Bruckner: Symphony No.9 - Four Movement Version

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
in this exciting new recording featuring the 2011 revision
by Samale/Mazzuca/Phillips/Cohrs (SMPC) - arguably the
most comprehensive and accurate. In what is regarded
as the definitive form of the Ninth Symphony, this is the
first recording of a new revision of the SMPC Complete
Performance Version which proposes a way to realize
Bruckner s intention of combining themes from all four
movements, based on more than 600 bars of incomplete
autograph score, sketches and drafts.
Recently Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic gave the
American premiere of the score at Carnegie Hall on February
24, 2012. The New York Times praised the premiere: It was
fascinating to hear this monumental symphony performed
with [its new] final movement. After a quizzical opening and
a strong statement of the main theme there are stretches of
fitful counterpoint, brass chorales and ruminative passages
that take you by surprise. Overall the music pulses with a
hard-wrought insistence that crests with a hallelujah coda.