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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMusic by Franz Berwald and Johannes Brahms as Herbert Blomstedt returns to the orchestra and opens the 2024/25 season.
Wednesday 11 September 2024 19.00
Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraSeason Opening with Blomstedt
Music by Franz Berwald and Johannes Brahms as Herbert Blomstedt returns to the orchestra and opens the 2024/25 season.
Wednesday 11 September 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:
220-545 SEK including refreshments50% 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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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Season Opening with Blomstedt
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Season Opening with BlomstedtThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/season-opening-with-blomstedt/20240911-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Herbert Blomstedt is Sweden's internationally most recognized conductor – ever. Among the orchestras he has worked with are the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Orchestre de Paris, and notably the San Francisco Symphony, where Blomstedt was chief conductor for ten years. Blomstedt has also conducted the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra on well over 200 occasions, and on the occasion of his 90th birthday in 2017, Konserthuset named its grand conductor's dressing room after him.
As he makes another cherished visit to the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, it is with two favorites, Franz Berwald and Brahms. Memories from the Norwegian mountains came to him after a visit to Norway, and Berwald described the Nordic-sounding music as orchestral tonal painting. The restlessly bustling Sinfonie capricieuse is surrounded by mystique, for shortly after Berwald's death, the score disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The music was later reconstructed by Nils Castegren based on Berwald's remaining sketches.
Johannes Brahms's first symphony is undoubtedly a masterpiece. The symphony was crafted over many years, with Brahms at times almost paralyzed by the performance demands of his idol Beethoven. However, the end result is magnificent and shaped with precision, intense emotion, and great beauty.
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The music
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Franz Berwald Memory of the Norwegian Alps10 min
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Franz Berwald Symphony in D major "Sinfonie capricieuse"26 min
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Intermission30 min
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Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 145 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Herbert Blomstedt conductor
Wednesday 11 September 2024 19.00
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220-545 SEK including refreshments50% 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 OrchestraThe Icelandic pianist is this year's Artist-in-Residence and soloist in Brahms' magnificent first Piano Concerto. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra.
Wednesday 25 September 2024 19.00
Víkingur Ólafsson. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraVíkingur plays Brahms
The Icelandic pianist is this year's Artist-in-Residence and soloist in Brahms' magnificent first Piano Concerto. Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra.
Wednesday 25 September 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:
145-470 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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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Víkingur plays Brahms
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Víkingur plays BrahmsThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/vikingur-plays-brahms/20240925-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is one of the most acclaimed soloists in the classical music world. With his warm touch and passionate musicality, he attracts huge audiences. This season, he is the Artist-in-Residence at the Concert Hall.
Here, we get to meet him in Brahms's magnificent first piano concerto. He returns on two more occasions during the season, first in a recital where he plays Beethoven's last three piano sonatas, and then with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Brahms's second piano concerto. For this first visit, it's Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft who conducts.
The concert opens with Anders Hillborg's dazzlingly elegant Sound Atlas. The glass harmonica – an instrument where fingers are rubbed on tuned glass bells – plays a significant role in the piece, contributing to the music's crystalline character. Additionally, we hear music by the Welsh pioneer Grace Williams. Her Four Illustrations for the Legend of Rhiannon is based on ancient Welsh tales.
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The music
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Anders Hillborg Sound Atlas20 min
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Grace Williams Four Illustrations from the Legend of Rhiannon25 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 148 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Wednesday 25 September 2024 19.00
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145-470 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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Ends approximately 20.00
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145-470 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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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMoving and passionate music with winds and strings of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Wednesday 6 November 2024 19.00
Photo: Mats Lundqvist
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraMozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
Moving and passionate music with winds and strings of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.
Wednesday 6 November 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:
145-470 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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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and Tchaikovsky
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Mozart, Bartók and TchaikovskyThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/mozart-bartok-and-tchaikovsky/20241106-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The slow third movement in the Gran Partita is among the most beautiful and poignant pieces of music Mozart ever wrote. In Milos Forman's film Amadeus, the music is used in a key scene: when Salieri describes the music and realizes that Mozart is a genius. The masterpiece Gran Partita consists of seven movements that alternate between dance-like joy and contemplation. The music is composed for 12 wind instruments and double bass, and is performed by members of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
The other two works in the programme are performed by the orchestra's strings. Divertimento is Italian and means entertainment, diversion. And Béla Bartók's Divertimento for Strings certainly lives up to its name. The music occasionally blossoms into melodic pirouettes, and the lively rhythms are inspired by Bartók's interest in folk music.
