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Be there on the night of the spectacular season opener, when the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s new chief conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the ensemble in Sven-David Sandström’s masterpiece, The High Mass. This overflowing subscription includes familiar classics and exciting discoveries – and the parade of soloists absolutely sparkles.
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Concerts included in the subscription
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraWith Conductor Laureate Alan Gilbert and piano soloist Martin Helmchen.
Thursday 12 October 2023 19.00 ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play ●Watch for free on Konserthuset Play
Martin Helmchen
Alan Gilbert. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMozart and Brahms
With Conductor Laureate Alan Gilbert and piano soloist Martin Helmchen.
Thursday 12 October 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:
145-450 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/mozart-and-brahms/20231012-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.One might think the symphonies by Brahms are played often, but it has actually been a long time since Symphony No. 3 was performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra – the last time was at the Brahms Festival in 2014.
The orchestra’s Conductor Laureate Alan Gilbert leads this richly melodic, sometimes mysterious third symphony by Brahms – music that gives a subtle nod to both Schumann and Wagner. Alan Gilbert is now chief conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg and music director of the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.
German pianist Martin Helmchen has guest-performed with us on several occasions, most recently in 2019. He is admired not only for his incredible technique, but also for his sensitivity and personal interpretations. Helmchen is the soloist in Mozart’s beloved, masterfully elegant Piano Concerto No. 22, which provides – especially in the last movement – echoes of the opera the Marriage of Figaro from the same era, around 1785.
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The music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 2235 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 334 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Alan Gilbert conductor
- Martin Helmchen piano
Thursday 12 October 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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 Royal Stockholm Philharmonic opens the festival with a world premiere.
Thursday 9 November 2023 19.00
Jörg Widmann. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Carolin Widmann. Photo: Lennard Ruehle
Christa Schönfeldinger
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraInternational Composer Festival Opening
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic opens the festival with a world premiere.
Thursday 9 November 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:
145-450 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 planMeet Jörg Widmann in conversation about tonight's concert in the Aulin Hall. Open to everyone with a ticket to the concert. Entrance from Hötoget.
The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2023/composer-festival-opening/20231109-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Composer, clarinettist and conductor Jörg Widmann is currently one of the most acclaimed names in the world of classical music. His shifting, richly varied and imaginative music is often associated with familiar classical and romantic composers, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, but it is simultaneously unmistakably rooted in our era. His unique blend of tradition and innovation has made him one of the world’s most frequently performed contemporary composers.
In the striking concert overture Con Brio, Widmann has taken elements of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 and combined them with powerful eruptions of chords and contrasting sound formations. This music has a rare capacity to create anticipation and surprise.
The violin concerto as a genre is sacred and quite personal to Widmann. His second violin concerto is written for and dedicated to his sister, Carolin Widmann, and a central part of the concerto is its romantic middle movement, which opens “a wide, branched, spiritual cosmos, a journey within.” In the Fantasie for Solo Clarinet, composed in his youth, he explores all possibilities of the instrument. The piece has elements of klezmer, jazz and unusual playing techniques. The programme also includes something as unusual as a concerto for glass harmonica and orchestra.
For the Composer Festival, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has commissioned a new work and the title of Jörg Widmann’s piece sparks the imagination: Danse macabre.
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The music
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Jörg Widmann Con brio – Concert Overture12 min
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Jörg Widmann Violin Concerto No. 235 min
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Intermission25 min
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Jörg Widmann Fantasie for clarinet solo7 min
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Jörg Widmann Armonica14 min
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Jörg Widmann Danse macabre (The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Joint Commission)16 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Jörg Widmann conductor & clarinet soloist
- Carolin Widmann violin
- Christa Schönfeldinger glass harmonica
Thursday 9 November 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:
145-450 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 planMeet Jörg Widmann in conversation about tonight's concert in the Aulin Hall. Open to everyone with a ticket to the concert. Entrance from Hötoget.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe music of the sea and a Swedish world premiere with Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 23 November 2023 19.00
Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraLa mer by Debussy
The music of the sea and a Swedish world premiere with Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft.
Thursday 23 November 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:
145-450 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/la-mer/20231123-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The sea has been an important source of inspiration for composers throughout the ages. In his Impressionistic masterpiece La Mer, Debussy conveys his personal memories of the sea, which he still preferred to experience through art and literature as an adult.
