Gilbert Chang ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Actually I quite like Mehta.  I think his recording of Beethoven's 9th
>symphony with the NYPO is brilliant.  I'd like to know why you don't like
>him very much.  Is it because of his flamboyant gestures?

I admit to not knowing that particular Mehta recording, but the reason
I dislike him is that 99% of all the recordings by him which I've heard
have been unutterably dull.

As indeed was his live Mahler 3 finale at the Carnegie Hall centenary
concert.

Deryk Barker
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