Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No 10 – review

Philharmonia/London SO/Goldschmidt (Testament, three CDs)Deryck Cooke's "performing version" of Mahler's final, unfinished symphony is now comfortably the most frequently performed and recorded of the various completions of the 10th (at least six others so far) that have appeared over the last half-century. What began as part of the celebrations for the Mahler centenary in 1960 occupied Cooke up to his death in 1976, and his third and final version, on which the conductor and composer Berthold G...

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