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'Racing through' Mahler's Fifth

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It's the 150th anniversary of Gustav Mahler's birth this year. He often complained about how conductors approached parts of his Symphony No 5 by racing through what he called "a damnable movement", instead of playing is slowly, like it was intended. US conductor and blogger Kenneth Woods and Sir Nicholas Kenyon of the Barbican Centre, discuss whether it is true that conductors race through this movement.

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