Visiting was a dream come true on both fronts. I’ve followed Nott’s Mahler cycle on CD with the orchestra over its steady course; no accolade could be higher than the fact that several of its ...

Feelings of nostalgia are hard to ignore in the first of three Bamberg Symphony Orchestra concerts recorded for the 50th Hong Kong Arts Festival. Czech composer Bedrich Smetana recalled the former ...

A concert by the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra saw a young undergraduate audience enjoying world-class music. Could it ever happen over here? A little vignette from a different musical culture: in ...

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Written over the summers of 1901 and 1902, Mahler's Fifth remains one of the best-loved symphonies in the repertory, its famous Adagietto a love-letter to his wife, Alma. Before it, the brilliantly ...

Though it failed to fill the hall, this was a closing concert of high achievement. Perhaps the thought of a German orchestra performing an entire evening of Ravel did not whet appetites. But what ...

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There was something odd about the formation of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra at the start of this Prom, as the two desks at the front of the strings were left vacant. If this mystery was solved as ...