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"Scherchen made whopping cuts in virtually all the Mahler he did." No.

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In Reply to: RE: Well, as we've discussed before... posted by M. Lucky on April 10, 2008 at 16:48:23

And the vast majority of his cuts were for some other purpose -- like a radio broadcast. No cuts at all, I believe, in his studio recordings.

Anyway, you change the topic when you talk about cuts. We're trying to discuss what's extant, not what's not.

As for Mengelberg "repeatedly making unmarked tempo changes", let's mention Bernstein, a modern. Nor was Furtie above (below?) that. But I commend to you his well-nigh-perfect Telefunken Beethoven Sixth, in which there are few if any conspicuous changes.

"He indulged in the reorchestrations." So did Mahler. So do many conductors, from time to time.

"A Harnoncourt or Abbado is almost always much, much more true to the score than a Mengelberg or Scherchen." [Yawn] And square, so square.

clark

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