With the acclaimed re-recording by Simon Rattle the highest placed classical entry in Amazon.co.uk's Best of 2000 poll, Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony has clearly taken on a new lease of life. All the more timely then for a recording of a completion not by Deryck Cooke. Remo Mazzetti's involvement goes back over two decades: he completed his first realisation in 1989, revising it over the next decade. Those familiar with Cooke will find Mazzetti's perspective altogether more austere, applying considerable restraint in the fleshing-out of detail in Mahler's score, while evoking a more intimate soundworld familiar from the Ninth Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde. The two scherzos often benefit from this lightness of touch, particularly the capricious second movement, but the emotional impact of the outer movements is at times sold short, while the Finale's closing minutes don't have the emotional intensity that Rattle brings to them. Jesús L#243;pez-Cobos gets alert, sensitive playing from his Cincinnati forces in a clean if small-scale acoustic. If you already have Rattle, this is worth considering for an alternative view of a fascinating symphonic torso. --Richard Whitehouse