This is a discography of audio recordings of Gustav Mahler's Fourth Symphony. The symphony premiered at the Kaim-Saal in Munich on 25 November 1901. The symphony's first recording in 1930 by Hidemaro Konoye and the New Symphony Orchestra of Tokyo is the first electrical recording of any Mahler symphony.
The tabular list below is of recordings by symphony orchestras of Mahler's score. A separate list is provided, below the primary list of recordings of the full orchestra version, of chamber ensemble reductions of the work, principally of the version for 15 players by Erwin Stein.
| Year of release | Conductor | Orchestra | Soloist | Label | Catalog number | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | Sakaye Kitasawa | Japanese Parlophone | E 10009/14 | — | ||
| 1939 | PHM 500-040 | Live performance from November 1939 | ||||
| 1948 | 11213-8D | — | ||||
| 1950 | Maria Tauberová | Supraphon | SU40812 | Album code from 2012 box set reissue | ||
| 1952 | Concertgebouw Orchestra | LXT 2718 | — | |||
| 1957 | Emmy Loose | EMI | 35570 | — | ||
| 1957 | DL 9944 | — | ||||
| 1960 | LSC 2364 | — | ||||
| 1962 | S35829 | — | ||||
| 1966 | New York Philharmonic | MS-6152 | — | |||
| 1966 | Concertgebouw Orchestra | CS 6217 | — | |||
| 1966 | Columbia Masterworks Records | MS-6833 | — | |||
| 1967 | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Philips Records | 802 888 LY | — | ||
| 1967 | 71259 | — | ||||
| 1968 | C-10042 | — | ||||
| 1968 | DG 139339 | — | ||||
| 1970 | CFP 159 | — | ||||
| 1972 | Galina Pisarenko | Melodiya | RCID17416511 | CD reissue; fourth movement sung in Russian | ||
| 1973 | Gerlinde Lorenz | 1101346 | — | |||
| 1974 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | ARL1-0895 | — | |||
| 1976 | Bruno Walter | Vienna Philharmonic | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | Bruno Walter Society | 2-705 | Live performance of 29 May 1960, Vienna Konzerthaus |
| 1978 | Deutsche Grammophon | DG 2530 966 | — | |||
| 1979 | Corinne Curry | 3-MMG 106X | — | |||
| 1979 | Deutsche Grammophon | DG 419 863-2 | — | |||
| 1979 | Decca | 430 756-2 | Album code is for 1992 CD reissue | |||
| 1979 | Angel Records | SZ-37576 | — | |||
| 1981 | Czech Philharmonic | Supraphon Pro Arte | PAL 1068 | — | ||
| 1983 | London Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI/Angel | DS-37954 | — | ||
| 1984 | Bernard Haitink | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Philips Records | 412 119-1 | — | |
| 1984 | Lorin Maazel | Vienna Philharmonic | IM 39072 | — | ||
| 1984 | Sir Georg Solti | Chicago Symphony Orchestra | London Recordings | LDR 410 188 | — | |
| 1985 | Bruno Walter | Vienna Philharmonic | VCD 47228 | Live recording from 24 August 1950 | ||
| 1986 | 33C37-7952 | — | ||||
| 1986 | 32TC-101 | — | ||||
| 1987 | UCD 16563 | — | ||||
| 1988 | Leonard Bernstein | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Helmut Wittek (boy soprano) | Deutsche Grammophon | DG 423607-1 | — |
| 1988 | Christine Whittlesey | Saphir Records | INT 830.856 | — | ||
| 1988 | Otto Klemperer | Memoria | 991-005 | Live recording from 1954 | ||
| 1988 | Kiri Te Kanawa | Philips Records | 422 072-2 | — | ||
| 1988 | London Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI Eminence | CD-EMX 2139 | — | ||
| 1989 | London Symphony Orchestra | 10442 | — | |||
| 1989 | Bruno Walter | 2233 | Live performance from 1955 | |||
| 1989/1990 | ASV CD RPO 8017 | — | ||||
| 1990 | Leonard Bernstein | Vienna Philharmonic | Edith Mathis | Deutsche Grammophon | DG video 072 223 | Concert performance from 1975 |
| 1990 | Virgin Classics | Erato 3632772 (2006 reissue) | — | |||
| 1990 | Margaret Marshall | Chandos | CHAN 6505 | — | ||
| 1990 | Kiyomi Toyoda | Fontec | FOCD 9020 | — | ||
| 1990 | Bruno Walter | New York Philharmonic | Irmgard Seefried | CD 656 | Live performance from 1953 | |
| 1990/1991 | Cologne Radio Symphony | Lucia Popp | CDC 7 54178 | — | ||
| 1991 | Zagreb Radio and TV Symphony | Éva Andor | Digital Concerto | 2 CCT 731-2 | — | |
| 1991 | CHAN 8951 | — | ||||
| 1991 | 2292–45628 | — | ||||
| 1991 | Otto Klemperer | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Arkadia Records | 2 CDHP 590 | Live performance from 19 October 1956 | |
| 1991 | 10358 | — | ||||
| 1991 | Alison Hargan | IMP Classics | PCD 972 | — | ||
| 1991 | Shunsaku Tsutsumi | Ruri Usami | Ray | FHCR-1001 | — | |
| 1991 | Bruno Walter | Vienna Philharmonic | Deutsche Grammophon | DG 435 334 | Live recording from 1955 | |
| 1992 | Intaglio | INCD 7291 | Live recording from 1967 | |||
| 1992 | SK 48380 | — | ||||
| 1992 | Lynda Russell | 8.550527 | — | |||
| 1993 | Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne Cologne Philharmonic | EMI Classics | CDC 4 78235-2 | — | ||
| 1993 | Bernard Haitink | Berlin Philharmonic | Philips Records | 434 123-2 | — | |
| 1993 | Philharmonia Orchestra | Deutsche Grammophon | DG 437 527 | — | ||
