Bruckner Symphony No. 9
Bruckner Te Deum

Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Erin Wall, soprano
Okka von der Damerau, mezzo-soprano
Steve Davislim, tenor
Christof Fischesser, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Duain Wolfe, Chorus Director

Riccardo Muti closes the CSO's 125th season with awe-inspiring power and grace. Bruckner's mighty Te Deum mixes granite-like choral utterances with some of his most beautiful music. Bruckner, who left his last Symphony incomplete at his own death in 1896, regarded its noble slow third movement as his own "farewell to life."