PRIMEVAL LIGHT AND NIGHT SHADOW
Livets stora och eviga frågor är temat för konserten, då Radiokören och Peter Dijkstra bjuder på musik av makarna Mahler i arrangemang av Clytus Gottwald. Brahms vemodiga Fem sånger för a cappellakör, Staffan Storms dramatiska musik och Arnolds Schönbergs vackra Friede auf Erden förstärker budskapet om fred och rättvisa i världen.
Konserten sänds på Berwaldhallen Play samt i Sveriges Radio P2 fredagen den 20 maj kl 19:00
Change of program: Staffan Storm, Hymne and Gustav Mahler/Gottwald, Im Abendrot, which were previously part of the program have been replaced by Arnold Schönberg, Friede auf Erden and Gustav Mahler/Gottwald, Ich bin der Weld abhanden gekommen
Participants
32 professional choristers make up the Swedish Radio Choir: a unique, dynamic instrument hailed by music-lovers and critics all over the world. The Swedish Radio Choir performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, as well as on tours all over the country and the world. Also, they are heard regularly by millions of listeners on Swedish Radio P2, Berwaldhallen Play and globally through the EBU.
The award-winning Latvian conductor Kaspars Putniņš was appointed Chief Conductor of the Swedish Radio Choir in 2020. Since January 2019, its choirmaster is French orchestral and choral conductor Marc Korovitch, with responsibility for the choir’s vocal development.
The Swedish Radio Choir was founded in 1925, the same year as Sweden’s inaugural radio broadcasts, and gave its first concert in May that year. Multiple acclaimed and award-winning albums can be found in the choir’s record catalogue. Late 2023 saw the release of Kaspars Putniņš first album with the choir: Robert Schumann’s Missa sacra, recorded with organist Johan Hammarström.
Programme
Approximate concert length: 1 hour (no intermission)
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