Flüssige Architektur: Blomstedt dirigiert die Bamberger Symphoniker

Herbert Blomstedt

By Sebastian Urmoneit, 20 May 2024

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Reviewed at Konzerthalle Bamberg: Joseph Keilberth Saal, Bamberg on 16 May 2024

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

Herbert Blomstedt, Conductor

Bamberg Symphony

Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony with Bomsori Kim in Seoul

SangKwon Lee, 1st June

Tradition reborn with thrilling clarity: Jakub Hrůša’s Bambergers light up Seoul: Wagner’s shimmering overture, Bomsori Kim’s impassioned Bruch, and a lucid yet explosive Beethoven Seventh.

****1

Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony bring Brahms and Dvořák to Edinburgh

Roy Westbrook, 7th August

Brahms and Dvořák were colleagues, rivals and friends... and the Bamberg Symphony can lay claim to both.

****1

Hrůša, Grimaud and the Bamberg Symphony dazzle at Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 24th April

In his Carnegie Hall debut, the young Czech conductor leads a meaty and memorable program of Brahms and Wagner, with joined by Hélène Grimaud for Robert Schumann’s sole Piano Concerto.

*****

Hrůša and the Bambergers find the measure of the Mahlerian universe

Tristan Labouret, 16th January

Visiting the Philharmonie de Paris, the Bavarian orchestra and their chief conductor deliver a legendary Mahler 9.

*****

Dancing with history: Bamberg Symphony at Dvořák’s Prague

Frank Kuznik, 21st September

The Bamberg Symphony returns to its roots with Jakub Hrůša conducting high-energy gems from the Czech repertoire.

****1

Daniel Harding and the Bamberg Symphony give Schumann his due

Cameron Kelsall, 4th March

Despite extraordinary legato singing and transparent text work, Christian Gerharer offered an oddly mannered interpretation of the Rückert-Lieder.

***11

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Sebastian Urmoneit

Sebastian Urmoneit sudierte Musikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Berlin (u. a. bei Carl Dahlhaus). Ergänzendes Studium an der HdK Berlin (UdK)(u. a. bei Heinrich Poos und Hartmut Fladt), Dissertation zu Wagners „Tristan und Isolde“; Aufsätze über Schubert, Wagner, Wolf, Strauss und Brahms; Herausgabe: Joseph Haydn, Memoria, Band 11 mit Hartmut Fladt. Werkeinführungen für das Berliner Konzerthaus, das Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, die Bamberger Symphoniker, die Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, die Südwestdeutsche Konzertdirektion Erwin Russ GmbH, die Dachauer Schlosskonzerte, die Albert Konzerte GmbH in Freiburg u. a.

Flüssige Architektur: Herbert Blomstedt dirigiert die Bamberger Symphoniker