Symphony No. 9
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BRUCKNER
Symphony No. 9
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart Des Swr / Carlo Maria Giulini
[ Hanssler / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 19 April 2008
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Bruckner had started to compose his Ninth Symphony immediately after finishing his Eight in August 1887. This work took up more than nine years of his life.
Bruckner worked longer on it than on any of his other symphonies. The work is, as the Bruckner scholar Manfred Wagner expresses it, a "compendium generale" of the composer's life work, bringing together all he had previously accomplished. In this performance, the legendary conductor Giulini's Bruckner tends to be long-breathed and glowing. He is an absolute master of the difficult transitions and uses slight, natural sounding fluctuations in tempo unobtrusively. The effect is one of great grandeur whilst retaining organic cohesion. and is conducted by one of the work's great exponents.
