Konserthuset Stockholm

In conjunction with Magnus Haglund’s newly released book on composer, conductor and pianist Wilhelm Stenhammar, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music offers a Ringing Academy on the same theme. In the book’s nine essays, Stenhammar is illuminated as a person and an artist, in the middle of the National-Romantic era, but headed into a new age.

A conversation with the author will delve into the challenging and radical elements of Stenhammar’s artistic approach, the union of austerity and agility, control and poetic precision. We will also hear resounding examples of Stenhammar’s songs and piano music.

In partnership with the Royal Swedish Academy of Music

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Wilhelm Stenhammar’s Symphony No. 1 is magnificent and beautiful. But Stenhammar still was not satisfied. Before conductor Andrew Manze strikes up the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, he provides a background. Listen

Welcome to an exciting concert with Martin Fröst, presenting selected favourites from the pioneering and widely celebrated shows Genesis and Retrotopia – both world premiered at Konserthuset Stockholm and since then successfully brought to international audiences.

The programme is a musical journey through time and space, from antiquity through the Middle Ages and Hildegard von Bingen, to music from our era. Furthermore, we will experience some fabulously dancing klezmer music, as well as music by Mozart, Beethoven and more. Also participating are clarinetists Magnus Holmander and Sandra Ibarreche – both took part in the show Genesis with Fröst and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2015 – together with a girls choir of Adolf Fredrik’s Music Scool, students of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra. As of autumn 2019, Fröst is also chief conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.

All revenue from this evening’s concert will go to Martin Fröst’s new foundation. Acclaimed clarinettist Martin Fröst is starting a foundation in support of young musicians – the Martin Fröst Foundation. The objective of the foundation is for more children and young people all over the world to have the opportunity to study music and have access to instruments. Martin Fröst states: “Recently, events in my life have led to a number of crucial private and artistic decisions. One of the most important has been starting the Martin Fröst Foundation. I am thrilled that with this concert – together with Konserthuset Stockholm and generous support from clarinet manufacturer Buffet Crampon – we can begin our work!”

The foundation will focus its work in particular on regions that have cultural resources but lack financial opportunities. The foundation will also work to support the development of the classical concert form – something which Martin Fröst works with constantly in his activities as an artist.

Martin Fröst is one of the world’s foremost musicians. Among other prizes, he has received one of the world’s most prestigious music awards: the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. 

In partnership with the Martin Fröst Foundation, Buffet Crampon and Bohm Bohm Room

The Lied Concert Subscription is now in its sixth season. Once again, up close, we will get to see stars from the opera and concert stages of the world. Pianist Magnus Svensson brings to the stage a long line of today’s most acclaimed vocalists, and at this concert we will get to hear the Dutch mezzo soprano Francine Vis and British bass Matthew Rose.

Francine Vis studied in Copenhagen, where she also performed many roles at the Royal Danish Opera, including Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and Pernille in Nielsen’s Masquerade. Her repertoire is incredibly broad, spanning from Baroque to the music of our time. She frequently appears as a soloist together with orchestras such as the Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Copenhagen, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Chambre de Genève.

Matthew Rose has appeared on the majority of the world’s most prestigious opera stages: La Scala in Milan, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Glyndebourne, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and English National Opera. His many roles have included Sarastro in The Magic Flute and Leporello in Don Giovanni by Mozart, Tutor in Strauss’ Elektra, Don Fernando in Fidelio by Beethoven and many major Wagner and Verdi roles.  Rose also regularly appears in concerts with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra.

In the final of the 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, the demonic violinist Nicolò Paganini created a theme that has always fascinated audiences and inspired other composers. The theme is simple but offers infinite possibilities. Possibilities which Sergei Rachmaninoff took advantage of when he composed his masterful and at times inconceivably beautiful variations for piano and orchestra. Performing the solo with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will be the Ukrainian-born virtuoso who now lives in Australia, Alexander Gavrylyuk.

Music by Anna Clyne will begin the concert. “Night Ferry is about travel, from anxious darkness to worlds of enchantment,” says the London-born Clyne, who is active in the US. The concert will be crowned by the great Polish composer Witold Lutosławski’s rhythmically challenging and melodically dramatic Concerto for Orchestra, which was also his breakthrough piece. He derived the musical base material for the concerto from the folk music of the Masiova region near Warsaw.

British conductor Edward Gardner guest-conducts orchestras all over the world and is chief conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also recorded all of the orchestral works of Witold Lutosławski.