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The treasure trove that opens the concert season and takes you all the way into summer next year. This subscription includes the Composer Festival, three orchestral guest performances and elements of the Beethoven Festival. Will the performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 be a lifetime memory?
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This subscription has started. However, it is possible to buy single tickets to each concert.Upcoming concerts in the series
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicGustav Mahler’s majestic second symphony.
Thursday 7 November 2019 19.00
Christoph Eschenbach
Marisol Montalvo
Anna Larsson
Eric Ericsons Kammarkör
Musiker ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicResurrection Symphony
Gustav Mahler’s majestic second symphony.
Thursday 7 November 2019 19.00
Ends approximately 20.30Price:
290-530 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2019/resurrection-symphony/Symphony No. 2 is Gustav Mahler’s most majestic and comprehensive composition. Christoph Eschenbach leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and soloists in a piece that portrays life itself, and its most fundamental existential questions: a depiction of the human journey from death and despair to rebirth and love. A symphony in which art and life converge, which is probably why it affects us with such great force.
Mahler was fascinated by questions of metaphysics, the cosmos, religious issues and existentialism. He was constantly engaging with thoughts of the meaning of life and the paradox of death, and this symphony is a magnificent and grandiose musical manifestation of his conceptions of life, death and rebirth. It is also referred to as the Resurrection Symphony.
To re-create his visions of all states and emotions of life, Mahler has used an enormous orchestra, choir, and soprano and alto soloists. Two dramatic outer movements enclose the more exhilarated middle movements. The first movement is a dramatic burial that is a sharp contrast to the second movement’s light-hearted andante. The sharp reverberation of the timpani that launches the third movement suddenly breaks the pleasant mood. As uncertainty expands, humour, a sense of triumph and seriousness follow one another in a stream.
In the fourth movement, Urlicht (Primal Light), we hear a sublimely beautiful alto solo, with lyrics from the folk song collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Boy’s Magic Horn), which had deeply impacted Mahler. The choir is first heard in the last movement and we are carried upward, toward a higher heavenly sphere.
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The music
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"83 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Christoph Eschenbach conductor
- Marisol Montalvo soprano
- Anna Larsson alto
- Eric Ericsons Kammarkör
Thursday 7 November 2019 19.00
Ends approximately 20.30Price:
290-530 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 16.30
Price:
290-530 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicGeorge Benjamin is this year’s composer profile.
Thursday 21 November 2019 19.00
Sir George Benjamin
Bejun Mehta
Gyula Orendt
Stefan Lindgren
Eric Ericsons Kammarkör
Musiker ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicComposer festival – opening
George Benjamin is this year’s composer profile.
Thursday 21 November 2019 19.00
Ends approximately 20.45Price:
220-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2019/composer-festival--opening/This year’s international Composer Festival at Konserthuset Stockholm is dedicated to British composer George Benjamin. His kaleidoscopic versatility and evocative, vivid music often has sound at the centre. With an infallible feel for the potential of the orchestra, he creates velvety sounds, sharp contrasts or fiery and intense eruptions in music that is constantly surprising.
George Benjamin also has a strong focus on vocals, which of course we will have a sampling of during the festival. Benjamin dreamt already at the age of 12 of composing operas, which he did with enormous success. The production of Written on Skin was a global success that was presented at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm in 2015. His latest opera, Lessons in Love and Violence, took audiences by storm last season in its production at the Royal Opera House in London.
The masterful capacity and expansive reach of the piano, from the lowest bass register to the crisp treble, makes it almost equal to an orchestra. On a piano it is easy to leap from the lowest note to the highest, but the sound hopelessly dies out after a key is struck. Strings and woodwind instruments, however, have an unbeatable ability to bind notes together. Duet is a meeting of piano and orchestra, which has a special sound resulting from Benjamin’s choice to exclude the violins.
Dream of the Song is ethereal and thought-provoking. In addition, we will hear vocal virtuosity in both the primary countertenor section, which sings Hebrew lyrics from the eleventh century, and the women’s choir singing Gabriel García Lorca in the original Spanish. And as always with Benjamin, the orchestral sound is powerfully elegant.
Stories with beautiful yet metaphorical dimensions fascinate George Benjamin. In Sometime Voices, he has taken a dive into Shakespeare and used the famous monologue from The Tempest, in which Caliban describes the magical music spreading into the surroundings.
