MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No 9

"...this live Salzburg Ninth is glorious. There's no sense here of fallible rhythms or a conductor not being able to see the wood for the trees. Like all great interpreters of the Ninth, Harnoncourt treats the opening movement as a vast tripartite structure - exposition, countervailing statement, and coda - which can be taken in a single glance...the Teldex engineers..make the acoustically problematic Grosses Festspielhaus sound like one of the great Bruckner halls." Penguin Guide