Albrecht Mayer charms the Tonhalle with the best of Baroque

Wilde Triller, Tremoli, provokant lange Vorhalte, eingeschobene Läufe, extreme Staccati bis hin zu perkussivem An- und Überblasen — Maurice Steger begeistert mit gewohnter Virtuosität.

At this year's Musikfest Berlin, Kirill Petrenko conducts his Berliner Philharmoniker in a devilishly intricate programme. 

An outstanding account of Smetana's Ma vlást in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie was prefaced by Straussian oboe nostalgia courtesy of Albrecht Mayer. 

Bonn is all about Beethoven. His image is everywhere – on one of the first statues built in Germany for a musician in 1845 in the main Munsterplatz by the cathedral, in the tourist office regalia, in directions to the house where he was born in 1770 (now a museum), in the month-long, annual Beethoven Festival, in the 2,000-seat Beethovenhalle, and, most especially, in the orchestra.

Mit Schumann, Zimmermann und Brahms läuten der Chefdirigent und sein Orchester eine fulminante Saison ein.