Symphony No 9

"Allowing the music-as Bruckner's friends and colleagues would never allow it-to breathe at its own pace, [Tintner] adds 12 minutes to Inbal's timing and lets everything flow with uncommon inevitability. Surely no Bruckner Third, in any version, has sounded more magnificent, more immediate a presage of Symphonies Nos 8 and 9. The outer movements have a raw power that has nothing to do with roughness and everything with the perfect articulation of an enormous natural organism; the Adagio has tremendous inward intensity, the Tristan quotations emerging as if they were Bruckner's own thoughts."
- BBC Music Magazine (Christopher Wood) - May 2000

"[Andrew Penny] seems will suited to the task...The Irish Symphony...sounds great and is splendidly recorded."
- American Record Guide - Sept/Oct 1996

"In the year of his seventy-fifth birthday Sir Malcolm Arnold has been treated to a series of fine new discs, notably the premiere recording of the Ninth Symphony from Naxos, beautifully played by Andrew Penny and the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland."
- Gramophone (Critics Choice) - Dec. 1996