Palimpsests are handwritten texts from antiquity and the Middle Ages on which the writing has been scraped and washed away in order to be replaced by a new one. But traces of the previous writing always remain. In George Benjamin’s Palimpsests, a melody performed by the clarinet creates the first layer. And like a palimpsest, Benjamin has “written over” the clarinet with a powerful brass chord, and soon yet another layer is added to finally create a striking fabric of sound.
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The music
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George Benjamin Duet for piano and orchestra12 min
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George Benjamin Dream of the Song for countertenor, female chorus and orchestra20 min
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Intermission25 min
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George Benjamin Sometime Voices for baritone, chorus and orchestra10 min
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George Benjamin Palimpsests21 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sir George Benjamin conductor
- Bejun Mehta countertenor
- Gyula Orendt baritone
- Stefan Lindgren piano
- Eric Ericsons Kammarkör
- Damkör ur Eric Ericsons Kammarkör
Thursday 21 November 2019 19.00
Ends approximately 20.45Price:
220-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 16.45
Price:
220-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraIn addition to music by Sibelius and Eliasson.
Thursday 16 January 2020 19.00
Beatrice Rana
Chefdirigent Sakari Oramo
Musiker ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraTchaikovsky's Piano Concerto
In addition to music by Sibelius and Eliasson.
Thursday 16 January 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/tchaikovsky-piano-concerto/Pianist Beatrice Rana is a young Italian musician who is now ascending the international music scene, much to the delight of audiences and critics. She debuted with an orchestra at the young age of nine and has already become a regular soloist of the major stages in Vienna and Berlin, Wigmore Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Lincoln Center in New York.
Now Rana and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will unite under the baton of Sakari Oramo in a programme which the orchestra will begin with a symphonic poem by Sibelius from 1892. This is a tale with no specific narrative, but with an atmosphere like “the expression of a state of mind,” as he himself once said. Next we will hear a symphony which ultimately proved to be Anders Eliasson’s last, a powerful piece whose three movements run into one another without pause: rolling and swaying, charged and lyrical, one after the next.
The melancholy atmosphere left behind by Eliasson’s symphony will shift after the intermission with Tchaikovsky’s famous Piano Concerto No. 1. With grand gestures, it contains a masterful piano section, colourful orchestral playing and captivating melodies with folkloric elements.
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The music
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Jean Sibelius En saga17 min
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Anders Eliasson Symphony No. 425 min
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Intermission25 min
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Pyotr Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 136 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo conductor
- Beatrice Rana piano
Thursday 16 January 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 21.00
Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraRichard Strauss’ tone poem Aus Italien.
Thursday 20 February 2020 19.00
Franz Welser-Möst
Musiker ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraFranz Welser-Möst conducts
Richard Strauss’ tone poem Aus Italien.
Thursday 20 February 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/franz-welser-möst-conducts/In 2018, conductor Franz Welser-Möst received the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Eric Ericson Honorary Chair, and beginning in autumn 2020 he will lead the orchestra for two weeks each season. The collaboration is based on the excellent relationship that arose between the orchestra and conductor following their first concerts together, and which has deepened throughout the years.
Richard Strauss composed several pieces that described phenomena or environments that were beyond music. He called them tone poems. Aus Italien is one of the first and he referred to it as a symphonic fantasy. On a trip to the countryside, he was utterly overcome, which is evidenced in the music as we take a tour of the rural scenery, visit Roman ruins, behold the ocean from the shore of Sorrento and are fascinated by Neapolitan public life.
Composer, clarinettist and conductor Jörg Widmann often uses elements of older classical music in his imaginative compositions. He is one of Germany’s most acclaimed names in music and was tasked with composing a large oratorio for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg in 2017. The Babylon Suite is a version for large orchestra with music from his opera Babylon, which was a huge success at the Bavarian State Opera in 2012.
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The music
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Jörg Widmann Babylon-Suite30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Strauss Aus Italien45 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Franz Welser-Möst conductor
Thursday 20 February 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 20.50
Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Orchestral performanceBeethoven meets Louise Farrenc.
Thursday 19 March 2020 19.00
Gävle Symfoniorkester
Jaime Martin
Genre: Orchestral performanceLvB250 – BEETHOVEN’S SECOND
Beethoven meets Louise Farrenc.
Thursday 19 March 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/lvb250--beethovens-second/French Louise Farrenc was a great admirer of Beethoven. The second of her three symphonies is directly connected to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2, like a musical sibling.
