Deryk Barker wrote in reply to my reservations about Mahler Five on tour: >Weeeeeeeeeeeeell now, who can say. I did think Janos was a little OTT >there. MTT - assuming he is conducting - has respectable "chops" and his >Mahler 3 (which I have yet to hear) is highly regarded in some quarters >(and apparently MTT thinks very highly of the Horenstein 3rd, so he can't >be all bad). OTOH their Mahler 2 under Blomstedt was beautifully played >and recorded but dull as ditchwater. I think my reservations really revolve around programming. Recently we have had a thread about how American music is best played by Americans, and then, when a major tour by a major American orchestra is planned, they decide to do things like Mahler Five in the very hall which has such a long tradition in that composer's music. Wouldn't it have shown a little more daring if they had programmed some lesser known American music? In that way, we would have had a little of what we don't know rather than more of the same. And let's face it - we hardly need orchestras to cross the pond to give us more of that. Jonathan