Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 Bamberger Symphoniker & Jakub Hrůša

• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896): Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109:
• 1 Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109: I. (Feierlich, misterioso) 25:32
• 2 Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109: II. Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft - Trio. Schnell 10:32
• 3 Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109: III. Adagio. Langsam, feierlich 24:01
• Total Runtime 01:00:05

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The sincerity and at the same time emotionality of Anton Bruckner's musical thoughts create an incomparable pull that makes you "forget" time in the best sense of the word while listening. Anyone who wants to approach Bruckner exclusively from an analytical point of view is likely to have their head turned, especially on first hearing him. His great power is a kind of "transcendent charm" that is common to all his symphonies.

In 2024, the music world will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner's birth on 4 September 1824, and to mark the occasion, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra - an orchestra extremely adept at interpreting Bruckner's symphonic cosmos - and its chief conductor Jakub Hrůša are presenting a new recording of the composer's last and unfinished symphony, his Ninth.

On 30 November 1894, Bruckner completed the third movement of his Ninth Symphony, which, like each of its predecessors, was in four movements. Work on the finale began on 24 May 1895, around 16 months before his death. He composed the first 172 bars of the movement in its entirety, after which the score is at least partially orchestrated for a further 200 bars. Although a playable version of the finale of Bruckner's Ninth exists, the three-movement torso has prevailed in practice. It seems as if the non-completion paradoxically demands its place. The Austrian critic and musicologist Walter Weidringer wrote that the Ninth "may serve as one of those examples from music history that prove that even fragments can attain a degree of completion that no longer seems possible."

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrusa, conductor

Jakub Hrůša
In September 2016, Jakub Hrůša assumed musical direction of the Bamberg Symphony. »I am very happy that in Jakub Hrůša we have been able to secure a musical director for the Bavarian State Philharmonic in Bamberg who is young and also enjoys a high profile«, says Bavaria's Minister for the Arts, Dr. Ludwig Spaenle. »The position of Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony is extremely demanding; more than any other musician, he is responsible for the artistic standards of this exceptional orchestra. In view of the Bamberg Symphony’s history, which saw its members move from Prague to Bamberg after the war, the new Chief Conductor bridges once more, 70 years after the foundation of the Orchestra, its past and its present.«

The Bamberg Symphony
is the only orchestra of world renown that is not based in a vibrant metropolis. Almost 10% of the local population subscribe to one of the orchestra's five concert series, in many cases for decades. However, the "magnetic effect" of the orchestra goes above all outward: the traveling orchestra has been carrying its characteristically dark, somber and warm sound and the musical echo of its hometown into the world since 1946. With almost 7,500 concerts in over 500 cities and 63 countries, they have become a cultural ambassador for Bavaria and the whole of Germany. They regularly tour the USA, South America, Japan and China, for example, and are invited by renowned concert halls and festivals worldwide. The Bamberg Symphony therefore describe their mission in short words as Resonating worldwide.

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