我大概是个唯美主义者，喜欢流畅优美的旋律，如舒伯特；如富特文革勒指挥的贝多芬和伯拉姆斯。马勒音乐最困扰我的是它的不流畅，停顿太多，而且旋律也不够优美，尤其是那些不谐和音。

因为停顿太多，所以要求指挥对乐队控制极严，每个声部的开始和结束，都要严格掌握。这种严格的控制，让我联想到马勒本人是个控制狂，对他的乐队，对他的妻子，都是如此，由此更增加对他音乐的反感。

当然，他的音乐我仅听了一小部分，我目前的感觉可能有失公正。如果您能举出反例，欢迎批评指正。

i like him anyway.but regarding to "blue/dark" music, i prefer Tchaikovsky more.

Mahler's style is only one drop of the entire classical music sea.

you are not a perfectionist, (Mahler himself is a perfectionist and thus his music.) you just like 流畅优美的旋律, we taste differently. nothing to do with perfectionism. those 停顿, if you put yourself into the composer's mind (back then, when he wrote the piece),learn about his psychological activity, you maybe able to understand him/the piece more.

to understand a piece, it always is better(best, from my point of view) to learn about the composer's bio first.

music is a way to vent human's emotion. some one(sad one, like Mahler) wants to tell you his true self, some other(sad one too, like Tchaikovsky) disguises himself well (and make you happy--this also responds to noproblem(密西洒家。o O)'s post above)

作为一个非古典乐迷，怯怯地选个2，为什么喜欢?不知道，初听马勒，给予我无以名状的震撼感，深沉，博大，直入内心，这也算欣赏音乐吗？

“The symphony must be like the world. It must be all-embracing.”

特别让人倾倒的是他交响作品里蕴含的个人化的人生哲理的演进。这种演进到了第九达到了一个高峰和总结，有一套伯恩斯坦的马勒全集的电影介绍得很好，我记得大致就是：生命是暂时的，死亡是永恒的，宇宙最终是死亡之家。永恒的死亡，需要人们超然去面对。第九交响曲结尾，生命优雅地放弃搏斗和挣扎，坦然平和地接受死亡，脆弱纤细的生命之光，慢慢沉入无边的黑暗和寂静。

然而这样残酷沮丧的画面，让马勒用音乐表达出来，却竟然有一种惊心动魄的美！

生与死的主题，贯穿了马勒全部交响曲的创作过程，跟其他作曲家不同的是，马勒似乎是在用第一人称创作。

听马勒，每部交响作品一定要去至少一次音乐厅，不能光坐在家里听唱片，不然就没跟听到差不太多。要点：要稍微允许自己做情感俘虏 --- 个人体会。