Music: Excerpt from Symphony No. 9 in D minor, (1896; unfinished) ed. Nowak: II Scherzo: Bewegt, lebhaft – Trio: Schnell
Composer: Anton Bruckner
Artists: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, conductor
Album: Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (FR-733SACD)
Label: FRESH! From Reference Recordings
Available August 23, 2019
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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 SACD release was recorded in beautiful and historic Heinz Hall, home of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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. To conclude his notes he quotes Bruckner biographer Max Auer: “The Ninth Symphony surpasses all its predecessors in sublimity and consecration. If Arthur Schopenhauer describes the arts as an image of an idea, but music as an idea in itself, then Bruckner’s swan song, his Ninth Symphony, appears to us as the idea of the beyond, of the deity itself. Already from the very beginning of the richly structured first movement, one feels surrounded by the twilight light of a Gothic cathedral—a mood that releases us from the heaviness and fatigue of matter and leads us to the afterlife.”

This release is the ninth in the highly acclaimed Pittsburgh Live! series of multi-channel hybrid SACD releases on the FRESH! series from Reference Recordings. This series has received GRAMMY® Nominations in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. Its recording of Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 /Barber Adagio for Strings won the 2018 GRAMMY® Awards for Best Orchestral Performance and Best Engineered Classical Album.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D minor: II. Scherzo (Excerpt)

I'm begging and wanting any professional singers,artists,bands even amateurs if acting,to play any of my tunes.Because my voice is totally stupid. One night I heard dogs barking with strong beautiful sounds.I made up my mind and got out and tried to persuade them to sing some of my songs, but they didn't understand me. 5 minutes later they replied, then I didn't understand them.
 I was originally an heavymetal guitar player,sometimes a drummer(now I'm morbid uncle),aged,and just want to compose,not to search for a good singer,in that case I end up just searching for a beautiful girl with large breasts who only sighs not  sings…,and waste my time. So sorry for the poor sound quality.But now Once accomplished one job,can immediately start composing next.And now I believe
composition is the only job I have to do. Oh, noticed also have to keep on make my heart moving,lather than composing.
 Mixing,mixing,mixing and mixing    annoys me,kills my time, myself, chills my spine,cheers my swine,oh mixed up.I do just love music,so I don't want to ignore any genre of music.

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