Symphoniker Hamburg / Karl-Heinz Steffens

Composer Antonín Dvořák had to struggle against a cliché for many years; many people believed he was simply a »Czech bandleader« striking up the next dance. It was his greatest wish that his Seventh Symphony »would move the world«. And that wish was granted: since its first performance in 1885, the work’s passionate and dark panorama has been moving music lovers all over the world. Karl-Heinz Steffens, General Music Director of the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, steps in for the late Sir Jeffrey Tate, Symphoniker Hamburg’s former principal conductor, who passed away in June 2017.