Name: Malin Byström sings Strauss
Start: 2027-01-16T15:00:00
Location: Berwaldhallen

Philippe Jordan

Malin Byström

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

One of the most magnificent and moving works in music history fills Berwaldhallen as Roberto González-Monjas conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Choir and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir in Giuseppe Verdi's monumental Messa da Requiem. With a world-class international soloist quartet, the entire drama of the work is brought to life: from the quiet prayer in Requiem to the blazing Dies irae, the shimmering consolation in Lux aeterna and the despairing cry in Libera me. A musical experience where the expressive power of opera meets the depth of devotion.

Verdi’s Requiem

Berwaldhallen

Vienna's rich musical tradition takes center stage when Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program where the elegance of the Viennese waltz meets the bold modernism of the 20th century. The evening opens with music by Johann Strauss the Younger, which captures the city's vibrant pulse and timeless charm. The mood shifts as Richard Strauss's sensual Dance of the Seven Veilsfrom the opera Salomesheds new light on Vienna's extravagance. After the intermission, Francesco Piemontesi takes his place in Arnold Schoenberg's concentrated, expressive piano concerto, before the evening culminates in Maurice Ravel's Vienna's rich musical tradition takes center stage when Daniel Harding conducts the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in a program where the elegance of the Viennese waltz meets the bold modernism of the 20th century. The evening opens with music by Johann Strauss the Younger, which captures the city's vibrant pulse and timeless charm. The mood shifts as Richard Strauss's sensual Dance of the Seven Veils from the opera Salome sheds new light on Vienna's extravagance. After the intermission, Francesco Piemontesi takes his place in Arnold Schoenberg's concentrated, expressive piano concerto, before the evening culminates in Maurice Ravel's La Valse – a swirling, decadent tribute to and reckoning with the glory days of the Viennese waltz. Expect a concert where Vienna appears in all its splendour, both traditional and subversive. La Valse – a swirling, decadent tribute to and reckoning with the glory days of the Viennese waltz. Expect a concert where Vienna appears in all its splendour, both traditional and subversive.

Music from Vienna

British conductor Adam Hickox makes his debut with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and a program that opens with Samuel Barber’s overture to the opera The School of Scandal, a veritable firework of esprit and tangled intricacies. Sofija Gubajdulina’s dreamlike Fairytale Poem follows, a piece where the contours of the fairy tale emerge in subtle colours. The evening reaches its climax with Edward Elgar’s beloved Enigma Variations, where both friendship and enigma are woven together into one of orchestra music’s most iconic works.

Elgar’s Enigma Variations

Conductor and arranger Hans Ek returns together with singers Magnus Carlson, Moto Boy and Jennie Abrahamsson to David Bowie’s iconic Berlin Trilogy. Drawing on the albums Low, Heroes and Lodger, they create a hauntingly evocative exploration of one of the most influential periods in pop history.

Bowie in Berlin

Kazuki Yamada conducts a concert where Rome's fountains sparkle and shimmer in Ottorino Respighi's masterful tone paintings, and Leonidas Kavakos brings new life to Karol Szymanowski's second Violin Concerto in an expression that combines technical brilliance and lyrical beauty. After the intermission, Pyotr Tchaikovsky's energetic Symphony No. 3 takes on a dance-friendly rhythm, leading to a finale that truly bursts with life.

The Fountains of Rome and Tchaikovsky’s Polish Symphony

One of the true colossuses of symphonic literature is given new life when Nathalie Stutzmann takes to the Berwaldhallen podium to lead the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra through Anton Bruckner's monumental Symphony No. 5 – a work where architectural power, spiritual intensity and symphonic splendor merge. In this magnificent journey from obscure contemplation to brilliant finale, Stutzmann opens the door to Bruckner's world with clarity, warmth and a deeply personal interpretation.

Bruckner's fifth according to Stutzmann

Epiphany Concert 2027

Malin Byström sings Strauss

The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra conjures a surge of emotions and the power of the fairy tale under the steady hand of Alan Gilbert, with concertmaster Malin Broman as soloist. The evening opens with Dalit Warshaw's Responses, written as an answer to three intermezzos by Johannes Brahms, and continues with Belá Bartók's first violin concerto – a personal, lyrical two-movement piece that contains both dream and dance. After the intermission, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade follows: a colourful orchestral suite where the solo violin becomes the narrator in a world of adventure, sea breezes and oriental tales.

Emotion and enchantment

Principal guest conductor Maxim Emelyanychev leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Max Bruch's double concerto with the orchestra's own Albin Uusijärvi on viola and Andreas Sundén on clarinet in a tight interplay between dark sounds and bright lyricism. Wilhelm Stenhammar's finely chiseled Reverenza follows – a short piece with both warmth and poetry. Felix Mendelssohn's fourth symphony, "The Italian", concludes the concert with exuberant rhythms and sunny orchestral colour.

Mendelssohns's Italian symphony with Emelyanychev

Darkness and light meet when the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Wilhelm Stenhammar with Eva Ollikainen on the podium and Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist. Mozart's dramatic Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor contains both stormy nerves and quiet reflection, from the restlessness of the first movement to the clarity of the famous romanza. After the break, Wilhelm Stenhammar's first symphony expands on a grand scale: a generous, romantically coloured orchestral world where Nordic lyricism and glowing energy drift towards a final outlet of heat.

Mozart and Stenhammar

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungtold without a single syllable – but with all the dramatic charge that the music contains. When the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Pietari Inkinen take on Lorin Maazel's orchestral suite Der Ring ohne Worte (The Ring without Words), you get to follow the great arc of the saga in concentrated form: from shimmering forebodings and powerful breakups to conflicts, transformations and doom. An entire operatic world distilled into 70 minutes of pure orchestral theatre.