Even though their legitimacy is still being debated, completions of Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10 have increased at an astonishing rate in the century since the composer's death in 1911. To know if any of the completions is the most preferred, one only has to scan a list of recordings to see that the first of Deryck Cooke's three realizations has attained a higher status than almost any other contenders. Now, to see that Cooke's historic version has been transcribed for solo piano by Ronald Stevenson and ...
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Even though their legitimacy is still being debated, completions of Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10 have increased at an astonishing rate in the century since the composer's death in 1911. To know if any of the completions is the most preferred, one only has to scan a list of recordings to see that the first of Deryck Cooke's three realizations has attained a higher status than almost any other contenders. Now, to see that Cooke's historic version has been transcribed for solo piano by Ronald Stevenson and Christopher White and recorded by the latter, one could gather that it has a real significance that others don't. But this transcription sets its own standards as a keyboard work, and Stevenson and White have rendered Mahler's and Cooke's work into something unexpectedly modern and new sounding. One aspect of this transcription that everyone will notice is what seems like increased dissonance, for Mahler's astringent chords -- especially the famous nine-pitch chord at the climax of the...
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