Mike wrote:

>Denis Fodor wrote:
>
>>Fischer's Mahler 5 took over an hour and twenty minutes to perform,
>>replays included.  In the intermission that followed the lines leading
>>into the ladies' rooms were depressingly impressive.  Mahler, when editing
>>his composition, mercifully could have kept that in mind.  Marvellous
>>passages, monstrous work.
>
>Why did it take so long to perform Mahler 5? I thought that piece was about
>an hour long.

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.

Mitch Friedfeld