The last nine years of Bruckner’s life were entirely consumed with the creation of his transcendent Ninth Symphony but, at this death, the Finale of this last great work remained unfinished. The autograph score, extant sketches and drafts survived only partially. The emerging score was painstakingly ordered and reconstructed by the Australian musicologist John A. Phillips and published in the Bruckner Complete Edition, in all circa 578 measures of music, including sketches for the coda hitherto believed lost. In this recording, Bruckner’s final symphony is presented complete in four movements corresponding to Bruckner’s original conception of the work. The performing version presented here is based on the systematic research of the scattered manuscripts by the conductors, composers ad musicologists Nicola Samale, John A. Phillips, Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs and Giuseppe Mazzuca (1983–91). It was first performed in 1991 in Linz.