Illustration: Ane Gustavsson
Christoffer Nobin
Ayla Kabaca
Trills and Dragon Ears
Family concert with texts by Lennart Hellsing.
Is it possible to see music, and hear a picture? Yes: if you listen carefully in Trills and Dragon Ears, the double bass can be heard growling like a bear and the oboe gets a cobra to dance in Samarkand.
Lennart Hellsing is one of Sweden's most beloved children’s book authors and his creations include Krakel Spektakel (“Noisy Spectacle”), Kusin Vitamin (“Cousin Vitamin”), Bagar Bengtsson (“Bengtsson the Baker”), Petronella från Plaskeby (“Petronella from Plaskeby”) and Herr Gurka (“Mr. Cucumber”).
Hellsing’s wonderful story Trills and Dragon Ears helps us to become familiar with the many different instruments of the symphony orchestra. In the verses, we encounter everything from a knight’s tower to expansive beaches, dragon’s caves and the seasons, all set to the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy and Alfvén. Trills and Dragon Ears is a wonderfully playful presentation by the orchestra. The narrator is Ayla Kabaca.
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The music
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Trills and Dragon Ears
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Georges Bizet Les Toréadores from Carmen Suite No. 12 min
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart From Divertimento in D major KV 1364 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven From Symphony No. 92 min
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Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune4 min
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Hugo Alfvén Midsummer Vigil2 min
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Jean Sibelius From Karelia Suite3 min
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Edward Elgar From Enigma Variations1 min
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky From Symphony No. 40.25 min
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Camille Saint-Saëns Danse bacchanale from Samson and Delilah3 min
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Richard Wagner Prelude to Act II from Siegfried3 min
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Edvard Grieg Dance of the Mountain King’s Daughter from Peer Gynt2 min
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Camille Saint-Saëns From The Carnival of the Animals3 min
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Modest Musorgsky From Pictures at an Exhibition arr Maurice Ravel3 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Christoffer Nobin conductor
- Ayla Kabaca host