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