Konserthuset Stockholm

Conductor Simone Young grew up and studied in Australia, but has a world-leading German and Austrian repertoire. In 2005 she became the first woman to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic and she spent many years as artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera and chief music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic.

Austrian Anton Bruckner is one of her favourite composers, and here, she and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra take on Symphony No. 6, which Bruckner described as his “most daring”. This music is filled with elevated beauty, rhythmic multitudes and melodic splendour. With a run-time of approximately 55 minutes, it is also his shortest.

The young pianist Alexandre Kantorow is acclaimed for his glowing, intense and poetic depth of performance. In 2019, at the age of 22, he became the first French pianist ever to win the prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.

Since then, Kantorow has toured with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra, and given recitals at Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall and more. He was supposed to have debuted at Konserthuset Stockholm last spring, but was prevented from doing so by the pandemic. Now we will finally get to hear him with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Simone Young, in Franz Liszt’s poetically narrative and vibrantly masterful piano concerto.

Conductor Simone Young grew up and studied in Australia, but has a world-leading German and Austrian repertoire. In 2005 she became the first woman to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic and she spent many years as artistic director of the Hamburg State Opera and chief music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic.

Austrian Anton Bruckner is one of her favourite composers, and here, she and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra take on Symphony No. 6, which Bruckner described as his “most daring”. This music is filled with elevated beauty, rhythmic multitudes and melodic splendour. With a run-time of approximately 55 minutes, it is also his shortest.

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Livestream
This concert can be seen at Konserthuset Play. You can also see the concert afterwards on Play.

Konserthuset Stockholm’s audiences and members of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra share a deep interest in Baroque music. Violinists Lola Torrente and Gabriel Cornet will be accompanied here by cellist Daniel Holst and harpsichordist Sam Crowther in a programme of music by Johan Helmich Roman, Henry Purcell and Johann Rosenmüller paired with all-too-rarely played female Baroque composers.

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre was a prodigy who performed at Versailles for Louis XIV at the age of five. She grew up on the little island of Île Saint-Louis in the Seine in the heart of Paris, where her father was an organist and an instrument maker. She composed chamber music, operas and solo pieces, and while her roots were in the French Baroque tradition, she was strongly influenced by Italian music.

Italian Isabella Leonarda (1620–1704) was one of the most prolific female composers of early music in the seventeenth century. She entered the Collegio di Sant’Orsola convent at the age of 16 and stayed for the rest of her life. We will hear one of her melodically beautiful and vivacious trio sonatas, composed in the early 1680s.

Menu: Wild mushroom soup with pickled mushrooms. The soup is served with sourdough bread, crispbread, whipped butter, and cheese as well as drinks and coffee/tea with a small biscuit. All the soups are lactose- and gluten-free. Please let us know any dietary requirements when booking.

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Konserthuset Play
This concert will be recorded for Konserthuset Play and will be available from Sunday 14 November at 19.00.

Konserthuset Stockholm at Hötorget is one of Sweden’s great architectural masterpieces. Created during a period of expansion in Stockholm, by the Swedish architect Ivar Tengbom, it opened in 1926. Konserthuset Stockholm was built for the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has since the start been the dedicated venue for the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony as well as many other prestigious events.

• The guided tour is held in Swedish.
• Maximum 10 persons/tour.

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