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| 03/28/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) Particularly with the Seventh, I have little desire to analyze what Mahler is trying to say. I m satisfied simply to let myself be taken along the river of the composer s musical consciousness. Currently, my preferences for this piece are Tennstedt and this first Bernstein New York Philharmonic account. Like some, I find a number of the performances in Bernstein s second set (with different orchestras) often mannered and slow. By contrast, I would place a number of his readings from the first set at or near the top of the list of individual Mahler recordings. I am of the same opinion regarding Klaus Tennstedt s sincerely executed and mostly very satisfying collection. Some prefer Tennstedt to Bernstein because they feel he tends to avoid imposing his personality on the music in the way the latter does. Well, in most of his Mahler (with reference to his New York Philharmonic set, not his later one) I really don t have this problem with Bernstein. Hi