A world-renowned orchestra
Photo: Yanan Li
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is very much present in today’s music life.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in 1902 and Konserthuset Stockholm has been its home since 1926. The orchestra gives around 100 concerts annually and participates in the festivities associated with the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony.
Among guest conductors, we find at the core the orchestra’s Conductor Laureates Alan Gilbert and Sakari Oramo along with Franz Welser-Möst – all three working with the orchestra on a regular basis. Welser-Möst holds the title of Eric Ericson Honorary Chair with the orchestra. Further guest conductors include notable names such as Andris Nelsons, Herbert Blomstedt, Simone Young and Gianandrea Noseda.
Noted for its ambitious programming, composer festivals with contemporary music and pioneering work on a more gender balanced repertoire, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is very much present in today’s music life. It has made itself an international name through extensive touring. The German newspaper Die Welt once concluded that the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic is “one of the world’s best orchestras”.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s Chief Conductor Designate is the prize-winning American Ryan Bancroft, beginning his tenure with the 2023/24 season. Before him, Finnish Sakari Oramo was Chief Conductor from 2008 to 2021. He concluded his tenure with a grand Sibelius festival in May 2021 (still online on Konserthuset Play), and was subsequently named Conductor Laureate.
The orchestra has also received considerable attention for several recordings; among them Carl Nielsen’s symphonies with Sakari Oramo which were critically acclaimed internationally; the recordings of Symphonies Nos. 1 and 3 received a BBC Music Magazine Award 2016. The CD Sirens, with music by Anders Hillborg, won a 2016 Swedish Grammy Award, and the CD Distant Light, with the world-renowned American soprano Renée Fleming, attracted much attention.
Konserthuset Play is the orchestra’s online platform. Launched in 2013 it offers a large selection of filmed performances with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, available for free streaming anywhere in the world.
”The Konserthuset Play platform offers a digital showcase of the orchestra’s recent outings at home ... an invigorating reminder of what a truly world-class band this is ...” Flora Willson/The Guardian (20 April 2020)
Concerts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Wednesday 24 April 2024 19.00Isata Kanneh-Mason
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraDream and confession
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Wednesday 24 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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 planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/dream-and-confession/20240424-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Be prepared: this is a programme that traverses emotional extremes. It begins gently and melancholic – sorrow can be beautiful – and concludes with the emotional outbursts that arise when the thunderous blows of the orchestra's thirteen hammers resonate through history, to the bone and marrow. It’s music that shakes you to the core.
In between, entirely different music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. His first piano concerto is a musical fireworks display with dizzyingly fast runs across the entire range of the piano. At this concert, the rockets are ignited by the acclaimed British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was only seventeen when he wrote his wonderful overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yet it is considered one of his first mature masterpieces, and the young composer manages to capture the full range of emotions that Shakespeare presents in his universally human comedy.
Emotions, indeed. British composer Anna Clyne composed the opening piece Within Her Arms in 2009, in memory of her mother. The music for string ensemble resonates with a tenderness and warmth reminiscent of for instance the Renaissance composer John Dowland.
Closing The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was composed in 1990 by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, who is featured in the International Composer Festival this autumn. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft has testified to the transformative experience when he first heard the incredibly powerful work as a teenager.
Isobel Gowdie was burned at the stake during the Scottish witch trials in the 17th century. ”On behalf of the Scottish people, the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life”, writes MacMillan. In her memory, he composed an unforgettable and poignant ”requiem” for orchestra.
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The music
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Anna Clyne Within Her Arms for string ensemble12 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Piano Concerto No. 120 min
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Intermission25 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream12 min
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James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie26 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Wednesday 24 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Thursday 25 April 2024 19.00Isata Kanneh-Mason
Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraDream and confession
The extremes of emotion. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft conducts and Isata Kanneh-Mason is piano soloist.
Thursday 25 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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 planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/dream-and-confession/20240425-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Be prepared: this is a programme that traverses emotional extremes. It begins gently and melancholic – sorrow can be beautiful – and concludes with the emotional outbursts that arise when the thunderous blows of the orchestra's thirteen hammers resonate through history, to the bone and marrow. It’s music that shakes you to the core.
In between, entirely different music by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. His first piano concerto is a musical fireworks display with dizzyingly fast runs across the entire range of the piano. At this concert, the rockets are ignited by the acclaimed British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was only seventeen when he wrote his wonderful overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Yet it is considered one of his first mature masterpieces, and the young composer manages to capture the full range of emotions that Shakespeare presents in his universally human comedy.
Emotions, indeed. British composer Anna Clyne composed the opening piece Within Her Arms in 2009, in memory of her mother. The music for string ensemble resonates with a tenderness and warmth reminiscent of for instance the Renaissance composer John Dowland.
Closing The Confession of Isobel Gowdie was composed in 1990 by the Scottish composer James MacMillan, who is featured in the International Composer Festival this autumn. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft has testified to the transformative experience when he first heard the incredibly powerful work as a teenager.
Isobel Gowdie was burned at the stake during the Scottish witch trials in the 17th century. ”On behalf of the Scottish people, the work craves absolution and offers Isobel Gowdie the mercy and humanity that was denied her in the last days of her life”, writes MacMillan. In her memory, he composed an unforgettable and poignant ”requiem” for orchestra.
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The music
Approximate times -
Anna Clyne Within Her Arms for string ensemble12 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Piano Concerto No. 120 min
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Intermission25 min
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream12 min
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James MacMillan The Confession of Isobel Gowdie26 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Thursday 25 April 2024 19.00
Ends approximately 21.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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
Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
145-450 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
Overflowing melodies and emotions.
Wednesday 8 May 2024 18.00Fredrik Bursted. Photo: Nikolaj Lund
Members from the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Yanan Li
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraRachmaninoff Second Symphony
Overflowing melodies and emotions.
Wednesday 8 May 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 19.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
130-370 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 planThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/rachmaninoff-second-symphony/20240508-1800/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Serge Rachmaninoff was strengthened by the success of Piano Concerto No. 2, which led him to attempt the symphonic form yet again – thank goodness. The brilliant Symphony No. 2 is deeply emotional, with a warm, overflowing flood of melodies.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led here by Fredrik Burstedt, who is also active as a violinist and first concertmaster with the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra. He studied conducting with the legendary Jorma Panula, among others, and has conducted many Swedish orchestras as well as numerous opera productions, including at the Royal Swedish Opera and Vattnäs Konsertlada.
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The music
Approximate times -
Serge Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 260 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Fredrik Burstedt conductor
Wednesday 8 May 2024 18.00
Ends approximately 19.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Price:
130-370 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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