RUSSIAN VOICES
Music by both well-known and lesser known Russian composers reunites the Swedish Radio Choir with their former Chief Conductor, Peter Dijkstra. The programme includes Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms in a lyrical and elegant version for chamber ensemble, and cellist superstar Truls Mørk interprets two romantic masterpieces, including Rachmaninoff’s bitter-sweet and exquisite Vocalise.
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.
With a combination of artistic integrity, intensity and elegance, the cellist Truls Mørk has played his way to the very top as a soloist. He performs with the foremost orchestras around the world and has recently performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig, Orchestre de Paris and Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, to mention but a few. Mørk has recorded the great solo concerts of Dvořák and Elgar, as well as Britten and Shostakovich, and also the collective Cello Suites of both Bach and Britten. He has also begun touring with the pianist Behzod Abduraimov. Mørk is dedicated to contemporary music and has performed more than 30 works, such as Krzysztof Penderecki’s Concerto for Three Cellos, Hafliði Hallgrímsson’s Cello Concerto and Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Towards the Horizon.
Johan Ullén studerade piano och komposition på Kungliga Musikhögskolan och Sibelius-Akademin i Helsingfors. Han har framträtt som solist med flertalet svenska orkestrar och turnerat i Europa, USA och Sydamerika. Som kompositör har Johan Ullén skrivit kammarmusik, orkestermusik, sånger och operor, som har framförts på festivaler och i konsertsalar i Sverige och utomlands. Ett mycket uppmärksammat verk var hans helaftonsopera Kärleksmaskinen, som beställdes och uruppfördes år 2019 av Piteå Kammaropera och gick på turné i Sverige. I december 2021 släpptes albumet Infinite Bach, Ulléns omkomponering av Johann Sebastian Bachs fyra violinkonserter med solisten Christian Svarfvar och London Philharmonic Orchestra på bolaget Rubicon. Albumet seglade snabbt upp på Apple Musics andraplats.
Approximate concert length: 1 hour 10 min (no intermission)
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