26/27 Season

It was in Paris in the spring of 1910 that a young, relatively unknown Russian composer would become part of music history. Igor Stravinsky was only 28 years old when his first major ballet premiered with the legendary Ballets Russes. The Firebird became the composer's international breakthrough. In his first concert with the Oslo Philharmonic, Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Stravinsky's legendary ballet.

• Igor Stravinsky  The Firebird

• Pablo Heras-Casado,  Conductor

In this concert, Pablo Heras-Casado presents three works that all revolve around light and darkness, but in entirely different ways. From Tjøgersen's flickering LED choreography, via Schumann's forgotten violin concerto with Vilde Frang as soloist, to Stravinsky's legendary ballet.

• Kristine Tjøgersen  Bioluminescence
• Robert Schumann  Violin Concerto
• Igor Stravinskij  The Firebird

• Pablo Heras-Casado,  Conductor
• Vilde Frang,  Violin

In this concert we hear Jörg Widmann's distinctive arrangements of music by his musical hero Felix Mendelssohn. We are treated to an unexpected dialogue across time, from the dreamy andante movement he played as a child to an ironic paraphrase on the wedding march. Together with Mendelssohn's majestic depiction of nature from Fingal's Cave and the powerful Reformation Symphony, the evening becomes one where reverence and innovation go hand in hand.

• Felix Mendelssohn  Andante (arr. Jörg Widmann)
• Jörg Widmann  Paraphrase über Mendelssohns Hochzeitsmarsch
• Felix Mendelssohn  The Hebrides
• Jörg Widmann  Danse macabre für Orchester
• Felix Mendelssohn  Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”

• Jörg Widmann,  Conductor
• Sarah Christian,  Violin

Few film composers have left as great a mark on film history as Hans Zimmer. From his beginnings on MTV as a keyboardist with The Buggles, he has – since his breakthrough with Rain Man in 1988 – contributed as composer to more than two hundred films and TV series. Among these are some of Hollywood's biggest films, such as Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, The Da Vinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean, Inception, and The Dark Knight trilogy. Welcome to a concert dedicated to film music by the legendary composer.

• Klaus Badelt  Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Hans Zimmer  Driving Miss Daisy
• Hans Zimmer  And then I Kissed Him, from Pearl Harbor
• Hans Zimmer  The Crown
• Hans Zimmer  Inception Suite
• Hans Zimmer  The Lion King: Orchestral Suite
• Hans Zimmer  The Dark Knight Trilogy: Concert Suite
• Hans Zimmer  Maestro, from The Holiday
• Hans Zimmer  Chevaliers de Sangreal, from The Da Vinci Code
• Hans Zimmer  Gladiator
• Hans Zimmer  Up Is Down, fra Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
• Harold Faltermayer  Anthem, from Top Gun: Maverick

• Nick Davies,  Conductor
• Martin Holmen,  Host

Begin Easter with Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion. Richard Egarr conducts this musical depiction of the suffering and death of Jesus. It is no coincidence that the work has been performed countless times for over three hundred years. Bach's music conveys life's great contrasts—pain, hope and consolation—in a way that moves everyone, regardless of faith.

• Johann Sebastian Bach  St John Passion

• Richard Egarr,  Conductor
• Joshua Ellicott,  Evangelist
• Matthew Brook,  Christus
• Berit Norbakken,  Soprano
• Marianne Beate Kielland,  Alto
• Magnus Staveland,  Tenor
• Gordon Bintner,  Bass
• Oslo Philharmonic Choir, 
• Simon Halsey,  Artistic director of choral activities