Deryck Cooke: 'Mahler's Unfinished Tenth Symphony' (1960 Radio Programme)
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The original BBC broadcast (19 December 1960) of the lecture/performance in which Deryck Cooke presented his first (incomplete) attempt at a 'performing version' of the draft of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony. (NB: Tape drop-out of several...
The original BBC broadcast (19 December 1960) of the lecture/performance in which Deryck Cooke presented his first (incomplete) attempt at a 'performing version' of the draft of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony. (NB: Tape drop-out of several seconds soon after the start; also the first several minutes of the talk are missing)
degsie
I remember listening to this broadcast in 1960! At the time I was discovering Mahler, and this was absolutely riveting stuff.
Terrible shame that Cooke died so young (57), before he could complete his projected work on Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung.