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Ten Saturdays at 15.00
Majestic masterpieces. Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, two symphonies by Mahler – soprano Christina Nilsson is the vocal soloist in the Fourth Symphony – and a symphony by the bicentennial celebrant Bruckner. Here, you'll find no fewer than four concerts with acclaimed Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft, along with one featuring the masterful Franz Welser-Möst.
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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicJoshua Weilerstein conducts two magnificent symphonies, with Christina Nilsson as the soprano soloist.
Saturday 15 February 2025 15.00
Christina Nilsson. Photo: Emelie Kroon
Joshua Weilerstein
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Vocal musicHaas and Mahler
Joshua Weilerstein conducts two magnificent symphonies, with Christina Nilsson as the soprano soloist.
Saturday 15 February 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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 link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/haas-and-mahler/20250215-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Pavel Haas (1899–1944) and Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) emerged from similar roots in the Bohemia that is now Czechia: Haas from Brno and Mahler from Kaliste, 120 kilometers away. Both were Jewish, but Haas hailed from a Moravian-Jewish family and Mahler from an Austrian-Jewish one.
Pavel Haas was deported during World War II to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, later to be murdered in Auschwitz. His only symphony remained unfinished. It wasn't until half a century later that the remaining material was orchestrated, and the work premiered in 1998. Haas' creative output is characterized by Bohemian and Jewish influences, with elements of folk music and jazz. The symphony is a remarkable, staggering piece.
If darkness pervades Haas' symphony, Mahler's fourth symphony is brighter, lyrical, and playful. It's been dubbed "sky blue" at times, and the fourth movement features a soprano solo: "Wir geniessen die himmlischen Freuden," "We enjoy the heavenly pleasures."
The soloist is our latest soprano star in the international music scene, Christina Nilsson. Conducting this captivating program with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is the American conductor Joshua Weilerstein, noted for his championing of rare works.
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The music
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Pavel Haas Symphony arr Zdenek Zouhar21 min
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Intermission25 min
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 455 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Joshua Weilerstein conductor
- Christina Nilsson soprano
Saturday 15 February 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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.
Other 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:
145-470 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 performanceRising star Alva Holm is the soloist with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday 1 March 2025 15.00
Alva Holm. Photo: Julia-Severinsen
Ola Rudner. Photo: Nancy Horowitz
Norrköpings Symfoniorkester
Genre: Orchestral performanceMozart and Dvorák
Rising star Alva Holm is the soloist with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra.
Saturday 1 March 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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 link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/mozart-and-dvorak/20240301-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In Mozart's fifth and final violin concerto, there is a new richness in the musical language compared to the previous ones. Here, the music is majestic and powerful. The soloist is Alva Holm, who in 2022 won Sweden's premier music competition: Solistpriset, the Soloist Prize. The citation stated: "With musical conviction, technical brilliance, and total presence, Alva Holm captivates the audience from the first note."
The concert opens with a newly composed work by Tebogo Monnakgotla, one of Sweden's most acclaimed composers in her generation. In connection with the world premiere of her violin concerto in 2023, with Johan Dalene and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Dagens Nyheter's Camilla Lundberg wrote that "her colorful and elegant orchestral sounds captivate the listener" and gave the concert the highest rating.
To conclude Norrköping Symphony Orchestra's guest appearance under the baton of Ola Rudner, we hear Dvorák's life-affirming Eighth Symphony. It is nature-inspired music full of joy and exuberant energy. Swedish Ola Rudner began his career as a violinist and has been internationally active as both a violinist and conductor, notably in Austria.
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The music
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Tebogo Monnakgotla Spring Tide Sketches
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major30 min
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Intermission25 min
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Antonín Dvorák Symphony No. 837 min
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Participants
- Norrköping Symphony Orchestra
- Ola Rudner conductor
- Alva Holm violin
Saturday 1 March 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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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Genre: Chamber musicMusic by, among others, Brahms and Ravel as the top duo returns to Konserthuset.
