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Left unfinished at the death of the composer,
Gustav Mahler's Tenth Symphony has exerted an
enormous fascination on musicologists as well as
musicians. Whether fully orchestrated in specific
passages, or a sole melody in others, there is one
continuous line throughout the surviving
manuscript pages and over the years a number of
different completions or performing versions have
seen the light of day. One of the latest is this
'recreation' of the work for chamber orchestra by
composer and conductor Michelle Castelletti.
In her liner notes to the recording, Castelletti
describes the symphony as 'possibly one of
Mahler's most passionate emotional outbursts and
autobiographical creations'. The decision to make
an orchestration for chamber forces was inspired
by the example of the Viennese Society for Private
Musical Performance, established by Arnold
Schoenberg in 1918 with the goal of performing
newly composed music. Among the works
performed by the Society were chamber orchestra
versions of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 and Das Lied
von der Erde – the latter made by Schoenberg
himself – and in her version of Symphony No. 10,
Castelletti uses a similar instrumentation. This new
completion appears on disc for the first time, in a
performance by the acclaimed Lapland Chamber
Orchestra under John Storgards, the ensemble's
artistic director since 1996.
Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)
Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major (1910) Completed and arranged for chamber orchestra by Michelle Castelletti
1 ) I. Adagio. Andante – Adagio25'22
2 ) II. Scherzo. Schnelle Viertel 11'12
3 ) III. Purgatorio. Allegretto moderato3'50
4 ) IV. Scherzo. Allegro pesante. Nicht zu schnell12'50
5 ) V. Finale. Langsam, schwer – Allegro moderato 22'55
TT: 77'04 |
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