26/27 Season

Welcome to a musical Christmas experience for the whole family! Musicians from the Oslo Philharmonic invite you to an hour of traditions and festive cheer. This year features both classic songs and more recent Christmas music, before it all concludes with a large children's choir and John Williams' "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone. Come early and join the Christmas workshop in the foyer one hour before the concert starts!

• Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen,  Conductor

Erich Wolfgang Korngold's nostalgic tribute to Vienna meets Richard Strauss's most intimate love letter. Roberto González-Monjas conducts this encounter between two masters of the late-Romantic orchestral sound, with star soprano Corinne Winters in Strauss's Vier letzte Lieder.

• Erich Wolfgang Korngold  Theme and Variations
• Richard Strauss  Vier letzte Lieder
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold  Straussiana
• Richard Strauss  Rosenkavalier Suite

• Roberto González-Monjas,  Dirigent
• Corinne Winters,  Sopran

The Oslo Philharmonic held its first Christmas concerts in 1969, and they have since become a beloved tradition for many in the run-up to Christmas. We present well-known Christmas songs performed by full symphony orchestra, choir and soloists, combined with Christmas music from the classical repertoire. Artistic Director of Choral Activities Simon Halsey conducts this year's edition, with Audun Iversen as soloist.

• Simon Halsey,  Conductor
• Audun Iversen,  Baritone
• Oslo Philharmonic Choir, 

Conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider invites you to a New Year's celebration starring the glittering world of the Viennese waltz. First, Behzod Abduraimov elevates Liszt's first piano concerto, and Kodály reminisces about the Galánta of his childhood.

• Zoltán Kodály  Dances of Galánta
• Franz Liszt  Piano Concerto No. 1
• Johann Strauss II  Selected Pieces

• Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider,  Conductor
• Behzod Abduraimov,  Piano

This concert features the world premiere of Kristine Tjøgersen's new orchestral work Ambra. Dinis Sousa conducts the concert, which concludes with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, in which the choir and soloists sing of peace and community.

• Kristine Tjøgersen  Ambra
• Ludwig van Beethoven  Symphony No. 9

• Dinis Sousa,  Conductor
• Marita Sølberg,  Soprano
• Marianne Beate Kielland,  Mezzosoprano
• Daniel Frank,  Tenor
• Vladyslav Buialskyi,  Bass
• Oslo Philharmonic Choir, 
• Håkon Matti Skrede,  Chorus master