Mozart was one of Tchaikovsky's great influences, which is understandable when you hear his Serenade. Like in Gran Partita, the music is passionate and sometimes melancholic, but above all overflowing with happiness. Music straight from the heart, as Tchaikovsky himself emphasized. Concertmaster Andrej Power leads the strings of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
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The music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade in B flat major "Gran Partita"47 min
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Intermission25 min
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Béla Bartók Divertimento for strings23 min
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Pjotr Tjajkovskij Serenade for strings30 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Andrej Power leader
Wednesday 6 November 2024 19.00
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145-470 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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Ends approximately 20.00
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145-470 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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Genre: Orchestral performanceGuest performance by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra with award-winning Swedish violinist Ava Bahari.
Friday 15 November 2024 19.00
James MacMillan. Photo: Philip Gatward
Brett Dean. Photo: Bettina Stoess
Ava Bahari. Photo: Sylvain Barre
Genre: Orchestral performanceInternational Composer Festival – Drama with three notes
Guest performance by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra with award-winning Swedish violinist Ava Bahari.
Friday 15 November 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:
145-470 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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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to International Composer Festival – Drama with three notes
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to International Composer Festival – Drama with three notesThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2024/international-composer-festival-drama-with-three-notes/20241115-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.This year's International Composer Festival at Konserthuset Stockholm is dedicated to the Scottish composer James MacMillan. His music combines raw emotional power with spiritual focus, rooted in his Catholic faith.
The concert begins with an overture: Eleven. Music with a sports theme, inspired by the local football teams in East Ayrshire, Scotland, where MacMillan grew up. Eleven refers to the number of players in a team, and much of the music is built around the number eleven. The piece starts with the sound of a referee's whistle, and familiar melodies from football chants also emerge.
At the heart of the expressive second violin concerto is a simple theme with just three notes played pizzicato at the beginning. As often in MacMillan's music, there are dance-like elements, but also melancholic passages that can suddenly burst open and let in light, like clearings in a dark forest. The soloist is the acclaimed Swedish violinist Ava Bahari.
In the short piece One for chamber orchestra, the atmosphere is idyllic with simple folk music-inspired melodies. Tryst has strong elements of Scottish folk music, but also of other music that has been important to him. "Tryst" can refer to a secret meeting place for lovers, but farmers in Scotland often use the word to describe a place where animals gather, a "trysting place". Here, MacMillan uses Tryst to describe a meeting place for music that is dear to him.
The Swedish Chamber Orchestra performs under the direction of Brett Dean, who himself was the subject of the International Composer Festival at Konserthuset in 2011, but is also internationally active as a conductor.
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The music
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James MacMillan Eleven5 min
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James MacMillan Violin Concerto No. 225 min
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Intermission25 min
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James MacMillan One3 min
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James MacMillan Tryst30 min
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Participants
- Swedish Chamber Orchestra
- Brett Dean conductor
- Ava Bahari violin
Friday 15 November 2024 19.00
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145-470 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 OrchestraProkofiev and Poulenc with conductor Tabita Berglund and the charismatic Jussen brothers.
Wednesday 15 January 2025 19.00
Photo: Yanan Li
Tabita Berglund. Photo: Nikolaj Lund
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraRomeo and Juliet
Prokofiev and Poulenc with conductor Tabita Berglund and the charismatic Jussen brothers.
Wednesday 15 January 2025 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:
145-470 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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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Romeo and Juliet
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Romeo and JulietThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/romeo-and-juliet/20250115-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Jussen brothers made a splash at Konserthuset in 2023 when they debuted with a program for four-handed piano. "Something quite extraordinary in front of a packed hall with an unusually young audience," wrote the reviewer for Dagens Nyheter, giving the concert the highest rating.
Now, the Jussen brothers return to the main stage, this time alongside the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Tabita Berglund in Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos. It’s music that carries Poulenc's signature: elegance, melodic warmth, and imagination.
The pair of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's drama are themselves the epitome of young love and intense, flaming passion with a tragic ending. With powerful chords and dramatic melodies, Prokofiev's well-known ballet music portrays the swirling emotions.
Between Poulenc and Prokofiev: Lili Boulanger's D'un soir triste, a sad evening, which from a quiet beginning grows strong and compelling. Outstanding and deeply personal music by the young and severely ill Lili, who died of Crohn's disease shortly after writing the music in 1918.
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The music
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Francis Poulenc Concerto for two pianos and orchestra19 min
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Intermission25 min
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Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste11 min
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Sergej Prokofjev From Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 1-343 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Tabita Berglund conductor
- Lucas & Arthur Jussen piano
Wednesday 15 January 2025 19.00
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145-470 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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145-470 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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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraThe vibrant Jess Gillam is the saxophone soloist, and Dalia Stasevska conducts.
Wednesday 19 February 2025 19.00
Jess Gillam
Dalia Stasevska. Photo: Veikko Kähkönen
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraWaltz and malambo
The vibrant Jess Gillam is the saxophone soloist, and Dalia Stasevska conducts.
