I had secretly hoped that Bernstein might have re-thought his basic tempo for the opening movement. Overall, he puts almost two minutes on his 1967 CBS recording (reissued on CD in 1986), the whole ...

Doyle is bad news—but a good cop.

Give Mahler a cheery nursery-rhyme ditty and he’ll turn it into the bleakest of gallows marches. Don’t believe us? Have a listen to the opening of the third movement of the First Symphony.