The Bamberg Symphony and their chief conductor Jakub Hrůša present a multifaceted meditation on heroism — from the swaggering self-portrait of Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, to the spiritual resilience of Antonin Dvořák’s A Hero’s Song, Op. 111, to the tender remembrance in Aleksandr Glazunov’s To the Memory of a Hero. Each of the three works engages with the idea of the hero from a unique angle. The result is a wide-ranging exploration of the heroic ideal across culture and personal expression. Together, these three evocative works offer also insights into the composers themselves and the societies they inhabited. Whether depicting triumph, tribute, or transformation, each work contributes to a broader understanding of the heroic in music.