Wednesday 19 February 2025 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:
145-470 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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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Waltz and malambo
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Waltz and malamboThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/waltz-and-malambo/20250219-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Maurice Ravel's imaginative and even humorous La valse is a tribute to the waltz and Johann Strauss II. Originally, the working title for this music was "Vienne", then he changed it from the French spelling to German, "Wien", before finally deciding that the fitting title would be La valse. Ravel and Argentine Alberto Ginastera frame the program, the latter with fiery dance in the form of Malambo.
Witold Lutosławski is one of the most significant composers of the 20th century. In his Fourth Symphony, which also became his last, lyrically tasteful sounds are combined with rhythmic elegance. He himself conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the world premiere on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Before the interval, we also hear two works for saxophone: Villa-Lobos's exuberant and warm Fantasia for Saxophone and Small Orchestra, and a newly written saxophone concerto by British composer Dani Howard, composed for Jess Gillam. The vibrant English saxophonist Jess Gillam made her debut at Konserthuset in February 2023, as one of the season's Rising Stars. She charts her own course and is a shining example of how a new generation of musicians revitalizes the genre.
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The music
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Alberto Ginastera Danza final (Malambo) from Four Dances from Estancia5 min
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Dani Howard Saxophone Concerto (The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras Joint Commission)18 min
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Heitor Villa-Lobos Fantasia for saxophone and chamber orchestra11 min
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Intermission25 min
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Witold Lutoslawski Symphony No. 422 min
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Maurice Ravel La valse12 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dalia Stasevska conductor
- Jess Gillam saxophone
Wednesday 19 February 2025 19.00
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145-470 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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Ends approximately 21.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Waltz and malambo
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Waltz and malamboPrice:
145-470 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 musicNina Stemme together with Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft in dramatic and masterful music.
Wednesday 12 March 2025 19.00
Nina Stemme. Photo: Yanan Li
Chefdirigent Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicMahler and Nielsen
Nina Stemme together with Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft in dramatic and masterful music.
Wednesday 12 March 2025 19.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mahler and Nielsen
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Menacing indeed. Mahler's heartbreaking Kindertotenlieder – Songs on the Death of Children – has tragic points of connection with Mahler's own life, and the composition would also come to seem like a premonition: a few years later, Mahler's eldest daughter Maria died. The poems by Friedrich Rückert that Mahler chose deal with the parents' grieving process and the slow reconciliation with a painful reality. The world-renowned Nina Stemme is the soloist in this poignant music.
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra's chief conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra in this program, which concludes with Carl Nielsen. Nielsen's Fourth Symphony is subtitled "Det uudslukkelige" (The Inextinguishable). It's dramatic music written in the midst of the First World War, famous in part for its duel between two timpanists.
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The music
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Freya Waley-Cohen Demon (The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestras joint commisson)10 min
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Gustav Mahler Kindertotenlieder26 min
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Intermission25 min
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Carl Nielsen Symphony No. 4 ’’The Inextinguishable’’37 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Nina Stemme soprano
Wednesday 12 March 2025 19.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mahler and Nielsen
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145-470 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.
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mahler and Nielsen
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Mahler and NielsenPrice:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Mahler and Nielsen
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Mahler and Nielsen
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Genre: Orchestral performanceOriginal and surprising musical encounters with the guest ensemble Musica Vitae.
Wednesday 26 March 2025 19.00
Musica Vitae. Photo: Lina Alriksson
Hugo Ticciati
Daniel Eklund
Genre: Orchestral performanceReverie and Rapture
Original and surprising musical encounters with the guest ensemble Musica Vitae.
Wednesday 26 March 2025 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:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Reverie and Rapture
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Reverie and RaptureThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/reverie-and-rapture/20250326-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Växjö-based Musica Vitae joins us accompanied by the British violinist and conductor Hugo Ticciati, who is active in Sweden. He founded the O/Modernt festival in 2011, known for its innovative and cross-genre programming, which also characterizes his concert with Musica Vitae.
The first part of the concert presents music infused with religious reverie. We hear the mysticism of Hildegard of Bingen in Vos flores rosarum and wordless violin song in Arvo Pärt's Fratres. Additionally, two meditations on the theme of the suffering mother: John Tavener's Mother of God, Here I Stand from The Veil of the Temple, and Lera Auerbach's Sogno di Stabat Mater (Dream of Stabat Mater).
After the interval, the mood shifts from spiritual contemplation to exalted rapture. In the enigmatically dancing Aksak and Ciphers, Swedish composer Albert Schnelzer has encoded both Brahms and family members in the score. This is followed by a musical dialogue between Philip Glass's baroque-inspired Symphony No. 3 and three arrangements of songs from the iconic grunge rock band Nirvana's album Nevermind. Bridging the gap between the baroque and contemporary rock music is Purcell’s Cold Song from his semi-opera The Fairy-Queen.
