This is a stunning recording of a deeply moving work. Left unfinished by the death of Anton Bruckner, various academics and would-be composers have tried their hands at completing it from Bruckner's sketches; the conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski makes a compelling case for performing only the parts that Bruckner wrote and completed himself. Bruckner was a humble man, a professional organist, with a rock-solid Christian faith, and the program notes wimp out by saying that "All his music was written to the greater glory of the beyond," whatever the beyond might be. It was written to the glory of the God whom Bruckner worshipped, and the evidence of his beliefs resounds in this soaring score. This is also a beautifully engineered recording, and a winner in just about every respect. --Sarah Bryan Miller