This message was originally submitted by [log in to unmask] to the CLASSICAL list at HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM. If you simply forward it back to the list, using a mail command that generates "Resent-" fields (ask your local user support or consult the documentation of your mail program if in doubt), it will be distributed and the explanations you are now reading will be removed automatically. If on the other hand you edit the contributions you receive into a digest, you will have to remove this paragraph manually. Finally, you should be able to contact the author of this message by using the normal "reply" function of your mail program. ----------------- Message requiring your approval (21 lines) ------------------ Felix Delbrueck wrote: >I've just listened to Benjamin Zander's Telarc CD of Mahler's 9th symphony. >I had high expectations ... On first listening I was pretty impressed >(although perhaps the two middle movements fell a little flat), but I don't >know any Mahler apart from the Song of the Earth and so can't really tell. >What's the opinion of the Mahler connoisseurs on the list? I wasn't impressed, I'm afraid. You can read a full review that I wrote here: http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/classrev/may99/mahler9.htm Tony Duggan, England. My (developing) Mahler recordings survey is at: http://www.musicweb.force9.co.uk/music/Mahler/index.html