Haitink/Concertgebouw: Mahler Symphony No. 1 - Philips 6500 342

Jacket EX / Vinyl NM (Dutch pressing - red/silver label, stereo)



This handsome LP from Philips (6500 342, Dutch pressing, red/silver label, stereo) features conductor Bernard Haitink and the Concertgebouw-Orchester’s wonderful account of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major “Titan”, recorded in the warm acoustics of Grote Zaal, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, on 17 May 1972.

The exact track listing is as follows:

The lovely cover art reproduces a detail from Gemälde von August Seidl’s “Bei Großhesselohe”. There are extensive liner notes (uncredited) on the reverse side of the jacket, printed in German only.