Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp (edited by Remo Mazzetti, Jr.) ~ Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Slatkin

Gustav Mahler (Composer), Leonard Slatkin (Conductor), Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
• Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
• Composer: Gustav Mahler
• Audio CD (November 7, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FX7
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #99,028 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Sym No.10 in F#: Adagio

2. Sym No.10 in F#: Scherzo

3. Sym No.10 in F#: Satz

4. Sym No.10 in F#: Scherzo

5. Sym No.10 in F#:

Disc: 2

1. Leonard Slatkin On Mahler's 10th Sym

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recording and Inforamtive Bonus Disc, May 20, 2000

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R. Ashley (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp (edited by Remo Mazzetti, Jr.) ~ Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Slatkin (Audio CD)

This is a really engaging performance. Even if you have a few other recordings of this work, this is worht getting because of the bonus disc. On the bonus disc Slatkin talks about the different performing editions of the 10th and the SLSO plays some examples. This was very enlightening to me. Usually, with a work like a Mahler Symphony, we compare recordings and make our choices based on how the conductor handled the score. In this case, it is not just that, but Slatkin takes us through the process of choosing which score to play.

If you are serious about this symphony, I would say to get a recording of the Deryk Cooke version, and also this record, and compare.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reincarnation?, December 18, 2003

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This review is from: Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp (edited by Remo Mazzetti, Jr.) ~ Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Slatkin (Audio CD)

Okay, we all realize that reviews can be quite subjective. I just can't help saying that this performance sounds just like what Mahler intended. (I realize that sounds presumptuous of me, but Mahler is my favorite composer, and I have listened to nearly every available performance of everything he wrote.) This sounds like vintage Mahler. It's spellbinding. I felt as if Mahler had come back from the grave to direct this beautiful, moving performance.

Mahler never finished his tenth symphony, but he did leave some pretty good outlines of what he intended. The trick is choosing the orchestration: which instruments play each theme. Several people have attempted to go on from the outlines and prepare performing versions of Mahler's 10th. American Remo Mazzetti, Jr. produced this version, performed here by Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

Compared to other versions (by Cooke, Carpenter, and Wheeler) this version just sounds more like Mahler: there is the bigger than life Mahler sound, presented on a grander scale. There is more emphasis to the horns and timpani, especially in the second movement. There is simply a better choice of instruments and combinations of instruments to sing the various Mahler themes. The whole symphony is full of warmth, forboding, pain, love, and drama, and ends in a sweet and peaceful exit from life.

I apologize for getting so passionate about this, but it was as if Mahler had guided Mazzetti's pen and Slatkin's baton to see that his unfinished symphony was set forth as a fitting gift to us, nearly a century after his death.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful performance, powerful climaxes, November 21, 1999

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Gregory M. Zinkl (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp (edited by Remo Mazzetti, Jr.) ~ Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Slatkin (Audio CD)

I find this disc to be a revelation, especially after hearing a pile of dead-boring 10ths. The playing alone (as is often the case with St. Louis) warrants at least a serious listen, if not the price of the disc. The first movement climax, with one incredible trumpet blast that seems to stretch for infinity is just incredible. However, if you like late Bernstein (agogic and grotesquely self-indulgent) Mahler (or more appropriate, Mahler-Bernstein), you should forego this disc. Slatkin cares much more about presenting Mahler as Mahler, and not Mahler as edited by Slatkin.