Mahler’s Tenth

It was the musical equivalent of raising the Titanic. When musicologists rescued Mahler’s incomplete Tenth Symphony and brought it back into the concert hall, they salvaged a masterpiece of 20th-century art: a huge, impassioned meditation on life, death and all that lies between. Cries of pain turn into vaulting songs of love, and musical puzzles yield the most intimate of secrets. If you haven’t yet heard the Tenth Symphony, you don’t know Mahler, and Vladimir Jurowski believes that this completion by Rudolf Barshai is as close as we can get to hearing Mahler’s own final thoughts.