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While the number of concerts may be small, the experiences awaiting you are tremendous! Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 is cinematic and astounding, as is Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring; Richard Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra is an iconic masterpiece and Allan Pettersson’s Symphony No. 9 overflows with emotion. And this is just a selection of what you will hear.
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Upcoming concerts in the series
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe music of a beloved Swedish composer. Please note: programme changes have been made. This concert is also livestreamed and you will be able to watch it here.
Thursday 12 November 2020 18.00
Christian Lindberg. Photo: Mats Bäcker
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraLivestream: A portrait of Lars-Erik Larsson
The music of a beloved Swedish composer. Please note: programme changes have been made. This concert is also livestreamed and you will be able to watch it here.
Thursday 12 November 2020 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00The 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/livestream-a-portrait-of-lars-erik-larsson/20201112-1800/Lars-Erik Larsson (1908–86) is one of Sweden’s most beloved composers, and this thanks mainly to two works that are performed often: God in Disguise and Pastoral Suite. This concert portrait broadens and deepens our knowledge of Larsson’s output by presenting music that is more rarely performed.
Lars-Erik Larsson was born in the southern parts of Sweden (the Skåne region) and studied at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm during the 1920s. Thereafter he also studied privatly for among others Alban Berg in Vienna. The multi-talented Larsson was in parallell active as music critic and conductor – above all engaged as conductor/bandmaster for the Swedish Radio from the mid 1930s to mid 1950s. He also composed film music and some light music. During the years 1947–59 he held the position as the first ever professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Lars-Erik Larsson’s music may be described as neo romantic, however with original harmonic twists and a unique sense of melody and frasing that undoubtedly are Larsson’s own – and easily recognizable. A Winter’s Tale from 1938, following the concert’s opening ouverture, is a beautiful exemple of these traits.
Conductor and trombonist Christian Lindberg leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and takes on the solo part in Concertino for trombone and strings – an exemple from the series of no less than twelve works that Larsson in the 1950s composed for different solo instruments and strings.
To conclude we hear Symphony No 3 from 1945, a piece that in fact was first performed by this orchestra and conducted by Tor Mann on February 10 in 1946. Larsson was always very self-critical when it came to his three symphonies, leading him for instance to withdray the second symphony. Today it is hard to understand his anxiety related to the symphonic tradition. Even though hints of great predecessors like Sibelius and Nielsen might be heard, what we hear is first and foremost the unmistakable genious of Larsson himself.
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The concert will take place with an audience of maximum 300 people in the hall. The costumised seating plan allows only single seats.
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The music
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Lars-Erik Larsson Concert Overture No. 19 min
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Lars-Erik Larsson The Winter’s Tale "Four Vignettes to Shakespeare’s Play"10 min
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Lars-Erik Larsson Concertino for trombone and strings11 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lars-Erik Larsson Symphony No. 336 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Christian Lindberg conductor & trombone soloist
Thursday 12 November 2020 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00The 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 musicKatarina Karnéus sings Elgar and Barber.
Thursday 28 January 2021 18.00
Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Fotografi Felix Broede
Katarina Karneus
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundkvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicSea Pictures
Katarina Karnéus sings Elgar and Barber.
Thursday 28 January 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Price:
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/2021/sea-pictures/20210128-1900/Katarina Karnéus appears frequently on the greatest opera and concert stages worldwide. Since 2012, she has worked with the Göteborg Opera, where she has performed numerous acclaimed roles, including Brangäne in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde and Orpheus in Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice. She has performed at Konserthuset Stockholm several times before, most recently in Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung in the Double Drama programme staged in January 2019.
Now Karnéus returns with American composer Samuel Barber’s temperamental Andromache’s Farewell from 1962, with lyrics by Eurupides. With the tangibly operatic feel of Wagner and Richard Strauss, the music truly captures the spirit of the lyrics. Englishman Edward Elgar composed Sea Pictures in 1899 after moving to Herefordshire, which he truly loved – far from the hustle and bustle of London. He was inspired by the rolling hills outside the window and the beautiful waves of the Atlantic.
Bela Bartók’s pantomime ballet, the Miraculous Mandarin Suite, is a story unlike any other, one of crime and passion. A few years after its premiere in 1924, Bartók compiled this suite, in which we hear how love, suffering, eroticism and death are all interrelated.
The concert will begin with Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ imaginative Wings of the Wind, inspired by psalm 104 from the Book of Psalms: He makes the clouds his chariot, and rides on the wings of the wind.
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Ticket information
The concert will take place with an audience of maximum 300 people in the hall. The costumised seating plan allows only single seats.