Beethoven charged his second symphony with surprising effects in a completely new way. Quite suddenly, the orchestra shifts at times from the most delicate of sounds to roaring bursts of forte. He was also the first ever to replace the traditional minuet with a scherzo, which suited Beethoven’s wild humour and dramatic mood.
Louise Farrenc was a prominent name in the nineteenth century French music scene. She was active as a composer but was also a brilliant concert pianist, and she spent thirty years as a professor at the historic conservatory in Paris. She herself had studied piano there under greats such as Ignaz Moscheles and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, and composition under Anton Reicha.
Louise Farrenc was not at all concerned with Parisian audiences’ primary interest in opera and parlour music. Instead, she derived her musical life force from Germany and Beethoven, which we can hear at this concert.
Konserthuset Stockholm’s major Beethoven Festival will feature a guest appearance at this concert by the historic Gävle Symphony Orchestra under its chief conductor, Jaime Martín.
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The music
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Louise Farrenc Symphony No. 233 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 313 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 232 min
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Participants
- Gävle Symphony Orchestra
- Jaime Martín conductor
Thursday 19 March 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 performanceBeethoven meets Sally Beamish.
Friday 27 March 2020 19.00
Martin Fröst
Svenska Kammarorkestern
Genre: Orchestral performanceLVB250 – BEETHOVEN’S EIGHTH
Beethoven meets Sally Beamish.
Friday 27 March 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/lvb250--beethovens-eighth/Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 is rich with contrasts and drama, yet suffused with light and serenity. Beethoven’s music is presented here beside British composer Sally Beamish, who has based several of her works on music by Beethoven. ”Beethoven has been an inspiration to me since my childhood, when I would play through my grandmother’s collection of Beethoven piano sonatas and concertos”, Sally Beamish explains.
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 is considered his most humorous symphony. This is music with charming melodies, rhythmic whims and surprising accents; even so, it is certainly not lightweight. We will also hear his significantly darker Coriolanus Overture, composed for a drama by Austrian writer and poet Heinrich Joseph von Collin.
British composer Sally Beamish (b. 1956) has a particularly special relationship to Beethoven. Her third piano concerto, City Stanzas, is based on Beethoven’s first piano concerto, and her string quartet, Opus California, builds on the theme from Beethoven’s string quartet Opus 18 No. 4. On this occasion we will hear her Hover, in which the violin plays a central role, and Whitescapes, composed in 2000 when she was Composer in Residence with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
Konserthuset Stockholm’s major Beethoven Festival will feature a guest appearance at this concert by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the baton of Martin Fröst, who will take over as chief conductor of the orchestra in autumn 2019.
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The music
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Sally Beamish Whitescape10 min
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Sally Beamish Hover
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Coriolan Overture8 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 826 min
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Participants
- Swedish Chamber Orchestra
- Martin Fröst conductor
Friday 27 March 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraPainterly music by Sibelius, Lundquist, Smyth and Debussy.
Thursday 16 April 2020 19.00
Karl-Johan Elf
Joshua Weilerstein
Musiker ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraDebussy's La mer
Painterly music by Sibelius, Lundquist, Smyth and Debussy.
Thursday 16 April 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/debussys-la-mer/Debussy’s La mer can be seen as a tribute to the sea, and it became one of his great successes. He composed it with beloved memories of the sea in mind; as an adult, he preferred to experience the sea through art and literature rather than physically.
Yes, music can evoke powerfully vivid imagery from within. In this programme, we will move across ocean and land. The Swan of Tuonela is inspired by the Finnish epic, the Kalevala, and it belongs to the four-part Lemminkäinen Suite, but the music was originally meant to be an overture to the opera which Sibelius never completed: The Building of the Boat. The Swan of Tuonela is a lyrical snapshot of the Tuonela river (river of death), where Lemminkäinen must shoot the black swan in order to win Pohjala’s daughter.
The versatile Torbjörn Iwan Lundquist wrote music that engaged powerfully with life’s most significant issues. For Lundquist, nature and our relationship to it was a starting point, something which inspired Landscape for tuba, string orchestra and piano.
English Dame Ethel Smyth was a composer, author and an important figure of the suffragette movement. She met composers such as Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. Over time, Ethel Smyth became a notable cultural personality. We will hear the picturesque On the Cliffs of Cornwall from her foremost opera, The Wreckers, composed in 1902–04 and inspired by the environments and history of smuggling around Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
The concert is conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, artistic director for the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and as the soloist in Landscape we will hear Karl-Johan Elf, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s tuba player since 2010.
