The sincerity and emotional depth of Anton Bruckner’s musical compositions create an inimitable magnetism, captivating listeners and allowing them to lose track of time in the very best sense of the word. Anyone who wants to approach Bruckner only analytically will find their mind boggled, especially at the first encounter. His great power is a certain “transcendental charm” woven into each of his symphonies.

In 2024, the music world celebrates the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth on 4 September 1824. To mark this occasion, the Bamberg Symphony, renowned for its mastery of Bruckner’s symphonic repertoire, with their music director, Jakub Hrusa, presents a new recording of the composer’s final and unfinished symphony, his Ninth.

Austrian critic and musicologist Walter Weidringer wrote that the Ninth ‘may be taken as one of those examples from music history that prove that even fragments can display a degree of completion which no longer seems capable of improvement.’