 The fine acoustics of the Medinah Temple's auditorium made it a favorite site for recording.Many of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's most famous recordings from the late 1960s (for RCA with then-music director Jean Martinon) through the 1980s (for Decca with then-music director Sir Georg Solti) were recorded there.World-renowned conductor Claudio Abbado recorded Gustav Mahler's Symphony No.