One of the remarkable features of this Bruckner Ninth is the way it dismisses preconceptions as soon as the horns start intoning the quietly portentous opening themes. Abbado’s feeling for the way the music unfolds, despite all the seeming dislocations and diversions, his understanding of the course of Bruckner’s final ‘passionate pilgrimage’, is as authoritative as Günter Wand’s.’ Stephen Johnson
Bruckner
Symphony No. 9
Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado
Deutsche Grammophon 479 3441
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