There is nothing that Rattle does with Mahler that truly moves. In music that requires both awesome sound and spirituality, EMI engineeers fail in the former and Rattle in the latter. It is rather puzzling that, in our age of super-technical accomplishments, such is the case.I just heard a "Made in USA" 1950 Live recording of the 8th with Stokowski at the helm. Well, even with merely adequate monaural sound, the conductor makes eveything sound spontenous and right. At the end of the journey, you get a chill up your spine. Then you knew that this was the right way.... not Rattle on EMI.