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Originally Posted by Mirror Image
His Mahler is also just terrible, he doesn't really have a firm understanding of Mahler's music.
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I listened to his Mahler 8th on Youtube, and it is actually very nice; the broad tempi are actually a good thing with this symphony if they're done musically, and Maazel does everything quite musically, even though you have to be in a good frame of mind to really get into it. Maybe he's gotten his Mahlerian act together in the last 30 or so years...
His Sibelius, I'll agree straight away, is the worst I've ever heard... except for the 2nd, which is mind-boggling. The rest is heartless, seemingly.