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Mahler - Symphony no.10 | BIS BIS2396

Mahler - Symphony no.10

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2396

Barcode: 7318599923963

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 5th March 2021

Contents

Artists

Minnesota Orchestra

Conductor

Osmo Vanska

Works

Mahler, Gustav

Symphony no.10 in F sharp major (version by Deryck Cooke)

Artists

Minnesota Orchestra

Conductor

Osmo Vanska

About

Left unfinished at the death of the composer, Gustav Mahler’s Tenth Symphony has exerted an enormous fascination on musicologists as well as musicians – a kind of Holy Grail of 20th-century music. Recognised as an intensely personal work, it was initially consigned to respectful oblivion, but over the years, Alma Mahler, the composer’s widow, released more and more of Mahler’s sketches for publication, and gradually it became clear that he had in fact bequeathed an entire five-movement symphony in short score (i.e. written on three or four staves). Of this, nearly half had reached the stage of a draft orchestration, while the rest contained indications of the intended instrumentation.

Over the years a number of different completions or performing versions of ‘the Tenth’ have seen the light of day. One of the most often performed and recorded of these is that by Deryck Cooke. Cooke himself insisted that his edition was not a ‘completion’ of the work, but rather a functional presentation of the materials as Mahler left them. Cooke’s performing version of the symphony is the one that Osmo Vänskä has chosen to use for the seventh instalment in his and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Mahler series, a cycle characterised by an unusual transparency and clarity of sound as well as musical conception.

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