Name: Symphonic tour
Start: 2026-04-23T09:00:00
Location: Aalborg Central Waterfront

The Aalborg Symphony Orchestra invites you to an extraordinary musical season in 2025-26. From the presentation of upcoming highlights and captivating stories behind works and composers, to the interactive tales of young Tone, and the spectacular Sankthans concert, this season promises to be a celebration of music in all its forms. Featured performances include an opera gala, a delightful BabySymphony for the youngest audience, and breathtaking renditions of Brahms. Join us at the Aalborg Central Waterfront for an unforgettable symphonic experience.

A Symphony of Seasons: Aalborg's Musical Journey 2025-26

Join the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra for an extraordinary series of events designed to captivate audiences of all ages. From the tender melodies of BabySymphony to the grand tales of Don Juan, this season promises an eclectic mix of music, emotion, and creativity. Experience the jazz-infused love songs alongside timeless orchestral pieces and innovative concerts that explore the universe. With performances spanning from classical to contemporary, the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra invites you to an unforgettable journey through sound.

A Symphony of Experiences: Aalborg Symphony Orchestra's 2025-2026 Season

The Aalborg Symphony Orchestra is offering an exciting lineup of events featuring classical music experiences for all ages. From introducing babies to orchestral sounds in BabySymphony to captivating adults with the Great Love Songs of Jazz, this series promises to enchant audiences with its diversity and artistry. Join in for an exploration of music that traverses jazz, symphony, and opera, with performances that highlight the orchestra's dedication to bringing music to life in both intimate and grand settings.

Aalborg Symphony Orchestra: A Celebration of Music Across Generations

Aalborg Symfoniorkester

Aalborg Symphony Orchestra has something for every age group. BabySymphony is for the very youngest, and here they can become acquainted with classical music in a relaxed manner with room to listen, play and touch.

BabySymphony

Aalborg Central Waterfront

Have you ever wondered what's hidden behind the scenes at the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra's impressive home arena in Musikkens Hus?

Symphonic tour

It is the orchestra's evening – partly because there is no soloist, and partly because a favorite among many orchestral musicians is on the program, Brahms's 2nd Symphony. It is very melodious – more light and airy than most of his other symphonies. Some have described it as his pastoral symphony, because it contains several nature-inspired themes and a generally peaceful atmosphere.

Brahms's 2nd Symphony

The concert opens and closes with two groundbreaking youth works by Richard Strauss, and between these there will be room for beautiful ballet music by Tchaikovsky and a world premiere of a brand new trumpet concerto by British Stephen McNeff with the orchestra's own Jonathan Clarke in the soloist role.

Strauss & Tchaikovsky

When brass and percussion instruments have a party, they have a circus party, and the audience should party along.

The little ones listen to the big brass circus

Beethoven composed his Second Symphony in 1802 during a stay in Heiligenstadt, and at that time his hearing loss was becoming a serious problem. At the same time, he wrote the personal document Heiligenstadt Testament, in which he describes his inner struggle with his deafness and the desperation he felt that his musical career might be over. He even considered suicide, but decided to continue both living and working. Symphony No. 2 thus reflects the decision to fight on. The music is filled with energy and optimism – a work that radiates vitality, joy and determination. In this way, the symphony is both a result of his suffering and a sign of his indomitable spirit that refused to give up.

Beethoven & Mendelssohn

Kira Svit invites you to a cozy baby concert where we celebrate spring. Tilde the tiger has had spring litters – she loves the smell of the fresh flowers and the sound of the birds' beautiful spring songs. Together with her best friend, the dog Hugo, and singer Kira Svit, Tilde invites both babies and parents to sing, clap and dance together.

Baby Concert - Sing, play and have fun with Kira

Imagine traveling billions of kilometers to the farthest reaches of the universe without leaving your seat in the concert hall. In a new collaboration between Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, TAW-The Animation Workshop and astrophysicist Anja Cetti Andersen, the concert hall is transformed into a living cosmos. Experience the Big Bang as an explosion of sound and light, meet the Juno space probe on Jupiter, and soar over the red deserts of Mars – all surrounded by the magnificent sound of the symphony orchestra and Anja's personal stories about everything that is hidden in the infinite expanses of the universe.

SymfUnivers - Music & the Universe

Since 2010, Anneleen Lenaerts has been the principal harpist of the Vienna Philharmonic, and in 2024 she visited the Musikkens Kammerklub in a concert with the Swiss flutist Emmanuel Pahud. Now she is the soloist in Glière's rarely performed but very beautiful harp concerto. Here the composer truly shows the full potential of the harp in a work that is both technically demanding and delightfully catchy.

Sibelius & Gliére's Harp Concerto

Gustav Mahler was known for his desire to expand orchestral music and create grand, epic works. Symphony No. 2, with its sonorous contrasts, is a perfect example of his ambition to use music as a means of depicting the whole of human existence.

Mahler's Resurrection Symphony

Only two of the evening's four composers are actually American, but French Maurice Ravel wrote his piano concerto in the wake of a very successful American tour, and Martinů lived in the United States for a number of years – also when he composed The Rock. The work is a symphonic poem that shows Martinů's fascinating ability to use the rich sound possibilities of the orchestra. Ravel combines several styles in his work – including jazz, but it all ties together, and the piano concerto appears as a divinely beautiful kaleidoscopic journey through timbres and sensual rhythms.

The American composers

West Side Story, Sound of Music and My Fair Lady – the list of great musicals filled with beautiful songs is long, and tonight we pay tribute to some of the greatest. So sit back and let yourself be absorbed by melodies that lift your spirits, evoke memories and make you want to hum along.

Symphonic tour

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