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Symphony No 9
Bruckner, Swr Radio Sym Stuggart, Giulini
Symphony No 9
Genre: Classical
 
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Bruckner had started to compose his Ninth Symphony immediately after finishing his Eighth in August of 1887. This work took up more than nine years of his life. Bruckner worked longer on it than on any of his other symp...  more »

     
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All Artists: Bruckner, Swr Radio Sym Stuggart, Giulini
Title: Symphony No 9
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Label: Hanssler Classics
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 11/14/2006
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 4010276018919

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Bruckner had started to compose his Ninth Symphony immediately after finishing his Eighth in August of 1887. This work took up more than nine years of his life. Bruckner worked longer on it than on any of his other symphonies, yet never finished it. 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. The late Carlo Maria Giulini was one of the twentieth century's greatest orchestral conductors, and rare recordings of his like this one are in high demand by collectors. Over the years Giulini held posts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and worked with many others. Although for many years an outstanding conductor of Italian opera, from 1967 onwards Giulini decided to focus instead on the concert repertory where he could have more control and less need for compromise. In this performance, recorded live in September of 1996, the legendary conductor's Bruckner tends to be long-breathed and glowing. Giulini is an absolute master of the difficult transitions and uses slight, natural-sounding fluctuations in tempo.
 

CD Reviews

An Another Great Ninth From The Catalog Of The Master
Ekrem Ayyildiz | istanbul,turkey | 01/29/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Giulini recorded this massive and transcendental work two times before this last recording(with Chicago Symphony, studio, in 1976 for EMI and with Wiener Philharmoniker, live, in 1988 for DG).

In my opinion this is an analogous and better recorded version of the Chicago account, especially on tempos and structural analyses. Though this is sentimental and flexible reading when I compare with his earlier tragic/epic accounts. Ofcourse one can see many points of Giulini's fixed approaching and his 'high level'. Powerfull and also very good recorded(with SWR-Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra,in 1996,live,digital).

If you have Giulini's other recordings and if you are lover of this work you must buy this one too. But if you have not a Ninth or Giulini's Ninth, firstly (and first of all) you must buy his monumental and greater DG account with Wiener Philharmoniker.See my Bruckner list."
Giulini soars in concert, giving us a great Ninth
Santa Fe Listener | Santa Fe, NM USA | 09/26/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The best news about Giulini's third Bruckner Ninth on disc is that it presserves the spiritual strength of his much-loved Vienna account from 1988 but cuts three minutes from the first movement and four from the finale. I hate to reduce criticism to timings, but the pacing had gotten glacially slow. Here, at 25 min. each for the first and last movements, we are still proceeding slowly, but Giulini's sense of grandeur doesn't devolve into stasis.



The SWR Stuttgart orchestra ranks far below the Chicago Sym. and Vienna Phil. that Giulini conducted for EMI and DG, but they play beautifully, responding to a great conductor with deep expressivity. The hardest thing with any Bruckner symphony is to make it tell a story, and here Giulini accomplishes that. We aren't moving from peak to valley and back again; each episode unfolds in a new shade of mood and atmosphere. Frankly, I get bored sitting in cathedrals too long, and it's heartening to find a Bruckner Ninth that has more than one or two facets.



Even if you own both of the earlier readings, this one richly rewards the lsitener and is far from a carbon copy of Giulini's previous interpreatations. It achieves its own greatness."