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Amphissa wrote:

I do not know how well he knew the music of Mahler. Certainly they have some ideas in common, but Myaskovsky was never as ostentatious as Mahler. Of course, he was a much more versatile composer than Mahler. Mahler had a few ideas (both musically and programmatically), which he reworked over and over again in his symphonies. Myaskovsky wrote chamber music, concertos, symphonies, symphonic poems, with great variety of concept and rich in ideas.

It was exactly why I was mocking this question.

BTW, listening Myaskovsky I very sorry that not a lot of other orchestras beside Russian played him. Russian orchestras are mostly chrome-less and have own b/w-type of sound. They could be articulate and they could be expressive but in many other arias than color vividness.  Although, Russian do not play a lot of Mahler but they would be good for him. Mahler, with all his colorful complexity is in a way wearing a gipsy-color skirt and his colors are primary colors, bold, and in a way primitive colors – good for today’s Russian orchestras. With Myaskovsky, like with most of the Russian composers, everything is more complicated. Russian music is kind of color-challenged and to play Russian music is very beneficial to have very color-loaded orchestras. None of the Russian orchestras are qualified since the sound of Boris Khaikin’s Bolshoy and the Golovanov’s Radio Orchestra in 50s. Some very few western orchestras could “colorize” the colors-subdued Russian music. Chicago and Czech Philharmonic in 60s had “the colors”. Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic were able to do “colors” since begin of the time and even in 90s and perhaps nowadays. It would be so interesting if some color-capable orchestras commit Myaskovsky to recording media. Would it be so useful to hear for instance the enigmatic Myaskovsky 27th Symphony painted in a style of the best Dutch 17th-century painters ….

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