carlo Maria Giulini, Otto Klemperer, Bernard Haitink and Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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 : Symphony No. 7 and 8 conducted by Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan and Georg Solti
Bruckner : Symphonies Nos. 7, 8 and 9 conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini
Bruckner : Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 conducted by Carl Schuricht
Bruckner : Symphonies Nos. 3, 4, 5, 8 and Te Deum conducted by Bernard Haitink
Bruckner : Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9 conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bruckner : Symphony No. 8 conducted by Pierre Boulez
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 : Symphony No. 9 conducted by Kirill Kondrashin
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
Glass : Violin Concerto No. 1 with Gidon Kremer, violin, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
Holst : The Planets, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Khachaturian : excerpts from Spartacus and Gayane conducted by Aram Khachaturian{{cite web |title=Aram Khatchaturian - Wiener Philharmoniker, Aram Khatchaturian - Aram Khatchaturian - Wiener Philharmoniker, Aram Khatchaturian - Spartacus · Gayaneh (Ballett-Suiten (Auszüge)) - Decca - 6.41920 AN, Decca - 6.41920 - Amazon.com Music |url=https://www.amazon.com/Aram-Khatchaturian-Philharmoniker-Spartacus-Ballett-Suiten/dp/B00XFDS4WU |website=www.amazon.com |access-date=26 June 2021}}
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, Pierre Boulez with Michael Schade and Violeta Urmana, and Carlo Maria Giulini with Francisco Araiza and Brigitte Fassbaender
Mahler : Complete Symphonies (1–9 plus the Adagio of Symphony No. 10) conducted by Lorin Maazel and Leonard Bernstein (on DVD, except Symphony No. 2)
Mahler : Symphony No. 2 conducted by Pierre Boulez, also recorded with Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, James Levine and Gilbert Kaplan
Mahler : Symphony No. 3 conducted by Pierre Boulez, also recorded with Claudio Abbado and Bernard Haitink
Mahler : Symphony No. 5 conducted by Pierre Boulez, also recorded with Leonard Bernstein
Mahler : Symphony No. 6 conducted by Pierre Boulez, also recorded with Leonard Bernstein
Mahler : Symphony No. 9 conducted by Claudio Abbado, also recorded with Simon Rattle
Mendelssohn : Complete Symphonies conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
Mendelssohn : Symphony No. 5 and another works conducted by Franz Welser-Möst and Fabio Luisi
Mozart : Symphonies Nos. 25, 29, 35, 36 conducted by Leonard Bernstein, also recorded with István Kertész
Mozart : Symphonies Nos. 33, 39, 40 conducted by István Kertész
Mozart : Symphonies Nos. 38-41 conducted by Karl Böhm, also recorded with Leonard Bernstein
Mozart : Symphonies Nos. 1-41 conducted by James Levine
Mozart : Die Entführung aus dem Serail, conducted by Josef Krips (two recordings), also recorded with Georg Solti
Mozart : The Marriage of Figaro conducted by Erich Kleiber, also recorded with Herbert von Karajan (two recordings), Erich Leinsdorf, Claudio Abbado and Riccardo Muti
Mozart : Don Giovanni conducted by Josef Krips, also recorded with Erich Leinsdorf and Riccardo Muti
Mozart : Così fan tutte conducted by Karl Böhm, also recorded with James Levine
Mozart : Die Zauberflöte, conducted by Sir Georg Solti (two recordings); the orchestra has also recorded the opera under Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan and James Levine
Mozart : Requiem conducted by Herbert von Karajan, also recorded with István Kertész, Karl Böhm and Georg Solti
Mussorgsky : Pictures at an Exhibition (arr. Ravel), conducted by Valery Gergiev, also recorded with André Previn, Gustavo Dudamel
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
Arnold Schoenberg : Erwartung, Op.17, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
Schoenberg : Gurre-Lieder, conducted by Claudio Abbado
Schubert : Symphony No. 8 conducted by Carl Schuricht
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 conducted by Josef Krips, also conducted by Sir Georg Solti and John Eliot Gardiner
Schubert : Complete Symphonies conducted by István Kertész
Schumann : Complete Symphonies, Cello & Piano Concertos conducted by Leonard Bernstein with Mischa Maisky and Justus Frantz
Sibelius : Complete Symphonies conducted by Lorin Maazel
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)
Richard Strauss : Eine Alpensinfonie, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, also conducted by Hans Knappertsbusch, André Previn and Christian Thielemann
Richard Strauss : Also sprach Zarathustra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, also conducted by Lorin Maazel, Clemens Krauss and André Previn
Richard Strauss : Ein Heldenleben, conducted by Clemens Krauss, also conducted by Georg Solti, Christian Thielemann, André Previn and Karl Böhm
Richard Strauss : Der Rosenkavalier, conducted by Erich Kleiber, also conducted by George Szell, Clemens Krauss, Hans Knappertsbusch, Robert Heger, Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Christoph von Dohnányi, Herbert von Karajan, Semyon Bychkov
Igor Stravinsky : The Firebird, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi
Igor Stravinsky : Petrushka, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi, also recorded with Lorin Maazel
Igor Stravinsky : Le Sacre du printemps, conducted by Zubin Mehta, also recorded with Lorin Maazel
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, Lorin Maazel and Herbert von Karajan
Verdi : Requiem conducted by Georg Solti, also recorded with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and Fritz Reiner
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.
Williams : arrangements of music from "Star Wars", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", and other film scores, including arrangements for violin and orchestra, with Anne-Sophie Mutter performing as the soloist. Conducted by Williams.{{Cite web|url=https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/de/katalog/produkte/john-williams-in-vienna-standard-edition-11956|title = JOHN WILLIAMS IN VIENNA (Standard Edition)}}

References

Sources

[http://www2.tokai.or.jp/s.fuji/ Complete Stereophonic Discography on Wiener Philharmoniker, accessed 15 May 2013]

Further reading

Hunt, John (2000), Wiener Philharmoniker 1 – Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Orchestras. Discography Part 1 1905–1954, University of California
Hunt, John (2000), Wiener Philharmoniker 2 – Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna State Opera Orchestras. Discography Part 2 1954–1989, University of California

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