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Posted by Steve Luciani on October 20, 2025, 7:27 pm, in reply to "Re: Mitropoulos's 1955 Mahler 6th"
My sincerest apologies. I was reading all the reviews on MusicWeb this morning and I guess I got confused as to which performance was which.
I certainly am going to track down that Cologne performance. I will also correct my comment on Youtube.
Again, so sorry for misquoting you. 
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Just to be clear, I actually made that comment not about the 1955 NYPO performance, memorable though it is, but about a 1959 performance which Mitropoulos gave in Cologne https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jan04/mitropoulos.htm
Subsequently, I heard the searing 1981 live account conducted by Klaus Tennstedt. https://musicwebinternational.com/2025/08/mahler-symphony-no-6-london-philharmonic-orchestra/
I think that has precedence over either Mitropoulos performance, not least because Tennstedt observes the first movement exposition; Mitropoulos omits in both recordings.
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Mitropoulos's 1955 Mahler 6th - Steve Luciani October 20, 2025, 4:27 pm
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