Programme

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 25 persons/tour.

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With her dazzling technique and natural stage presence, Dutch Janine Jansen has long been among the best of the best international star violinists. And pianist Denis Kozhukhin combines unparalleled technique with a mature musicality and the ability to create a sense of intimacy with the audience. Both have performed at Konserthuset Stockholm separately before, and now we hear them together. 

In Schubert’s relaxed and playful Gran Duo sonata, both instruments come into bloom. The piano part is elegant and energetic, while the violin expands into beautifully melodic lines. For contrast, we hear Brahms’ third sonata for violin and piano, the first piece he composed in a minor key. The style here is darker, more dramatic.

Beethoven dedicated his ninth sonata for violin and piano to French violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer. Beethoven called it “Sonata for piano and obligatory violin, written in a most concertante style, just like a concerto,” but it has long been known as the Kreutzer Sonata. The sonata inspired author Leo Tolstoy to write the passionate autobiographical novella with the same title as Beethoven’s piece.

Khatia Buniatishvili is one of the world’s most acclaimed and in-demand pianists. She began to play piano at the age of three and performed as a soloist with the Tbilisi State Chamber Orchestra at age six. At age ten, she began performing internationally. 

Ten years ago, she debuted at Konserthuset in a concert in Grünewald Hall. That programme included works by Liszt, Chopin and Stravinsky. “Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili seems to be on the threshold of an international career,” wrote Svenska Dagbladet’s reviewer – and it was true.

Khatia Buniatishvili now performs with many of the world’s most prominent orchestras and conductors, and gives recitals to sold-out houses. It is with great joy that we welcome her back – as the star to open Konserthuset’s big piano subscription with. We hear, among many other pieces, Liszt’s marvellously beautiful Consolation No. 3 and Chopin’s emotionally charged Polonaise op 53, the ”heroic”.

For lower secondary students.

The big, beautiful, tempting, exciting and occasionally frightening ocean has always stirred powerful emotions in people. Numerous composers have been inspired to write music with a direct or indirect connection to the sea.

Through music and movement, this show depicts humanity’s love for the sea and its various expressions and lifeforms. With poetic expressiveness and a dreamy appeal, Hav aims to spark emotions and provide time for reflection.

The performance includes classical music by composers like Claude Debussy and Irving Berlin. The actors comment on and reinforce the music through movement and props.

The show Hav – Ocean – was developed in close collaboration by the participating musicians and actors from Mosaikteatern. Mosaikteatern is a day centre focused on the performing arts for people with intellectual disabilities. They regularly produce various shows, most recently Vägen till Månen (“The Road to the Moon”) and Signalbyrån (“The Signal Agency”).

This performance is presented in beautiful Grünewald Hall and is open to everyone. We offer a permissive environment with plenty of space and the opportunity to come early and stay for a while after. You are welcome to eat your own food before or after the show in Konserthuset’s foyers.  

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In partnership with Mosaikteatern and Fritt Spelrum

For lower secondary students.

The big, beautiful, tempting, exciting and occasionally frightening ocean has always stirred powerful emotions in people. Numerous composers have been inspired to write music with a direct or indirect connection to the sea.

Through music and movement, this show depicts humanity’s love for the sea and its various expressions and lifeforms. With poetic expressiveness and a dreamy appeal, Hav aims to spark emotions and provide time for reflection.

The performance includes classical music by composers like Claude Debussy and Irving Berlin. The actors comment on and reinforce the music through movement and props.

The show Hav – Ocean – was developed in close collaboration by the participating musicians and actors from Mosaikteatern. Mosaikteatern is a day centre focused on the performing arts for people with intellectual disabilities. They regularly produce various shows, most recently Vägen till Månen (“The Road to the Moon”) and Signalbyrån (“The Signal Agency”).

This performance is presented in beautiful Grünewald Hall and is open to everyone. We offer a permissive environment with plenty of space and the opportunity to come early and stay for a while after. You are welcome to eat your own food before or after the show in Konserthuset’s foyers.  

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In partnership with Mosaikteatern and Fritt Spelrum

This year, we celebrate the 150-year anniversary of Hugo Alfvén’s birth. With titles like Midsommarvaka (Midsummer Vigil), En Skärgårdssägen (A Legend from the Archipelago) and Dalarapsodi (Dala Rhapsody), he is one of Sweden’s most beloved composers. In his second symphony, which was his major breakthrough, the scene shifts from sunny morning to twilight and stormy night. Alfvén often used elements of folk music in his work, but in this passionate symphony, he has turned his ear out towards Europe. 

Hugo Alfvén was charming and full of life, with a personality that has been described as magnetic. He was a composer and artist, an orchestral and choir conductor – for nearly 40 years, he led the Orphei Drängar men’s choir. A recently published book by music specialist Tobias Lund entitled Speltoken: Hugo Alfvén och Rosens Klang (Gidlunds förlag) (Playing Wild: Hugo Alfvén and the Sound of the Rose) presents a new understanding of Alfvén and his music.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Patrik Ringborg, an internationally active Swedish conductor who has worked a great deal in Germany. Over the years, he has regularly featured Swedish music, and conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the Stenhammar Festival in autumn 2021. In spring 2022, he also led GöteborgsOperan’s acclaimed staging of Gösta Nystroem’s opera, Herr Arnes Penningar. 

