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

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

Veronika Eberle is the soloist in Sergei Prokofiev's dreamy Violin Concerto No. 1. Marie Jacquot conducts Kristine Tjøgersen’s international breakthrough Between Trees, and Camille Saint Saëns’ monumental Symphony No. 3.

• Kristine Tjøgersen  Between Trees
• Sergei Prokofiev  Violin Concerto No. 1
• Camille Saint-Saëns  Symphony No. 3 «Organ Symphony»

• Marie Jacquot,  Conductor
• Veronika Eberle,  Violin

Vasily Petrenko conducts the concert version of the third act from Richard Wagner’s Parsifal, which takes place on Good Friday. The baritone Yngve Søberg is among the soloists in Wagner’s symbolic and intense farewell work.

• Richard Wagner  Parsifal, Act III

• Vasily Petrenko,  Conductor
• Toby Spence,  Parsifal
• Yngve Søberg,  Amfortas
• Franz-Josef Selig,  Gurnemanz