Saturday 5 April 2025 15.00
Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicJansen and Kozhukhin
Music by, among others, Brahms and Ravel as the top duo returns to Konserthuset.
Saturday 5 April 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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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During their acclaimed visit in 2022, they performed, among other pieces, Brahms' third violin sonata. Now, we hear the first two: the "rain sonata," so named because its finale includes a quote from Brahms' own song "Regenlied," and the second, named "Thun" after the town in Switzerland where Brahms spent time when he composed it. There, he was inspired by the beautiful surroundings. "There are so many melodies here that one must be careful not to trample on any of them," he expressed it.
Before Ravel's concluding violin sonata with its famous blues movement, we hear Eugène Ysaÿe's sensually dark-toned Poème élégiaque, a milestone in the violin repertoire, and Olivier Messiaen's Thème et variations, which in character resembles his most performed work, Quartet for the End of Time.
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The music
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Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 1 in G major for violin and piano25 min
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Johannes Brahms Sonata No. 2 "Thun" for violin and piano20 min
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Intermission25 min
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Eugène Ysaÿe Poème élégiaque for violin and piano14 min
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Olivier Messiaen Thème et variations for violin and piano10 min
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Maurice Ravel Sonata in G major for violin and piano18 min
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Participants
- Janine Jansen violin
- Denis Kozhukhin piano
Saturday 5 April 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraFranz Welser-Möst in music by youthful Schubert and adventurous Strauss – with cowbells and wind machine.
Saturday 26 April 2025 15.00
Foto: Jan-Olav Wedin
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraAn Alpine Symphony
Franz Welser-Möst in music by youthful Schubert and adventurous Strauss – with cowbells and wind machine.
Saturday 26 April 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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 link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/an-alpine-symphony/20250426-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Franz Schubert was only around 17–18 years old when he wrote his second symphony. Yet it is an impressive work in the spirit of Beethoven. In other words, it is music full of contrasts and captivating melodies.
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by Franz Welser-Möst, who in 2018 was awarded the title Eric Ericson Honorary Chair. Since 2020, he regularly conducts the orchestra. It is a collaboration that follows the bond that developed between the orchestra and conductor during the initial concerts together, and has deepened over the years.
A composer who holds a special place in Welser-Möst's heart is Richard Strauss. Here, he leads the orchestra in An Alpine Symphony, which, despite the title, is not a traditional symphony but a tone poem that depicts a dramatic journey up and down an Alpine mountain, with changing weather and nature immersions. To portray the adventure, Strauss prescribes an enormous orchestra – including cowbells, wind and thunder machines, and an extra-large brass section.
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The music
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Franz Schubert Symphony No. 228 min
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie52 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Franz Welser-Möst conductor
Saturday 26 April 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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.
Other 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:
145-470 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 performanceChopin and Tchaikovsky under the baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali, with Jan Lisiecki as the piano soloist.
Saturday 17 May 2025 15.00
Jan Lisiecki. Photo: Christoph Köstlin
Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Photo: Marco Borggreve
Genre: Orchestral performanceGothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Chopin and Tchaikovsky under the baton of Santtu-Matias Rouvali, with Jan Lisiecki as the piano soloist.
Saturday 17 May 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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 link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/gothenburg-symphony-orchestra/20250517-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra visits Konserthuset under the baton of its Chief Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali. They are joined by the celebrated Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki, internationally acclaimed by both audiences and critics for his beautiful touch and boundless virtuosity.
Together, they present Frédéric Chopin's beloved First Piano Concerto. For Chopin, the piano always took centre stage. His nocturnes, études, mazurkas, polonaises, and impromptus have captivated listeners ever since he charmed audiences in the salons of Paris, or at the few concerts he gave during his all-too-short life. The orchestra plays a subordinate role even in the piano concerto – it is the soloist who shines with imaginative passages, beautiful bel canto melodies, and swirling dances.
