Venue: Konzerthalle Bamberg: Joseph Keilberth Saal

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

Nothing for doomsters and gloomsters here in this performance of Bruckner's majestic Eighth, turning intimations of mortality into a celebration of life itself.

How do you envisage spending your 93rd birthday? Herbert Blomstedt joined the Bamberg Symphony for a programme of Honegger and Brahms. 

Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony produce Brahms of glorious warmth; Hans Abrahamsen's Let me tell you displays Barbara Hannigan at her most virtuosic.

Christian Gerhaher’s experience in a role he knows well rescued an evening of mitigated pleasures.

Nestled in the north of Bavaria lies the small medieval town of Bamberg. Despite its small population of just 70,000 people, the town boasts not only a wonderful concert hall, but one of the best orchestras in Germany.

Monumental und raumflutend, ohne langweilig oder kitschig zu wirken: ein Geburtstags-Jubilar begeisterte das Publikum der Symphoniker in der Konzerthalle Bamberg mit Bruckner und Saint-Saëns.

Mit Beethoven und Brahms beglückte Herbert Blomstedt das Bamberger Publikum.