Mike Leghorn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Interesting subject: "Mahler's most perfect symphonies".  Dave [Lampson]
>chose 1, 5, 6, 7, 9.

Most interesting is that it omits precisely the ones that have singing
in them.  Wonder what Dave thinks about the 10th.

Myself, I have never been able to warm to the 8th.  Its appeal continues
to elude me, while I readily embrace all the others.

 - seb