Deryk Barker wrote:
>I'd say that the 8th is the one Mahler symphony you really have to hear
>live.
Or try the Horenstein LSO recording on BBC Legends. My personal feeling
about the 8th is that tries to take off in part 1 but fails due to
rhetoric. Only after the inner emotion beginning Part 2 can Mahler work
through the issues to finally soar (quite spectacularly) in the coda.
David Harbin
Nottingham, UK