Making lists means basically leaving out a lot of great stuff; and Opera Chic's list of her favorite Mahler recordings the other day, prompted by Alex Ross's, left out -- with a heavy heart -- some of the giants of Mahler interpretation. Willem Mengelberg among them.
So here's Crazy Will opening up the Adagietto like a coconut, for our eternal listening pleasure and spiritual uplift -- it rarely, if ever, gets any better than this, idiosyncratic and all.
