Steve Schwartz wrote about

>Christoph von Dohnanyi: A great technician and an interpreter committed to
>rethinking a score.  You may not agree with Dohnanyi's results, but they're
>not really dismissable.  To me, one of the few conductors who makes music
>matter, in the same way that books and ideas do.

On a tangent:  Steve, do you still hold as high an opinion of his Mahler
9th as you did at first when you mentioned it 6 weeks ago? Other opinions
I've read have been less enthusiastic, and as I've already got Walter ('38)
and am expecting Horenstein and Karajan (live), the high price has so far
put me off.  At the time you focused on the outer movements.  How
convincingly does he deal with the middle two?

Felix Delbruck
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