You should try some Mahler for yourself. Listen to his Second Symphony. (But for ghu's sake avoid the Gilbert Kaplan recordings. Try MTT.) It starts out like agitated Bruckner, but if you make it all the way to the end without getting annoyed at the composer, you're a Mahler fan.
My favorite Brahms symphony is the Second, but they're all good, the odd-numbered ones being more formal and declamatory than the others. None of the recordings I know are as good as the best live performances I've heard.
Berg's Lyric Suite is interesting, just not much to my taste. But this was repellent. I haven't tried his operas.
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Date: 2009-01-09 01:56 am (UTC)My favorite Brahms symphony is the Second, but they're all good, the odd-numbered ones being more formal and declamatory than the others. None of the recordings I know are as good as the best live performances I've heard.
Berg's Lyric Suite is interesting, just not much to my taste. But this was repellent. I haven't tried his operas.