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Magnus Lindberg belongs to the "golden generation" of Finnish music that took the world by storm in the 1980s. Together with Esa-Pekka Salonen, he founded the Ears Open Society, an initiative whose open-door policy created a fresh musical wind. He achieved his breakthrough with the orchestral work Kraft in 1985 and has composed a series of significant works for solo instruments, as well as a vocal work for Barbara Hannigan. From 2009 to 2012, Lindberg served as Composer-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic. Jubilees was originally composed as a set of piano miniatures intended as a gift for the composer Pierre Boulez. The six movements form a harmonious whole. Lindberg himself describes the piano work: “It bears a distant relationship to the études of Debussy and Chopin, as they too work with clearly defined textures. The first movement contains the most activity. The subsequent movements undergo a process of refinement, allowing the harmony of the final movement to rise to the surface, stripped of everything else; the overall dramatic arc has been clarified." In 2002, Lindberg created this 15-minute version for chamber orchestra.

In Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto we are presented with a strange world, not least in relation to his other piano concertos. This is not to say that his distinctive features are absent, quite the opposite, but they appear here in a strikingly concentrated form. The concerto consists of five, relatively short, movements in which the piano and orchestra are not separated in the traditional way, but they alternate roles; between the soloist and the accompanying. Already in the first movement, short, motivic cells are joined together and driven forward by motor rhythms, sonorous friction and abrupt changes in register. Harmonically, a tonal center is heard, but it is inexorably distorted by chromatic runs and sharp dissonances. The piano itself is often heard almost as a percussion instrument. It is hammered forward and all passages where a lyrical feeling appears, as in the fourth movement's larghetto, seem to repeatedly crackle when some form of romantic, longer line appears. Instead, we hear a harmony where function is of little use, giving way to a feeling of sonorous objects that are presented one by one. The mechanical handling of piano and orchestra and the fragmentary motifs carved out in five movements form a piano concerto that does not seek synthesis or resolution but depicts five separate characters. The romantic narrative is replaced by a thinking that belongs to modernity. Esaias Järnegard

Beethoven's Third Symphony from 1803 shook the foundations of classical music. After the Viennese Classical First and the more experimental Second Symphony, Beethoven found a musical language totally of his own with the Third. It is expansive, large, and does not shy away from new and unexpected effects (the most obvious are probably the dissonances in the opening of the first movement). Never before had any symphony had such an extensive and musically elaborate opening movement, which is at the same time completely romantic in expression. The self-confidence and perfection of the symphony are striking - like a shiny locomotive speeding through a landscape where only oxcarts had previously passed. It turned out in retrospect that the symphony was far ahead of its time. Much of Brahms' symphony music can, for example, be traced back to the Eroica, which says something about its epoch-making influence. The funeral march in movement 2 (which is said to have been composed a few years earlier for a noble Englishman) is unique, a variation movement with a previously unimagined weight and emotional strength. Beethoven single-handedly expanded the dynamics of musical expression, making other symphonies from the same period seem puny by comparison. But it also meant that many listeners found the music bizarre, incomprehensible, and frightening.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste took the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023. 2010-2019, he was Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and 2006-2013, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has previously held positions with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Jukka-Pekka Saraste is one of the founders of the LEAD! Foundation, a mentorship programme for young conductors and soloists based in Finland. Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s guest engagements have taken him to major orchestras around the world. He has developed a strong profile in opera and has enjoyed success with concert performances of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, with a stage production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah directed by Calixto Bieito, and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Finnish National Opera. He has a strong relationship with works by Beethoven, Bruckner, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Sibelius and is internationally acclaimed for his interpretations of Mahler. Born in Heinola, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Jukka-Pekka Saraste has received the Pro Finlandia Prize, the Sibelius Medal and the Finnish State Music Prize and was awarded the Finnish Lion Order in 2023.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Magnus Lindberg belongs to the "golden generation" of Finnish music that took the world by storm in the 1980s. Together with Esa-Pekka Salonen, he founded the Ears Open Society, an initiative whose open-door policy created a fresh musical wind. He achieved his breakthrough with the orchestral work Kraft in 1985 and has composed a series of significant works for solo instruments, as well as a vocal work for Barbara Hannigan. From 2009 to 2012, Lindberg served as Composer-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic. Jubilees was originally composed as a set of piano miniatures intended as a gift for the composer Pierre Boulez. The six movements form a harmonious whole. Lindberg himself describes the piano work: “It bears a distant relationship to the études of Debussy and Chopin, as they too work with clearly defined textures. The first movement contains the most activity. The subsequent movements undergo a process of refinement, allowing the harmony of the final movement to rise to the surface, stripped of everything else; the overall dramatic arc has been clarified." In 2002, Lindberg created this 15-minute version for chamber orchestra.

In Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto we are presented with a strange world, not least in relation to his other piano concertos. This is not to say that his distinctive features are absent, quite the opposite, but they appear here in a strikingly concentrated form. The concerto consists of five, relatively short, movements in which the piano and orchestra are not separated in the traditional way, but they alternate roles; between the soloist and the accompanying. Already in the first movement, short, motivic cells are joined together and driven forward by motor rhythms, sonorous friction and abrupt changes in register. Harmonically, a tonal center is heard, but it is inexorably distorted by chromatic runs and sharp dissonances. The piano itself is often heard almost as a percussion instrument. It is hammered forward and all passages where a lyrical feeling appears, as in the fourth movement's larghetto, seem to repeatedly crackle when some form of romantic, longer line appears. Instead, we hear a harmony where function is of little use, giving way to a feeling of sonorous objects that are presented one by one. The mechanical handling of piano and orchestra and the fragmentary motifs carved out in five movements form a piano concerto that does not seek synthesis or resolution but depicts five separate characters. The romantic narrative is replaced by a thinking that belongs to modernity. Esaias Järnegard

Beethoven's Third Symphony from 1803 shook the foundations of classical music. After the Viennese Classical First and the more experimental Second Symphony, Beethoven found a musical language totally of his own with the Third. It is expansive, large, and does not shy away from new and unexpected effects (the most obvious are probably the dissonances in the opening of the first movement). Never before had any symphony had such an extensive and musically elaborate opening movement, which is at the same time completely romantic in expression. The self-confidence and perfection of the symphony are striking - like a shiny locomotive speeding through a landscape where only oxcarts had previously passed. It turned out in retrospect that the symphony was far ahead of its time. Much of Brahms' symphony music can, for example, be traced back to the Eroica, which says something about its epoch-making influence. The funeral march in movement 2 (which is said to have been composed a few years earlier for a noble Englishman) is unique, a variation movement with a previously unimagined weight and emotional strength. Beethoven single-handedly expanded the dynamics of musical expression, making other symphonies from the same period seem puny by comparison. But it also meant that many listeners found the music bizarre, incomprehensible, and frightening.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste took the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023. 2010-2019, he was Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and 2006-2013, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has previously held positions with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Jukka-Pekka Saraste is one of the founders of the LEAD! Foundation, a mentorship programme for young conductors and soloists based in Finland. Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s guest engagements have taken him to major orchestras around the world. He has developed a strong profile in opera and has enjoyed success with concert performances of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, with a stage production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah directed by Calixto Bieito, and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Finnish National Opera. He has a strong relationship with works by Beethoven, Bruckner, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Sibelius and is internationally acclaimed for his interpretations of Mahler. Born in Heinola, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Jukka-Pekka Saraste has received the Pro Finlandia Prize, the Sibelius Medal and the Finnish State Music Prize and was awarded the Finnish Lion Order in 2023.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Magnus Lindberg belongs to the "golden generation" of Finnish music that took the world by storm in the 1980s. Together with Esa-Pekka Salonen, he founded the Ears Open Society, an initiative whose open-door policy created a fresh musical wind. He achieved his breakthrough with the orchestral work Kraft in 1985 and has composed a series of significant works for solo instruments, as well as a vocal work for Barbara Hannigan. From 2009 to 2012, Lindberg served as Composer-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic. Jubilees was originally composed as a set of piano miniatures intended as a gift for the composer Pierre Boulez. The six movements form a harmonious whole. Lindberg himself describes the piano work: “It bears a distant relationship to the études of Debussy and Chopin, as they too work with clearly defined textures. The first movement contains the most activity. The subsequent movements undergo a process of refinement, allowing the harmony of the final movement to rise to the surface, stripped of everything else; the overall dramatic arc has been clarified." In 2002, Lindberg created this 15-minute version for chamber orchestra.

In Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto we are presented with a strange world, not least in relation to his other piano concertos. This is not to say that his distinctive features are absent, quite the opposite, but they appear here in a strikingly concentrated form. The concerto consists of five, relatively short, movements in which the piano and orchestra are not separated in the traditional way, but they alternate roles; between the soloist and the accompanying. Already in the first movement, short, motivic cells are joined together and driven forward by motor rhythms, sonorous friction and abrupt changes in register. Harmonically, a tonal center is heard, but it is inexorably distorted by chromatic runs and sharp dissonances. The piano itself is often heard almost as a percussion instrument. It is hammered forward and all passages where a lyrical feeling appears, as in the fourth movement's larghetto, seem to repeatedly crackle when some form of romantic, longer line appears. Instead, we hear a harmony where function is of little use, giving way to a feeling of sonorous objects that are presented one by one. The mechanical handling of piano and orchestra and the fragmentary motifs carved out in five movements form a piano concerto that does not seek synthesis or resolution but depicts five separate characters. The romantic narrative is replaced by a thinking that belongs to modernity. Esaias Järnegard

