Since a few weeks I imagine Hell as a place in which people discuss eternally about Glenn Gould's organical noises. Let's drive our souls, then, to more heavenly subjects. I propose a thread about favourite recordings of Mahler's 4th and 8th. Here are my preferences: 4th: Szell/Raskin (I love her childish voice praising the "himmlischen freuden") - Solti/ I don't remember who 8th: Kubelik (BRO) (DG 1971)/ Vaclav Neumann/ Solti (the best I know, perhaps)/ Robert Shaw (Telarc). Among the 4th's recordings that I don't like are Maazel's and Haitink's. Maazel is a little "hysterical" and overrreacted, and Haitink is too cold (in this particular work) for my taste. Does someone knows better recordings (older or newer)? Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]