The ocean is also tangibly present in Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from the opera Peter Grimes. The action revolves around a lonely fisherman off the British east coast who was persecuted by locals after two of his trainees died under mysterious circumstances.
Without hesitation, Daniel Börtz is one of Sweden’s most essential composers. His mighty Sinfonia 13, which had its world premiere here at Konserthuset in 2019, was acclaimed by critics for its hypnotic power and heartfelt beauty. For Börtz, “the blue building on Hötorget” is something of a second home. A major highlight this year – the year of his 80th birthday – is the world premiere of his Sinfonia 15, dedicated to the musicians of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by American conductor Ryan Bancroft, who is chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra as of this season
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The music
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Benjamin Britten Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes16 min
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Daniel Börtz Sinfonia 15 (World Premiere)30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Claude Debussy La mer25 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
Thursday 23 November 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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 OrchestraTo the max with Hillborg. A new piano concerto and music by Mozart and Stravinsky.
Thursday 11 January 2024 19.00
Emanuel Ax. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe Max Concerto
To the max with Hillborg. A new piano concerto and music by Mozart and Stravinsky.
Thursday 11 January 2024 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:
145-450 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/the-max-concerto/20240111-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.A new piano concerto by Anders Hillborg! The Max Concerto is written for and dedicated to the outstanding American pianist Emanuel Ax – known among friends as “Manny Ax,” resulting in the title Max. Ax gave the world performance of Hillborg’s second piano concerto in November with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen. This is the European premiere, led by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s chief conductor Ryan Bancroft.
From piano to winds. Note the plural form of Stravinsky’s “symphonies” of wind instruments: this is not about symphonic music, but harmonic sounds – from the Greek symphonia, union of sound. What began as a piano piece in memory of Debussy became an original work for woodwinds and brass, with a kind of ritualistic, mass-like character.
During a hectic summer three years before his death, Mozart composed his last three symphonies. The forty-first symphony, his most grandiose, was also his last. The finale is one of Mozart’s greatest achievements – an unparalleled listening adventure, filled with captivating melodies and finesses of counterpoint. The symphony is called Jupiter, after the Roman god.
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The music
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Anders Hillborg Piano Concerto No. 2 – The MAX Concerto21 min
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Intermission25 min
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Igor Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Revised Version (1947)12 min
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"27 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Emanuel Ax piano
Thursday 11 January 2024 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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 OrchestraAlisa Weilerstein is the cello soloist and Rafael Payare conducts Ein Heldenleben.
Thursday 1 February 2024 19.00
Alisa Weilerstein. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Rafael Payare
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBarber and Strauss
Alisa Weilerstein is the cello soloist and Rafael Payare conducts Ein Heldenleben.
Thursday 1 February 2024 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:
145-450 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/barber-and-strauss/20240201-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.American cellist Alisa Weilerstein has won awards for her incredibly personal interpretations, which are reminiscent of soloists of a bygone era. We hear her in fellow countryman Samuel Barber’s passionate Cello Concerto. The music was composed in the latter half of World War II and was completed when the war ended in 1945. It has long been considered one of the most challenging works of the repertoire and baffled audiences initially, even if their hearts always melted upon hearing the dreamy, melodic second movement.
Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and has performed with the orchestra several times before, most recently in 2020. He first garnered attention upon winning the Malko Competition for young conductors in 2012. Payare is now chief conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.
Richard Strauss wanted to compose something in the same heroic style as Beethoven’s Eroica symphony. He did exactly that in the tone poem Ein Heldenleben – A Hero’s Life. Via the music, we follow Strauss’ hero through feats on the battlefield, to the inevitable conclusion. The music can be viewed as a depiction of a heroic fate more generally, but the hero of this musical narrative is undoubtedly Richard Strauss himself.
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The music
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Samuel Barber Cello Concerto26 min
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben40 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rafael Payare conductor
- Alisa Weilerstein cello
Thursday 1 February 2024 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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: Orchestral performanceItalian and French music with top ensemble in the field of early music.
Thursday 29 February 2024 19.00
Genre: Orchestral performanceFreiburg Baroque Orchestra
Italian and French music with top ensemble in the field of early music.
Thursday 29 February 2024 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:
145-450 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/freiburg-baroque-orchestra/20240229-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.For 35 years, the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra has been among Europe’s leading ensembles focused on older music. As the name suggests, their primary focus is on Baroque, but they often play pieces from the Classical and Romantic eras. The ensemble is led by the biggest name in Baroque: German conductor and Baroque violinist Gottfried von der Goltz.
