24/25 Season

In the film classic Amadeus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s turbulent life weaved together with his music. Ernst van Tiel conducts the Oslo Philharmonic, and Oslo Philharmonic Choir, who performs the music live on stage with the movie on the screen.

• Amadeus  Movie Concert

• Ernst van Tiel,  Conductor
• Oslo Filharmoniske Kor, 
• Øystein Fevang,  Choir conductor

Musicians from the Oslo Philharmonic perform two works written fifty years apart: Grażyna Bacewicz’s Quartet for Four Violins and George Enescu’s Octet in C major.

• Grażyna Bacewicz  Quartet for Four Violins
• George Enescu  Octet in C major

• Sarah Christian,  Violin
• Guro Asheim,  Violin
• Brage Sæbø,  Violin
• Patrycja Blaszak-Bienkunska,  Violin
• Bénédicte Royer,  Viola
• Nanna Ikutomi Sørli,  Viola
• Bjørn Solum,  Cello
• Johannes Martens,  Cello

Tonight’s soloist Eldbjørg Hemsing has given Hjalmar Borgstrøm’s Violin Concerto in G Major from 1914 a new lease of life in recent years. Dmitry Matvienko also conducts Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Symfoni No. 1 subtitled Winter Daydreams.

• Hjalmar Borgstrøm  Violin Concerto
• Pyotr Tchaikovsky  Symphony No. 1

• Dmitry Matvienko,  Conductor
• Eldbjørg Hemsing,  Violin

The American pianist legend Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Anders Hillborg’s “The MAC Concerto” from 2023, which was written for him. Klaus Mäkelä also conducts Jean Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen, where the famous Swan of Tuonela is one of four tone poems.

• Anders Hillborg  Piano Concerto No. 2 «The MAX Concerto»
• Jean Sibelius  Lemminkäinen Suite

• Klaus Mäkelä,  Conductor
• Emanuel Ax,  Piano

Gustav Mahler wanted to create a world in his symphonies. Symphony No. 3 is his largest symphony and a powerful vision of unity with nature and the divine. Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts, and the mezzo-soprano Marianne Beate Kielland is the soloist.

• Gustav Mahler  Symphony No. 3

• Jukka-Pekka Saraste,  Honorary conductor
• Marianne Beate Kielland,  Mezzo-soprano
• Oslo Philharmonic Choir (women's choir), 
• Boy's choir, 
• Øystein Fevang,  Choir conductor