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The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra opens its regular concert season under the baton of Ryan Bancroft. Welcome to this particularly festive concert. During intermission, the audience will be offered refreshments in the lovely foyers of Konserthuset.

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is one of the world’s most famous and beloved pieces for choir and orchestra. It is a magnificent tribute to nature, longing, wine and how wonderful it is to be alive, even if life can be quite painful at times. The evocative music of Carl Orff is based on simple melodies derived from Gregorian music, Bavarian folk music, Italian opera and Lutheran chorales.

While Orff was captivated by melodies, Franz Schreker competes with Claude Debussy and Richard Strauss for the title of most-refined composer of the early-twentieth century. His entire life, he was fascinated by sound and tones. Vorspiel zu einem Drama – Prelude to a drama – is a reworking of the introduction to his opera Die Gezeichneten, The Branded, an expressionist and powerful psychological drama.

Katarina Leyman’s Roller Coaster: Super 8 is inspired by Beethoven’s eighth symphony and childhood experiences on the roller coaster at Gothenburg’s Liseberg amusement park. But this music is not merely a simple illustration of a roller coaster; rather, as Katarina Leyman herself says, “It captures the exhilaration and perhaps the worry one may feel on a ride like that, an adventure at an amusement park or in life …”.

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It has been 50 years since the death of Bo Linde at just 37 years of age. With his Violin Concerto, which had its world premiere in 1958, he wanted to create music with power and magnitude for the great music stages. He succeeded in that goal, and this concerto was his breakthrough as a composer. The music is infused with a marvellously dreamy feel, combined with extroverted energy and dramatic strength. The solo part is masterful yet unassuming and humble. This music also contains features that are typical of Linde’s music: lyrical elegance and melodic lightness. The soloist in Linde’s concerto is the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s own Claudia Bonfiglioli, second violin section leader. She previously performed the solo in Amanda Maier-Röntgen’s rediscovered late-nineteenth century Violin Concerto.

Bränningar is a wonderful “depiction of the sea” written by one of the great, pioneering female composers, Helena Munktell (1852–1919). The piece has been rediscovered in recent years – and has become a speciality of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The world premiere of Bränningar was in 1898 in Monte Carlo.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is exquisitely imaginative. In notes and a manuscript, he likens it to a “complete resignation to fate”. The stealthy fate motif is first heard in the low register of the clarinets and then recurs in all four of the symphony’s movements.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by French Nathalie Stutzmann, famed for her parallel careers as an alto soloist and a conductor. She is a regularly returning guest with several of the most prominent international orchestras, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as chief conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in Norway.

It has been 50 years since the death of Bo Linde at just 37 years of age. With his Violin Concerto, which had its world premiere in 1958, he wanted to create music with power and magnitude for the great music stages. He succeeded in that goal, and this concerto was his breakthrough as a composer. 

The music is infused with a marvellously dreamy feel, combined with extroverted energy and dramatic strength. The solo part is masterful yet unassuming and humble. This music also contains features that are typical of Linde’s music: lyrical elegance and melodic lightness. The soloist in Linde’s concerto is the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s own Claudia Bonfiglioli, second violin section leader. She previously performed the solo in Amanda Maier-Röntgen’s rediscovered late-nineteenth century Violin Concerto.

In this programme we also hear Brahms’ fourth and final symphony, a monumental work in which – ever the diligent student – Brahms’ interest in the forms of times gone by is discernible. This is especially the case in the symphony’s final movement, which references both Johann Sebastian Bach and French Baroque opera.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by French Nathalie Stutzmann, famed for her parallel careers as an alto soloist and a conductor. She is a regularly returning guest with several of the most prominent international orchestras, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as chief conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in Norway.

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It has been 50 years since the death of Bo Linde at just 37 years of age. With his Violin Concerto, which had its world premiere in 1958, he wanted to create music with power and magnitude for the great music stages. He succeeded in that goal, and this concerto was his breakthrough as a composer. The music is infused with a marvellously dreamy feel, combined with extroverted energy and dramatic strength. The solo part is masterful yet unassuming and humble. This music also contains features that are typical of Linde’s music: lyrical elegance and melodic lightness. The soloist in Linde’s concerto is the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s own Claudia Bonfiglioli, second violin section leader. She previously performed the solo in Amanda Maier-Röntgen’s rediscovered late-nineteenth century Violin Concerto.

Bränningar is a wonderful “depiction of the sea” written by one of the great, pioneering female composers, Helena Munktell (1852–1919). The piece has been rediscovered in recent years – and has become a speciality of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The world premiere of Bränningar was in 1898 in Monte Carlo.

Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 is exquisitely imaginative. In notes and a manuscript, he likens it to a “complete resignation to fate”. The stealthy fate motif is first heard in the low register of the clarinets and then recurs in all four of the symphony’s movements.

The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra will be led by French Nathalie Stutzmann, famed for her parallel careers as an alto soloist and a conductor. She is a regularly returning guest with several of the most prominent international orchestras, including the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as chief conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland, and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra in Norway.