#if you're looking for a good recording my favorite so far is semyon bychkov with the berliner phil

[capn-o-my-soul]

as a brass player I'm soooooo surprised you don't love mahler 3!! it has me in a chokehold... to be fair though I haven't listened to shosty 11 yet so I haven't voted yet :)

actually i do love mahler 3! i just happen to love shostakovich 11 more. it is just one of those symphonies that i can't listen to without crying. perhaps if i listened to mahler 3 as much as i listen to mahler 2 it would also be on the list