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The music
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Victoria Borisova-Ollas Wings of the Wind11 min
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Edward Elgar Sea Pictures24 min
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Intermission25 min
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Samuel Barber Andromache’s Farewell for mezzo soprano and orchestra12 min
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Béla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin Suite20 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor
- Katarina Karnéus mezzo-soprano
Thursday 28 January 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Price:
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 OrchestraIconic music by Richard Strauss – and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
Thursday 25 February 2021 18.00
Eric Lu
Thomas Dausgaard. Foto: Thomas Grøndahl
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundkvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraAlso sprach Zarathustra
Iconic music by Richard Strauss – and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
Thursday 25 February 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Price:
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/2021/also-sprach-zarathustra/20210225-1800/Richard Strauss’ magnificent tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra is based on Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. The introduction is among the best-known pieces of classical music and in this sense, it can only be compared with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. It was used by director Stanley Kubrick in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
After arriving in Vienna in 1792, Beethoven made his breakthrough – as a pianist. Audiences were amazed by his technique and improvisational capacity. The piano was his experimental workshop, and he tested and presented ideas not just in works for piano, but in all of his genres. The five phenomenal piano concertos are central among his works for piano. In the masterful Piano Concerto No. 4, his efforts to foster a new kind of interaction between the piano and orchestra are evident. The soloist at this performance is the young Chinese-American pianist Eric Lu, who won the prestigious piano competition in Leeds in 2018 and made his debut the following year at one of the celebrated Proms concerts. This is his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
The concert will begin with Dorothy Howell’s colourful, shimmering symphonic poem about Lamia, who was Zeus’s lover in Greek mythology.
The conductor will be Danish Thomas Dausgaard, chief conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra since 2016 and of the Seattle Symphony since last season. He was also chief conductor of the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in Örebro for many years.
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The music
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Dorothy Howell Lamia12 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 434 min
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra38 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Thomas Dausgaard conductor
- Eric Lu piano
Thursday 25 February 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Price:
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 OrchestraColourful ballet music meets a masterful piano concerto.
Thursday 8 April 2021 18.00
Dima Slobodeniouk
Martin Helmchen. Foto: Bertazzi
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraStravinsky’s Firebird
Colourful ballet music meets a masterful piano concerto.
Thursday 8 April 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.10Price:
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/2021/stravinskys-firebird/20210408-1800/The Firebird is the first of the three major ballets Igor Stravinsky composed for Diaghilev’s Russian Ballet in Paris. The story is based on a Russian folktale and when it first premiered in 1910 at the Paris Opera, it was an enormous success. Stravinsky uses a huge orchestra with two harps, a celesta and abundant wind instruments to illustrate the story of Prince Ivan, who is lost in an enchanted garden when he meets the Firebird.
Béla Bartók is also among the great modern classical composers. His skill as a pianist was unequalled and he composed his first piano concerto with himself as the intended soloist. The solo is challenging, with quick leaps, dense chords and runs at a breakneck pace. In the truest meaning of the word: this is awe-inspiring music with quick changes and rhythmic attacks, and the piano occasionally serves as a percussion instrument.
The concert will begin with Swedish composer Malin Bång’s moving Splinters of Ebullient Rebellion. The heavy breathing of the introduction transitions into broadly sweeping, muffled outbursts.
“To me, the orchestra is a dynamic platform for exploring the relationship between the individual and the collective,” says Malin Bång of her piece.
Russian-Finnish conductor Dima Slobodeniouk will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. He is chief conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the orchestra’s annual Sibelius Festival. He guest-performs regularly with many of the world’s most prominent orchestras. His debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was in 2017, with music by Lotta Wennäkoski, Shostakovich and Sibelius.
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The music
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Malin Bång splinters of ebullient rebellion21 min
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Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No. 125 min
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Intermission25 min
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Igor Stravinsky The Firebird, Ballet45 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dima Slobodeniouk conductor
- Martin Helmchen piano
Thursday 8 April 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.10Price:
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 21.10
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 performanceMasterful clarinet concerto by Benjamin Staern.
Friday 16 April 2021 18.00
Benjamin Staern. Foto: Adam Haglund
Emil Eliasson. Foto: Nadja Sjöström
Karin Dornbusch
Gävle Symfoniorkester. Foto: Nikolaj Lund
Genre: Orchestral performanceComposer Weekend – Music of the Souls
Masterful clarinet concerto by Benjamin Staern.
