Recommendations

Elise Båtnes

Violin and concertmaster

Read Elise Båtnes’s recommendations for the upcoming season.

Welcome to the new season! Here we reunite with familiar and beloved repertoire and performers, but we also encounter new artists and discover new facets of the incredible wealth that orchestral repertoire offers. There’s much I could recommend, but if I had to select four concert productions, it would be these.

01

One of my absolute favorites among contemporary composers is finally coming to the Oslo Phil: Jörg Widmann! Here we’ll hear his Con Brio and Violin Concerto No. 2, featuring his sister, the remarkable Carolin Widmann, as soloist. In addition to being an exciting composer, Jörg Widmann is also an outstanding clarinetist and conductor. We will experience him conducting this concert, and I’m looking forward to performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 under his baton.

  • Jörg Widmann  Con brio
  • Ludwig van Beethoven  Symphony No. 7
  • Jörg Widmann -  Conductor
  • Carolin Widmann -  Violin
02

Being presented with a new season program always means reconnecting with familiar classics, but also encountering something unknown. Despite playing in a symphony orchestra for over 34 years, I’ve never performed music by Weinberg. Here, we will hear his Symphony No. 21, “Kaddish,” composed in 1991 and dedicated to the Holocaust victims of the Warsaw Ghetto. Profound music with a serious backdrop. In this concert, we also meet conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla for the first time with the Oslo Philharmonic.

  • Mieczysław Weinberg  The Golden Key: Suite No. 4
  • Sergej Rachmaninoff  Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
  • Mieczysław Weinberg  Symphony No. 21
  • Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla -  Conductor
  • Marie-Ange Nguci -  Piano

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Marie-Ange Nguci Mieczysław Weinberg
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Gold Series
Oslo Concert Hall
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03

Mahler symphonies are always rewarding to play, and Mahler is one of my favorite composers. His Symphony No. 5 is probably one of the most frequently performed, but it never wears out. Under the direction of Jukka-Pekka Saraste, this is guaranteed to be an experience. In addition, we’ll hear Bartók’s Viola Concerto performed by the wonderful Tabea Zimmermann!

  • Béla Bartók  Viola Concerto
  • Gustav Mahler  Symphony No. 5
  • Jukka-Pekka Saraste -  Conductor
  • Tabea Zimmermann -  Bratsj
04

It’s always special to feature colleagues as soloists. This time, Maria Angelika Carlsen, our excellent principal second violinist, will perform Bjørn Kruse’s Violin Concerto. On the podium, we’ll become acquainted this week with Finnish conductor Eva Ollikainen.

  • Bjørn Kruse  Unfolding Moments (fiolinkonsert)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven  Symfoni nr. 5
  • Eva Ollikainen -  Dirigent
  • Maria Angelika Carlsen -  Fiolin