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Eight Thursdays at 19.00
Become acquainted with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s new chief conductor, Ryan Bancroft, and don’t miss the vitality of 95-year-old Herbert Blomstedt. Young Christina Nilsson in the bittersweet Vier Letzte Lieder is another must-see.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraFinnish and French musical paintings and a Swedish landscape.
Thursday 12 January 2023 19.00
Karl-Johan Elf. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Joshua Weilerstein
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSibelius & Debussy
Finnish and French musical paintings and a Swedish landscape.
Thursday 12 January 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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/2023/sibelius-debussy/20230112-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Nature, the ocean and breath-taking scenery have been meaningful sources of inspiration for composers throughout the ages. In his Impressionistic masterpiece La Mer, Debussy conveys his personal memories of the sea, which he actually preferred to experience through art and literature as an adult.
For Ethel Smyth, the cliffs of Cornwall demanded to be portrayed through music. On the Cliffs of Cornwall is from the opera The Wreckers, which takes place on the Cornwall coast. During her lifetime, Ethel Smyth was an acclaimed personality, both as a composer and as one of the leading figures of the suffragette movement in the fight for women’s right to vote. For her work in the field of music, Ethel Smyth was named Dame of the British Empire.
Nature was also a natural starting point for the versatile Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist. His Concerto for Tuba and Strings, with the painterly title Landskap (Landscape), is filled with warmly billowing melodies and rhythmic intensity. The soloist is the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s tuba player Karl-Johan Elf.
The concert begins with the Swan of Tuonela, the most famous movement from Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite. The Swan of Tuonela was originally intended as an overture to the never-completed opera, the Building of the Boat. Instead, Sibelius entered the mythological world of the Kalevala and created the great Lemminkäinen Cycle for orchestra.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Joshua Weilerstein, a popular guest with major orchestras in Europe and North America alike. He was recently appointed chief conductor of the Phoenix Orchestra in Boston.
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The music
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Jean Sibelius The Swan of Tuonela from Lemminkäinen Suite10 min
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Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist Landscape for tuba, string orchestra and piano15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ethel Smyth On the Cliffs of Cornwall – Prelude to Act II from The Wreckers9 min
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Claude Debussy La mer25 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Joshua Weilerstein conductor
- Karl-Johan Elf tuba
Thursday 12 January 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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 OrchestraThe famous tone poem and Elgar’s Violin Concerto.
Thursday 23 February 2023 19.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
James Ehnes. Photo: Benjamin Ealovega
Speranza Scappucci
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraStrauss Don Juan
The famous tone poem and Elgar’s Violin Concerto.
Thursday 23 February 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2023/scappucci/20230223-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Canadian violinist James Ehnes has been called the “Jascha Heifetz of our time.” With his unerring musicality and lightning-fast technique, he is a continuously in-demand soloist on the world’s major concert stages, and his recordings have won multiple Grammy and Gramophone Awards. At this concert, we hear him in Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto, which was an immediate success after the world premiere in 1910. “It is good! Incredibly emotional! Too emotional, but I love it!” he said of his violin concerto.
Richard Strauss was a great admirer of Richard Wagner. Influenced by Wagner, Strauss abandoned the abstract, classical symphonies and sonatas of his youth and began to compose great tone poems inspired by literature and nature instead. In 1889, he completed the symphonic poem Don Juan, based on the poem by Nikolaus Lenaus, which is in turn based on the Spanish legend of Don Juan.
In addition, we hear music by American composer Paola Prestini for the first time at Konserthuset. Prestini, born in 1975, works with everything from poets and filmmakers to researchers and has become known for her innovative ideas and for crossing the boundaries of genre and uniting discrete disciplines. We hear one of her early works here: Barcarola, from 1996.
Italian Speranza Scappucci conducts this concert. She is a frequent guest at the world’s major opera houses, for example in Vienna, Rome, Zürich, Los Angeles and New York – and now it is time for her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The music
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Edward Elgar Violin Concerto48 min
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Intermission25 min
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Paola Prestini Barcarola15 min
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Richard Strauss Don Juan17 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Speranza Scappucci conductor
- James Ehnes violin
Thursday 23 February 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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 OrchestraTrumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Thursday 30 March 2023 19.00
Tobias Broström. Photo: Nicklas Raab
Håkan Hardenberger
Johannes Gustavsson
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraComposer Weekend – Lucernaris
Trumpet concerto and a symphony in the festival of Tobias Broström’s music.
Thursday 30 March 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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/2023/tonsattarweekend-2023/20230330-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Tobias Broström is known for his rhythmically powerful music, colourful orchestration and distinctive sense of harmonics. His richly associative, nearly cinematic narrative compositions are performed by orchestras all over the world. Now he is at the centre of Konserthuset Stockholm’s Composer Weekend 2023.
At this inaugural concert, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will give the world premiere of a newly composed opening piece. We also hear the trumpet concerto Lucernaris, written for internationally renowned trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger, who is also the soloist.
