Originally posted by Wensleydale Blue
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I think that the interest with Mahler interpreters such as Bruno Walter or Klemperer or Horenstein or Bernstein is that they either worked directly with Mahler or with his closest associates. They also kept the flame alive for the 50 years or so that it took Mahler's music to become more than just an occasional curio on a symphony program.
This is not to say that their interpretations are more "correct" than other conductors. Mahler is a composer who can be interpreted in many different ways and still sound fascinating. My preference runs towards Walter and Bernstein, but I have many (far to many!) other conductors in my collection as well. Haitink and Barbirolli, for example, are as different from those two conductors as possible, but they also make the music sound fascinating.
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