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Subject:	Re: Music for Babies
From:	Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:09:10 -0800
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Mike Leghorn ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Why did it take so long to perform Mahler 5? I thought that piece was about
>an hour long.

Think again.  A brief survey of over 20 versions on my shelf reveals the
quickest (by some margin) is Abravanel at 61:44 (which is *very* quick)
and the slowest Bernstein (DG) at 75:00.

The median length though would appear to be around 71 minutes.

deryk barker
([log in to unmask], http://www.camosun.bc.ca/~dbarker)

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