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[shostakovich]

Hi DB. I recently got the "Sullivan" concerto, but didn't read the notes yet. I'll have to have another go at it with this info.

Hi Shap.
Yes, It was 'fashionable' in the '70s to refer to Das Lied as Symphony #10 on Mahler collections. Apparently it stopped when somenone began recording the #10 adagio and including it in their release. (Bernstein?)

V/R
Shapley


I think the first complete 10th (Cooke's) was first recorded as an addendum to the Bernstein set, but with Ormandy and the Philadelphia.
Shos

[Shapley]

Shos,

Thanks. I recall that, back in the days of vinyl collections, 'complete' Mahler sets were available with either nine or ten symphonies, the tenth always being Das Lied. Later, Das Lied seemed to disappear as a symphony, but I did not see the incomplete tenth in a selection until the last decade. I will admit, however, I wasn't in a financial position to buy a complete collection through most of the '80s and early '90s, so I wasn't looking all that closely. In fact, I was still buying vinyl in the '80s, right up until it became mostly unavailable.

We dinosaurs don't give up easily!

V/R
Shapley