Yesterday I listened to Bruno Walter's 1938 recording of the Mahler 9 (remastered in 1989) and I decided I liked it better than the Levine performance the other night. The tempos were simply faster all around, and it was easier to digest emotionally than the excruciating pulling of Levine's fourth movement, which was so tortured that it periodically lost my interest.
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