Dancing with history: Bamberg Symphony at Dvořák's Prague

It’s always a homecoming when the Bamberg Symphony visits Prague. At the end of World War 2, what was then the German Philharmonic fled the city and reconstituted itself in Bamberg, becoming what Prague musical cognoscenti still call “the best Czech orchestra in Germany”. In 2016 the cultural exchange came full circle with the appointment of Czech maestro Jakub Hrůša as chief conductor. Judging by the orchestra’s performance at the Dvořák’s Prague festival this year, it was a marriage made in Bohemian heaven.

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