I wrote:

>>Why did it take so long to perform Mahler 5? I thought that piece was about
>>an hour long.

Denis Fodor wrote:

>Typical time is around 75 minutes, give or take 2.  So an hour and twenty
>minutes -- 80 minutes -- is barely slower than the norm.  And if that
>includes breaks between movements, it's hardly out of the mainstream at
>all.

I see. I just looked up the timings of recordings I have of Mahler 5. They
are

Haitink/BPO -- 78:47 (might as well be 80 minutes)
Boulez/VPO -- 72:17
Abbado/BPO -- 69:29
Solti/CSO -- 66:10

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