Igor Levit. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
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Piano Solo
Four Sundays at 15.00 and one Sunday at 19.00
Pure magic with a lone pianist. This season, it's the brightest stars of the piano heavens who will be visiting: Igor Levit, Grigory Sokolov, Víkingur Ólafsson – the Concert Hall's Artist-in-Residence – and Leif Ove Andsnes. Additionally, a new and exciting acquaintance: French pianist Marie-Ange Nguci.
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Concerts included in the subscription
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Genre: Chamber musicYoung star pianist plays music by the great masters – including Schumann’s Kreisleriana.
Sunday 24 November 2024 15.00
Photo: Valentine Chauvin
Genre: Chamber musicPiano recital with Marie-Ange Nguci
Young star pianist plays music by the great masters – including Schumann’s Kreisleriana.
Sunday 24 November 2024 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:
250-435 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/2024/marie-ange-nguci-in-recital/20241124-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The French-Albanian pianist Marie-Ange Nguci has positioned herself as one of the most exciting young soloists on the world's major stages. The term 'unique' is worn out, but it's difficult to find better words to describe her. Nguci was admitted to the conservatory in Paris at the age of 13 and graduated three years later with top marks. Since then, she has studied both pedagogy and musical analysis in Paris, as well as conducting at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.
In recent years, she has made her debut on virtually all of the world's major stages: Musikverein in Vienna, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Tonhalle in Zurich, the Sydney Opera House, Philharmonie de Paris. The list could go on. With the concert together with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 (Thursday, November 21) and this recital, she makes her long-awaited debut at Konserthuset Stockholm.
We hear her in musically exciting and technically demanding pieces such as Scriabin's fifth piano sonata, which alternates between floating impressionism and explosive chords, Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit with its cascading soundscapes, and Prokofiev's intense sixth piano sonata.
Schumann's Kreisleriana, subtitled Fantasies for Pianoforte, oscillates between feverish nervousness and darkly veiled contemplations. He wrote them for his beloved wife Clara but nevertheless dedicated them to Frédéric Chopin, whom he considered to be a genius.
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The music
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Aleksandr Skrjabin Piano Sonata No. 511 min
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Robert Schumann Kreisleriana - Eight fantasies for piano36 min
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Intermission25 min
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Maurice Ravel Gaspard de la nuit for piano21 min
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Sergej Prokofjev Piano Sonata No. 624 min
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Participants
- Marie-Ange Nguci piano
Sunday 24 November 2024 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:
250-435 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 musicThe Norwegian world-renowned pianist performs Chopin, Grieg and more.
Sunday 26 January 2025 15.00
Photo: Helge Hansen
Genre: Chamber musicLeif Ove Andsnes
The Norwegian world-renowned pianist performs Chopin, Grieg and more.
Sunday 26 January 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:
250-435 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/leif-ove-andsnes/20250126-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The 24 preludes completed by Chopin during the notorious winter he spent on Mallorca with his lover George Sand, are some of the most demanding pieces a pianist can tackle. The range is enormous, from small and short simple pieces to brutal outbursts and virtuosic explosions. The famous Raindrop Prelude No. 15 is said to be inspired by the perpetual raining on the island.
Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes, one of the world's most acclaimed pianists, begins his recital with his compatriot Edvard Grieg's piano sonata, written three years before the famous piano concerto. And there are similarities: romantically flowing melodies and glimpses of Norwegian folk music. Grieg has also, like Bach and Shostakovich, embedded himself in the music: the first three notes are e, h, g – the initials of his name Edvard Hagerup Grieg.
Between Grieg and Chopin, Andsnes performs music by another compatriot, Geirr Tveitt (1908–81). He was a concert pianist himself, and his both powerful and sometimes meditative music is often inspired by folk music from Hardanger Valley.
