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Bruckner - Symphony No.9 in D minor w/Wiener Phil.

Following numerous accolades, Christian Thielemann’s landmark Bruckner symphony cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic - the orchestra’s first under a single conductor - continues with the composer’s final, unfinished symphony captured live at the Salzburg Festival in the summer of 2022.

120 years after the symphony was first performed in Vienna, Thielemann and the Vienna Philharmonic present a sonorous and deeply felt performance of Bruckner’s Ninth - an iconic score whose closely-held mysteries demand the most scrupulous and perceptive of interpreters.

The symphony was intended as Bruckner’s great spiritual autobiography. For the last two years of his life, the composer labored over its fourth and final movement but died while trying to piece it together. Even in its three-movement state, the work remains one of intense power and exquisite tenderness. It culminates in a great transfiguring Adagio that forms Bruckner’s epitaph in music of extraordinary expressive impact.

Christian Thielemann, Music Director of the Bayreuth Festival until 2020, is arguably his generation’s most esteemed interpreter of the Romantic Austro-German repertoire. Few conductors can match the solemnity and patience he finds in Bruckner’s symphonies, or his ability to draw on the unparalleled richness and beauty of the Vienna Philharmonic and its distinctive sound tradition.

Thielemann opts not to conduct one of the so-called ‘completions’ of the Ninth, but to stop at the Adagio Bruckner managed to complete, in the edition by Nowak. ‘There is a mystery here and we should leave it as it is,’ says the conductor of the score; ‘this also enhances the appeal of the Ninth.’

Christian Thielemann:

Bruckner -Symph No.5 in B-Flat Major w/Wiener Phil

Sony Classical releases the fifth installment of Christian Thielemann’s complete cycle of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic – the orchestra’s first Bruckner cycle under a single conductor. “The claim that this orchestra is essentially the only genuine original sound ensemble for the music of Anton Bruckner should remain beyond dispute” raves Die Presse. The Vienna Philharmonic premiered four of Bruckner’s nine symphonies and has enjoyed a unique relationship with the Austrian composer’s music since 1873, when it gave the first performance of his Symphony No 2.  

Thielemann has come as close as possible to the ideal Bruckner sound with the Vienna Philharmonic: full-toned, warm, with registrations that are full of countless colours, clear without sounding harsh and well-contoured without seeming angular. Thielemann’s interpretations of Bruckner’s music are rooted on deep expertise and sympathy. Few conductors can match the solemnity and patience he finds in composer’s symphonies, or his ability to draw on the unparalleled beauty of the orchestra’s sound and the special acoustic of its home in Vienna, the Musikverein.

Christian Thielemann:

Bruckner -Symph No.4 in E-Flat Major w/Wiener Phil

Sony Classical releases the third installment of Christian Thielemann's complete cycle of Anton Bruckner's symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic – the orchestra's first Bruckner cycle under a single conductor. "The claim that this orchestra is essentially the only genuine original sound ensemble for the music of Anton Bruckner should remain beyond dispute" raves Die Presse. The Vienna Philharmonic premiered four of Anton Bruckner's nine symphonies, including No. 4 in 1881 and has enjoyed a unique relationship with the Austrian composer's music since 1873. The Fourth was the first of Bruckner's symphonies that Thielemann conducted.