Mike wrote: >Denis Fodor wrote: > >>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. Typical time is around 75 minutes, give or take 2. So an hour and twenty minutes -- 80 minutes -- is barely slower than the norm. And if that includes breaks between movements, it's hardly out of the mainstream at all. Mitch Friedfeld