Vienna Philharmonic discography

Updated on Nov 11, 2023

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This is an audio and video discography of the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra. Founded in 1842, the orchestra has a long history of recording music dating back to 1905.

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

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. 35, 39, 40 conducted by István Kertész

Mozart : Symphonies Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41 conducted by Karl Böhm, also recorded with Leonard Bernstein and 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

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

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 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.

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

References

Vienna Philharmonic discography Wikipedia

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