"The score contains everything but the essential"

A while back, I wrote an essay comparing two performances of the Mahler Fourth Symphony, for the National Arts Centre's new "musicbox", which archives some of the NAC Orchestra's finest performances as captured by the microphones of the CBC. Here is a link to the article in English:

http://tinyurl.com/mu7c7x

And here's a link to the article in French:

http://tinyurl.com/l5zdd8