Lso/Suzanne Danco/Krips - Josef Krips conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in G major

Thanks to his unusually strong grasp of classical structures, Josef Krips proves a near-ideal conductor for the Fourth Symphony. Noting Mahler�s repeated �Nicht Eilen� (�don�t rush�) markings, Krips never hurries the music or indulges in unnecessary point-making, least of all in the radiant variations of the poco adagio third movement. With Suzanne Danco pristine soloist in the finale, childlike but never childish, this is a beautifully-judged performance of a work which can too easily sound overstated, faux-naif or both.