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Many of you know I am a fanatic about the Mahler 10th Symphony. I believe it would have been his absolute masterpiece if he lived to complete it as he wished. I own a copy of every recording that appears to be widely available.

That said, there was a wonderful live BBC Radio 3 Broadcast of the Mahler 10th (Cooke III version) today by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko. It was marvelous and can be heard for the next 7 days. Check it out if you can. Listening to the archive recording now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9qkw

DonKC wrote:Many of you know I am a fanatic about the Mahler 10th Symphony. I believe it would have been his absolute masterpiece if he lived to complete it as he wished. I own a copy of every recording that appears to be widely available.

That said, there was a wonderful live BBC Radio 3 Broadcast of the Mahler 10th (Cooke III version) today by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic under Vasily Petrenko. It was marvelous and can be heard for the next 7 days. Check it out if you can. Listening to the archive recording now.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01r9qkw

Thanks Don.

Worth a listen, my initial enthusiasm is tempered by some rough going in the admittedly problematic ninner movements.

Thanks for that, Don. I too probably own most of the available recordings, so I'll be interested to hear Petrenko!

I'm currently missing Zinman, Litton (Carpenter), Noseda and Wigglesworth: would you recommend any of these? My first M10 was Rattle/Bournemouth, which I no longer have since I sold my LPs, but I do have Rattle/Berlin.

For what it is worth Ciaran I can recommend Wigglesworth....one of my favourites.

fergus wrote:For what it is worth Ciaran I can recommend Wigglesworth....one of my favourites.

Thanks Fergus: I've heard good things about that one. Of course you now have Rattle/Bournemouth on vinyl: that was always special for me, but it was my first encounter with the work.

Zinman recorded the Carpenter edition, which is not my favorite, but Zinman's recording is easily the best for that edition, with Litton second. Noseda was fine, but the Wigglesworth/BBC is a great recording. His live Melbourne is too, but is awfully expensive at least here in the US for a disc ($40-50 for a single disc), but I downloaded it from Amazon for a lot less. I would definitely have at least one of the Wigglesworth in my collection. The BBC was part of BBC Music Magazine, but seems to be available used quite cheaply.

Rattle Bournemouth is better than Rattle BPO in my opinion. Strangely two of the earliest recordings are my favorites, K. Sanderling/Berlin SO (Berlin Classics) and the first recording Ormandy/Phildelphia.

DonKC wrote:Zinman recorded the Carpenter edition, which is not my favorite, but Zinman's recording is easily the best for that edition, with Litton second. Noseda was fine, but the Wigglesworth/BBC is a great recording. His live Melbourne is too, but is awfully expensive at least here in the US for a disc ($40-50 for a single disc), but I downloaded it from Amazon for a lot less. I would definitely have at least one of the Wigglesworth in my collection. The BBC was part of BBC Music Magazine, but seems to be available used quite cheaply.

Rattle Bournemouth is better than Rattle BPO in my opinion. Strangely two of the earliest recordings are my favorites, K. Sanderling/Berlin SO (Berlin Classics) and the first recording Ormandy/Phildelphia.

I LOVE the Ormandy/Philadelphia recording, I don't think that Fergus is too keen on it though. The Barshai/Junge Deutsche Philharmonie performance is very good too and I have heard great things about the Wigglesworth/BBC recording, strange thing is that I haven't listened to the 10th for a long time I must correct that later today.

Ciaran wrote:
Of course you now have Rattle/Bournemouth on vinyl: that was always special for me, but it was my first encounter with the work.

I had it on CD already Ciaran but it is much more pleasurable to have it on vinyl!

I also agree with Don that his Bournemouth version is better than the Berliner version.




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If I had to choose a single recording of the great Johann Joseph Fux it would have to be this. The oratorio is a masterpiece, and the recording magnificent.