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In Reply to: RE: No Stravinsky or Shostakovich? Not a Mahler fan... posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 20, 2016 at 09:15:39:
"I find it funny that you object to Mahler, but are fine with Shostakovich, who extends some of the same Mahlerian musical gestures into bathos much more often than Mahler himself does! ;-) "
Shostakovich is more lean and tormented, Mahler is weirdly sentimental in that kooky Germanic way. If you must have that, I prefer R Strauss or Berg or..... well almost anyone else.
And anyway, Shostakovich has great endings. The ending of Symphony 6 is my favourite of any symphony. Mahler's 3rd is for me one of the most ridiculously pompous. All it needs (and gets) is Lenny waving his arms round wildly like he's drowning.
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Follow Ups
- Shostakovich has better endings than Mahler... - andy evans 11:13:25 08/20/16 (2)
- Hold the front page..... - andy evans 13:37:48 08/20/16 (1)
- To each his own, but I don't hear "flatulent excesses" in Bernstein/NYP (Col.) 4th and/or 5th. - Rick W 15:54:15 08/20/16 (0)
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