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