Powerful performances of Campkin and Bruckner by Fulham's finest

By Ken Ward, 27 November 2011

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Reviewed at Smith Square Hall, London on 26 November 2011

Schütz, Cantate Domino canticum novum, SWV 81

Bruckner, Locus Iste, gradual, WAB 23

Bruckner, Os justi meditabitur, motet, WAB 30

Bruckner, Christus factus est pro nobis, motet, WAB 11

Campkin, Jesu, meine Freude

Schütz, Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391

Bruckner, Symphony no. 8 in C minor, WAB 108

Fulham Camerata

Christopher Wray, Conductor

Fulham Symphony Orchestra

Marc Dooley, Conductor

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The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

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****1

Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe and the LSO

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****1

Memorable Mendelssohn from Marek Janowski and the New York Phil

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Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin plays Haydn before the esteemed German maestro conducts a vibrant Scottish Symphony.

****1

Mozart and Salieri under the spotlight in Graf’s Singapore farewell

Chang Tou Liang, 21st May

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****1

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Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

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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.