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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 piano12 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 16 April 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 17.00
Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraKarina Canellakis conducts and James Ehnes is the soloist.
Thursday 14 May 2020 19.00
Karina Canellakis
James Ehnes
Musiker ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBartók's First Violin Concerto
Karina Canellakis conducts and James Ehnes is the soloist.
Thursday 14 May 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/bartóks-first-violin-concerto/The monumental orchestral piece Sinfonietta, with its characteristic brass fanfare, quickly became a success worldwide. It was dedicated to the Czechoslovak Army and Janácek said himself that it was intended to express “contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory.” The finale is a grand celebration of brass instruments, filled out with additional trumpets.
Janácek and Dvorák were good friends. They also shared a strong interest in folk music. Dvorák had enormous international successes in his lifetime and crowned his career with an appointment as a professor of composition in New York. When he returned home, he immersed himself once again in the folk music he had missed so much in America. Among other things, it inspired him to compose four grandiose symphonic poems inspired by Czech ballads. In The Golden Spinning Wheel, we can follow the magical action through Dvorák’s music.
Canadian violinist James Ehnes has been called “the Jascha Heifetz of our era.” With unerring musicality and electrifying technique, he is in constant demand as a soloist on the world’s concert stages. Here, we will get to hear him in Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 1, a musical portrait of the young violinist Stefi Geyer, with whom he was in love and to whom he wrote long, passionate letters.
An interest in folk music unites all three composers heard at this concert. Bartók travelled around the Hungarian countryside, and to Romania, Bulgaria, the rest of the Balkans and North Africa to record and catalogue
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The music
Approximate times -
Antonín Dvorák The Golden Spinning-Wheel26 min
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Intermission25 min
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Béla Bartók Violin Concerto No. 122 min
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Leos Janácek Sinfonietta23 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Karina Canellakis conductor
- James Ehnes violin
Thursday 14 May 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Other occasions
Ends approximately 17.00
Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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Genre: Orchestral performanceOrchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg guest performs in Stockholm.
Thursday 4 June 2020 19.00
Gustavo Gimeno
Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
Genre: Orchestral performanceKopatchinskaja plays Shostakovich
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg guest performs in Stockholm.
Thursday 4 June 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/kopatchinskaja-plays-shostakovich/For the first time ever, Konserthuset Stockholm will welcome the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. The conductor is Gustavo Gimeno, who is now in his fifth season as the orchestra’s chief conductor. The orchestra was founded in 1933 and its home stage is the Philharmonie Luxembourg. This highly international orchestra consists of musicians from over 20 countries.
The Knight of the Rose is one of Richard Strauss’ most popular operas. Marie Thérèse lives in her posh flat in Vienna and begins an affair with the young Octavian. Life is good. But when Octavian leaves Marie Thérèse for the younger Sofie, she realises her life is not what she thought it was. The overture is a shimmering acoustic reflection of the opera and Strauss has intentionally mimicked both the environment and temperament of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 was composed under the pressure of the severe cultural politics of the Soviet Union. Legendary violinist David Ojstrach said the first movement was about suffocating feelings. In the lively scherzo and concluding burlesque, we also detect a note of biting irony.
Ravel’s La Valse – a choreographed poem for orchestra – is a tribute to Johan Strauss the Younger, and the waltz as a genre. Even if La Valse is usually performed as a concert, it is not difficult to imagine the dancing couple in Ravel’s mind, portrayed here by the visiting Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, one of Europe’s foremost symphony orchestras.
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The music
Approximate times -
Dmitry Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 138 min
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier24 min
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Maurice Ravel La valse11 min
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Participants
- Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg
- Gustavo Gimeno conductor
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin
Thursday 4 June 2020 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Price:
130-430 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 planA short introduction to the forthcoming performance. The introduction takes place on the staircase towards the left hand stalls. The introduction is held in Swedish and is included in the ticket price.
Previous conserts in the series
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Thursday 19 September 2019 19.00Season opening
Thursday 19 September 2019 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo conductor
- Baiba Skride violin
- Stefan Forsberg host
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The music
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Victoria Borisova-Ollas A Portrait of a Lady by Swan Lake for violin and orchestra
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Intermission
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Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"
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Thursday 10 October 2019 19.00Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto
Thursday 10 October 2019 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Pablo Heras-Casado conductor
- Lauma Skride piano
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The music
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Robert Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale
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Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in a minor
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Encore:
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Robert Schumann Widmung, version for piano arr Franz Liszt
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Intermission
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Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2
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