Roger Hecht wrote: >Mitch Friedfeld wrote: > >>Totally agree. By all means, don't waste your time on the Barbirolli >>Mahler 6. He takes the 6th so fast that he is able to cram the spurious >>Symphonic Prelude on the disc. You read that right: a Mahler 6 with a >>filler! Think how much more efficient your listening time would be.:-7 > >Didn't the original EMI of the Barbirolli come coupled with Strauss's >Metamorphosen? I do know the Angel box in the US SAID the Strauss was >included, but it not always was! But I'm not sure if this was always >the case. (I have a different pressing, so I can't check.) I'm sure you realize what happened, but lest anyone think I was describing the Barbirolli Mahler 6 as it appears above, it appears you have cut out a crucial part of my posting, or maybe you were just thinking too fast. What appeared after my first quoted sentence above was a "recommendation" for Jaervi; it is *his* Mahler 6, not Sir John's, that is taken so fast that he can cram in a filler. Believe the original Barbirolli M6, where he takes the inner movements in Scherzo/Andante order, was coupled with Metamorphosen. A later edition, in which the inner movements are taken Andante/Scherzo -- which was JB's preference in live performance -- was coupled with Ein Heldenleben. Mitch Friedfeld