Hans Ek, Rantala & Wülker
With his album Go from 2020, German jazz trumpeter Nils Wülker completed an internationally celebrated album trilogy. Now, he and award-winning jazz pianist Iiro Rantala, known from Trio Töykeät for instance, meet the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra led by Hans Ek. The programme includes compositions by Wülker and Rantala, as well as music by Bach, Leonard Bernstein and Esbjörn Svensson in new arrangements by Hans Ek. Jazz and symphonic music in a close symbiosis.
Broadcasted on February 14 at 6:40 pm on Sveriges Radio Jazzradion and on Berwaldhallen Play on February 19 at 7 pm.
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.
Programme
Arrangement by Jaako Kuusisto
Arrangement by Oliver Groenewald
All arrangements by Hans Ek unless otherwise stated.
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