The Minnesota’s fearless Mahler finale
Mahler
Symphony No. 10 (Deryck Cooke version)
Minnesota Orchestra/Osmo Vänskä
BIS BIS-2396 (CD/SACD) 78:20 mins
The Minnesota is ideally engaged with the Tenth’s depths
Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Haitinkmovement, but also with the ensuing battles of heaven, hell and purgatory. The is ultimately more human, ending with the great leap of violins and violas beneath which, in the manuscript, Mahler inscribed his undying love for his wife Alma. Osmo Vänskä sees to it that his ever-waxing Minnesota Orchestra is ideally engaged with the various heights and depths.
