The Curse of the Ninth (16)

"It seems that the Ninth is a limit. He who wants to go beyond it must pass away. It seems as if something might be imparted to us in the Tenth which we ought not yet to know, for which we are not ready. Those who have written a Ninth stood too close to the hereafter." – Arnold Schoenberg

Shostakovich was believed to be the first to break the curse with his Symphony No. 10.

Beethoven Symphony Cycle by Gustavo Dudamel

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Complete Cycle of Beethoven's Symphonies

Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9

Berliner Philharmoniker

Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Libor Pešek conducts Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, "From The New World"

The Prague Symphony Orchestra's Dvořák Cycle Vol. IV

Alte Oper Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)

Lucerne Festival

Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 9

Lucerne Festival in Summer 2010

Lucerne Festival

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Britten and Bruckner – With Ian Bostridge

Moving to Modern Times (I/II) – Lucerne Festival 2011

Mariss Jansons conducts Bruckner and Beethoven

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9

Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music

Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

Erich Leinsdorf conducts Schubert, Schumann and Wagner

Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1962-1964

Sanders Theatre, Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
Boston Symphony Hall (Boston, USA)

Neeme Järvi conducts Dvořák, Shchedrin and Shostakovich – With Martha Argerich and Mischa Maisky

Romantic Offering: world premiere – Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Otto Klemperer conducts Beethoven's 9th Symphony

New Philharmonia Orchestra

Royal Albert Hall (London, Great Britain)

Dvořák: New World Symphony

Keys to the Orchestra by Jean-François Zygel

Salle Pleyel (Paris, France)

Rudolf Kempe conducts Strauss and Dvořák

BBC Proms, 1974 and 1975

Royal Albert Hall (London, Great Britain)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor

Discovering Beethoven with Joachim Kaiser and Christian Thielemann

Riccardo Muti and Violeta Urmana perform Verdi, Martucci and Schubert

Europakonzert 2009, Napoli

Teatro di San Carlo (Napoli, Italy)

Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler: Symphony No. 9

Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra

Sala Santa Cecilia (Rome, Italy)

Verbier Festival

Yuri Temirkanov conducts Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10

Verbier Festival 2009