Here, for example, is a performance that I really like by the bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk (and I love the seemingly effortless, everything-in-place beauty of the playing of the Concertgebouw -- not only a great orchestra, but one with a long Mahler tradition -- under Bernard Haitink; as in the Bernstein/DG recording, for that matter):John Shirley-Quirk, bass-baritone; Concertgebouw Orchestra,