♫ Bruckner's Ninth, Finale, Coda

[Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Wiener Philharmoniker. Gesprächskonzert (live), Salzburger Festspiele 2002, RCA/BMG]

»Laut Berichten von Zeitzeugen wie dem Mitautor der ersten Bruckner-Biografie Max Auer soll Bruckner eine Kopplung der Hauptthemen aller vier Sätze vorgesehen haben. Marthé spricht sogar von einer Übereinanderschichtung aller wichtigen Themen der fünften, siebenten, achten und neunten Sinfonie.«
[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/9._Sinfonie_(Bruckner)#Vierter_Satz:_Finale._.28alla_breve_.2F_ohne_originale_Tempoangabe.29]

«Large portions of the movement were almost completely orchestrated, and even some eminent sketches have been found for the coda (the initial crescendo/28 bars, and the progression towards the final cadence, even proceeding into the final tonic pedalpoint/in all 32 bars), but only hearsay suggesting the coda would have integrated themes from all four movements: The Bruckner scholars Max Graf and Max Auer reported that they have actually seen such a sketch when they had access to the manuscripts, at that time in the possession of Franz Schalk. Today such a sketch appears to be lost. More importantly than the loss of the score bifolios of the coda itself, composer and Bruckner scholar Robert Simpson asserts in his book The Essence of Bruckner, is that the sketches that survive do not support the momentum to support such a conclusion. Some people think that there is no real inner continuity or coherence inherent to indicate an organically growing musical structure.»
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Bruckner)#Fourth_movement]

«Sébastien Letocart's completion (2008)
In the Coda he included quotations of themes from the Fifth, Seventh and Eighth Symphonies, the mid-subject of the Trio as a final Halleluja, and at the end, as originally intended by Bruckner, the themes from all four movements of the Ninth.
Sébastien Letocart's completion, together with the first three parts of the symphony, was recorded in 2008 by the French conductor Nicolas Couton with the MAV Symphony Orchestra of Budapest.»
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._9_(Bruckner)#S.C3.A9bastien_Letocart.27s_completion_.282008.29]

For comparison:
Nicola Samale / Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs completion (2005), performed by Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding, Stockholm, in November 2007