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The music
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Hildegard of Bingen Vos flores rosarum6 min
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Arvo Pärt Fratres for string orchestra and percussion12 min
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John Tavener Mother of God Here I Stand, version for string orchestra3 min
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Lera Auerbach Sogno di Stabat Mater for violin, viola, vibraphone and string orchestra12 min
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Intermission25 min
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Albert Schnelzer Aksak and Ciphers for string orchestra15 min
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Philip Glass Movement I from Symphony No. 35 min
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Kurt Cobain Something in the Way arr Johannes Marmén4 min
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Philip Glass Movement II from Symphony No. 36 min
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Kurt Cobain Lithium arr Johannes Marmén4 min
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Philip Glass Movement IV from Symphony No. 33 min
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Henry Purcell The Cold Song from King Arthur arr Johannes Marmén4 min
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Kurt Cobain/Dave Grohl/Krist Novoselic Smells Like Teen Spirit arr Klemens Bittmann5 min
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Participants
- Musica Vitae
- Hugo Ticciati conductor & violin soloist
- Daniel Eklund viola
Wednesday 26 March 2025 19.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Reverie and Rapture
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Reverie and RapturePrice:
145-470 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 OrchestraA symphonic milestone and a powerful piano concerto featuring a young rising star.
Wednesday 16 April 2025 19.00
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. Photo: John Davis
Dinis Sousa. Photo: David Rodrigues
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBeethoven and Price
A symphonic milestone and a powerful piano concerto featuring a young rising star.
Wednesday 16 April 2025 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:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Beethoven and Price
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Beethoven and PriceThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/beethoven-and-price/20250416-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In a completely new manner from before, Beethoven infused his second symphony with surprising effects. The orchestra swiftly switches between the faintest of whispers to thunderous outbursts in sudden turns. Here, wild humor and dramatic mood abound. Portuguese conductor Dinis Sousa leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in this symphonic milestone.
The concert appropriately commences with an overture: Dvorák's powerful and darkly evocative Othello – one of three concert overtures Dvorák wrote to musically portray various aspects of human existence.
The young British pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason (born 2003) makes her debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. She is at the beginning of a flourishing career and performs here with the romantically grandiose piano concerto by American composer Florence Price (1887–1953) – music never before heard in Konserthuset.
Jeneba Kanneh-Mason is the sister of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason – who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle – and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. Both have previously appeared at Konserthuset. They are three of seven extremely talented siblings often referred to as The Kanneh-Masons.
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The music
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Antonín Dvorák Othello, Overture15 min
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Florence Price Piano Concerto in One Movement18 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 232 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Dinis Sousa conductor
- Jeneba Kanneh-Mason piano
Wednesday 16 April 2025 19.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Beethoven and Price
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Beethoven and PricePrice:
145-470 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 OrchestraThe exceptional Víkingur Ólafsson is the soloist, and we also hear dancing music by Dukas and Richard Strauss.
Wednesday 14 May 2025 19.00
Vikingur Olafsson. Photo: Markus Jans
Stephane Deneve. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraBrahms' second piano concerto
The exceptional Víkingur Ólafsson is the soloist, and we also hear dancing music by Dukas and Richard Strauss.
Wednesday 14 May 2025 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:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concerto
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concertoThe link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/brahms-second-piano-concerto/20250514-1900/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Icelandic Víkingur Ólafsson is currently one of the world's most acclaimed and sought-after pianists. The New York Times coined him ”Iceland's Glenn Gould”, and his recordings are showered with five-star reviews. This season, he is the Artist-in-Residence at Konserthuset Stockholm.
Following the success of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which he performed to a full house here at Konserthuset last season, he now takes on another of the classical music world's great B's – Brahms. He presents Beethoven's late piano sonatas in a solo recital a few days before this concert, and now Brahms with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
Brahms was at the height of his fame and ironically referred to composing a "tiny piano concerto" in letters. It is, of course, quite the opposite, with music brimming with drama, passion, and sincerity. Unlike his first, Brahms's second piano concerto was a success right from its premiere.
French conductor Stéphane Denève also leads the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in American Stacy Garrop's beautiful Penelope Waits from 2013, inspired by Greek mythology, and mythological music with dance themes by Paul Dukas and Richard Strauss.
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The music
Approximate times -
Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 250 min
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Intermission25 min
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Stacy Garrop Penelope Waits from Mythology Symphony6 min
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Paul Dukas Fanfare pour précéder La Péri2 min
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Paul Dukas La Péri – Poème dansé21 min
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Richard Strauss Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome10 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Stéphane Denève conductor
- Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Wednesday 14 May 2025 19.00
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concerto
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145-470 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
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Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concerto
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concertoPrice:
145-470 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
Tickets go on sale 22 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concerto
Presale for subscribers from 20 August 11.00 to Brahms' second piano concerto
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