Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

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Terra Magna is a performance in which narratives from some of the world’s natural environments portray connections between humankind and nature. This is the third performance within the framework of a series of productions by Alexandrov Klum in partnership with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Konserthuset Stockholm. 

Artist duo Alexandrov Klum consists of the internationally known photographer and filmmaker Mattias Alexandrov Klum and the artist Iris Alexandrov Klum. Together, they have created art projects with themes associated with environmental issues and stories from philosophy, science and mythology.

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Terra Magna is a performance in which narratives from some of the world’s natural environments portray connections between humankind and nature. This is the third performance within the framework of a series of productions by Alexandrov Klum in partnership with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Konserthuset Stockholm. 

Artist duo Alexandrov Klum consists of the internationally known photographer and filmmaker Mattias Alexandrov Klum and the artist Iris Alexandrov Klum. Together, they have created art projects with themes associated with environmental issues and stories from philosophy, science and mythology.

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Lars-Erik Larsson’s highly popular lyrical suite God in Disguise, with lyrics from Hjalmar Gullberg’s collection of poetry Kärlek i tjugonde seklet (Love in the Twentieth Century) had its world premiere in April 1940. The music was composed for radio and intended for a radio audience (both Larsson and Gullberg worked for Radio Sweden at the time). Gullberg was inspired by ancient mythology: the god Apollo was punished with having to wander in disguise among humankind on earth. Based on this notion, Gullberg commented on his contemporary era: he was powerfully affected by the persecution of Jews in Germany. Since its world premiere on the radio in the middle of the raging war, God in Disguise has become a Swedish concert classic – a piece that tells the story of shared humanity and which inspires hope as keenly today as it did then.

Igor Stravinsky created his ballet music for Pulcinella based on several pieces by the eighteenth-century Italian composer Pergolesi. This music, equal parts refined and elegant, was a huge success when the ballet had its world premiere in 1920. We are now far from the expressionistic Stravinsky who scandalized audiences with his Rite of Spring in 1913; this music dances forth with light footsteps instead. Two years later, Stravinsky created this concert suite in nine short movements. Like Pulcinella by Stravinsky, Serenade for Strings by Dag Wirén is said to be in the so-called neoclassical style of the twentieth century. The serenade is light and melodic, and bubbles with early summer atmosphere. This is Wirén’s most popular piece.

Conductor Tabita Berglund studied cello under Truls Mørk, and played with ensembles including the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra before switching to conducting at the Norwegian Academy of Music. Since 2015, her primary focus has been on conducting and in 2018 she was among the prizewinners of the Neeme Järvi Prize at Gstaad Conducting Academy. This is her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

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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.