From the Vltava to the Elbe: triumphant Bamberg in Hamburg

By Mark Pullinger, 29 May 2019

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“the piccolo sliced through the orchestral wash in the swirling St John’s Rapids with ease”

Reviewed at Elbphilharmonie: Grand Hall, Hamburg on 28 May 2019

Elgar, Soliloquy for oboe (orch. Gordon Jacob)

Strauss R., Concerto for oboe and small orchestra in D major

Bach, Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis - Cantata, BWV21: Sinfonia

Smetana, Má vlast (My Fatherland)

Albrecht Mayer, Oboe

Jakub Hrůša, 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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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.