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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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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBeauty and struggle in dreamy orchestral music.
Thursday 1 October 2020 18.00
Rafael Payare
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMahler Five
Beauty and struggle in dreamy orchestral music.
Thursday 1 October 2020 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/2020/mahler-five/20201001-1800/Under the baton of Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra performs majestic music with otherworldly power and paradise-like beauty.
Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 is his best known and most played. The first movement is a funeral march “at a measured pace, strict, like a procession”, and the last is a triumphant finale with a gentle touch of irony. In between, Mahler has charged this piece with a grand and dancing scherzo and the beautiful adagietto, a spherical, nearly spiritual piece of music with the power to alter and elevate the listener’s state of mind.
The spiritual dimension of music is also important to Polar Music Prize-winning Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina. She describes Fairy Tale Poem as about a piece of chalk which, when picked up from the box, realises it is near a blackboard in a classroom. Its dreams of getting to create pictures of beautiful castles, magnificent gardens and oceans wither away. But soon, something invigorating happens to the chalk.
The music of Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir has been played worldwide since she won the Nordic Council Music Prize in 2012. In Metacosmos, she depicts the balance between beauty and chaos and the speculative concept of being sucked into a black hole – the unknown. The music is like a large, living body that expands and contracts, in which a myriad of events describe the power struggle of a sound. Metacosmos was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, which performed the world premiere of the piece in 2018 under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen.
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The music
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Sofia Gubaidulina Fairytale Poem10 min
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir Metacosmos14 min
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Intermission25 min
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 570 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Rafael Payare conductor
Thursday 1 October 2020 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 17.10
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: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Acclaimed violinist Janine Jansen returns.
Thursday 15 October 2020 18.00
Janine Jansen. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Sakari Oramo. Foto: Nadja Sjöström
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraStravinsky and Shostakovich
Acclaimed violinist Janine Jansen returns.
Thursday 15 October 2020 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/2020/stravinsky-and-shostakovich/20201015-1800/No other individual work has had the same crucial significance for the music of our time as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Its world premiere in 1913 in Paris is one of the most spectacular scandals in music history. The audience booed and screamed, Stravinsky was furious and left the venue. No, artistic innovation is not always received with open arms, but as everything matures with time, music that was initially met with resistance can evolve into a revered part of the repertoire – as with Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, a modern classic.
The music of Shostakovich also faced resistance, but primarily from Stalin and Russian cultural politicians. He only dared complete his Violin Concerto after Stalin’s death in 1953. The music alternates from the deepest pessimism to liberating burlesque and is also a major challenge for orchestra and soloist alike, in this case the multi-award-winning Janine Jansen.
The concert opens with Liguria, Andrea Tarrodi’s musical “walk” between five little towns along the west coast of Italy. “Riomaggiore, with its huge waves; Manarola, with its clock tower; Monterosso and the beach, where stressed-out swimmers tried to find somewhere to put up their colourful parasols, like a scene from a Fellini film; Vernazza, with its lookout tower and cliffs; and finally Corniglia, where the night was full of stars.”
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The music
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Andrea Tarrodi Liguria10 min
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Dmitry Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 138 min
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Intermission25 min
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Igor Stravinsky The Rite of Spring33 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo conductor
- Janine Jansen violin
Thursday 15 October 2020 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 OrchestraChristian Lindberg introduces and conducts the spectacular symphony.
Thursday 12 November 2020 18.00
Christian Lindberg. Photo: Mats Bäcker
Medlemmar ur Kungliga Filharmonikerna. Foto: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraPettersson Nine
Christian Lindberg introduces and conducts the spectacular symphony.
Thursday 12 November 2020 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.
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The link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2020/pettersson-nine/20201112-1800/With very few exceptions, Allan Pettersson composed symphonies – magnificent and heartfelt, charged with the pain and brightness of life. With enormous passion, conductor, global trombone soloist and composer Christian Lindberg has dedicated himself to the music of Allan Pettersson, and recorded all of the symphonies with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
Before intermission, the concert begins with Christian Lindberg using a piano and his trombone to discuss, play examples and give us an entry point into the deeply personal and monumental music of Allan Pettersson. After intermission, he will lead the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in the dramatically intense Ninth Symphony, an overwhelming symphonic journey from the sharp attacks of the introduction to the hopeful, elevated and beautiful chords of the conclusion.
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The music
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The concert begins with Christian Lindberg playing and talking about the music
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Intermission25 min
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Allan Pettersson Symphony No. 965 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Christian Lindberg conductor
Thursday 12 November 2020 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 planOther 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 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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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
Approximate times -
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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This concert is included in our series Torsdag Liten. You can secure your place by purchasing a subscription right now – with 25 per cent off the ticket price.
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The music
Approximate times -
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.
