VPO/Harding M10 timings

[akiralx]

From DG's website:

'Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)
Symphony No.10 in F sharp (unfinished) Ed. Deryck Cooke
 
1   1. Adagio [25:50]   
2   2. Scherzo [11:08]   
3   3. Purgatorio [4:01]   
4   4. Scherzo [11:59]   
5   5. Finale [25:02] 

The performing edition attempts to give an idea of Mahler’s conception of the symphony. Cooke himself wrote various versions in order to reconstruct the piece. Harding has chosen a version that was published in 1989 after Cooke’s death (slightly revised Deryck Cook version from 1976 ).'

[barry guerrero]

DG says that it's Cooke III - the final version. I've heard a pirate of this performance, and it's really very good. Interpretively, it's more than a bit clone-Rattle. But hey, that's OK. Besides, the VPO may really be the stars in this case.

Barry

[Don]

Pretty close to the new Noseda recording. 77-78 minutes seems to be the "standard timing" of the 10th as of late. Farberman's whirlwind recording of the Carpenter taking about 64 min and Morris about 83-84 minutes being the extremes that I note.

[barry guerrero]

Thanks Don. Noseda is a minute quicker in the last movement, which makes itself somewhat obvious during all that string dominated, Merchant Ivory soundtrack sounding music that happens after the reprise of the harrowing, expressionistic climax (or anti-climax). I like Nodeda's pacing very much.

Barry