Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

The concert is shown on Konserthuset Play

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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 Edward Elgar’s Sea Pictures, a suite of five songs to texts associated with water, by five different writers. They takes of from a slumbering sea to the haven of Capri, continuing with an extatic morning sabbath at sea, down to the corals and finally joining a swimmer in stormy waters. 

Joseph Haydn composed his twelve last symphonies in England, the so-called London Symphonies. Among these, we find the Symphony No 103 from 1795. It has been nicknamed The Drumroll, and you can understand why ... 

The concert will begins with Victoria Borisova-Ollas’ Open Ground, a work inspired by Salman Rushdie’s novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet. How stable is the ground beneath our feet, really? Who would have ever dared to imagine what it feels like when it suddenly starts to rock? The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra recently launched a new cd (BIS) with the orchestral music of Borisova-Ollas.

The concert is shown on Konserthuset Play

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Elfrida Andrée, conductorc, composer and organist (in 1867 the first woman in Europe to become a cathedral organist) was influenced by the music of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert, and composed chamber music and many excellent symphonies. Here, Ulf Norberg, organist of Konserthuset Stockholm, has a leading role in the Organ Symphony No 2, written for organ and brass.

Stenhammar’s Serenade is one of the most refined and exquisite pieces ever composed by a Swedish composer. He wrote it while visiting Florence in 1907. In one of his letters, he says, “I want to write beautifully and tenderly about the south, in a way that only a resident of the north can do.” And indeed he succeeded, for the Serenade is a masterpiece: sensual southern European music presented in Nordic light – playful, lyrical and beautiful.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Tobias Ringborgsom, who is not only an internationally acclaimed conductor, but also a violinist and an active advocate for Swedish music. He conducted one of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s live-streamed concerts from Konserthuset Stockholm on short notice in the spring. 

A sing-along concert with number games and wonderful music. With help from animated movies and music, we will take a journey of discovery into the world of numbers – which is filled with curiosities. Just think of what happens when you turn the number 9 upside down!

We will hear well-known music such as Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, The Silly Song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and songs in both to 2- and 3-time. And composer Molly Kien has written a new piece about the number 8.

Well-known Ayla Kabaca will lead the fun and the sing-along together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

A sing-along concert with number games and wonderful music. With help from animated movies and music, we will take a journey of discovery into the world of numbers – which is filled with curiosities. Just think of what happens when you turn the number 9 upside down!

We will hear well-known music such as Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, The Silly Song from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and songs in both to 2- and 3-time. And composer Molly Kien has written a new piece about the number 8.

Well-known Ayla Kabaca will lead the fun and the sing-along together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.