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Culture Spot LA Reviews Bruckner: Symphony No. 9

Posted by Reference Recordings on
 September 11, 2019
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Henry Schlinger reviews Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 recording for Culture Spot LA:

“Manfred Honeck, the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, can apparently read my mind and has been doing so for some time now. He seems to know what I want him and the PSO to record on the spectacular Fresh Series from Reference Recordings. … [Honeck] has a seemingly intuitive knack for pulling back on the reins of the orchestra in forte sections just enough to let them gallop into the fortissimo sections. But as much as Honeck lets the orchestra loose in the fortissimo sections, he can have them play barely audibly as, for example, in the opening d-minor notes of the first movement. … As with all his recordings with the PSO, Honeck writes the liner notes and gives the listener/reader a play-by-play description of how he interpreted the score with measure numbers and the approximate time in the recording.
Like Honeck’s other recordings with the PSO on Reference Recordings, this recording of Bruckner’s symphonic swan song is a tour de force and belongs in the pantheon of great recordings of this symphony.”

—Henry Schlinger, CultureSpot LA

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