And in the Fourth’s finale, the late Lucia Popp surpasses her EMI recording under Tennstedt. To be certain ... nitpicks in face of so much excellence elsewhere. Among other Mahler symphony cycles, ...

It comes over, for all its immensity of scale, as a deeply intimate personal statement, not only from Mahler but from Tennstedt himself. There is, of course, also the Solti/Decca recording with the ...

The CSO would become especially associated with Mahler under the leadership of Sir Georg Solti, whose pummeling, precise recordings of the composer’s complete symphonies won multiple Grammys.