Many thanks for your comments, Ian - I am coming up 70 myself and am conscious that as one ages, one's hearing can be impaired, so I recently took a test and found that I have been fortunate to retain the hearing of a younger person - but there is still always some element of subjectivity, I find, when responding to new remasterings of an old, favourite recording, especially if one is to some degree imprinted with the sound of its first, original incarnation. Anyway, I am glad that your own Sony/CBS recording still does it for you. I generally like very much what Andrew Rose does and have demurred at very few of his issues. I know what you mean about the Barbirolli recording; when reviewing one of Sanderling's versions I mentioned it thus in passing: "...some might prefer more of the emotional charge and even indulgence in phrasing of the kind Barbirolli secures in his wonderful recording with the BPO, made in the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, in 1964" - and yes, Cooke's performing edition of the Tenth is almost as intense. In my review of Gamzou's own version of that I remarked, "We already have a plethora of excellent recordings of Deryck Cooke’s version from such as Ormandy, Inbal, Levine, Rattle and Sanderling, and a more recent release conducted by Thomas Dausgaard has received plaudits; meanwhile, Barshai has given us his own slightly eccentric and joyous adaptation of Cooke’s score and Andrew Litton has made an estimable recording of Clinton Carpenter’s reconstruction, which some find too interventionist." We are spoilt for choice.

All the best,
Ralph