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Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony; Romeo & Juliet / Dausgaard, Swedish CO
BIS Aug 2012
SACD
$21.99

Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Symphonies 1-6 / Jarvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

BIS

$59.99 Dec 01, 2010

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) Gothenburg Symphony OrchestraNeeme Jarvi, conductor Symphony no 1 in G minor "Winter Dreams", Op. 13; Romeo &Â?JulietSymphony no 2 in C minor "Little Russian", Op. 17; Overture in FSymphony no 3 in D major "Polish", Op. 29; The Snow Maiden, Op.12Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Symphony no 5 in E minor, Op 64Symphony no 6 in B minor "Pathetique", Op. 74; The Tempest;Overture on the Danish National Anthem; Voyevoda Dances;Dmitri Pretender and Vassily Shuisky; Serenade for N.Rubinstein;Capriccio Italien; Francesca da Rimini; etc.

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Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Symphonies 1-6 / Jarvi, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
BIS Dec 2010
CD
$59.99

Sumera: Symphony No. 6 / Cello Concerto / Musica Profana
BIS May 2003
CD
$21.99

Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 6 - Mariss Jansons

BR Klassik

$19.99 Mar 06, 2026

Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony is perhaps the darkest work he ever wrote-it's nickname is "The Tragic." And there is something almost destructive about the final movement. "But strangely enough," says Simon Rattle, "it is also a very classical symphony. Yes, it is extreme, but for long stretches it is less wild than other works of his-although of course it does convey a harrowing message. But it's like a lot of great works: there are always different ways of reading them. I've been conducting the Sixth for forty years now, and over time I've come to realise that it also contains hope." Mahler composed his Sixth Symphony during the summers of 1903 and 1904 at his "composer's cottage" in Maiernigg, near Klagenfurt. At the Vienna performance in 1907 (the third under his baton), he called it the "Tragic Symphony"-a nickname that soon became the stuff of legend. In particular, the darkness and devastating hopelessness of the finale-written at a time when he was at the high point of his life, both professionally and personally-are puzzling. Even his wife Alma could not quite explain the contradiction. As always, it was in and through music that Mahler came to terms with his experiences, exploring themes such as farewell, the meaning of existence, death, redemption, the afterlife, and love. More than other Mahler works, the Sixth Symphony is committed to "classical" symphonic form: it is in four movements and has no vocal parts. Despite all the liberties it takes, the opening movement follows sonata form. The Andante draws on the rondo form, as do the Scherzo and the Finale. Very unusually, even the Scherzo has march-like features and seems like a parodistic paraphrase of the opening, with a change of perspective. The march, which sets the tone from the very first note of the first movement, plays a major role.

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Gustav Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 6 - Mariss Jansons
BR Klassik Mar 2026
CD
$19.99

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Kraft, L.: Clarinet Concerto No. 6 / Symphony in 1 Movement
Centaur Records Oct 2005
CD
$18.99

Dvorák: Symphony No. 6 - The Water Goblin
Coviello Jan 2014
SACD
$21.99

SCHNITTKE: Symphony No. 8 / Concerto Grosso No. 6
Chandos Mar 1995
CD
$21.99

Langgaard: Symphonies Nos. 4, 6, 10 & 14 & Music of the Sphe
Danacord Feb 2001
CD
$36.99

Martinu: Les Fresques De Piero Della Francesca - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 In B Minor "Pathétique" (Live)
Orfeo Jul 1999
CD
$16.99

BRUCKNER: SYM NO. 6 (RECORDED LIVE AT ST. FLORIAN)

MUNCHNER PHILHARMONI

$20.49 Sep 18, 2020

The Munich Philharmonic have arguably given more performances of Anton Bruckner's music than any other orchestra. A great number of Bruckner recordings led by the many legendary conductors that have worked with the Munich Philharmonic are stored in the historical archive of the MPHIL Label including magnificent pieces with Sergiu Celibidache, Christian Thielemann, Rudolf Kempe, Gunter Wand and Oswald Kabasta. Having started in September 2017 at the Monastery of St. Florian, a setting with unique historical significance in this context, the Munich Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev have presented a most spectacular cycle of Anton Bruckner's symphonies.

