• Home
  • Shop/Explore
    • Full Catalog
    • Reference Recordings Catalog
    • FRESH! From RR Catalog
    • Buried Treasures — Limited Edition LPs
    • On Sale
    • Artists
    • Composers
    • Formats
      • HDCDs
      • HRx
      • Reference Mastercuts LPs
      • SACDs
      • Downloads
    • Genres
      • Classical
      • Blues
      • Jazz
      • Vocal
      • Samplers
      • Other
    • Gift Certificate
    • My Account
    • Cart
    • Store FAQs
    • Privacy Policy
  • About
    • Our History
    • Reference Recordings Team
      • Team Overview
      • John Tamblyn Henderson Jr.
      • “Prof” Keith O. Johnson
    • RR Awards and Nominations
  • News and Reviews
  • Audiophile Corner
  • Press Room
  • Distributors
  • Contact
  • Close Menu
Menu

Straight Tens for Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner: Symphony No. 9!

Posted by Reference Recordings on
 October 16, 2019
  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9
    Select options

Manfred Honeck and Pittsburgh Symphony’s Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 recording received a 10 rating for both Artistic and Sound Quality from ClassicsToday:

“This is an amazing performance, captured in terrific sound. … Honeck’s aided by typically exceptional brass playing, with horns, trumpets, and trombones well differentiated in timbre, their musical lines clear in even the densest tuttis. The strings, too, make gorgeous sounds in the first movement’s second-subject “song period,” and throughout the Adagio. In the latter, at that special moment when the chorale suddenly breaks in about halfway through, the effect is truly heavenly. … I can’t recall a performance that so successfully suspends any feeling of time passing. It just “happens”, in such a way that when each movement stops you might find yourself shocked that the end has arrived… Bruckner fans will certainly have to hear this, I can also recommend this release with equal enthusiasm to those who have hitherto found the composer clunky, sluggish, or dull. There’s an organic unity here that’s very special, and wholly unique.”

—David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

See the full review on ClassicsToday.com

RR Amazon iTunes Arkiv Qobuz Spotify Primephonic NativeDSD HDTracks

Categories : Featured, Review
Tags : David Hurwitz, Review
← Next Post
Previous Post →
GDPR Consent(Required)
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
Connect:
800-336-8866
650-355-1949
1-650-355-1845
PO Box 627 Pacifica, CA 94044
Reference Recordings® © 2025 All Rights Reserved
  • Home
  • Store
  • News
  • About
  • Contact