Performing version of Bruckner's Ninth with the Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg

By Ken Ward, 17 July 2013

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Reviewed at Stadthalle, Heidelberg on 12 July 2013

Bruckner, Symphony no. 9 in D minor, WAB 109 (with finale, performing version, SPCM 2012)

Akademische Philharmonie Heidelberg

Jesko Sirvend, Conductor

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Ken Ward

Ken Ward spent most of his working life driving buses for Eastern National and London Buses. With a life-long enthusiasm for the works of Bruckner, he became editor of The Bruckner Journal in 2005 and was awarded The Bruckner Society of America 'Kilenyi' Medal of Honor in 2011.