On 2009-07-25 Karl W. Nehring, Ostrander, OH USA wrote: This CD was eagerly awaited by Mahler fans a few years ago, because it featured the world premiere recording of a new performing edition of the 10th. Slatkin had been performing Mazzetti´s version in concerts, and as a bonus to purchasers of this CD, he recorded a lecture with musical examples to illustrate the differences among various performing editions of the work. With the 10th captured on one silver disk and the lecture disk thrown in at no extra cost, this new RCA release was a decent bargain, and both RCA and Slatkin deserved appreciation for presenting such a fine and complete package to the public at a reasonable price.
However, it is now difficult to recommend this disk, mainly because Mazzetti has since withdrawn the version of the score that was recorded by Slatkin, replacing it with a newer version that has been recorded recently by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on Telarc (reviewed below). In addition, Slatkin is a bit too much like Haitink for my taste in Mahler conductors (i.e., too prone to smooth things out), and I miss the energy that Simon (now Sir Simon) Rattle brings to his recordings of the Cooke edition of the score on EMI. For the Mazzetti version, the new Telarc release reviewed below is better in every way than this version from RCA.
Still, for devoted Mahler fans, Slatkin´s lecture disk makes this release worth seeking out, and the performance of the now-withdrawn Mazzetti version is certainly worth hearing.. And summed up by saying A Decent Value. Currently Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F-Sharp (edited by Remo Mazzetti, Jr.) - Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra / Leonard Slatkin has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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