"If, like me, you have harboured doubts about Rattle's Berlin 9 but, unlike me, you have felt the need to keep those doubts to yourself, then this may be a version to hear. Vänskä lacks the calm, almost Buddhist wisdom of Walter in his Columbia Symphony recording or the dogged, flinty endurance of Horenstein but at the end of listening to this recording I had a sense of having experienced this remarkable score in its fullness, not just its drama. That alone makes this worth listening to".