Gustav Mahler a performing version of the draft for the Tenth Symphony

This is the only performing score of Deryck Cooke's performing version of Mahler's 10th Symphony that I found at an affordable price--though it's not cheap. It also includes a useful explanation. Together with Mahler's own handwritten incomplete score, available free online

Cooke’s edition has been criticized a lot by people who, I think, haven’t read much on it. If you buy this edition, do yourself the favor of reading his notes.I think we generally get that Mahler may have made tweaks and changed his plans had he lived. I think we generally get that Mahler 10, however complete it may be, leaves us wondering what it would sound like if Mahler had lived another year.I think Cooke wonders that too, and I think that’s why his edition is acceptable to me. He seems intent on doing only as much as needed to create something performable, and openly acknowledges the places where the resulting score is more speculative than definite.What we get is the shape of Mahler’s plan for the 10th. Maybe not every detail, but the shape. For me, that’s useful.People get very heated about the 10th. Personally, I don’t. I know what’s Mahler’s, what’s an educated guess, and what’s Cooke’s. I’m willing to take it as it is, and the clarity Cooke gives us is why.

Although this edition is comparatively expensive, this symphony was incomplete at the composer s death. This score is uniquein that itcontains the movement completedby the composer but also the the sketchesfor the outline of the symphony, all contained within the completed opus.

Here, is a completely transparent effort to put all the logic of the symphony’s assembly into one place. It succeeds 100%. Deryck Cooke’s performing version is so well derived from the materials that Mahler’s failure to complete the finished score seems hardly to matter. Cooke (no relation to me) seems to know exactly what Mahler might have done as readily as anything else, so the authenticity of the sound in never in doubt. Much of the time, it seems quite reasonable to think that what Cooke came up with (after a lifetime of Mahler analysis) is right on the money. It is hard to imagine that Mahler would have done anything so different that the contrast between his version would have been stark. Instead, one can sit back and hear the music in its own context, wholly Mahlerian and believable throughout. Cooke’s assessment of 85% Mahler/15% Cooke is probably an understatement; it sound more like 99%.Get this score, if you want to have all the pertinent information on this symphony and it assembly; a revelation, much more than trying to make sense of all the many sketch materials in any efficient time frame.

Prodotto spedito tempestivamente e ricevuto in perfette condizioni. Difetti: costo elevatissimo, qualità della carta mediocre e rilegatura che non consente di tenere aperta la partitura (le pagine sono incollate). Do tre stelle perché non ho trovato alternative e la decima completata da Cooke merita un approfondimento con partitura se si è in grado fi seguirla.

Ouvrage sérieux réservés aux musiciens aguérris, et aux professionnels. Hyper interessant, malheureusement uniquement en anglais et en allemand.Pour les connaisseurs, il s'agit de Cooke III.Passionnant, l'idée de mettre en bas de page la "draft" de Mahler pour pouvoir voir le travail d'orchestration est remarquable. On aimerait trouver les orchestrations de WHEELER, de MAZETTI de la même qualité, mais où ?La version CARPENTER est critiquée dans ce livre, à juste raison, car étant une horreur (écriture des parties en plus, changements de la partition, introduction d'éléments mahlériens de ses autres symphonies...)La version CD qui correspond à cette édition est la version de Sir Simon RATTLE chez EMI avec le City of Birmingham Orchestra.Bonne lecture et bonne écoute