The Swedish Radio Choir: Another Part of the Wood
Mors Saülis et Jonathæ is Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s oratorio based on the biblical battle between the Israelites and the Philistines, but it is also a story about fatherly love and death. Conductor Fredrik Malmberg leads the Swedish Radio Choir, members of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and P2’s Classical Artist of the Year baritone David Risberg in this Baroque masterpiece. Also featured is music by Britta Byström, Judith Bingham, Karin Rehnqvist, and Matthew Locke based on William Shakespeare’s most beloved plays and writings.
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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.
Ulrika Edström started playing violoncello in her youth, growing up in the United States. Her desire to play in an orchestra came when she was 10 years old and was overwhelmed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra playing Mahler’s fifth symphony. Ultimately, after studying both in Sweden and abroad, she found her musical home in the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra where she has been the assistant principal since 1989.
Besides playing with the SRSO, she is also active as a chamber musician with a particular interest in contemporary music. She has premiered chamber works by composers including Sven-David Sandstörm, Lars-Åke Franke-Blom, Oleg Gotskosik, and Jarosław Kapuściński. She also has a strong dedication to developing future generations of musicians through summer schools, various development projects in Switzerland, Mexico and South Africa, and through teaching at Lilla Akademien in Stockholm.
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Approximate concert length: 1 h
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