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Everything snaps into focus...its as if Mahlers black-and-white classic has been colorized... the Channel Classics issue is in a very special class, a sonic dazzler... a potential award-winner.--Gramophone[A] spectacular recording... a real winner. --Stereophile MagazineA Mahler Ninth thats not to be missed.-- 9/10, ClassicsTodayThis interesting and incisive performance by Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra makes this SACD something worth talking about. The playing is precise, yet filled with the emotion the 9th requires. --4 Stars, Audiophile AuditionArguably the best-recorded Mahler Ninth ever... [it] challenges many of the received ideas about the music...Its hard to explain how a performance this coherent and transparent can at the same time be so edge-of-your-seat compelling.-- Bay Area ReporterThe fourth-movement Adagio, including well-blended strings, proves the beating heart of the entire work, with the maestro sensitively allowing its elegiac voice to speak with world-weary resignation until its final, dying notes. --4 Stars, Winnipeg Free Press