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26.9.15

Briefly Noted: Simone Young's Bruckner


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Bruckner, Symphony No. 9, Philharmoniker Hamburg, S. Young

(released on July 10, 2015)
Oehms Classics OC693 | 59'01"
Charles T. Downey, CD reviews: Trifonov channels Rachmaninoff, Young’s Bruckner (Washington Post, September 27)
Conductor Simone Young has led the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Philharmonic, to widespread praise, since 2005. This summer, coinciding with the end of her tenure with the orchestra, she completed her live recorded cycle of Anton Bruckner’s symphonies with this compact version of the Ninth.

Young, who was principal conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic several years before Marin Alsop was appointed to lead the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra...
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SEE ALSO:
Andrew Taylor, Conductor Simone Young: still the odd one out (Sidney Morning Herald, August 14)

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