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A Bruckner Odyssey: The Ninth Symphony Sir Simon Rattle talks about the four movement version © Aart van der Wal, June 2012 Last month EMI Classics released their CD with Bruckners Ninth Symphony in the four movement version, a live recording by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Early June, Simon Rattle was here, in Rotterdam, on a European tour with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. He conducted a programme with music by exclusively French impressionists (Fauré, Ravel and Debussy). Very early in the morning, on the day after the concert I met him in his hotel to talk about his Bruckner recording. (Click also here: Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 9 EMI Classics 9 52969 2 (CD) in D minor WAB 109 - The unfinished Finale) (Also available in SACD format) Live-recording, 7th-9th February 2012, Philharmonie, Berlin Obsession The first thing I noticed when studying this Bruckner Ninth finale were those strange transition passages you can find in any typical Bruckner finale. But here, in the Ninth, I strongly felt as if Bruckner was obsessed with the last things in life, or maybe even the very last thing he could possibly hold onto this. As if he was thinking that when he could hold onto this, work on this, he could find his way out of this obsession. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Bruckner was going through an existential crisis within himself. However, there is also no doubt that he was dealing with a compositional crisis, as many composers do, also composer