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Six Thursdays at 18.00
Begin the season in the company of our Artist-in-Residence, the fantastic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson, who will be the soloist in Brahms' beloved First Piano Concerto. There’s also a unique opportunity to hear the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on their own – without a conductor but led by concertmaster Andrej Power. As a finale, The Jewish Song – a masterpiece by Moses Pergament, for orchestra, choir, and vocal soloists.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe Icelandic pianist is this year's Artist-in-Residence and soloist in Brahms' magnificent first Piano Concerto. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra.
Thursday 26 September 2024 18.00
Víkingur Ólafsson. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraVíkingur plays Brahms
The Icelandic pianist is this year's Artist-in-Residence and soloist in Brahms' magnificent first Piano Concerto. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra.
Thursday 26 September 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Víkingur plays Brahms
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Víkingur plays BrahmsThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/vikingur-plays-brahms/20240926-1800/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 classical music world. With his warm touch and passionate musicality, he attracts huge audiences. This season, he is the Artist-in-Residence at the Concert Hall.
Here, we get to meet him in Brahms's magnificent first piano concerto. He returns on two more occasions during the season, first in a recital where he plays Beethoven's last three piano sonatas, and then with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms's second piano concerto. For this first visit, it's Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft who conducts.
The concert opens with Anders Hillborg's dazzlingly elegant Sound Atlas. The glass harmonica – an instrument where fingers are rubbed on tuned glass bells – plays a significant role in the piece, contributing to the music's crystalline character. Additionally, we hear music by the Welsh pioneer Grace Williams. Her Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon is based on ancient Welsh tales.
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The music
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Anders Hillborg Sound Atlas20 min
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Grace Williams Four Illustrations from the Legend of Rhiannon (Swedish Premiere)25 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 148 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Thursday 26 September 2024 18.00
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145-470 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 planOther occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
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145-470 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.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMoving and passionate music with winds and strings of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Thursday 7 November 2024 18.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
Moving and passionate music with winds and strings of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Thursday 7 November 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 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.
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and TchaikovskyThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/mozart-bartok-and-tchaikovsky/20241107-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The slow third movement in the Gran Partita is among the most beautiful and poignant pieces of music Mozart ever wrote. In Milos Forman's film Amadeus, the music is used in a key scene: when Salieri describes the music and realizes that Mozart is a genius. The masterpiece Gran Partita consists of seven movements that alternate between dance-like joy and contemplation. The music is composed for 12 wind instruments and double bass, and is performed by members of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
The other two works in the programme are performed by the orchestra's strings. Divertimento is Italian and means entertainment, diversion. And Béla Bartók's Divertimento for Strings certainly lives up to its name. The music occasionally blossoms into melodic pirouettes, and the lively rhythms are inspired by Bartók's interest in folk music.
Mozart was one of Tchaikovsky's great influences, which is understandable when you hear his Serenade. Like in Gran Partita, the music is passionate and sometimes melancholic, but above all overflowing with happiness. Music straight from the heart, as Tchaikovsky himself emphasized. Concertmaster Andrej Power leads the strings of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in B flat major "Gran Partita"47 min
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Intermission25 min
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Béla Bartók Divertimento for string orchestra22 min
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Pjotr Tjajkovskij Serenade for string orchestra30 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Andrej Power leader
Thursday 7 November 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and TchaikovskyPrice:
145-470 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● Livestream
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Ends approximately 21.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and TchaikovskyPrice:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSixteen Finnish swans and an overlooked Swedish piano concerto from the early 20th century.
Thursday 28 November 2024 18.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
Magnus Svensson. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Aivis Greters
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraWiklund and Sibelius
Sixteen Finnish swans and an overlooked Swedish piano concerto from the early 20th century.
Thursday 28 November 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 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.
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Wiklund and Sibelius
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Wiklund and SibeliusThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/wiklund-and-sibelius/20241128-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Sibelius' Fifth Symphony is his most performed and beloved. He already felt during its composition that he was creating something great. ”Have received a wonderful theme”, he noted in a diary entry. He had seen sixteen swans, which gave him the idea for the magnificent theme in the final movement. ”One of the great experiences of my life! My God, what beauty.”
The orchestra is led by the Latvian conductor Aivis Greters, who has conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra a couple of times in recent years. As a prelude to Sibelius after the interval, we hear the latest orchestral work by the Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad.
The composer, pianist, and conductor Adolf Wiklund's two piano concertos are among the best Swedish works in their genre. The first concerto from 1906 is grandly romantic in the footsteps of Rachmaninov, spiced with a touch of Grieg and a pinch of his friend Stenhammar. Wiklund was also the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra's second conductor, from 1925 to 1938.
As the soloist in Wiklund's first piano concerto, we have the versatile pianist Magnus Svensson. He performs concerts both in Sweden and internationally. He has particularly immersed himself in the art lieder and is the artistic director for Konserthuset’s series of lied concerts. Since 2012, he has also been working at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music with re-publishing older Swedish music.
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The music
Approximate times -
Adolf Wiklund Piano Concerto No. 134 min
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Intermission25 min
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Jacob Mühlrad Resil (World Premiere of Large Version)8 min
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Jean Sibelius Symphony No. 527 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Aivis Greters conductor
- Magnus Svensson piano
Thursday 28 November 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Wiklund and Sibelius
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Wiklund and SibeliusPrice:
145-470 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.
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Ends approximately 17.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Wiklund and Sibelius
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Wiklund and SibeliusPrice:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Wiklund and Sibelius
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Wiklund and Sibelius
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThree friends, three romantic greats. Alexandra Dariescu is the soloist in Clara Schumann's dazzling piano concerto.
