Name: Christmas Concert 2025
Start: 2025-12-19T19:00:00
Location: Berwaldhallen

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Discover the music of Strauss and Stenhammar together with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Magnus Fryklund, and ciceron Gregor Zubicky! The concert begins with Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan, based on a play about the promiscuous charmer who ultimately pays for his dishonest life. Music based on theater is also Stenhammar’s music for August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, which captures the expressionist and dreamlike atmosphere of the play.

Discover Strauss & Stenhammar

Berwaldhallen

Conductor laureate Herbert Blomstedt leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9– the last to be completed by the composer himself – which is considered among the greatest in the symphonic repertoire.

Blomstedt & Mahlers ninth

The sixth and final part of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Artist-in-Residence also concludes the 2025/2026 season at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen. The Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki initially leads the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius’s tone poem The Oceanides, followed by Salonen’s own cello concerto with the acclaimed cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, one of the greatest symphonies of the 20th century, which the composer himself described as a tribute to the strength and beauty of the human spirit, concludes the concert.

Mälkki & Altstaedt interprets Salonen

Christmas at Berwaldhallen is celebrated with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir performing music from the classic Christmas repertoire.