Denis Fodor wrote:
>... Monday morning my wife hustled me out of bed and off to a
>rehearsal, Ivan Fischer conducting the Munich Philharmonic. Mahler 5 on
>the docket. ...
>
>In the first third of the last movement there Fischer ran into trouble
>trying to confer order on Mahler's ordrered cacophony.He stopped the band.
>...
>
>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.
Mike