Beethoven's Third Symphony from 1803 shook the foundations of classical music. After the Viennese Classical First and the more experimental Second Symphony, Beethoven found a musical language totally of his own with the Third. It is expansive, large, and does not shy away from new and unexpected effects (the most obvious are probably the dissonances in the opening of the first movement). Never before had any symphony had such an extensive and musically elaborate opening movement, which is at the same time completely romantic in expression. The self-confidence and perfection of the symphony are striking - like a shiny locomotive speeding through a landscape where only oxcarts had previously passed. It turned out in retrospect that the symphony was far ahead of its time. Much of Brahms' symphony music can, for example, be traced back to the Eroica, which says something about its epoch-making influence. The funeral march in movement 2 (which is said to have been composed a few years earlier for a noble Englishman) is unique, a variation movement with a previously unimagined weight and emotional strength. Beethoven single-handedly expanded the dynamics of musical expression, making other symphonies from the same period seem puny by comparison. But it also meant that many listeners found the music bizarre, incomprehensible, and frightening.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

Jukka-Pekka Saraste took the position of Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 2023. 2010-2019, he was Chief Conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne and 2006-2013, Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has previously held positions with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Jukka-Pekka Saraste is one of the founders of the LEAD! Foundation, a mentorship programme for young conductors and soloists based in Finland. Jukka-Pekka Saraste’s guest engagements have taken him to major orchestras around the world. He has developed a strong profile in opera and has enjoyed success with concert performances of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex, Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, with a stage production of Mendelssohn’s Elijah directed by Calixto Bieito, and Korngold’s Die tote Stadt at the Finnish National Opera. He has a strong relationship with works by Beethoven, Bruckner, Shostakovich, Stravinsky and Sibelius and is internationally acclaimed for his interpretations of Mahler. Born in Heinola, he began his career as a violinist before training as a conductor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Jukka-Pekka Saraste has received the Pro Finlandia Prize, the Sibelius Medal and the Finnish State Music Prize and was awarded the Finnish Lion Order in 2023.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Sara Trobäck has been Principal concertmaster of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra since 2002. She studied with Tibor Fülep at the Gothenburg Academy of Music and with György Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In connection with her graduation concert in 2001, she received the academy's prestigious Professional Diploma and the Dove Award. Sara Trobäck has also participated in master classes with Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Ruggiero Ricci and Joshua Bell. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Stockholm Sinfonietta and the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, among others. In 2010, she premiered a violin concerto by Johannes Jansson dedicated to her and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Her London debut took place in the summer of 1999 when she performed Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with the London Soloists in St Martin-in-the-Fields. Sara Trobäck has also given concerts in Scotland, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and China. In 2002 she formed Trio Poseidon together with solo cellist Claes Gunnarsson and pianist Per Lundberg. The trio has among other things recorded Beethoven's Triple Concerto. Sara Trobäck plays a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini on loan from the Järnåker Foundation.

Cellist Johan Stern is principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and teaches cello, chamber music and orchestral playing at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm and at the Juilliard School in New York. As a member of Gageego!, the Gothenburg Ensemble for New Music, he has premiered several solo works by our leading Nordic composers. Johan Stern has participated in a number of international festivals and as a soloist and chamber musician has performed with figures such as Bobby McFerrin, Edward Gardner, Petri Sakari, Kristjan Järvi, Daniel Müller-Schott and Levon Chilingirian. During his studies at Juilliard, he had the privilege of collaborating with several internationally renowned musical figures, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and composers Elliott Carter and John Cage.

Claes Gunnarsson has toured all over the world as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician and teacher. He made an early and acclaimed debut as soloist in Dvorák's Cello Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Shortly afterwards he was appointed principal cellist of the orchestra, a position he has held since 1999. As soloist, Claes has appeared in some of the world's most prestigious concert halls, including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. Petersburg Philharmonie, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Seoul Arts Center and Singapore Symphony Hall. He has also appeared at leading international festivals such as La Folle Journée in Nantes, Music@Menlo in California, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Affinis in Japan, Yuri Temirkanov's Winter Festival in St. Petersburg and the Qingdao International Cello Festival. Conductors he has collaborated with include Neeme Järvi, Kent Nagano, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Alexander Lazarev, Christian Zacharias and Christopher Warren-Green. As a chamber musician, Claes has collaborated with prominent musicians such as Leonidas Kavakos, Nikolaj Znaider, Christian Zacharias and Hélène Grimaud. Of particular significance is his nearly 25-year collaboration with violinist Sara Trobäck and pianist Per Lundberg in the piano trio Trio Poseidon. The trio has toured extensively both nationally and internationally and made a critically acclaimed recording of Beethoven's Triple Concerto and Brahms' Double Concerto together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Neeme Järvi for Chandos Records. For Chandos Records, he has also recorded Weinberg's Cello Fantasy and Cello Concerto together with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and Thord Svedlund. The recording of the cello concerto was awarded the Diapason d'Or award. He is also represented on BIS Records with the premiere recording of Albert Schnelzer's cello concerto. Claes is regularly invited as a guest solo cellist with, among others, the Oslo Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. In parallel with his concert performances, he is active as a teacher at the Academy of Drama and Music at the University of Gothenburg. Claes plays a cello built in 1707 by David Tecchler, generously on loan from the Järnåker Foundation.

