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Simon Rattle scores a 5-star Mahler 7th

Simon Rattle scores a 5-star Mahler 7th

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, distended it to 20 minutes over its regular length. At 75 minutes, it can tax an audience’s patience….

Read on here.

And here.

En francais ici.

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