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Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle are continuing their long-term Bruckner cycle with the Ninth Symphony, a work on which the composer was occupied when he died. Three movements were completed but the final movement remained unfinished. The Ninth constitutes a summation of all the composers earlier symphonies. According to Baden online, the present interpretation of the three-movement torso was a triumph for Christian Thielemann and for the Dresden Staatskapelle []a musical and spiritual event of the very first order.