Berliner Philharmoniker - Symphonies 1-9 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

The music of Rachmaninoff is of Inchenormous significanceInch to Kirill Petrenko. In it, he finds his Inchmusical homeInch. His third edition together with the Berliner Philharmoniker is dedicated to the Russian composer, the 150th anniversary of whose birth was celebrated in 2023. It presents four key works the Second Symphony, the Piano Concerto No. 2 and The Isle of the Dead - Rachmaninoff regularly performed them together until his emigration in 1917 - and the Symphonic Dances, which the composer wrote shortly before his death.

In these recordings, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Berliner Philharmoniker present a brilliant and multifaceted interpretation of Franz Schubert's eight symphonies. This Schubert is colorful and dramatic - and represents a unique synthesis in which the famous sound of the Berliner Philharmoniker is as evident as Nikolaus Harnoncourt's familiarity with the transparency and sound speech of historical performance practice. The CD hardcover edition enables playback with either the best CD sound or - when used as an SACD - in high-resolution audio quality and in surround sound. Founded in 1882, the Berliner Philharmoniker has consistently been ranked as one of the best orchestras in the world. In 2006, ten European media outlets voted the ensemble number three on a list of InchTop Ten European Orchestras,Inch and in 2008 it was voted the world's number two orchestra in a survey by Gramophone.

The edition brings together Berliner Philharmoniker recordings from the last ten years. It includes the nine completed symphonies and the Adagio of the Tenth, whose performance under the direction of Claudio Abbado on the 100th anniversary of Mahler's death is one of the highlights. In addition to chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and his predecessor Sir Simon Rattle, the edition features other outstanding Mahler interpreters closely associated with the orchestra Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Andris Nelsons and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.