Christopher Rosevear wrote:

>Every year the "next" Mahler symphony is prepared and performed by the
>Surrey Mahler project (part of Surrey musical education projects) --
>www.surrey-mahler.org .  This year it is Mahler 3.
>
>Unlike the latest Berlin recording, the oboe will NOT be glissandoing
>everything where it is marked as "Naturlaut".  (Nor will he be making
>other rude noises, a least, not on purpose!)

What a pity.  The Third Symphony is full of rude noises and woe betide any
conductor who fails to acknowledge them.  As to the oboe glissandi in the
fourth movement, they are a performance tradition a lot older than Claudio
Abbado and his new Berlin recording.  In the modern era they were first
heard in a performance/broadcast by the Philharmonia Orchestra under
Berthold Goldschmidt in 1960.  Since followed by Rattle and Gielen as well
as Abbado.

Tony Duggan, England.
Mahler CD recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/Mahler/index.html