Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

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Honeck’s Bruckner Ninth is the greatest I’ve heard since Giulini, and for me it surpasses any current rival. Bruckner collectors are known for being fiercely partisan about the conductors they... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 13th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: FR-733
Label: Reference Recordings
Length: 63 minutes

Grammy Awards

62nd Awards (2019)

Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
Grammy Awards

62nd Awards (2019)

Nominee - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
International Classical Music Awards

2019

Nominee - Symphonic Music
Gramophone Magazine

December 2019

Critics' Choice
The New York Times

Recordings of the Year 2019

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109 (Ed. L. Nowak)

Work length1:03:10

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Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck

I. Feierlich, misterioso

Track length25:04

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II. Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft

Track length10:20

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$3.85

$5.25

III. Adagio. Langsam, feierlich

Track length27:46

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Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continue to amaze! Reference Recordings proudly presents this iconic work in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound. This hybrid release was recorded live in the beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. As an important added feature, in his deeply personal and scholarly music notes, Maestro Honeck gives us great insight into the history and the musical structure of Bruckner’s final composition, and describes how he conducts and interprets this masterwork. This release and the entire Pittsburgh Live! series are recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, Inc.

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January/February 2020

Honeck’s Bruckner Ninth is the greatest I’ve heard since Giulini, and for me it surpasses any current rival. Bruckner collectors are known for being fiercely partisan about the conductors they like and dislike, and I am no exception. To my taste this release is a must-listen, joining every previous Honeck CD in that regard—he is undoubtedly gifted.

December 2019

Honeck’s management of tempo relations is for the most part judicious and subtle...By contrast, his approach to balance and dynamics is highly individual. The orchestral sound is dark-hued and saturated, aided by a recording that favours the low bass...Considered as a whole, this new version is a compelling account of the symphony with considerable depth of feeling and intimations of the beyond. The closing pages of the symphony are especially sublime.

November 2019

A recording that forces itself towards the top of the list.

The New York Times 12th December 2019

This may well be their finest recording so far: breathtakingly intense, magnificently played and unrelentingly fresh.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

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