When Thomas Adès conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, a concert awaits where the large-scale visions of romanticism meet the glow of modernism and Dante's dramatic underworld. Franz Liszt's Les Préludes opens with philosophical images of the origin of the world, before Tomo Keller and Sascha Bota take the stage in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's brilliant Sinfonia concertante, one of the most beloved works for violin and viola. After the intermission, the atmosphere deepens in the 100th anniversary jubilee György Kurtág's concentrated and charged Movement for Viola and Orchestra , before Adès himself leads us into his own musical interpretation of Inferno – a suite that vibrates with sharp contours, humour, heat and brilliant imagination.

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Mozart, Liszt & Dante’s Inferno

Berwaldhallen

An evening of music framed by Elgar, the composer who has captured the essence of England in music more resonantly than any other. Elgar’s Sospiri is a love-sick Adagio while his Symphony No. 1 appears to carry the hopes of a troubled nation in music of deep longing and optimism. As the composer who has inherited Elgar’s mantle in England, Thomas Adès also conducts his own Dawn – an intense meditation on cycles of time, light and renewal and a masterpiece in miniature. In this concert, it forms the missing link before Kurtág’s Movement for Viola and Orchestra – a grippingly physical opening to a full concerto, the rest of which was scrapped.

Sascha Bota

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15 - 16 Oct, 2026

Mozart, Liszt & Dante’s Inferno · Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Oct 22, 2026

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Viola in Movement for Viola and Orchestra by Kurtág

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