The Palace Square
Nikolaj Szeps-Snaider is the conductor at the Oslo Philharmonic's traditional folk festival at The Palace Square. This is our fifth concert in front of the Royal Palace; you do not need a ticket. Welcome!
Season opener with Mäkelä and Wang
Star pianist Yuja Wang is the soloist in Maurice Ravel's Piano concerto in G Major and Piano concerto for the left hand, framed by the orchestral pieces The Storm by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Poem of Ecstasy by Alexander Scriabin, conducted by Klaus Mäkelä.
Klaus conducts Cenotaph
Gustav Mahler lets a child look at the skies in his Symphony no. 4. Thomas Larcher's Symphony No. 2 is a memorial of lives lost in flight over the Mediterranean Sea. Johanna Walroth is the soprano soloist in Mahler's symphony, and Klaus Mäkelä is conducting
America's open landscape
Ryan Bancroft conducts a wide range of American music by Alberto Ginastera, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and John Adams. American Randall Goosby is the soloist in Korngold's Violin Concerto, which builds on film music from the golden age of Hollywood.
Ung Filharmoni + the Jussen brothers
Ung Filharmoni and the Oslo Philharmonic perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, one of the composer's own favorite works, with conductor John Storgårds. The brothers Lucas and Arthus Jussen are the soloists in Fazil Say's four-hand piano concerto Phoenix.
Janine Jansen's Sibelius
Klaus Mäkelä conducts music by Lars Petter Hagen, Jean Sibelius, and Richard Strauss, who process the past in very different ways in the works in the program. Janine Jansen is the soloist in Sibelius' Violin Concerto.
Memorable travels
Felix Mendelssohn got the idea for his "Scottish" Symphony No. 3 in Edinburgh. Hector Berlioz recalled Italian mountain landscapes in Harold in Italy for viola and orchestra. Antoine Tamestit is the viola soloist, and Klaus Mäkelä is conducting.
The Four Seasons by Vivaldi
In The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi managed almost the impossible: to capture the uniqueness of the seasons so effectively that the music is just as popular 300 years later. Australian Christian Li is the violin soloist in all four violin concertos at this concert.
New Year's Concert
This season's new year's concert is a traditional Viennese new year's concert with music written by, among others, Johann Strauss the Younger and Franz Lehár. Manfred Honeck is the conductor, and Mari Eriksmoen is the soloist.
Masters at their peak
Simone Young conducts music by three composers at the peak of their creative power: Johann Sebastian Bach's Ricercar, arranged by Anton Webern, Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with soloist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Johannes Brahms' Symphony no. 3.
Bluebeard's Castle
In Bluebeard's castle, cruel secrets hide behind locked doors. Jennifer Johnston and Gerald Finley are soloists in Béla Bartók's opera. Klaus Mäkelä also conducts Franz Schubert's Der Tod und das Mädchen in Gustav Mahler's orchestral version.
Richard Strauss – a portrait
Richard Strauss (1864–1949) had one of music history's longest and most prolific careers. Marc Albrecht conducts a pure Strauss program that culminates in the gigantic An Alpine Symphony. Stefan Dohr is the soloist in Strauss' Horn Concerto No. 2.
A new Finnish star conductor
Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are giants in opera history. Tarmo Peltokoski conducts orchestral excerpts from Tännhauser, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, and The Knight of the Rose. Jan Lisiecki is the soloist in Sergej Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony
Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony No. 7 as a tribute to his hometown of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) while it was under siege in 1941. The symphony became a symbol of patriotism and fighting spirit in both East and West and made Shostakovich world famous.
Mischa Maisky's Dvořák
Cellist Mischa Maisky is one of classical music's biggest stars. Here he plays Antonín Dvořák's famous Cello Concerto. Klaus Mäkelä conducts Alexander von Zemlinsky's orchestral fantasy Die Seejungfrau, based on the fairy tale of The Little Mermaid.
Brahms with Mäkelä and Lozakovich
Experience two of classical music's biggest stars in a unique collaboration: Klaus Mäkelä and Daniel Lozakovich are the soloists on cello and violin in Johannes Brahms' Double Concerto. Klaus Mäkelä also conducts Brahms' Symphony No. 1.
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