Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
Honeck’s Bruckner Ninth is the greatest I’ve heard since Giulini, and for me it surpasses any current rival. Bruckner collectors are known for being fiercely partisan about the conductors they...
Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
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Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 62nd Awards (2019), Nominee - Best Engineered Album (Classical)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
Honeck’s Bruckner Ninth is the greatest I’ve heard since Giulini, and for me it surpasses any current rival. Bruckner collectors are known for being fiercely partisan about the conductors they...
About
Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra continue to amaze! Reference Recordings proudly presents this iconic work in a new and definitive interpretation from Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, in superb audiophile sound. This hybrid release was recorded live in the beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. As an important added feature, in his deeply personal and scholarly music notes, Maestro Honeck gives us great insight into the history and the musical structure of Bruckner’s final composition, and describes how he conducts and interprets this masterwork. This release and the entire Pittsburgh Live! series are recorded and mastered by the team at Soundmirror, Inc.
Contents and tracklist
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone MagazineDecember 2019Critics' Choice
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The New York TimesRecordings of the Year 2019
January/February 2020
Honeck’s Bruckner Ninth is the greatest I’ve heard since Giulini, and for me it surpasses any current rival. Bruckner collectors are known for being fiercely partisan about the conductors they like and dislike, and I am no exception. To my taste this release is a must-listen, joining every previous Honeck CD in that regard—he is undoubtedly gifted.
December 2019
Honeck’s management of tempo relations is for the most part judicious and subtle...By contrast, his approach to balance and dynamics is highly individual. The orchestral sound is dark-hued and saturated, aided by a recording that favours the low bass...Considered as a whole, this new version is a compelling account of the symphony with considerable depth of feeling and intimations of the beyond. The closing pages of the symphony are especially sublime.
November 2019
A recording that forces itself towards the top of the list.
The New York Times 12th December 2019
This may well be their finest recording so far: breathtakingly intense, magnificently played and unrelentingly fresh.
