Pablo Massa ([log in to unmask]) wrote: Deryk Barker replies to me: > >>>... Mahler's lieder, however, are better than his symphonies to >>>introduce his sound world. >> >>You're not the first to say this, but I must disagree. I know many people >>(my younger self included) who simply did not like vocal music, period. >>Lieder are not going to get these people into Mahler. > >2nd, 3rd, 4th and 8th. symphonies neither....Those boys will loose a lot >of Mahler, then. Well, not necessarily. Speaking for my younger self, I could listen to choral music but not lieder. I'm sure I wasn't alone in this. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]