| 1994 | Cleveland Orchestra | London Recordings | 440 315 | — | ||
| 1994 | Alexandra Coku | 14 139 | — | |||
| 1995 | RCA Red Seal Records | 74321 276052 | — | |||
| 1995 | BBC Symphony Orchestra | BBC Radio Classics | BBCRD 9101 | Live recording from 1977 | ||
| 1996 | Emil Tabakov | Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra | Lyudmila Hadzhieva | Capriccio | C49051 | — |
| 1997 | 9029 58691-7 | — | ||||
| 1999 | Bernard Haitink | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Philips | 464 321-2 | Live recording from Kerstmatinee (Christmas Matinee) of 25 December 1982 | |
| 1999 | New York Philharmonic | New York Philharmonic Special Editions | NYP 9801-NYP 9812 | Live performance from 13 January 1962 | ||
| 2000 | Juliane Banse | Deutsche Grammophon | 463 257-2 | — | ||
| 2000 | Concertgebouw Orchestra | Decca | 466 720-2 | — | ||
| 2001 | Philharmonia Orchestra | Camilla Tilling | Telarc | 209947 | — | |
| 2002 | Leif Segerstam | Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra | Eva Johansson | Chandos | CHAN9386 | — |
| 2002 | Andrew Litton | Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Delos | DE-3261 | — | |
| 2003 | SFS Media | SFS 0004 | — | |||
| 2003 | Karina Gauvin | ATMA Classique | ACD22306 | — | ||
| 2005 | Otto Klemperer | Vienna Philharmonic | Testament | SBT1397 | live performance of 21 June 1955 | |
| 2005 | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra | SWR Music | SWR 19524CD | — | ||
| 2005 | Erato | 5456652 | — | |||
| 2006 | Hartmut Haenchen | Alexandra Coku | Brilliant Classics | 93277 | — | |
| 2007 | Bernard Haitink | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | RCO Live | RCO 07003 | Live performance from 2006, the 50th anniversary of Haitink's 1956 debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra | |
| 2007 | ABC Classics | ABC4766339 | — | |||
| 2008 | Luba Orgonášová | RCA Red Seal | G0100013329367 | |||
| 2008 | CCS SA 26109 | — | ||||
| 2008 | Esther Heideman | Pentatone | PTC5186323 | |||
| 2009 | Claudio Abbado | EuroArts | 205 7988 | — | ||
| 2010 | Laura Claycomb | LSO Live | LSO0662 | — | ||
| 2010 | Sarah Fox | Signum | SIGCD219 | — | ||
| 2010 | Mojca Erdmann | Tudor | TUD7151 | — | ||
| 2010 | Markus Stenz | Christiane Oelze | Oehms Classics | OC649 | — | |
| 2011 | Rosemary Joshua | PHI | LPH001 | — | ||
| 2012 | Riccardo Chailly | ACC 20257 | DVD | |||
| 2012 | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Miah Persson | RCO Live | 425008 378046 | DVD; live performance from April 2010 | |
| 2012 | Klaus Tennstedt | Boston Symphony Orchestra | ica classics | ICAD5072 | DVD, live performance of 15 January 1977 | |
| 2013 | Joan Alexander | ica classics | ICAC5117 | May 1957 studio recording at BBC Maida Vale Studios | ||
| 2014 | Antonello Manacorda | Het Gelders Orkest | Lisa Larsson | Challenge Classics | CC72659 | - |
| 2015 | Pentatone | PTC5186487 | - | |||
| 2015 | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | RCO Live | RCO 015004 | - | ||
| 2015 | Valery Gergiev | World Orchestra for Peace | Camila Tilling | C Major | 731304 | DVD, live performance of 5 August 2010, Prom 26, Royal Albert Hall |
| 2015 | Frankfurt Radio Symphony | Genia Kühmeier | C Major | 719204 | DVD | |
| 2016 | Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra | AVI Music | AVI 8553378 | — | ||
| 2017 | Valery Gergiev | Genia Kühmeier | Münchner Philharmoniker | 9305211300 | — | |
| 2018 | Daniele Gatti | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Julia Kleiter | RCO Live | RCO18004 | — |
| 2018 | Miah Persson | Pentatone | PTC5186651 | — | ||
| 2019 | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Sofia Fomina | LPO | LPO 0113 | — | |
| 2019 | Bernard Haitink | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Juliane Banse | BR Klassik | 900174 | Live performance from November 2005 |
| 2020 | BIS | BIS2356 | - | |||
| 2020 | Leif Segerstam | Turku Philharmonic Orchestra | Alba | ABCD454 | — | |
| 2020 | SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden | Eva-Maria Rogner | SWR Music | SWR19099CD | Performance of 14 May 1959 | |
| 2021 | Anna Lucia Richter | Accentus Music | ACC30532 | - | ||
| 2022 | Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Chen Reiss | Pentatone | PTC5186972 | - | |
| 2022 | Gabriel Feltz | Stuttgart Philharmonic | Jeanette Wernecke | Dreyer Gaido | DGCD21140 | - |
| 2022 | Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | Miah Persson | BR Klassik | 900719 | Live recording from December 2010 | |
| 2022 | Sabine Devieilhe | harmonia mundi | HMM905357 | - | ||
| 2023 | Otto Klemperer | Vienna Philharmonic | Hilde Gueden | Musicas/ORF | 699029 | Live recording from 24 August 1947, Salzburg |
| 2023 | Simon Gaudenz | Lina Johnson | Odradek Records | ODRCD440 | - | |
Unless otherwise indicated, the recordings listed below of the chamber orchestra version of the work are of the Erwin Stein arrangement from 1921.