Seventh Syms News Today

| 03/28/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Particularly with the Seventh, I have little desire to analyze what Mahler is trying to say. Im satisfied simply to let myself be taken along the river of the composers musical consciousness. Currently, my preferences for this piece are Tennstedt and this first Bernstein New York Philharmonic account. Like some, I find a number of the performances in Bernsteins second set (with different orchestras) often mannered and slow. By contrast, I would place a number o...