Bruckner: Symphony No 9 (four-movement version) – review

Berliner Philharmoniker/Simon Rattle(EMI)Bruckner's Ninth Symphony is generally regarded as one of the great musical torsos, alongside other unfinished works such as Mahler's 10th Symphony and Elgar's Third, Mozart's Requiem and operas such as Berg's Lulu, Puccini's Turandot and Busoni's Doktor Faust. The Ninth is regularly performed as a three-movement work, ending with the huge Adagio, or sometimes with Bruckner's Te Deum as a choral finale but, in fact, the material for the fourth movement is...

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