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DR Symfoniorkestret inviterer til nytårsgalla i Koncertsalen med bobler, kanapéer og et musikalsk festfyrværkeri fuld af dansende toner. Årets nytårsværtinde er Lise Baastrup fra tv-serien ’Orkestret’, og solister er sangerinden Emma Smith og akkordeon-virtuosen Bjarke Mogensen.

Smetana's great tone poem My Fatherland a musical introduction to Czech culture and history. It begins at Vyšehrad Castle, the old seat of the Bohemian kings, and continues along the great Vltava River that flows below the old castle. In the last movement, the magical mountain Blanik is depicted, which contains a sleeping army. When the need is greatest, the sleeping knights will wake up and save the Czech Republic from the enemy.

The legendary Herbert Blomstedt returns. As Honorary Conductor, his interpretations let the music speak from the heart, revealing deeply personal beauty. Now he's back with Beethoven's divinely dancing Symphony No. 7. After Blomstedt's last visit, one of our musicians said, "It's as if your heart has grown a little bigger.”

Musical storytelling joy is one of the characteristics of this evening's conductor, Finnish Pekka Kuusisto. In the evening's masterpiece Mother Goose Tales, the French composer Maurice Ravel gives a new and resonant form to fairy tales by the author Charles Perrault, where figures such as Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast appear in Ravel's unmistakably glittering orchestral attire.

As chief conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the conductor Eva Ollikainen has a close relationship with the Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Much of Thorvaldsdottir's music is inspired by Iceland's unique nature and the natural forces that bubble up to the surface there. Catamorphosis is a work torn between opposing forces: the natural and the unnatural, utopia and dystopia, disaster and hope.

Barbara Hannigan is a musician and artist who is not afraid to go her own way. The music she performs, both as conductor and singer – and not least when she does both at the same time – cuts across eras and genres. The evening's program begins thoughtfully, but ends with an exuberant cornucopia of musical energy.

Welcome to an evening in the Danish String Quartet's wide-ranging musical world, which is now being rewarded with yet another distinguished recognition in the form of the Léonie Sonning Music Prize 2025.

Here is the opportunity to experience the pure, symphonic sound of John Williams' soundtracks as you have never heard them before. The DR Symphony Orchestra and host Jakob Stegelmann invite you to an entire evening full of Williams' masterful soundscapes together with two strong soloists, the young violin star Anna Agafia Egholm and the singer Christine Nonbo, who is known and loved by the orchestra's film music fans all over the world. Dream back to the magic of childhood with the tunes from ET, experience heroic adventures with Indiana Jones, feel the excitement of a galaxy far, far away with music from Star Wars, fly to Dream Island with Captain Hook and be moved by the heartbreaking music from Schindler's List. The evening also offers tunes from, among others, Seven Years in Tibet, the sci-fi film AI Artificial Intelligence and the patriotic drama Born on the Fourth of July.

Without Jacob Gade and his "Tango Jalousie" from 1925, Danish music life would not be the same today.

Spies, agents and secret detectives have captivated cinemagoers all over the world for almost a century. Not least because of the hair-raising, overwhelming and captivating soundtracks by the film world's greatest composers.