Rictus presumably in place, Deryk Barker writes:

>STRAUSS???? And not Mahler?

No contest here, I agree--but how abaout Bartok? To me, he says
"20th Century" much more decidedly than Mahler or, for that matter,
Shostakovich--and says it spectacularly (even though I don't especially
dig his stuff).

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