Name: Salonen, Jansen & Ligeti's Requiem
Start: 2025-12-06T15:00:00
Location: Berwaldhallen

As the heart of Sweden's cultural calender, Stockholm is hosting a series of captivating classical events, featuring the young Mahler's 'Das klagende Lied' performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Ligeti's iconic 'Requiem' led by Esa-Pekka Salonen, a unique rendition of Handel's 'Messiah' through Mozart's lens, and Brahms' 'A German Requiem'. Each performance promises to deliver a distinct auditory experience, drawing music enthusiasts into a world of orchestral and choral grandeur, underscored by the profound talents of internationally acclaimed conductors and vocalists.

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Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Principal Guest Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's powerful and iconic Requiem, which the composer couldn’t finish before his own death. But first, John Adams' repetitive and pulsating Shaker Loops from 1982, followed by Scottish composer James MacMillan’s Composed in August.

Mozart’s Requiem 

Berwaldhallen

Extra concert scheduled due to high demand! Principal Guest Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's powerful and iconic Requiem, which the composer couldn’t finish before his own death.

Extrainsatt! Mozarts Requiem

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra's own Malin Broman and Rick Stotijn premiere Sally Beamish's Double Concerto for Violia and Double Bass together with world renowned conductor Pierre Bleuse. The concert begins with Maurice Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin , with nods to Baroque composer Francoise Couperin's music, while each movement is a tribute to Ravel's two brothers and several friends who died during the First World War.

Ravel, Debussy & Beamish

The South Korean conductor Eun Sun Kim makes her debut at Berwaldhallen with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, alongside the Polish pianist Piotr Anderszewski, performing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, one of only two piano concertos he wrote in a minor key. The concert begins with the overture to Austrian composer Maria Theresia von Paradis' comic opera Der Schulkandidat (The School Candidate).

Mozart, Korngold & von Paradis

Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, the only one he composed for the instrument and a significant cornerstone of the repertoire, together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of the Italian conductor Robin Ticciati. After the intermission, Antonín Dvořák's optimistic and joyful Symphony No. 8, written during a stay at Dvořák's summer residence in Bohemia in 1889, awaits

Lisa Batiashvili in Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto 

In the fourth part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, the conductor and composer is joined by the world-renowned pianist Yuja Wang to perform not one, but two concertos: Einojuhani Rautavaara's Piano Concerto No. 1 and Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. Before that, Jean Sibelius' groundbreaking one-movement Symphony No. 7 in C major. The concert concludes with Claude Debussy's beloved symphonic sketch La Mer (The Sea).

Salonen & Wang x 2

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra pays tribute to one of Sweden’s most beloved artists and songwriters in three concerts where Ted Gärdestad’s timeless music meets magnificent symphonic arrangements. Together with Ellen Krauss, Seinabo Sey, Niklas Strömstedt, and Ted’s daughter Sara Zacharias, the orchestra – under the direction of conductor and arranger Erik Arvinder – presents reinterpretations of melodies that have become an integral part of Swedish music history.

A Tribute to Ted Gärdestad

Andrés Orozco-Estrada visits the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen, to perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, inspired by the composer's idol Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra and their own solo cellist Aleksei Kiseliov. Ottorino Respighi in turn composed the orchestral music for the ballet La boutique fantasque, based on piano pieces by Gioachino Rossini. In tonight's concert, we will hear a suite from the ballet, described as a mix between The Nutcracker and Toy Story. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9 concludes the concert.

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9

Eastern European folk music with classical harmonies and is . Bengtson will be accompanied by the Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen and the Radio Symphony Orchestra, who will also perform a world premiere by the Estonian composer Mirjam Tally and a suite based on Richard Strauss' modernist and psychological opera Elektra.

Strauss’ Elektra suite

Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor Maxim Emelyanychev takes the podium and leads the orchestra initially in Salonen's symphonic poem Nyx inspired by the shadow like godess with the same name in Greek mythology. The South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son then joins for Witold Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme by Paganini, based on Niccolò Paganini's famous Caprice No. 24 for solo violin, known for its virtuosic demands and catchy theme, as well as Richard Strauss' humorous Burleske. The concert concludes with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 3, nicknamed 'Rhenish,' inspired by the composer's time in the Rhineland.

Emelyanychev interprets Salonen & Schumann

Nathalie Stutzmann returns to Berwaldhallen to lead the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in music by two of the giants of music history, Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms. The concert begins with the sinfonia and an orchestral arrangement of the final chorus from Bach's very first church cantata; BWV 150 Herr, nach dir verlanget mich. Brahms' last and monumental Fourth Symphony concludes the concert.

Bach & Brahms according to Stutzmann

Gabriel Fauré's beloved Requiem, known for its calm and peaceful character unlike other requiems, performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir under the direction of Fredrik Burstedt. The concert begins with a performance of Austrian Olga Neuwirth's Tombeau II Hommage a Pierre Boulez, followed by the Swedish turn-of-the-century composer Helena Munktell's Suite for Large Orchestra 'Suite Symphonique' in four movements.

Fauré’s Requiem

Part three of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, where the honorary conductor leads the the Swedish Radio Choir, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir and soloists Malena Ernman and Jennifer France in György Ligeti's Requiem, written for the choir in 1965 and used by Stanley Kubrick in his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Salonen, Jansen & Ligeti's Requiem

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