Thursday 9 January 2025 18.00
Alexandra Dariescu. Photo: Nicholas Rutter
Magnus Fryklund
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe Schumann Couple and Felix
Three friends, three romantic greats. Alexandra Dariescu is the soloist in Clara Schumann's dazzling piano concerto.
Thursday 9 January 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to The Schumann Couple and Felix
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to The Schumann Couple and FelixThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/the-schumann-couple-and-felix/20250109-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Clara Schumann's piano concerto is stunningly beautiful and a sparkling fireworks display. She was one of the most admired and influential pianists of the 19th century, performing in the same league as Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. In the concerto, we also hear the inspiration from Chopin, whom she preferred over Liszt. Clara Schumann was only 16 years old when she premiered the virtuosic concerto herself in Leipzig in 1835.
The soloist in Clara Schumann's piano concerto is the Romanian-British pianist Alexandra Dariescu, known for her expressive playing as well as her advocacy for female composers. Around the same time Clara performed her piano concerto, she met her future husband Robert, one of the great figures of Romantic music. His impassioned overture to the incidental music for Manfred is based on Lord Byron's dramatic poem.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was a friend of Clara and Robert Schumann – also a great Romantic with a particular sense for melodic beauty. This is evident in his Fifth Symphony, which is also a tribute to Johann Sebastian Bach. Swedish conductor Magnus Fryklund makes his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with this concert. Educated in Denmark, he has made a name for himself particularly as a skilled opera conductor, including in France.
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The music
Approximate times -
Robert Schumann Manfred, Overture12 min
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Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor21 min
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Intermission25 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Symphony No. 5 "Reformation"28 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Magnus Fryklund conductor
- Alexandra Dariescu piano
Thursday 9 January 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to The Schumann Couple and Felix
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to The Schumann Couple and FelixPrice:
145-470 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: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraA beloved violin concerto and a brilliant symphony – featuring soloist Maria Ioudenitch and Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 20 March 2025 18.00
Maria Ioudenitch. Photo: Andrej Grilc
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSibelius and Tchaikovsky
A beloved violin concerto and a brilliant symphony – featuring soloist Maria Ioudenitch and Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 20 March 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Sibelius and Tchaikovsky
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Sibelius and TchaikovskyThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/sibelius-and-tchaikovsky/20250320-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Sibelius's violin concerto is now the most performed of all violin concertos from the 20th century. Yet its musical language belongs to the late 19th century, and the music is warm and lyrical, dramatic and melancholic. Sibelius, himself a violinist, possibly wrote the concerto he himself would have wanted to play – albeit on a technical level far beyond his own. In this way, the violin concerto can be seen as a farewell to the youthful dreams of a career as a violin virtuoso. It is among the more challenging in the genre, as many violinists have attested.
Taking on the challenge is the young award-winning violinist Maria Ioudenitch. In 2021, she won first prize in the prestigious Ysaÿe International Music Competition and the same year also the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition. Maria Ioudenitch was born in Russia but moved to the USA with her family at the age of two.
Tchaikovsky composed his fifth symphony during a few summer months in 1888. He had complained about a lack of inspiration in the spring: "Am I burned out? No ideas, no desire?" But the fifth became a vital, emotionally charged, and in many respects brilliant symphony. It premiered under the composer's direction at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in November of the same year.
The concert opens with the Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodis's Liguria, music that takes us on a journey between five small fishing villages clinging to the cliffs along Italy's northwest coast.
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The music
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Andrea Tarrodi Liguria10 min
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Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto31 min
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Intermission25 min
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Pjotr Tjajkovskij Symphony No. 550 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Maria Ioudenitch violin
Thursday 20 March 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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145-470 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: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicMoses Pergament's poignant masterpiece for orchestra, choir, and vocal soloists.
Thursday 22 May 2025 18.00
Moses Pergament
Agneta Eichenholz
Kjetil Støa
Tobias Ringborg. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Eric Ericsons Kammarkör. Photo: Markus Gårder
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicThe Jewish Song
Moses Pergament's poignant masterpiece for orchestra, choir, and vocal soloists.
Thursday 22 May 2025 18.00
Ends approximately 19.30Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
240-470 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.
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to The Jewish Song
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to The Jewish SongThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/the-jewish-song/20250522-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Finnish-Swedish Moses Pergament (1893–1977) was a prominent and well-known figure in the music scene, active both as a composer and as a music critic for Svenska Dagbladet, but sadly now largely forgotten. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Helsinki but moved to Stockholm in his twenties.
The Jewish Song was composed towards the end of the Second World War, while the Holocaust was still ongoing and becoming increasingly revealed. The texts are taken from two of Ragnar Josephson's poetry collections from the early 1900s: Kedjan (”The Chain”) and Jewish Poems. There, Pergament found ”the feelings of a true Jew. Not a contemptible nationalism, but a liberating sense of solidarity, even in the greatest suffering”. The work has been called a choral symphony, but in his biography of Pergament (2016), Carl-Gunnar Åhlén argues that symphonic song cycle would be a better description.
This is masterful, overwhelming, and emotionally impactful music that over the years has sadly been neglected. The only recording available is from 1974 – with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, soloists, and choir conducted by James DePreist. It was also the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra that premiered The Jewish Song in its entirety in 1947, after various planned performances had been delayed for years, probably due to political anxiety – even after the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Here, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir are led by Tobias Ringborg, and as soloists, we hear singers Agneta Eichenholz and the Norwegian Kjetil Støa.
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The music
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Moses Pergament Den judiska sången82 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Tobias Ringborg conductor
- Agneta Eichenholz soprano
- Kjetil Støa tenor
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Thursday 22 May 2025 18.00
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240-470 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 planOther occasions
Ends approximately 16.30
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to The Jewish Song
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to The Jewish SongPrice:
240-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to The Jewish Song
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to The Jewish Song
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