Denis Fodor wrote: >... Monday morning my wife hustled me out of bed and off to a >rehearsal, Ivan Fischer conducting the Munich Philharmonic. Mahler 5 on >the docket. ... > >In the first third of the last movement there Fischer ran into trouble >trying to confer order on Mahler's ordrered cacophony.He stopped the band. >... > >Fischer's Mahler 5 took over an hour and twenty minutes to perform, >replays included. In the intermission that followed the lines leading >into the ladies' rooms were depressingly impressive. Mahler, when editing >his composition, mercifully could have kept that in mind. Marvellous >passages, monstrous work. Why did it take so long to perform Mahler 5? I thought that piece was about an hour long. Mike