Mahler/Cooke - Symphony No 10 review | Andrew Clements's classical album of the week

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Minnesota O/Osmo Vänskä
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Part of his cycle of works by Mahler, Vänskä’s stoic approach pays dividends in the composer’s unfinished work, with unswerving instrumental detail

Over the last 60 years there have been at least seven completions of the symphony that Gustav Mahler left unfinished at his death in 1911. But it’s the “performing version” of the 10th by Deryck Cooke, which he worked on between 1960 and 1976 with the help of composers Berthold Goldschmidt and David and Colin Matthews, that has become the most widely played and recorded version of this final masterpiece.