Both recordings supplant CD's made by the conductors as part of Mahler cycles.

I never asked to do this Mahler cycle again.

The program also served as another milestone in the orchestra's five-year Mahler cycle, begun last February.

Now we can't complete the Mahler cycle.

He is currently conducting the Mahler cycle with the Orchestre National de France.

He is probably best known on this side of the Atlantic, however, for his recent Mahler cycle with the radio orchestra.

If you want to do a Mahler cycle, I'm ready to do that.

"And then," he recalled, "one or two years later I received a telegram: 'We want absolutely to do the Mahler cycle with you.' "

Then it decided to do a Mahler cycle to exercise "leadership" in a country where the Austrian composer was not yet popular.

Since then, most major conductors have committed Mahler cycles to disc.