Of the various completions of Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major, Deryck Cooke's third performing version from 1976 has been recorded more often than any other. This live recording by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain offers a vivid interpretation that reveals all the details of orchestration and connecting material that Cooke and his assistants, Colin Matthews and David Matthews, added to their revision (1966-1972), after studying the full set of Mahler's sketches. Cooke never ...
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Of the various completions of Gustav Mahler's unfinished Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major, Deryck Cooke's third performing version from 1976 has been recorded more often than any other. This live recording by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain offers a vivid interpretation that reveals all the details of orchestration and connecting material that Cooke and his assistants, Colin Matthews and David Matthews, added to their revision (1966-1972), after studying the full set of Mahler's sketches. Cooke never claimed to have the last word in realizing Mahler's final symphony, and there are fascinating completions by Clinton A. Carpenter, Joseph H. Wheeler, Remo Mazzetti, Jr., and Rudolf Barshai, among others, that have found adherents. A recording of "Cooke III," as it is usually called, is worth having for the sake of hearing the authentic Mahler details along with the revised orchestration, which has always been the main issue in any reconstruction. Nézet-Séguin charges the performance...
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