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BRUCKNER: SYM NO. 6 (RECORDED LIVE AT ST. FLORIAN)
MUNCHNER PHILHARMONI Sep 2020
CD
$20.49

Brian: Symphonies No 6, 28, 29 & 31 / Walker

Naxos

$9.99 ~~$19.99~~ Save 50% Apr 14, 2015

Brian’s Sixth Symphony, subtitled “Sinfonia Tragica,” makes an ideal introduction to his music. It’s full of evocative sounds and unusually (for him) arresting thematic ideas, and its single movement takes less than twenty minutes. The last few minutes are a Mahlerian phantasmagoria of march and dance tunes not unlike the wild outburst in the development section of the first movement of the German composer’s Third Symphony, but the final bars are hauntingly elegiac. Very well recorded once before for Lyrita, this newcomer is also quite well done, and has enough differences in tone and texture to justify duplication.

Symphonies Nos. 28 and 29 both date from 1967, and both have four movements that play without pause, more or less. No. 28 is only fourteen minutes long in total. Late Brian is an acquired taste, largely because of the music’s relentlessly contrapuntal textures, heavy orchestration with lots of low brass and percussion, and lack of simple repetition to permit listeners to get their bearings. Indeed, these pieces, and the brief, single-movement No. 31 for that matter, sound as though Brian simply chopped off hunks of music from some larger overall blob of material. And yet, the opening of No. 28 has an innocent simplicity of tone and texture that the composer never lost, and all of this music sounds like no one else. That is why it retains its peculiar fascination. It may not be “easy” or “friendly,” but it is distinctive, and the work of a strong musical personality with a definite message.

As with No. 6, the performances under Alexander Walker sound remarkably assured given the unfamiliarity of the material, and they are very well recorded. The Havergal Brian Society and Mr. Godfrey Berry underwrote this production, and they definitely got their money’s worth.

– David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com

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Brian: Symphonies No 6, 28, 29 & 31 / Walker
Naxos Apr 2015
CD
~~$19.99~~ $9.99

TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIES 1-6 MANFRED

WARNER CLASSICS

SACD

$55.99 Oct 17, 2025

Love and charm are among the many qualities which distinguish this richly enjoyable set of the Tchaikovsky Symphonies, wrote Gramophone of the cycle that forms the heart of this collection. Mstislav Rostropovich, like Tchaikovsky, represents the very soul of Russian music. These 1976-77 recordings are remastered for the very first time in high definition from original master tapes and benefit from the high performances of the SACD format to give a level of details never heard before.

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TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIES 1-6 MANFRED
WARNER CLASSICS Oct 2025
SACD
$55.99

Sibelius, J.: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 / The Swan of Tuonela
Berlin Classics May 2003
CD
$16.99

Vaughan Williams: Symphonies No 6 & 8, Nocturne / Hickox
Chandos Aug 2003
CD
$21.99

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 85 & Sir John Falstaff, Op. 6

CPO

$18.99 Jul 03, 2026

After Hugo Kaun ended his American adventure and returned to the Old World, he began to pour the exotic events of his life into two symphonic tone poems. These have been in our catalogue since late 2023 under the title I'm Urwald (In the Primeval Forest). He soon rose to become one of the most highly regarded German composers (thanks primarily to his noteworthy works for male choirs), and in 1905 turned his attention to programme music. Sir John Falstaff, the incomparable charmer from William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and the drinking companion of the future King Henry V, has been given a well-deserved place in the musical gallery of famous literary heroes alongside Till Eulenspiegel, MacBeth, Don Quixote, Don Juan, and Zarathustra, all to whom he certainly does justice from this, his first self-assured appearance. It also provides an excellent introduction to the powerful Second Symphony, which was completed five years later - further evidence of an orchestral maestro who had mastered the late Romantic repertoire with consummate skill.

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Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 85 & Sir John Falstaff, Op. 6
CPO Jul 2026
CD
$18.99

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Martinů: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Norrington, SWR Symphony Orchestra

SWR

$10.49 ~~$20.99~~ Save 50% Aug 12, 2022

Bohuslav Martinu’s six symphonies were composed between 1942 and 1953 during the composer’s years in America. He completed the first five symphonies at the astonishing rate of one per year, although not at any artistic expense – years later, he described the Fifth Symphony as a ‘well organized, organic, well ordered work’ in an interview with The New York Times. A full seven years elapsed, however, before Martinu completed his Sixth. One of his ‘unexpected’ works, it took, quite unusually for him, two years to complete, and its form proved to be a radical change from his previous symphonies. As he wrote to his friend Šafránek – ‘I am about to create fantasias!’

In November 2021 Sir Roger Norrington announced his retirement from conducting. From 1998 to 2011 he was chief conductor of the former Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (today the SWR Symphonieorchester), and during that time caused an international stir with what came to be known as the ‘Stuttgart Sound’ – a synthesis of historically-informed performance practice with the technical capabilities of a modern orchestra. Whether Mozart, Haydn, Bruckner, Brahms or Martinu, Norrington sought to recreate a faithful performance experience, adjusting the orchestra’s size and seating plan, and creating an authentic sound without vibrato.

