Jon Lewis ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >"...Thus [in 1954] began 16 years of intensive study of Mahler's >symphonies during which Barbirolli conducted all except the Eighth ... >He recorded the Ninth with the Berlin Phimharmonic, the first British >conductor to do so with this orchestra since Beecham in 1937." > >The writer is Michael Kennedy. Perhaps he merely means to say "the first >British conductor to *perform* it with this orchestra since Beecham in >1937" ...? ... No, he meant the first British conductor to *record* with the BPO since 1937 when TB recorded The Magic Flute. As Deryk said, bad editing of the text. Tony Duggan, England. My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at: http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html