In this performance at Konserthuset, German and Italian Baroque music are on the programme. In addition to greats like Corelli, Vivaldi, Telemann and Handel, we also hear an oboe concerto by the less familiar Giovanni Benedetto Platti, a piece with shimmering elegance and gripping intensity.
During his lifetime, Francesco Geminiani was as highly regarded as Corelli and Handel. In his Concerto grosso, a small group of virtuosic soloists alternates with the entire orchestra. The music is based on an old dance melody, La Follia, which was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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The music
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Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in B flat major op 6:118 min
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Giovanni Benedetto Platti Oboe Concerto in g minor13 min
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Antonio Vivaldi Bassoon Concerto in E flat major RV 4837 min
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Francesco Geminiani Concerto grosso in d minor "La Folia"15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Georg Philipp Telemann Sinfonia in G major ”Grillen-Symphonie” TWV 50:19 min
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Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto in E flat major TWV 54:Es115 min
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George Frideric Handel Concerto grosso in B flat major op 6:715 min
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Participants
- Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
- Gottfried von der Goltz leader
Thursday 29 February 2024 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:
145-450 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 OrchestraAndris Nelsons conducts and Håkan Hardenberger is soloist in a new trumpet concerto.
Thursday 14 March 2024 19.00
Håkan Hardenberger. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Andris Nelsons
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraTchaikovsky Symphony No. 4
Andris Nelsons conducts and Håkan Hardenberger is soloist in a new trumpet concerto.
Thursday 14 March 2024 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:
145-450 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/tchaikovsky-symphony-no.-4/20240314-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Of the finale to his fourth symphony, Tchaikovsky said that there is still happiness: simple, naive happiness. “Deriving happiness from others allows one to live longer.” This idea is also reflected in the effervescent and exhilarated music. But the symphony is also about his feelings after his brief, catastrophic marriage. The introductory theme which recurs several times in the symphony is the core – an obliterating force that stands in the way of happiness.
Composer, clarinettist and conductor Jörg Widmann is currently one of the most acclaimed names in the world of classical music. His richly varied and imaginative music is often associated with familiar classical and romantic composers, such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, but it is simultaneously unmistakably rooted in our era. This year’s international composer festival at Konserthuset, which begins on 9 November, is dedicated to the music of Jörg Widmann.
In close collaboration with outstanding Swedish trumpet player Håkan Hardenberger, he composed Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI) for trumpet and orchestra. The concert is led by Latvian Andris Nelsons, Chief Conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. He began his career as a trumpet player and has worked with Håkan Hardenberger on several occasions.
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The music
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Jörg Widmann Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI) for trumpet and orchestra37 min
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Intermission25 min
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 442 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Andris Nelsons conductor
- Håkan Hardenberger trumpet
Thursday 14 March 2024 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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: Orchestral performanceNorrköping Symphony Orchestra performs at the festival dedicated to Lisa Streich.
Friday 12 April 2024 19.00
Lisa Streich. Photo: Harald Hoffmann
Jacob Kellermann. Photo: Karl Gabor och Annica Zion
Elena Schwarz. Photo: Axel Saxe
Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
Genre: Orchestral performanceComposer Weekend – Eyelids
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra performs at the festival dedicated to Lisa Streich.
Friday 12 April 2024 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:
235-450 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/composer-weekend-mantel/20240412-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Norrköping Symphony Orchestra traditionally participates in the festivals held at Konserthuset. The orchestra is led by Swiss-Austrian Elena Schwartz and the highly acclaimed Jacob Kellerman is the guitar soloist. The guitar concerto Kellermann tackles is certainly not conventional. Augenlider, Eyelids, is composed for arranged guitar and orchestra, and this music is a low-key, whispering and sparsely snapping. It includes a hairclip, an egg slicer and water.
Lisa Streich’s imagination revolves around visual and physical elements. When she composed Mantel (Cloak) for two percussionists and strings, she imagined the ensemble like a body: the strings as the head, the percussionists as the skeleton. The piece Himmel (Heaven) is like a musical painting of the changing skies overhead. She paints a world with light brush strokes, in which tones and sounds add colour.
