

Here’s a comparatively prosaic Mahler Fifth, the highpoint of which might well be the very satisfying whack on the tam-tam at the climax of the

Kobayashi’s Mahler Seventh is the slowest since Otto Klemperer’s (though not quite so extreme) and shares many of the same virtues and vices. The first

First, a non-musical point. The conductor is one of the noisiest men that has ever ascended the podium. He yells, stamps, shouts, and makes an

Hector Berlioz’s revolutionary Symphonie fantastique is one of the most difficult pieces of music to perform successfully. The conductor needs to recapture that sense of
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