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
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