Having nursed the Minnesota Orchestra through its near-death experience, Osmo Vänskä has now announced his departure. But he leaves his band in excellent shape, if this Mahler Resurrection is anything to go by.

His overall timing of almost 84 minutes is relatively leisurely but, apart from the slow sections of the always challenging first movement (which he takes very slowly indeed) most of it is quite fast. Yet he manages to create a highly ominous atmosphere and a credible pulse, without the incomparable grimness and granitic, implacable quality Klemperer imparts to the movement in his almost 60-year-old EMI recording.

The minuet is beautifully paced and inflected, with an especially winsomely...