Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

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If you chanced on this recording you’d be very impressed, I hope. A superb orchestra and a deeply committed conductor...if this is the way you get to know this work, no injustice will be done. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Sep 2022
Catalogue No: CCSSA42822
Label: Channel
Length: 55 minutes

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor

Work length55:30

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Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer

I. Feierlich, misterioso

Track length22:26

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II. Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft - Trio. Schnell

Track length9:38

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III. Adagio. Langsam, feierlich

Track length23:26

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Following his critically acclaimed interpretation of Bruckner's 7th Symphony, Iván Fischer leads his Budapest Festival Orchestration to the summit of 19th century symphonic music, with this new recording of the monumental, enigmatic, unfinished and deeply religious 9th Symphony of Anton Bruckner.

The three completed movements are pervaded with angst and awareness of death. As in Mozart’s unfinished Requiem, the first movement is dominated by a dark D minor. The pounding rhythms of the scherzo seem to anticipate Stravinsky and Bartók, while the large leaps and piercing dissonances point towards the Second Viennese School of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. The Adagio is Bruckner’s heartrending farewell to the world and to life. Although Bruckner died before he could write the huge fourth movement he had in mind, there is something satisfying and comforting in concluding with the Adagio.

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December 2022

If you chanced on this recording you’d be very impressed, I hope. A superb orchestra and a deeply committed conductor...if this is the way you get to know this work, no injustice will be done.

November 2022

Fischer’s tempos in all three movements are slightly faster than usual, although this is a much more standard interpretation of the symphony than his performance of the Seventh.

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