« My fantasy orchestra, on the basis of last night’s Symphony no. 5 in B flat major by Bruckner, would include the brass section of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. »
Stockholm International Composer Festival
Discovery and drama: Thea Musgrave at 90
Ahead of a major presentation of her work in Stockholm, we sit down with the master craftswoman to talk about her passion for discovery and her advice to young artists.
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StockholmWhen the clowns met the orchestra
de Falla, Traditional Swedish, Mendelssohn, Borodin, Ravel, Strauss R., Strauss II, Beethoven
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Andreas Alin
RSPO's concerts for schoolchildren
100 years of school concerts
The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic has been staging school concerts for every year since 1917. The RSPO's Stefan Forsberg and Karina Svensson talk about bringing music to Swedish children, then and now.
RSPO's Chief Conductor
Leading from the front with Sakari Oramo
The Finnish conductor talks about feeling a part of the orchestra and which Nordic country performs the best Nielsen.
The blue concert hall at Hötorget (the Haymarket) in central Stockholm is one of Sweden’s great architectural masterpieces. Opened in 1926, it was designed by architect Ivar Tengbom during a period of expansion in the capital. The Stockholm Concert Hall was built to house The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra – founded in 1902 – and to serve as an arena for the Nobel Prize Ceremony. Besides the main hall, the building also contains two chamber music halls: the beautiful Grünewald Hall and the smaller Aulin Hall. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra’s chief conductor Sakari Oramo was appointed in 2008, with his present contract lasting until 2020
Upcoming eventsSee more...
StockholmVilde Frang plays Bartók
Staern, Bartók, Mahler
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Sakari Oramo; Vilde Frang
MadridStockholm Oramo y Luganski con la Titán de Mahler en Madrid
Staern, Prokofiev, Mahler
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Sakari Oramo; Nikolai Lugansky
StockholmHerbert Blomstedt conducts
Berwald, Berlioz
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Herbert Blomstedt
StockholmMahler's Fourth
Martinsson, Mahler
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Gustavo Gimeno; Lisa Larsson
StockholmRetrotopia
Mozart, Beethoven, Mühlrad, Borisova-Ollas, Fröst, Nordin
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Martin Fröst
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Franz Welser-Möst conducts in Stockholm
The much anticipated Austrian conductor strikes home with Shostakovich and Beethoven as a side dish in Stockholm.
RSPO in blazing form at the Proms
An eclectic programme from this Swedish orchestra which gave sharply defined performances in repertoire that, at first glance, had seemingly little in common.
A late summer's night with Renée Fleming in Amsterdam
Renée Fleming sings Barber and Strauss at the Concertgebouw.
French night in Stockholm with Stéphane Denève
Twenty-first century Stockholm or fin de siècle Paris? Works by Ravel, Debussy and Schmitt take the audience back to the times of the French avant-garde.
