This Mahler Ninth shoots to the top of digital recordings, showing not only the younger generation of fast-and-clean-and-bloodless conductors how it’s done, but also supercedes previously good issues by Tilson Thomas and Zander. In fact, this is a Mahler Ninth on par with the best versions of the past…

This new version is not only warmer but also clearer, little details emerging with remarkable audacity. Moreover…it captures Haitink in his real element.

Forty years of orchestral improvement also plays into this disc’s excellence…we…hear superb playing even from Irish and Bolivian orchestras.

At a time when most people’s funds for extras are down and record-buying has become expensive, this single-disc Mahler Ninth makes economic as well as musical sense.

If you love this symphony, this is a reading you really should hear; and if you’ve been waiting for a good, modern, digital recording of it on one CD, this is the reading you ought to own. © 2012 Fanfare Read complete review

Bernard Haitink’s nobility as a Mahler interpreter benefits the Resurrection Symphony like no other, a fact attested by numerous recordings, of which this extraordinarily moving Dresden performance is the most recently released…the strings have a warmly cosseting quality, the winds are mellifluous, the brass powerful but cleanly focused, while the closely balanced timpani have great impact…The voices are well balanced and Haitink’s willingness to let the music breathe while never allowing it to sag…benefits Mahler’s structural design. The Resurrection craves goal-oriented interpretation, the sort that from the very start keeps you primed for those humbling final pages, so that the sense of potential catharsis remains securely in place—which it certainly does here. A great recording, then… © 2012 Gramophone Read complete review on Gramophone

Haitink and the Bavarians are compelling and deeply perceptive. Indeed this reading ranks alongside the finest. The sound is clear and well balanced and this adds to the considerable merits of this splendid release. © 2012 MusicWeb International Read complete review