Bruckner Symphony No 9
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Composer or Director: Anton Bruckner
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 10/1986
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 417 295-1DH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Symphony No. 9 |
Anton Bruckner, Composer
Anton Bruckner, Composer Chicago Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Anton Bruckner
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 10/1986
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 417 295-4DH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Symphony No. 9 |
Anton Bruckner, Composer
Anton Bruckner, Composer Chicago Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti, Conductor |
Composer or Director: Anton Bruckner
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 10/1986
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 417 295-2DH

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Symphony No. 9 |
Anton Bruckner, Composer
Anton Bruckner, Composer Chicago Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti, Conductor |
Author:
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra play wonderfully well for their chief, sensing his mood and sounding more like a European orchestra. The pizzicato in the Scherzo is superbly articulated, and the playing by the solo flute and oboe is a joy. In the finale, the violas' rhythmical figure which punctuates the great brass chorale, a haunting and menacing effect, emerges with remarkable clarity but in ideal perspective. For this, many thanks to the Decca engineers, who have forsaken their Solti/Mahler technique of what often sounds like a microphone suspended above each player in favour of a more distanced and better balanced sound.
Solti's pacing of the Adagio is a bit slower than Haitink's and faster than Jochum's. The violent climax, not equalled in symphonic music until the final Adagio of Mahler's Tenth, is most powerfully and impressively played—the calm, tragic resignation of the coda is all the more moving in contrast. This is a very fine performance in all respects. As with Jochum's EMI recording, Decca have avoided breaking the Scherzo between sides as occurs on the Haitink.'
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