Name: Tango Jalousie 100 years
Start: 2025-08-07T19:30:00
Location: DR Koncerthuset

Discover a world of musical wonders with DR Symfoniorkestret's 2025 season at the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen, Denmark. From a New Year's gala to a tribute to John Williams, this year's lineup promises a rich and diverse experience for all music lovers. Highlights include the passionate performances of Emma Smith and Bjarke Mogensen, the enchanting storytelling of Pekka Kuusisto, and the legendary interpretations of Herbert Blomstedt. Join us as we delve into these events, celebrating music that transcends time and culture.

A Symphony of Celebrations: DR Symfoniorkestret's Captivating 2025 Season

Join the DR Symphony Orchestra for a series of unforgettable events celebrating musical excellence at the DR Koncerthuset in Copenhagen. From the lively tones of Nytårsgalla to the evocative tributes to composers like John Williams and Beethoven, these events promise a diverse and enriching experience. Featuring renowned artists such as Emma Smith, Hilary Hahn, and the Jussen brothers, each concert highlights unique performances that bring revered compositions to life. Discover the vibrant world of orchestral music through a lineup that merges classic and contemporary works, all set against the backdrop of Denmark's cultural heartbeat.

A Symphony of Events: Celebrating Musical Excellence at DR Koncerthuset

Copenhagen's DR Koncerthuset is set to transform into a musical wonderland with a series of enthralling events curated by the DR Symfoniorkestret. From the whimsical Nytårsgalla to a centennial celebration of 'Tango Jalousie,' the venue promises an extraordinary lineup featuring international artists and timeless compositions. Expect the grandiose symphonies of Beethoven and Bruckner, and thrilling cinematic soundtracks, all under the baton of esteemed conductors. Whether you're a die-hard classical music aficionado or a curious newcomer, these events promise an unforgettable experience.

Copenhagen's Musical Extravaganza: A Year of Orchestral Marvels at DR Koncerthuset

Valdemar Wenzel Most

Rune Leicht Lund

Selma Teilmann

Otilia Zielke Johannsen

Julie Pamina Smit

Alexander Shirinyan Rohde

Danish National Symphony Orchestra

PULSAR Festinval 2026

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Nothing is as it seems in Bartók's only opera, Duke Bluebeard's Castle . The story is known from fairy tales by, among others, the Brothers Grimm, but in Bartók's work, the story of the murderous duke also becomes an inner drama. Because when the doors are opened and the secrets are revealed, we may see ourselves stepping onto the stage.

Saraste & Duke Bluebeard's Castle

DR Koncerthuset

Here is a rare opportunity to experience two of the DR Symphony Orchestra's own soloists as soloists: clarinetist Johnny Teyssier and violist Michael Grolid, who together with the orchestra play Bruch's beautiful and arch-romantic double concerto - full of Swedish melancholy with quotes from the folk melody Ack, Värmeland, du sköna.

Kochanovsky & Strauss

“I have written a very small and beautiful piano concerto” This is how Johannes Brahms described his second piano concerto for Clara Schumann. Brahms had a tendency to understate, because the “very small piano concerto” is in reality an enormous musical drama for piano and orchestra. It is music with an enormous range, from the fiery and thunderous to the intimate and lyrical, and everything in between.

Suisse Romande Orchestra

Like Mozart, the Spanish composer Juan Arriaga died far too early. Yet he left behind a large body of excellent music, including several vocal works. In the two vocal works for tonight's concert, the dramatic cantata Herminie and an aria from the opera Medée , Arriaga shows himself to be a surprisingly mature composer, with impressive dramatic sense. The soloist is the Norwegian soprano Berit Nordbakken, one of the Nordic countries' foremost interpreters of early music.

Mena & Mozart

"I would like to write you a violin concerto," wrote the composer Felix Mendelssohn to his friend, the star violinist Ferdinand David. "I have one in E minor in my head, and the beginning will not leave me alone." And the opening of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is among classical music's most iconic, stormy and passionate, with the solo violin in the role of the ultimate romantic hero. Here, it is the DR Symphony Orchestra's 1st concertmaster Soo-Jin Hong who is allowed to be the soloist with his own orchestra.

Eun Sun Kim & Dvorak's 8th.

The story of Pelléas and Melisande is one of literature's greatest love stories, along with Romeo and Juliet and Tristan and Isolde .

Luisi & Pelléas and Mélisande

The key of C minor represented something particularly dramatic in Beethoven, and this evening the key runs like a stormy, red thread through the program. In Symphony No. 5, fate itself knocks on the door, and the entire work seethes with energy and intensity, before the darkness is finally overcome and it all ends in bright triumph.

Manacorda, Andsnes & Beethoven

Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla Symphony is a work that has it all. Inspired by both Hindu scriptures and the medieval tale of Tristan and Isolde, the symphony is intoxicating and seductive, terrifying and beautiful in equal measure. The intensely colorful sound universe with a full percussion section, a virtuoso piano voice and the early electronic instrument ondes martenot is unparalleled in the history of music.

Esa-Pekka Salonen & Turangalîla

Richard Strauss could shock when he wanted to, and he did so to the fullest with the one-act Salome . In the opera, the young princess Salome asks for the head of John the Baptist on a silver platter, to music that is both seductive and disgusting. To get her way, she must dance the Dance of the Seven Veils for her stepfather, King Herod.

Hasan, Strauss & Mozart

With a broad repertoire and enormous musical energy, the Austrian Manfred Honeck has distinguished himself among the world's leading conductors. When he now returns to DR Koncerthuset, it is with both Viennese classical elegance and high romantic intensity – two of his specialties.

Honeck & Liszt

The program for the gala concert in the Concert Hall has been carefully chosen. In Felix Mendelssohn’s overture The Hebrides, the orchestra and Kirill Petrenko enter a Nordic-colored world marked by mystery. Then follows Robert Schumann's highly romantic Piano Concerto with the Russian star pianist Polina Osetinskaya as soloist.

Léonie Sonnings Musikpris 2026

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

Tango Jalousie 100 years

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