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Felix Delbrueck wrote:

>I've just listened to Benjamin Zander's Telarc CD of Mahler's 9th symphony.
>I had high expectations ...  On first listening I was pretty impressed
>(although perhaps the two middle movements fell a little flat), but I don't
>know any Mahler apart from the Song of the Earth and so can't really tell.
>What's the opinion of the Mahler connoisseurs on the list?

I wasn't impressed, I'm afraid.  You can read a full review that I
wrote here:

   http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/classrev/may99/mahler9.htm

Tony Duggan,  England.
My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at:
http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html