Name: Sunday Matinee
Start: 2026-04-19T11:00:00
Location: Conservatory Concert Hall

Xanthe Arthurs

Mads Haugsted Hansen

Stefan Burchardt

Ole Bartholin Kiilerich

Simona Bonfiglioli

Albrecht Krauß

Ron Chen-Zion

Odense Symphony Orchestra

Experience an entire evening bathed in the most magnificent key of them all: E flat major, as we kick off the symphonic year with a tribute to Ludwig van Beethoven, who will be duly celebrated around the world next season on the 200th anniversary of his death.

Beethoven's 3rd Symphony & The Emperor Concert

Odense Concert Hall

At the first Pro Musica concert of the year, the musicians of the Odense Symphony Orchestra take the audience on a journey through three centuries of chamber music history; from the inventor of the string quartet to the most beloved clarinet quintet of the high romantic period to a quintet from one of the greatest pioneers of the 20th century. In Haydn's stormy and ambitious late quartet, for example, we can look forward to the "witch's minuet" in two-part canon. Prokofiev's circus-inspired quintet from 1924 for the sonically motley combination of oboe, clarinet, violin, viola and double bass is the most whimsical piece of music you will hear in a long time. It was written for a traveling ballet troupe under the title Trapeze, but achieved immortality as a six-movement, picturesque quintet.

Haydn, Brahms & Prokofiev

In a time marked by crises, conflicts, wars, conspiracies, capitalism, artificial intelligence and climate change, it can feel as if the world is breaking up. We live with a constricting sense of powerlessness and uncertainty – but at the same time new communities are emerging, a cultural awareness, strong values ​​and a longing for something that reaches beyond ourselves. Faith, hope and love – the classic virtues – stand perhaps stronger than ever as landmarks in a troubled time.

Faith, Hope And Love

From the very first second ofBruckner's 4th Symphonyhe conjures us out of our earthly shell and into a world of mystery, of euphony, of overwhelming currents and enormous constructions. Bruckner's music is 'larger than life', but his 4th symphony is the most welcoming of all his great symphonies and a good place to start if you still have your first Bruckner experience to enjoy. He takes us from outer space to the very deepest place in the heart of the ball when he builds his enormous musical sequences, which switch surprisingly effortlessly from great drama to subtle intimacy. Organ virtuoso that he was, he uses the orchestra as a gigantic luxury organ, which in a split second can switch from the finest little Austrian folk melody to terrifying cascades of sound - produced with an orchestra that is not much larger than in Beethoven's time, but which uses the entire register in new and surprising ways.

Bruckner's 4th Symphony

Take your favorite stuffed animal or teddy bear in hand and come with us to the Teddy Bear Concert.

Teddy Bear Concert – Winter

Pierre Bleuse opens his final season in charge ofOdense Symphony Orchestrawith a purely French program of the finest quality. We cannot reveal everything, but it will be the fine French works that he will bring out – and we know for sure that Ravel's unique piano concerto in G major is on the program.

Bleuse & Ravel

In the midst of a world full of notifications, grade racing and the hunt for the perfect study-relevant job, our youth panel invites you to take a break. With classical music as a guide, we let the calm flow in.

A Meditative Symphony

Sunday Matinee

Konservatoriets Koncertsa ODEON

Schumann and Brahms had an enormous impact on each other's lives and work, and here they appear together in two sumptuous works that exude love for what brought them together: music as music, without explanations.

Bleuse, Brahms & Schumann

A concert that spans five centuries! From the Baroque, we go back to Henry Purcell's musical reinterpretation of fellow countryman Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from 1692. It is a title we usually associate with Felix Mendelssohn, but in the hands of Purcell, the play has become a so-called "semi-opera" under the title The Fairy Queen. From it, we will hear a number of the beautiful and elegant instrumental pieces that both introduced and were part of the performance. From here, we jump all the way to the 21st century, where Anders Koppel gave us the terzetto for viola, clarinet and piano in 2019. He did so after inspiration from none other than WA Mozart's "Keglebane Trio" - but the music is now completely Koppel's own. Here there is both the flirtation with serial music, blues tonality and a finale of ingeniously intertwined dances.

Purcell, Koppel & Brahms

“To be faithful to only one woman is the same as being unfaithful to all the others!” So ​​sings Don Juan. It is, all things considered, a statement that can be munched on, and has been since 1787, when Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo da Ponte's opera premiered.

Don Juan

Odense Symphony Orchestra commemorates two giants in the Nordic classical music scene when, on the same evening, we play Per Nørgård's mysterious masterpiece with one of the most beautiful titles in music history, as well as Kaija Saariaho's sonorous transformation sphere of musical reflections in a purely Nordic concert that also features Sibelius's last symphony. A work that, in one long movement, transforms the symphony as a genre – into an organic, ever-changing sound universe. In other words, a journey is set to take place both into ourselves and into the most wondrous corners of music, when three of the Nordic greatest composers stand side by side in tonight's program.