Víkingur Ólafsson. Photo: Ari Magg
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Piano Solo
Four Sundays at 15.00 and one Sunday at 19.00
Anyone who enjoys concentrated musicality at the highest level will get their fill here. When a solo pianist interprets the masterpieces of piano literature in the darkened Main Hall of Konserthuset, it is pure magic. This season, major, elite pianists present the kinds of moments that could best be described as: “so quiet you could hear a pin drop.”
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Concerts included in the subscription
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Genre: Chamber musicJohann Sebastian Bach bookends Szymanowski and Bartók.
Sunday 14 January 2024 15.00
Photo: Simon Fowler
Genre: Chamber musicPiotr Anderszewski
Johann Sebastian Bach bookends Szymanowski and Bartók.
Sunday 14 January 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-420 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/piotr-anderszewski/20240114-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Polish Piotr Anderszewski has recorded around twenty albums, many of which have earned the finest distinctions of the industry, and without hesitation, he is one of today’s most respected pianists. He performs on the most prestigious stages around the world, but has actually only played at Konserthuset once before, in a recital with violinist Viktoria Mullova 25 years ago.
The programme is framed by two scores by Johann Sebastian Bach, in between which we hear works by Bartók and Piotr Anderszewski’s fellow countryman, Szymanowski. Szymanowski’s Mazurkas – we hear five of the twenty performed here – take Chopin’s style further into the twentieth century. The music contains a variety of different moods, with an impressive richness of colour and inventiveness.
The Bagatelles were composed after Bartók conducted his first in-depth explorations of Hungarian folk music. As is often the case with Bartók, the music contains elements of both folk music and contemporary classical, as expressed through Bartók’s imaginative and creative symbiosis of sounds.
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The music
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Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 6 in e minor for keyboard BWV 83030 min
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Karol Szymanowski From 20 Mazurkas for piano11 min
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Intermission25 min
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Béla Bartók 14 Bagatelles for piano op 631 min
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Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 1 in B flat major for keyboard BWV 82518 min
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Participants
- Piotr Anderszewski piano
Sunday 14 January 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-420 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Genre: Chamber musicThe Icelandic pianist plays the Goldberg Variations.
Sunday 3 March 2024 15.00
Photo: Ari Magg
Genre: Chamber musicVíkingur Ólafsson
The Icelandic pianist plays the Goldberg Variations.
Sunday 3 March 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-420 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/vikingur-olafsson/20240303-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is one of the most acclaimed soloists in the world of classical music. He has a warm approach and passionate musicality, and draws a massive audience, with 2.6 million listens on Spotify – per month – and albums that sell in huge editions.
Víkingur Ólafsson has been celebrated for his interpretations of Rameau, Mozart, and works by American minimalist Philip Glass, among others. When he performed at Konserthuset Stockholm in spring 2022, with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, he played John Adams’ piano concerto Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
But the particular focus for Víkingur Ólafsson’s performance here is the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. At his first recital in Konserthuset, he plays the famous Goldberg Variations, music that many associate with Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who has a cult following. With his deeply personal interpretations of Bach’s music, it is perhaps no surprise that the New York Times described Víkingur Ólafsson as “Iceland’s Glenn Gould”.
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The music
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Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations for keyboard66 min
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Participants
- Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Sunday 3 March 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-420 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Genre: Chamber musicOne of Scandinavia’s top pianists plays John Cage and Bo Linde.
Sunday 5 May 2024 15.00
Genre: Chamber musicPeter Friis Johansson
One of Scandinavia’s top pianists plays John Cage and Bo Linde.
Sunday 5 May 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-420 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/peter-friis-johansson/20240505-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.With fervent playing and exceptional technique, Peter Friis Johansson has become established as one of Scandinavia’s most prominent concert pianists.
He is deeply interested in contemporary music and here, he tackles John Cage’s pioneering Sonatas and Interludes, inspired by Indian philosophy. This incredibly evocative music consists of twenty short pieces, in which the piano is prepared with screws, nuts, erasers, and pieces of plastic stuffed between the strings to alter the sound.
First, we hear Gävle-born composer Bo Linde’s Six Character Pieces, written around 1952–53, when Linde had just finished studying composition with Lars-Erik Larsson. And unlike today’s modernistic trend, this music is infused with melodic lightness and elegance. American Henry Cowell’s (1897–1965) lush Three Irish Legends has an entirely different quality. To create these massive sounds – usually with an Impressionistic bent – the soloist must occasionally use their forearms.
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The music
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Henry Cowell Three Irish Legends for piano12 min
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Bo Linde Six Character Pieces for piano15 min
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Intermission25 min
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John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano63 min
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Participants
- Peter Friis Johansson piano
Sunday 5 May 2024 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-420 SEK50% discount for those 26 and under. 10% discount for students, pensioners and the unemployed. 15% discount for subscribers.The Main Hall currently has capacity for 1,770 people, spread across the stalls, first and second balconies and choir balcony. Each floor can be accessed by lift or the stairs. Due to the location of pillars, a number of seats have a fully or partially restricted view. These are indicated in the booking system. The hall has six wheelchair places.
The Main Hall seating plan
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Previous conserts in the series
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Sunday 22 October 2023 19.00Grigory Sokolov
Sunday 22 October 2023 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Grigory Sokolov piano
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The music
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Johann Sebastian Bach Four Duets for keyboard BWV 802 - 805
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Johann Sebastian Bach Partita No. 2 in c minor for keyboard BWB 826
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Intermission
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata in B flat major KV 333
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Adagio in b minor for piano KV 540
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Encore:
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Jean-Philippe Rameau Les sauvages for keyboard
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in f minor for piano op 63:2
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Serge Rachmaninoff Prelude in B flat major for piano op 23:2
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Frédéric Chopin Prelude in D flat major "Raindrop Prelude" from 24 Preludes for piano
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Jean-Philippe Rameau Tambourin in e minor from Pièces de clavecin for keyboard
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Aleksandr Skryabin Prelude in e minor for piano op 11:4
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Sunday 26 November 2023 15.00Arcadi Volodos
Sunday 26 November 2023 15.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Arcadi Volodos piano
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The music
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Aleksandr Skryabin Etude in f sharp minor for piano op 8:2
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Aleksandr Skryabin Etude in b minor for piano op 8:11
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Aleksandr Skryabin Prelude in e flat minor for piano op 11:14
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Aleksandr Skryabin Prelude in B major for piano op 16:1
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Aleksandr Skryabin Prelude in e flat minor for piano op 16:4
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Aleksandr Skryabin Prelude in B major for piano op 22:3
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Aleksandr Skryabin Prelude in b flat minor for piano op 37:1
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Aleksandr Skryabin Two Poems for piano op 63
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Aleksandr Skryabin En rêvant, avec une grande douceur from Two Poems for piano op 71:2
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Aleksandr Skryabin Flammes sombres from Two Dances for piano op 73:2
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Aleksandr Skryabin Piano Sonata No. 10
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Aleksandr Skryabin Vers la flamme for piano
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Intermission
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Franz Schubert Piano Sonata in a minor op 42
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Encore:
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Franz Schubert Minuet in c sharp minor D 600 - Trio in E major D 610 for piano
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Frederic Mompou El lago from Paisajes for piano
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Ernesto Lecuona (Casado) Malagueña, version for piano arr Arcadi Volodos
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Aleksandr Skryabin Mazurka in e minor for piano op 25:3
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