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Review title: Essential
Product review: This isn't the Mahler 1st with the finest orchestral playing and it certainly isn't the best recorded, but I listen to Kubelik's version more than any other. The third movement is a particular highlight - its mixture of the rustic, the grotesque and the beautiful hasn't been bettered, not even by Bernstein (well, that's what I think). Kubelik's impulsive, open-air approach to Mahler certainly works better in the 1st and 4th, than in, say, the 6th. This classic recording deserves its near-legendary reputation.
