Steve Schwartz ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >... However, I still think a Real Mahlerian has to do the entire cycle. So you wouldn't count Bruno Walter of Otto Klemperer as 'real Mahlerians' Steve? >I can't imagine Szell with the Seventh or the Eighth, for example - to me, >the toughest tests of a Mahler conductor. Szell also made no secret of >the fact that he thought several of the symphonies weak. On the other >hand, Furtwaengler thought Beethoven's second symphony a failure, and >he's certainly a great Beethoven conductor. Precisely. Walter never AFAIK conducted Mahler 6 or 7 (or 8?) and Klemperer though the adagietto of the 5th was little better than 'salon music'. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]