The Oslo Philharmonic announces 2023/24 programme with chief conducter Klaus Mäkelä
The Oslo Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä celebrate their fourth season together with seventeen concerts at home and twenty-five on tour, making 2023 / 24 the orchestra’s most ambitious season with Mäkelä to date.
Written by Liv-Randi Holann
The season opening in August is augmented by residencies at the Edinburgh and Lucerne Festivals, featuring distinctively curated programmes typical of Klaus Mäkelä’s partnership with the Oslo musicians. Rolf Gupta’s Song of the Earth opens the first of a series of festival concerts that juxtapose works by Sibelius, Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Scriabin.
Further highlights of the season programme include Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle with Jennifer Johnston and Gerald Finley, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 and Brahms’ Double Concerto, in which Mäkelä conducts and plays cello alongside violinist Daniel Lozakovich.
In October Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic embark on a three week tour of Asia, performing throughout Japan, South Korea and Taiwan with soloists Janine Jansen (Sibelius violin concerto) and Nobuyuki Tsujii (Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2).
In January 2024 they return to the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie for two concerts featuring works by Dutilleux and Thomas Larcher and close the season with a focus on Brahms and Zemlinsky with performances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Paris Philharmonie and Vienna Konzerthaus.