The title Lucernaris refers to a Catholic lamp-lighting ceremony. Broström describes the piece as a journey from darkness to light, both on an overall poetic level – between darkness and light, cold and warmth – but also specifically musically, between soloist and orchestra.
The first symphony had its world premiere in 2022 and was commissioned by the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. This is its second performance.
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The music
Approximate times -
Tobias Broström Rubedo (World Premiere)
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Tobias Broström Lucernaris, concerto for trumpet, live electronics and orchestra30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Tobias Broström Symphony No. 1 ”Albedo”40 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Johannes Gustavsson conductor
- Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Thursday 30 March 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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 musicAlan Gilbert conducts and soprano Christina Nilsson is the soloist.
Thursday 27 April 2023 19.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
Christina Nilsson. Photo: Besim Mazhiqi
Alan Gilbert. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicVier letzte Lieder
Alan Gilbert conducts and soprano Christina Nilsson is the soloist.
Thursday 27 April 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2023/vier-letzte-lieder/20230427-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Alan Gilbert conducted the world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Frontispiece when he took over as chief conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in 2019. Unsuk Chin describes the music as a sort of fast-forwarding through history, in which music from different eras emerges in new forms and blends together. Unsuk Chin was featured at Konserthuset’s 2013 Composer Festival.
Richard Strauss composed many works with his wife Pauline as the source of inspiration – she was a renowned soprano. He was in his 80s when he came upon a poem by Joseph von Eichendorff about an aging couple who, at the end of their lives together, observe the setting sun and ask themselves: “Might this be death?” This inspired him to begin composing a song cycle that was never completed. After Strauss’ death, his publisher put the four completed songs together, naming them Vier letzte Lieder, “Four Last Songs.”
As vocal soloist, we hear the young soprano Christina Nilsson, who confirmed her place on the opera scene with her sensational debut role as Aida with the Royal Swedish Opera in 2018. She has performed with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra several times, most recently at a summer concert in 2019.
Beauty and tranquillity continue in the Pastoral Symphony, in which Beethoven describes life in the countryside in the early nineteenth century. He gave the various movements painterly names: “Awakening of Cheerful Feelings Upon Arrival in the Countryside”, “Scene by the Brook”, “Merry Gathering of Country Folk”, “Thunderstorm” and “Shepherd’s Song”. It is a bright, musical journey through the countryside, with only a storm disrupting the idyllic scene.
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The music
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Unsuk Chin Frontispiece8 min
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Richard Strauss Four Last Songs25 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 ’’Pastoral’’40 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alan Gilbert conductor
- Christina Nilsson soprano
Thursday 27 April 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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 OrchestraThe famous symphonic poem and a recently composed cello concerto.
Thursday 11 May 2023 19.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
Gautier Capuçon. Photo: Felix Broede
Lionel Bringuier. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The famous symphonic poem and a recently composed cello concerto.
Thursday 11 May 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2023/the-sorcerers-apprentice/20230511-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Award-winning French cellist Gautier Capuçon performs internationally with the world’s top conductors and instrumentalists. He is known for his expressive playing, dazzling virtuosity, and the deep sound of his Matteo Goffriller cello from 1701.
Capuçon was soloist for the world premiere of American Lera Auerbach’s cello concerto in Munich in 2021. The piece is now being performed for the first time with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, which commissioned the work. Auberbach, born 1973, is also a poet and a visual artist.
The conductor is French Lionel Bringuier, who debuted with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra as a substitute in January 2022. He works all over the world at the invitation of prominent orchestras and opera houses, and is currently connected to the opera house in his home city of Nice.
Two French works follow the intermission. We hear Paul Dukas’ symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, after Goethe’s poem by the same name. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice is also well-known music from the Disney movie Fantasia. The poem is about an apprentice who gets a broom to carry water for him, but cannot get it to stop. Last, we hear Albert Roussel’s most popular work – the dramatic and colourful Symphony No. 3.
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The music
Approximate times -
Lera Auerbach Diary of a Madman – Cello Concerto35 min
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Intermission25 min
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Albert Roussel Symphony No. 324 min
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Paul Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice13 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Lionel Bringuier conductor
- Gautier Capuçon cello
Thursday 11 May 2023 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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
Watch the concert at Konserthuset Play.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
140-440 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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Thursday 22 September 2022 19.00Herbert Blomstedt conducts
Thursday 22 September 2022 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Herbert Blomstedt conductor
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The music
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Arthur Honegger Symphony No. 3 ’’Symphonie Liturgique’’
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Intermission
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Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 4
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Thursday 27 October 2022 19.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset PlayLaura Netzel’s Piano Concerto
Thursday 27 October 2022 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Peter Friis Johansson piano
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The music
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Laura Netzel Piano Concerto in e minor
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Encore:
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Bo Linde Interludio from Divertimento for piano
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Hugo Alfvén Gånglåt from Four Melodies from Leksand for piano
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Intermission
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Aaron Copland Symphony No. 3
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