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Royal Stockholm Philharmonic

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the 2019 Nobel Prize Concert. With music by Nielsen, Stenhammar, Grieg and Sibelius.

Herbert Blomstedt conducts the 2019 Nobel Prize Concert. With music by Nielsen, Stenhammar, Grieg and Sibelius.

The prestigious gala concert is held each year to honour the year鈥檚 Nobel laureates. It is always a glittering affair, held every December 8th in the Stockholm Konserthuset - the very same venue as the awards ceremony itself

Last year's concert celebrated, appropriately enough, four Nordic composers: opera extracts by Nielsen, songs by Grieg and Stenhammar and Sibelius's epic, sweeping second symphony

During the interval, the talented young Nightingale String Quartet plays the exquisite fourth quartet by fellow-Dane Rued Langgaard. A pupil of Nielsen's, he gave it the subtitle "Summer Days" and it is concise, elegant and quite delicious

Presented by Fiona Talkington.

7.30pm
Carl Nielsen
Aladdin, op. 34: four orchestral extracts

Wilhelm Stenhammar
Flickan knyter i Johannenatten (The Girl is Binding on Midsummer Eve)
Flickan kom ifr氓n sin 盲lsklings m枚te (The Girl Comes from Meeting her Lover)
S氓ngen, op. 44: Intermezzo

Edvard Grieg
痴氓谤别苍 (Last Spring)
En dr酶m (A Dream)

8.05pm
Interval:
Rued Langgaard
String Quartet no. 4 "Summer Days"
Nightingale String Quartet

8.25pm
Jean Sibelius
Symphony no. 2 in D, op. 43

Miah Persson, soprano
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor

Image: Martin UK Lengemann

2 hours, 28 minutes

Music Played

  • Carl Nielsen

    Excerpts from 'Aladdin' suite

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Flickan knyter i Johannenatten

    Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Flickan kom ifr氓n sin 盲lsklings m枚te

    Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Intermezzo from "S氓ngen", Op. 44

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Edvard Grieg

    痴氓谤别苍

    Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Edvard Grieg

    En dr酶m

    Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Rued Langgaard

    String Quartet No 4 'Summer Days'

    Ensemble: Nightingale String Quartet.
    • DaCapo.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No.2 in D, Op.43

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • MUSIC AT MENLO LIVE.
  • Ella Jarman-Pinto

    Lucky

    Performer: Daniel Trodden.
  • Rune Tonsgaard S酶rensen

    Shine you no more

    Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • ECM.
  • Traditional Danish

    Now Found is the Fairest of Roses / The Dromer

    Composer: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.

Broadcast

  • Mon 14 Sep 2020 19:30