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Post Subject: Re: Love?Posted by slowmotion on: 1/30/2005
I remember when hearing Mahlers 2nd. for the first time.
It was Bernsteins recording with LSO from 1974 (?)
Liner notes from Bruno Walter.
Anyways I was floored.
I got the record in a used record store, and it was very noisy, unfortunately.
That was enough to get me hooked on Mahler,
I bought many different recordings trying to find "the ultimate" Mahler 2nd.
Of course I never found it.
Later I got the Bernstein LSO 1974 recording on CD,
it was a big disapointment, they had "remastered" it,
and all the life and drama was gone,
in the interest of "better sound".
These days I prefer the 9th, if any music is
hauntingly beautiful this is it.
cheers, Jan
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