 Munch made a live recording of the work in Prague with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1956, which has been released by the Multisonic label.The symphony has been performed and recorded many times and was a specialty of Herbert von Karajan, who made a recording of it (with Honegger's Second Symphony) in 1969, which is still widely regarded as one of its finest interpretations.The "Symphonie Liturgique" has strong thematic similarities with Benjamin Britten's "Sinfonia da Requiem" written in 1940, although it is in no sense imitative or a reworking of the earlier piece.