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From: gmk@uicsg.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Gustav Mahler - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Dec-83 22:46:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 15 22:46:31 1983
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uicsg!gmk    Dec 15 20:37:00 1983

  I'm glad to finally see some discussion of my favorite composer on
the net. Although I am not serious student of Western Art Music,
nor am I as knowledgable of music as the author of the base note,
"I know what I like".

  I have a complete library of the 10 Mahler symphonies including
the Tenth whose performing version was scored  by Deryck Cooke and
recorded by Wyn Morris on Philips.

  Although the glorious Resurrection is certainly on of Mahler's
greatest, I was dismayed by your lack of enthusiasm for the Third.
It is totally different from the Second -- much lighter both musically
and thematically. It's also quite popular among the major orchestras
(and presumably their patrons) in spite of its length.

[Trivia note: The mini-symphony that was Mahler's Fourth began
as the 7th movement to the record-breaking third. Imagine how long
the third would have been if it had been left in place.]

My recording of the Third is Rafael Kubelik/Bavarian Radio Symphony
on DG. Try it...you'll like it.

					Gary Koob
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