Regarding what would become his final symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote in a letter to his brother Anatoly: "I am now completely absorbed in the new work and find it difficult to tear myself away from it. I believe it will be one of my best works. I must finish it as soon as possible." The symphony indeed became one of the great musical masterpieces, filled with profound darkness and exalted beauty.
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The music
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Frédéric Chopin Piano Concerto No. 136 min
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Intermission25 min
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Pjotr Tjajkovskij Symphony No. 6 ’’Pathétique’’46 min
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Participants
- Gothenburg Symphony
- Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor
- Jan Lisiecki piano
Saturday 17 May 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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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Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraIconic music by Richard Strauss and a thrilling piano concerto featuring Jean-Yves Thibaudet as the soloist. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra.
Saturday 7 June 2025 15.00
Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Photo: E.Caren
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft. Photo: Yanan Li
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic OrchestraAlso sprach Zarathustra
Iconic music by Richard Strauss and a thrilling piano concerto featuring Jean-Yves Thibaudet as the soloist. Chief conductor Ryan Bancroft leads the orchestra.
Saturday 7 June 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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 link has been copied https://www.konserthuset.se/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/also-sprach-zarathustra/20250607-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's music is familiar to many from the delightful Sabre Dance of the ballet Gayane, and the Adagio from the ballet Spartacus, from which the swooning theme music for the TV series The Onedin Line was borrowed. Khachaturian unquestionably wrote music that captivates listeners.
Unfortunately, his other works have rarely been performed at Konserthuset. Here, it is Jean-Yves Thibaudet who takes on the vibrant and powerful piano concerto, with a beautifully flowing and dreamlike middle movement where the strings are accompanied by a flexatone (imagine playing on a saw!). The distinguished French pianist Thibaudet has been a champion of Khachaturian's music for many years.
Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft then leads the orchestra in the classic Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This tone poem, with its powerful – not to mention iconic – opening, is inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel. It is well known, of course, that Strauss's music was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Stanley Kubrick actually also placed music from Khachaturian's ballet Gayane in the same film.
The concert opens with the world premiere of a newly written work by the young Swedish composer Zacharias Wolfe (born 1996). Here begins a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm: each season a newly written work by a master's student will be performed. Wolfe's orchestral work Held by Threads is the first.
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The music
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Zacharias Wolfe Held by Threads (World Premiere)10 min
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Aram Chatjaturjan Piano Concerto33 min
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Intermission25 min
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Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra38 min
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Jean-Yves Thibaudet piano
Saturday 7 June 2025 15.00
Ends approximately 17.00Save 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.
Other 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:
145-470 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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Previous conserts in the series
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Saturday 21 September 2024 15.00Mahler Symphony No. 3
Saturday 21 September 2024 15.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Beth Taylor alto
- Female Chorus from Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
- The Stockholm Boys’ Choir
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The music
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Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 3
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Saturday 26 October 2024 15.00Mendelssohn and Bruckner
Saturday 26 October 2024 15.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Augustin Hadelich violin
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The music
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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in e minor
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Encore:
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Ervin T Rouse Orange Blossom Special arr Augustin Hadelich
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Intermission
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Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 "Romantic"
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Saturday 16 November 2024 15.00International Composer Festival – Ghosts
Saturday 16 November 2024 15.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ryan Bancroft conductor
- Peter Moore trombone
- Susanne Rydén host
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The music
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James MacMillan The Death of Oscar
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James MacMillan Trombone Concerto
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Intermission
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Olivier Messiaen Les offrandes oubliées "Méditation symphonique"
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James MacMillan Concerto for Orchestra ”Ghosts” (The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Joint Commission)
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Saturday 21 December 2024 15.00Christmas Oratorio
Saturday 21 December 2024 15.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
- Luca Guglielmi conductor
- Maria Keohane soprano
- Katija Dragojevic alto
- Martin Vanberg tenor
- Anton Ljungqvist bass
- Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
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The music
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Johann Sebastian Bach From Christmas Oratorio
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