Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Season Opening with Blomstedt

Music by Franz Berwald and Johannes Brahms as Herbert Blomstedt returns to the orchestra and opens the 2024/25 season.

Herbert Blomstedt is Sweden's internationally most recognized conductor – ever. Among the orchestras he has worked with are the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and notably the San Francisco Symphony, where Blomstedt was chief conductor for ten years. Blomstedt has also conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on well over 200 occasions, and on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2017, Konserthuset named its grand conductor's dressing room after him.

It has been 70 years since Herbert Blomstedt first conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at a public concert, and already two years before that, in 1952, he conducted the orchestra during a radio broadcast.

As he makes another cherished visit to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, it is with two favorites, Franz Berwald and Brahms. Memories from the Norwegian mountains came to him after a visit to Norway, and Berwald described the Nordic-sounding music as orchestral tonal painting. The restlessly bustling Sinfonie capricieuse is surrounded by mystique, for shortly after Berwald's death, the score disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The music was later reconstructed by Nils Castegren based on Berwald's remaining sketches.

Johannes Brahms's first symphony is undoubtedly a masterpiece. The symphony was crafted over many years, with Brahms at times almost paralyzed by the performance demands of his idol Beethoven. However, the end result is magnificent and shaped with precision, intense emotion, and great beauty.

Music by Franz Berwald and Johannes Brahms as Herbert Blomstedt returns to the orchestra and opens the 2024/25 season.

Wednesday 11 September 2024 19.00

Ends approximately 21.00

Price:

220-545 SEK including refreshments

Herbert Blomstedt is Sweden's internationally most recognized conductor – ever. Among the orchestras he has worked with are the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and notably the San Francisco Symphony, where Blomstedt was chief conductor for ten years. Blomstedt has also conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on well over 200 occasions, and on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2017, Konserthuset named its grand conductor's dressing room after him.

It has been 70 years since Herbert Blomstedt first conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at a public concert, and already two years before that, in 1952, he conducted the orchestra during a radio broadcast.

As he makes another cherished visit to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, it is with two favorites, Franz Berwald and Brahms. Memories from the Norwegian mountains came to him after a visit to Norway, and Berwald described the Nordic-sounding music as orchestral tonal painting. The restlessly bustling Sinfonie capricieuse is surrounded by mystique, for shortly after Berwald's death, the score disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The music was later reconstructed by Nils Castegren based on Berwald's remaining sketches.

Johannes Brahms's first symphony is undoubtedly a masterpiece. The symphony was crafted over many years, with Brahms at times almost paralyzed by the performance demands of his idol Beethoven. However, the end result is magnificent and shaped with precision, intense emotion, and great beauty.

  • The music

    Approximate times
  • Franz Berwald Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains
    10 min
  • Franz Berwald Symphony in D major "Sinfonie capricieuse"
    26 min
  • Intermission
    30 min
  • Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1
    45 min
  • Participants

  • Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Herbert Blomstedt conductor
  • Susanne Rydén host

Wednesday 11 September 2024 19.00

Ends approximately 21.00

Price:

220-545 SEK including refreshments


Useful information for your visit.

Symphonies by Arthur Honegger and Johannes Brahms with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under the lead of Herbert Blomstedt. Blomstedt also introduces the music, which at this point in time had un unexpected and eerie topicality.

Choose from several classical Swedish dishes, soups, and wraps. Pre-order your meal, up to 48 hours before the start of the concert.