Friday 16 April 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Price:
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/2021/composer-weekend--music-of-the-souls/20210416-1800/Benjamin Staern is one of Sweden’s most played and popular composers. His music is deeply personal and characterised by a powerfully emotional sound. For Benjamin Staern, colour is tangible: he is a synesthete – sounds and tones appear to him as specific colours, a trait which is highly present in his compositions.
His oeuvre includes everything from orchestral and chamber music to solo pieces and electroacoustic music. Many orchestras and ensembles all over Europe and Asia have performed his music. He has also received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Christ Johnson Prize in 2012, Sweden’s most prestigious award for composers.
Benjamin Staern says that Wave Movements gradually evolves as the piece progresses. “It’s like watching a wave wash over you, an unequalled drama, and embodying the reflectiveness of a mirror.” The music is composed in three parts. First is a rhythmic and evocative challenge, which is followed by a melodic, mysterious middle section. It is all summarised in a concluding chorale that merges previous elements.
The clarinet concerto Worried Souls was composed for Karin Dornbusch and received the Christ Johnson Prize in 2012, Sweden’s most prestigious award for composers, presented by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. From the statement: “With astounding capability, he handles grand musical forms with originality and a personal approach, in a piece infused with richly varied orchestration and dazzling virtuosity in the solo section.”
The soloist at this concert also performed the solo at the world premiere of the piece: internationally active Swedish clarinettist Karin Dornbusch. She has given many acclaimed concerts and her recordings of clarinet concertos by Nielsen, Kaipainen and Fernström earned her a Grammis Award nomination in the category of Classical Soloist of the Year.
Benjamin Staern’s first symphony, Polar Vortex, was commissioned by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 2012 as a gift to the symphony orchestras of Norrköping, Helsingborg and Gävle in celebration of their centennials. This dramatically tinged music is a message to the world to recognise climate change. The name Polar Vortex refers to a weather phenomenon in which powerful, swirling winds at the Earth’s poles cause extreme cold.
We will welcome the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, led by Emil Eliasson, one of Sweden’s most celebrated young conductors.
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The music
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Benjamin Staern Wave Movements11 min
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Benjamin Staern Worried Souls, Concerto for clarinet and symphony orchestra30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Benjamin Staern The Threat of War11 min
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Benjamin Staern Polar Vortex – Symphony No. 127 min
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Participants
- Gävle Symphony Orchestra
- Emil Eliasson conductor
- Karin Dornbusch clarinet
Friday 16 April 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 20.00Price:
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 OrchestraInternationally famed violinist Ray Chen in the masterful Symphonie espagnole.
Thursday 6 May 2021 18.00
Ray Chen. Photo: John Mac
Ryan Bancroft
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraLalo and Prokofiev
Internationally famed violinist Ray Chen in the masterful Symphonie espagnole.
Thursday 6 May 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 19.55Price:
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/2021/lalo-and-prokofiev/20210506-1800/Ray Chen is one of the most coveted violin soloists of our time, drawing audiences far beyond the usual classical music listeners. He has hundreds of thousands of social media followers and his expressive style is praised by audiences and critics alike. Ray Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan; he grew up in Australia, and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in the US. We will hear him in Frenchman Édouard Lalo’s masterful violin concerto, called the Symphonie espagnole, for the Spanish-influenced melodies that characterise the piece.
After intermission, Ryan Bancroft – winner of the Malko Competition for Young Conductors in 2018 – will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, composed in the summer of 1944. The war ravaged Europe, but Prokofiev felt safe in the house in Ivanovo just east of Moscow, which the Russian state had made available for musicians and composers. He could work in peace and quiet there, with no sense of the ongoing war, and he socialised with other artists and exchanged ideas. He has said that this symphony is a tribute to the “generosity, strength and spiritual purity of the free and happy individual.”
This music also contains streaks of darkness. The clear-cut yet playful and rapid movements have a strong counterweight in the slow third movement, where underlying anxiety and fear scratch at the surface.
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The music
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Edouard Lalo Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra31 min
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Intermission25 min
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Sergey Prokofiev Symphony No. 545 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Ray Chen violin
Thursday 6 May 2021 18.00
Ends approximately 19.55Price:
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 16.55
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.
Previous conserts in the series
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Thursday 1 October 2020 19.00Livestream: Prokofiev’s first violin concerto
Thursday 1 October 2020 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rafael Payare conductor
- Emmanuel Tjeknavorian violin
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The music
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Sergey Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1
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Antonín Dvorák Symphony No. 8
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Thursday 15 October 2020 19.00Livestream: Mendelssohn & Schumann
Thursday 15 October 2020 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo conductor
- Janine Jansen violin
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The music
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in e minor
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Robert Schumann Symphony No. 2
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