Vänskä sees to it that his ever-waxing Minnesota Orchestra is ideally engaged with the various heights and depths...Limpid and lurid woodwind playing shines out, from the ghoulish clarinets in the outer movements to the purest of flute solos in the late return to life.

Throughout the performance, Vänskä’s penchant for extremes at the quiet end of the dynamic spectrum is evident: The music, for instance, flirts with inaudibility just before the first movement’s cataclysm, just as it does before the end of the fourth movement...a controversial reading of a still-controversial symphony.

This is Mahler without neurosis, disinclined to let rip until unavoidable, clear-sighted and dry-eyed.

This is easily the high point of the series so far...it's immediately clear that one of the huge strengths of this performance is the range of dynamics on offer…Sometimes a recording just does everything that you want it to, and this is most certainly the case here with this fervent and deeply emotional recording of Mahler's tragically unfinished final opus.

It’s arguably the finest instalment of this continuing project so far...one of the finest Mahler 10s on disc…The Minnesota Orchestra plays magnificently, and Vänskä’s meticulous attention to instrumental detail and to the weighting of every chord, and his unswerving sense of symphonic coherence and continuity, make the total effect overwhelming.