For lower secondary students.

The big, beautiful, tempting, exciting and occasionally frightening ocean has always stirred powerful emotions in people. Numerous composers have been inspired to write music with a direct or indirect connection to the sea.

Through music and movement, this show depicts humanity’s love for the sea and its various expressions and lifeforms. With poetic expressiveness and a dreamy appeal, Hav aims to spark emotions and provide time for reflection.

The performance includes classical music by composers like Claude Debussy and Irving Berlin. The actors comment on and reinforce the music through movement and props.

The show Hav – Ocean – was developed in close collaboration by the participating musicians and actors from Mosaikteatern. Mosaikteatern is a day centre focused on the performing arts for people with intellectual disabilities. They regularly produce various shows, most recently Vägen till Månen (“The Road to the Moon”) and Signalbyrån (“The Signal Agency”).

This performance is presented in beautiful Grünewald Hall and is open to everyone. We offer a permissive environment with plenty of space and the opportunity to come early and stay for a while after. You are welcome to eat your own food before or after the show in Konserthuset’s foyers.  

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In partnership with Mosaikteatern and Fritt Spelrum

For lower secondary students.

The big, beautiful, tempting, exciting and occasionally frightening ocean has always stirred powerful emotions in people. Numerous composers have been inspired to write music with a direct or indirect connection to the sea.

Through music and movement, this show depicts humanity’s love for the sea and its various expressions and lifeforms. With poetic expressiveness and a dreamy appeal, Hav aims to spark emotions and provide time for reflection.

The performance includes classical music by composers like Claude Debussy and Irving Berlin. The actors comment on and reinforce the music through movement and props.

The show Hav – Ocean – was developed in close collaboration by the participating musicians and actors from Mosaikteatern. Mosaikteatern is a day centre focused on the performing arts for people with intellectual disabilities. They regularly produce various shows, most recently Vägen till Månen (“The Road to the Moon”) and Signalbyrån (“The Signal Agency”).

This performance is presented in beautiful Grünewald Hall and is open to everyone. We offer a permissive environment with plenty of space and the opportunity to come early and stay for a while after. You are welcome to eat your own food before or after the show in Konserthuset’s foyers.  

**

In partnership with Mosaikteatern and Fritt Spelrum

This year, we celebrate the 150-year anniversary of Hugo Alfvén’s birth. With titles like Midsommarvaka (Midsummer Vigil), En Skärgårdssägen (A Legend from the Archipelago) and Dalarapsodi (Dala Rhapsody), he is one of Sweden’s most beloved composers. In his second symphony, which was his major breakthrough, the scene shifts from sunny morning to twilight and stormy night. Alfvén often used elements of folk music in his work, but in this passionate symphony, he has turned his ear out towards Europe. 

With the cello concerto from 2019 (revised in 2021), composer Anders Nilsson won Musikförläggarna’s classical music prize, and one reviewer described it as a concert “with hit potential.” And yes, it is a gripping and instantly engaging concerto in a romantic spirit. Anders Nilsson has had several major successes, including the opera Zarah at Folkoperan in 2007. At the Composer Weekend dedicated to his music the following year, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performed several of his orchestral pieces. 

Now we hear his cello concerto, with Amalie Stalheim as soloist. She also performed the world premiere. After winning the Soloist Prize in 2018, Stalheim has become established as one of Sweden’s foremost cellists. As the prize jury wrote, she has “natural stage presence and a convincing, mature musical interpretation in interplay with the conductor and orchestra” and her “technical brilliance goes hand in hand with sensitivity and personal expression.” Patrik Ringborg leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

For lower secondary students.

The big, beautiful, tempting, exciting and occasionally frightening ocean has always stirred powerful emotions in people. Numerous composers have been inspired to write music with a direct or indirect connection to the sea.

Through music and movement, this show depicts humanity’s love for the sea and its various expressions and lifeforms. With poetic expressiveness and a dreamy appeal, Hav aims to spark emotions and provide time for reflection.

The performance includes classical music by composers like Claude Debussy and Irving Berlin. The actors comment on and reinforce the music through movement and props.

The show Hav – Ocean – was developed in close collaboration by the participating musicians and actors from Mosaikteatern. Mosaikteatern is a day centre focused on the performing arts for people with intellectual disabilities. They regularly produce various shows, most recently Vägen till Månen (“The Road to the Moon”) and Signalbyrån (“The Signal Agency”).

This performance is presented in beautiful Grünewald Hall and is open to everyone. We offer a permissive environment with plenty of space and the opportunity to come early and stay for a while after. You are welcome to eat your own food before or after the show in Konserthuset’s foyers.  

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In partnership with Mosaikteatern and Fritt Spelrum