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The music
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Edvard Grieg Piano Sonata in e minor20 min
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Geirr Tveitt Piano Sonata No. 29 ”Sonata Etere”34 min
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Intermission25 min
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Frédéric Chopin 24 Preludes for piano47 min
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Participants
- Leif Ove Andsnes piano
Sunday 26 January 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:
250-435 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 musicAcclaimed pianist in, among other works, Beethoven's Eroica Symphony for piano.
Sunday 27 April 2025 15.00
Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicIgor Levit
Acclaimed pianist in, among other works, Beethoven's Eroica Symphony for piano.
Sunday 27 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:
250-435 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/igor-levit/20250427-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Igor Levit is one of the most significant pianists of his generation (born in 1987) and regularly performs on all the major stages worldwide. He has appeared at Konserthuset Stockholm on several occasions, including during the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, when he performed all of Beethoven's piano sonatas in a series of live-streamed concerts (due to the pandemic).
Beethoven is also featured on the program for this concert: the third symphony – Eroica – in Franz Liszt's famous arrangement. The program as a whole consists of what is often referred to as the three great Bs of classical music history: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and begins with Bach's chromatic fantasy and fugue. It was acclaimed and regarded as a masterpiece even during Bach's lifetime, filled with advanced voice leading and lightning-fast runs.
Between Bach and Beethoven, Levit has placed Brahms' atmospheric and youthfully explosive ballades; he was only 21 years old when he wrote them. They are designed as short musical narratives. We know that the first one is based on an old Scottish ballad about Edward, who returns home with blood on his sword. The atmosphere is dark and ominous. However, no source material for the other three has been preserved.
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The music
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Johann Sebastian Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in d minor for keyboard13 min
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Johannes Brahms Four Ballads for piano op 1025 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 ”Eroica”, version for piano arr Franz Liszt51 min
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Participants
- Igor Levit piano
Sunday 27 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:
250-435 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 musicThe late sonatas by Beethoven featuring Konserthuset's Artist-in-Residence.
Sunday 11 May 2025 15.00
Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicVíkingur Ólafsson
The late sonatas by Beethoven featuring Konserthuset's Artist-in-Residence.
Sunday 11 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:
250-435 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/vikingur-olafsson/20250511-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson is currently one of the most acclaimed and sought-after pianists in the world. 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 takes on another of classical music's great B's this season – Beethoven. At this solo recital, we hear Beethoven's late piano sonatas.
Beethoven is never predictable, and in his final sonatas, he is reflective and melancholic, ecstatically passionate, humorous, and life-affirming; the music is like a whole life story. ”Beethoven's last three sonatas are a kind of testament”, says Víkingur Ólafsson.
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The music
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Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major20 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major19 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 in c minor27 min
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Participants
- Víkingur Ólafsson piano
Sunday 11 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:
250-435 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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Sunday 10 November 2024 19.00Grigory Sokolov
Sunday 10 November 2024 19.00
Place: The Main Hall
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Participants
- Grigory Sokolov piano
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The music
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William Byrd John come kiss me now for piano
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William Byrd The first pavan. The galliard to the first pavan for piano
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William Byrd Fantasia in G No. 3 for piano
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William Byrd Alman in g minor for piano
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William Byrd Pavan: The Earl of Salisbury. Galliard. Second galliard for piano
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William Byrd Callino casturame for piano
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Intermission
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in c minor for piano op 30 No. 1
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in b minor for piano op 30 No. 2
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in D flat major for piano op 30:3
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in c sharp minor for piano op 30 No. 4
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in G major for piano op 50:1
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in A flat major for piano op 50:2
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in c sharp minor for piano op 50:3
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Robert Schumann Forest Scenes for piano op 82
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Encore:
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in F major for piano op 68:3
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Henry Purcell Chaconne in g minor for keyboard ZT 680
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurka in a minor for piano op 68:2
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Frédéric Chopin Mazurak in c sharp minor for piano op 63:3
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Frédéric Chopin Prelude in c minor from 24 Preludes for piano
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Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude in b minor for piano BWV 855a arr Alexander Siloti
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