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Martinů: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Norrington, SWR Symphony Orchestra
SWR Aug 2022
CD
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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-6; Manfred Symphony; Orchestral Works

Relief

$42.99 Sep 30, 2014

This six-disc set of Tchaikovsky concert performances, recorded 1984-2009, features more than a dozen orchestral works, including the composer’s last three symphonies, the Manfred, The Tempest and other symphonic poems. Three of the recordings are first-time releases. The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, founded 1930, is internationally recognized as one of Russia's most prestigious and versatile orchestras. Vladimir Fedoseyev has, since 1974, held the position of Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the orchestra, now known as the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra.

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Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-6; Manfred Symphony; Orchestral Works
Relief Sep 2014
CD
$42.99

Sibelius: Symphonies No 2 & 6 / Maazel, Pittsburgh So
Sony Masterworks Nov 2009
CD
$17.99

Mahler: Symphony No. 6 / Kondrashin, SWR Orchestra Baden-Baden

SWR

$13.99 Apr 13, 2018

Kirill Kondrashin was one of the most prominent Russian conductors in the generation following Mravinsky. He was born in Moscow in 1914 into a family of musicians, studied at the Moscow conservatory under Boris Khaikin, went to Leningrad in 1936 to be the conductor of the Maly Theater and to the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow in 1943. At the same time, he was conducting various Russian concert orchestras. In 1956 he left the Bolshoi Theater to devote himself entirely to the concert podium. He became the preferred partner of such great soloists as Emil Gilels, Leonid Kogan, David Oistrach, Sviatoslav Richter, and Mstislav Rostropovich. Tully Potter called him “probably the best concert accompanist of the twentieth century.” After Kondrashin’s work had increasingly shifted out of the country, he emigrated to the Netherlands in 1978 and became permanent conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra along with Bernard Haitink. From his home in Amsterdam, he kept up with his duties as guest conductor, including many at various West German radio stations. His concerts left a deep impression in Munich, and Kondrashin succeeded Rafael Kubelik as new Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 1982. Before he was able to take over his new position, however, Kondrashin died of a heart attach shortly after a concert in Amsterdam in March 1981.

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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 / Kondrashin, SWR Orchestra Baden-Baden
SWR Apr 2018
CD
$13.99

Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig [Blu-ray]

Accentus Music

Blu-Ray

$40.99 ~~$53.99~~ Save 25% Mar 15, 2019

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The festive series of concerts to celebrate the inauguration of Andris Nelsons and the 275th anniversary of the Gewandhausorchester concluded with a riveting performance of two of music history’s great symphonic works. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is one of only two that Mozart wrote in a minor key, which only adds to its singular reception in his canon of symphonies. Tchaikovsky was an admirer of Mozart’s music and paired the premiere of his Sixth Symphony, which he himself conducted, with dances from Mozart’s “Idomeneo”. The “Pathétique” would become his legacy as Tchaikovsky died only a few days after its premiere. Andris Nelsons is Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. With these positions, and in leading a pioneering alliance between two such esteemed institutions, Grammy Award-winning Nelsons is firmly underlined as one of the most renowned and innovative conductors on the international scene today.

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Mozart: Symphony No. 40 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 / Nelsons, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig [Blu-ray]
Accentus Music Mar 2019
Blu-Ray
~~$53.99~~ $40.99

TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIES 1-6, MANFRED

WARNER CLASSICS

SACD

$46.99 Apr 10, 2026

New HD 192kHz/24-bit remastering from original tapes. 'Muti's Tchaikovsky cycle with the Philharmonia is one of the most consistent ever, with the conductor's high voltage tempered by expressive warmth and keen fantasy... This Muti box earns the warmest recommendation,' wrote Gramophone of the complete symphonies when they first appeared. Complementing them here are further works by Tchaikovsky, including the 'Manfred' Symphony and First Piano Concerto with Andrei Gavrilov as a breathtaking soloist.

