Mitch Friedfeld cross-examines Denis Fodor: >105 minutes for Mahler 9? Did he accidentally play two movements twice? >Bruno Walter's 1938 Vienna recording takes it in under 70! Here's a link >to timings of various M9's; unfortunately, the original compiler did not >add the various movements to come up with a total.... The band struck up the Mahler 9 at 20:45 and wound up at 22: 30. Of course, we're not dealing with a recording here but with a live perfomance. Though there wasn't an interval, there were pauses between the movements. The pauses were, however, not unusually long. And, no, he did not repeat a movement. It's more of a case, to my ear at least, of _Mahler_ indulging a habit or repeating himself. Bruno Walter's timing jibes with yours truly's feeling of what Mahler himself could well have tightened it down to. Denis Fodor