The plan was to choose one recording per Symphony, but in Numbers 2, 4, 5, 6 & 9 this proved impossible.

Symphony 1: Rafael Kubelík/LSO – Deutsche Grammophon

2: Sergiu Celibidache/Munich Philharmonic – Warner Classics …

Kubelík/Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra – DG

3 (Eroica): George Szell/Cleveland Orchestra – Sony Classical

4: Sir Colin Davis/Staatskapelle Dresden – Philips …

Paul Kletzki/Czech Philharmonic – Supraphon

5: Sir Antonio Pappano/Academy of Saint Cecilia Orchestra – Orchestra’s own label …

Szell/Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra – Philips

6 (Pastoral): Karl Böhm/Vienna Philharmonic – DG …

Sir Adrian Boult/London Philharmonic (their second recording of it) – Medici Masters …

André Cluytens/Berlin Philharmonic (their second recording of it) – Warner Classics

7: Leonard Bernstein/Vienna Philharmonic – DG

8: Kubelík/Cleveland Orchestra – DG

9 (Choral): Otto Klemperer/Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra (live in the Royal Festival Hall, London, 1957) – Testament SBT1177 …

Sir Georg Solti/Chicago Symphony Chorus & Orchestra (their first recording of it) – Decca

Other versions are of course available and I will know and admire some of them. Colin