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TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIES 1-6, MANFRED
WARNER CLASSICS Apr 2026
SACD
$46.99

Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 3-4, 6-9 / Jansons, BRSO

BR Klassik

$59.99 Oct 02, 2020

Anton Bruckner's symphonies were a constant part of the repertoire for Mariss Jansons and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. The existing recordings - almost all the great Bruckner symphonies – are important documents of Jansons’ deep understanding of the works, and the high musical quality of the recordings also testifies to the long Bruckner tradition at the BRSO. Jansons followed Bruckner’s notes and markings with painstaking precision, and listening to a recording with the score reveals again and again how closely the conductor studied these works with the musicians of his orchestra. Bruckner's symphonies form the backbone of Late Romantic symphonic music. To a certain extent, Bruckner reinvented the symphony – something that not even Liszt or Wagner had dared to do in the wake of the groundbreaking masterpieces of Beethoven, which until then had been considered the culmination and conclusion of the genre. It was Bruckner and, somewhat later, Brahms who sought and found new methods of reviving the symphonic genre and developing it further. In this regard, Bruckner's approach was entirely new. From the outset, he relied on the sound of the large orchestra and, rather than mixing the individual groups of instruments, he tended to either separate them from each other or couple them together like organ registers (with which, as an organist, he was very familiar). Terraced dynamics, that is, the immediate juxtaposition of piano and forte without transition, was also something Bruckner derived from organ music. As a church musician, he had close contact with these and other elements of Baroque music, and they flowed into his symphonies. As far as dramaturgical development was concerned, he tended to favor Schubert; indeed, it was the organic continuation and alternating interconnection of themes Bruckner had learned from Schubert that also explains the unprecedented performance length of his symphonies.

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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 3-4, 6-9 / Jansons, BRSO
BR Klassik Oct 2020
CD
$59.99

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8 (Live)

Wiener Symphoniker

$20.99 Mar 29, 2019

This release is the continuation of the Wiener Symphoniker's Road to Beethoven project, an undertaking in preparation of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Viennese by choice and patriarch of classical music in 2020. Following the huge success of the respective releases of the cycle so far, the expectations are high indeed. The third part featuring Symphonies No. 2 and 7 received numerous accolades and ranked high in the annual best lists of international critics. The German classical music magazine Concerti, for instance, praised: "There, Philippe Jordan with the Wiener Symphoniker succeeded in creating something amazing: The symbiosis of the fine Viennese sound and the directness and transparency of historical performance practice, dynamically flexible and driven by emphasis." The Wiener Symphoniker wrote music history with the premieres of works by Bruckner, Ravel and Schönberg. Under the direction of such illustrious conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan, Carlo Maria Giulini or Georges Prêtre, it gained worldwide fame for it's Viennese sound style. In light of this more than hundred-year magnificent history, it is all the more astonishing that the Orchestra has never so far recorded Beethoven's nine symphonies, which are often described as the peak of the symphonic repertoire. This gap in the Orchestra's discography has been in the process of being closed since autumn 2017: The Orchestra is releasing all nine symphonies of the great Viennese by choice at half-yearly intervals on a total of five albums. The whole cycle will then be available on the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth in 2020. They were recorded live under the direction of Music Director Philippe Jordan in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein during an acclaimed cycle in spring/summer 2017.

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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8 (Live)
Wiener Symphoniker Mar 2019
CD
$20.99

Sallinen: Sunrise Serenade / Symphony No. 2 / Symphony No. 6
BIS Jun 1992
CD
$21.99

Keninš: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 - Canzona Sonata / Vižine. Kuzma, Latvian National Symphony

Ondine

$18.99 May 07, 2021

The first album of orchestral works by one of Latvia’s most prominent composers, Talivaldis Keninš (1919–2008), released in October 2020 has received a warm response from music critics around the world. This second volume by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under conductor Guntis Kuzma includes two symphonies from the 1970s alongside another concertante gem, Canzona Sonata for viola and string orchestra.

Although born in Latvia, Ķeniņš lived most of his life as an exile. He was educated in Paris, where he studied under Tony Aubin and Olivier Messiaen, and won several awards. Ķeniņš emigrated to Canada in 1951 and became a respected pedagogue and a very influential figure in Canada’s music life. Alongside his pedagogic work he wrote a sizeable catalogue of works, including several symphonies and concertos. At first Ķeniņš focused on writing works of chamber music and completed his first symphony relatively late, in 1959. During the 1970s and 80s, Ķeniņš wrote several symphonies more becoming a major symphonist. The two symphonies included in this volume are compact orchestral scores from the 1970s. Symphony No. 4 is rich with its fine French orchestral textures, while Symphony No. 6 is an impressive symphonic work based on a fugue theme. The expressive Canzona Sonata for viola and string orchestra written in 1986 is a relatively late work and a wonderful example of the composer’s skills in writing concertante music.

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Keninš: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 - Canzona Sonata / Vižine. Kuzma, Latvian National Symphony
Ondine May 2021
CD
$18.99