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Heck, I might even go so far as to say that I enjoyed playing Mahler's 3rd with a crappy community orchestra more than I enjoy listening to Abbado's performance of it with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra (arguably the definitive performance of the piece). My version was, to no surprise, not very well-performed and generally much more thinly scored than it needed to be (it calls for 8 horns. We had two and two saxophones), but the last movement is an impossibly gorgeous piece of music that relies heavily on some really quiet parts that are all but completely lost in the recording (being Mahler, there are also some very loud parts, so it's a challenge to keep on top of the volume). Being right in the middle of it, I got everything, and it was magnificent.