Robert Stumpf wrote:

>I was thinking...a habit I don't recommend, about Mahler as I have been
>listening to his 5th by Barbirolli, and began to wonder what is "typcial
>Mahler"? I mean, if you had to select one of his symphonies as "typical"
>as perhaps an introduction to his 'sound world' which one and why?

Maybe this one.  And I've always thought of it as such.  For "why", I'll
leave it to the imagination and Tony Duggan.  But it seems like all the
elements are here.

Roger Hecht