In Händeküssen (Hand Kisses), Streich was inspired by a passage in a conversation book by Beethoven, who was deaf. “Kissing a hand is not a good thing,” he wrote. The music is a dreamt dance, and it is offered with kisses on the hand. But how does dancing look if one is deaf? The orchestra is split in two, representing the right and left foot, while the listener is inside the deaf ear canal.
Lisa Streich’s original scores are like maps of sound. The music is sometimes reminiscent of the aural worlds of nature or the city, and the composition emerges as a “sound conductor”. She sees this as sculpting with an orchestra or ensemble, and a sort of choreography emerges from the sound, inviting not only listeners, but viewers as well. She has gained more and more international attention.
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The music
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Lisa Streich Mantel for string orchestra and percussion17 min
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Lisa Streich Himmel15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lisa Streich Händeküssen12 min
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Johann Strauss Jr. Thunder and Lightning, polka schnell3 min
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Lisa Streich Augenlider for prepared guitar and orchestra20 min
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Participants
- Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
- Elena Schwarz conductor
- Jacob Kellermann guitar
Friday 12 April 2024 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:
235-450 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 OrchestraChief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Thursday 25 April 2024 19.00
Isata Kanneh-Mason
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraDream and confession
Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Thursday 25 April 2024 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:
145-450 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/dream-and-confession/20240425-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a musical firework, with dazzling cascades of chords and ultra-fast runs across the full register of the piano. At this concert, those rockets are fired off by acclaimed British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Felix Mendelssohn was only seventeen years old when he composed his wonderfully bright and quick-paced overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It is nevertheless considered one of his first mature masterpieces. The action in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream revolves around masculinity, femininity, love and fertility. And even if Felix’ own experiences in the area were probably relatively limited, he conveys in this music the emotional register that Shakespeare presents in his beloved comedy.
The concert concludes with the Confession of Isobel Gowdie by Scottish composer James MacMillan (born 1959). The music revolves around Isobel Gowdie, who confessed to witchcraft in 1662. The work was an enormous success at its world premiere at a Proms concert in 1990.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by award-winning American conductor Ryan Bancroft, who is chief conductor of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra as of this season.
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The music
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Anna Clyne Within Her Arms for string ensemble12 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Piano Concerto No. 120 min
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Intermission25 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream12 min
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James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie26 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Thursday 25 April 2024 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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 OrchestraFavourites of the repertoire with Janine Jansen and Manfred Honeck.
Thursday 23 May 2024 19.00
Janine Jansen. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Manfred Honeck
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraJanine Jansen plays Sibelius
Favourites of the repertoire with Janine Jansen and Manfred Honeck.
Thursday 23 May 2024 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:
145-450 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/janine-jansen-plays-sibelius/20240523-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Sibelius’ Violin Concerto is one of the most played of all violin concertos composed in the twentieth century. Sibelius, himself a violinist, may have composed the concerto he would have wanted to play himself – even if it was at a technical level that far exceeded his own – in a farewell to his youthful dream of a career as a violin virtuoso. With the unparalleled Dutch violinist Janine Jansen, we can await a captivating, intense and emotional adventure.
Before his departure to the “new world”, America, Antonín Dvorák composed his life-affirming Eighth Symphony. As ever with Sibelius, this music is naturalistic and filled with roaring energy. We hear plenty of Bohemian folk melodies and dancing movement here. Do we also hear a forest filled with birdsong, and nostalgic longing for home?
The concert opens with music by Swedish Andrea Tarrodi. Camelopardalis is the Latin name for the giraffe constellation. In the middle of Tarrodi’s piece, the giraffe’s theme is presented by the bassoon.
It is our great delight to welcome the return of Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent years, he has established a close relationship with the orchestra and last conducted the Nobel Prize Concert in 2022. Honeck is chief conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and has been familiar to many listeners in Sweden over the years as chief conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
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The music
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Andrea Tarrodi Camelopardalis8 min
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Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto31 min
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Intermission25 min
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Antonín Dvorák Symphony No. 837 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Manfred Honeck conductor
- Janine Jansen violin
Thursday 23 May 2024 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:
145-450 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:
145-450 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 7 September 2023 19.00Season Opening – The High Mass
Thursday 7 September 2023 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Marisol Montalvo soprano
- Elin Rombo soprano
- Jeannette van Schaik soprano
- Malena Ernman mezzo-soprano
- Emma Sventelius mezzo-soprano
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- Stefan Forsberg host
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The music
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Sven-David Sandström The High Mass
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