BRAHMS' VIOLIN CONCERTO
According to 19th-century violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, Brahms’ violin concerto was one of the few that could compete with that of Beethoven. Here, Leonidas Kavakos interprets it with great skill and warmth. Additionally, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Daniel Harding perform Antonín Dvořák’s mighty final symphony, From the New World.
The concert was broadcasted on Berwaldhallen Play and Swedish Radio P2.
Participants
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
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.
Daniel Harding is Music and Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, with whom in 2022 he celebrated his 15-year anniversary. In the 2014/2015 season, he devised and curated the celebrated Interplay Festival, featuring concerts and related inspirational talks with renowned artists and academics. As Artistic Director, he continues this type of influential programming. Harding is also Conductor Laureate of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has worked for over 20 years, and Music Director of Youth Music Culture, The Greater Bay Area in China. The 2024/2025 season will be his first as Music Director at the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Harding is a regular visitor to the world’s foremost orchestras, including the Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Staatskapelle Dresden and the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala. In the US, he has appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. A renowned opera conductor, he has led acclaimed productions at the Teatro alla Scala Milan, Wiener Staatsoper, Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, and at the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festivals. He was Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris, the Anima Mundi festival of Pisa, and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra.
Daniel Harding tours regularly with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing at prestigious venues all over Europe and the world, and has recorded several acclaimed and award-winning albums with the orchestra. His tenure as Music and Artistic Director will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. “It is increasingly rare that the relationship between a conductor and an orchestra not only lasts for more than a decade, but keeps growing,” he says about working with the orchestra.
In 2002, Harding was awarded the title Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government, and in 2017 nominated to the position Officier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2012, he was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In 2021, he was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Daniel Harding grew up in Oxford, England, and played trumpet before taking up conducting in his late teens. He is also, since 2016, a qualified airline pilot.
Leonidas Kavakos är erkänd över hela världen som en violinist och artist av sällsynt kvalitet, hyllad för sin oöverträffade teknik, sin fängslande konstnärlighet och sitt enastående musikerskap, samt integriteten i sitt spel.
Kavakos har under sin karriär utvecklat nära relationer med stora orkestrar som Wiener Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Concertgebouw-orkestern, London Symphony Orchestra, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig och många fler.
Under de senaste åren har han lyckats bygga en stark profil som dirigent och har dirigerat New York Philharmonic, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Dallas Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Filarmonica della Scala och Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
2022 släppte Kavakos albumet Beethoven for Three: Symphony No. 6 “Pastorale” and Op.1, No. 3 arrangerade för trio, med Emanuel Ax och Yo-Yo Ma på Sony Classics. Fler album från denna serie med arrangemang av Beethovens symfonier kommer att släppas under de kommande åren. För sin inspelningar har Kavakos tidigare blivit utsedd till Gramophone Magazine Artist of the Year.
Född och uppvuxen i en musikalisk familj i Aten, arrangerar Kavakos en årlig violin- och kammarmusikmästarklass i Aten, som lockar violinister och ensembler från hela världen. Han spelar på en ’Willemotte’ Stradivarius-violin från 1734.
Programme
Sam Evans will conduct Anton Bruckner´s Christus factus est. Evans´participation is made possible by “Momentum Project: Our Future, Now”. Momentum is an initiative driven by leading international artists supporting younger professional colleagues in the first substantial phase of their career, and created by Barbara Hannigan. The Momentum model is an urgent artistic and human response to the situation caused by the 2020 pandemic, yet devised with long-term staying power.
Approximate duration: 2 hrs 20 mins incl. intermission
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