Jun Sasaki is co-principal cello in Gothenburg Symphony since 2014. He was born in London and studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music with Thomas Carroll before moving to Oslo to study at Norges Musikhögskola with Truls Mørk. A prizewinner at the Royal Overseas League (UK) and Antonio Janigro (Croatia) competitions, his cello playing has led to appearances on TV and radio, and has taken him to festivals and venues across Europe and beyond - as soloist performing in venues such as the Cadogan Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Wigmore Hall, and at festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein (Germany), Edinburgh Fringe (Scotland), and Ultima (Norway). With a passion for chamber music, Jun has performed with artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes , Barbara Hannigan, Pekka Kuusisto, Corina Belcea and his teacher Truls Mørk. Jun is a member of Ensemble Caplet, as well as member of the musician community of Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.

Valses nobles et sentimentales Modéré - Assez lent - Modéré - Assez animé - Presque lent - Assez vif - Moins vif - Epilogue: Lent When Claude Debussy heard Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales in 1911 he exclaimed: "He has the finest ear anyone ever had!" Ravel was himself aware that this time he had composed something very special. "The title Noble and sentimental waltzes reveal my intentions to compose a series of waltzes such as, for example Schubert did it," wrote the composer. But there ends the innocent comparison, because these eight pieces are packed with harmonic dynamite, which when it exploded made contemporary listeners mad and upset. You can't compose like this! Debussy had only heard the original piano version, for Ravel did not write the elegant and ingenious orchestral ring until the following year. The music also came to be used for the ballet Adélaïde performed at the Châtelet in Paris on 22 April 1912 with the composer as conductor. Today we have gotten used to the piece's piquant French seasoning and can easily make us fall in love with the scents that the contemporaries were appalled by. The eight movements are played without pause and contains great contrasts in rhythmicity within the three-stroke model of the waltz. The suite ends with an epilogue, a slow, dreamy, surreal waltz where the harmonic refinement reaches its peak. Much later, in 1920, Ravel completed yet another "choreographic poem" with three measures - La Valse.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

French Marie Jacquot is chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen since 2024. She is also principal guest conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra since 2023. In 2026-2027, she will take up the position of chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. This season she made her debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House in London. She conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Filarmonica della Scala and the Tonhalle Orchestra Züric and returns to the Staatskapelle Dresden. Last season she guested with the Orchestre National de France, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and others. She also conducted the opera premiere of Guercœur at the Oper Frankfurt. Marie Jacquot was First Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf/Duisburg for three years, conducting performances such as La clemenza di Tito, Romeo and Juliet and The Nutcracker, as well as concerts with Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2016, she was assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's South Pole (directed by Hans Neuenfels), after which she was invited to conduct two world premieres at the Munich Opera Festival. She most recently guested with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra in 2023.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Valses nobles et sentimentales Modéré - Assez lent - Modéré - Assez animé - Presque lent - Assez vif - Moins vif - Epilogue: Lent When Claude Debussy heard Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales in 1911 he exclaimed: "He has the finest ear anyone ever had!" Ravel was himself aware that this time he had composed something very special. "The title Noble and sentimental waltzes reveal my intentions to compose a series of waltzes such as, for example Schubert did it," wrote the composer. But there ends the innocent comparison, because these eight pieces are packed with harmonic dynamite, which when it exploded made contemporary listeners mad and upset. You can't compose like this! Debussy had only heard the original piano version, for Ravel did not write the elegant and ingenious orchestral ring until the following year. The music also came to be used for the ballet Adélaïde performed at the Châtelet in Paris on 22 April 1912 with the composer as conductor. Today we have gotten used to the piece's piquant French seasoning and can easily make us fall in love with the scents that the contemporaries were appalled by. The eight movements are played without pause and contains great contrasts in rhythmicity within the three-stroke model of the waltz. The suite ends with an epilogue, a slow, dreamy, surreal waltz where the harmonic refinement reaches its peak. Much later, in 1920, Ravel completed yet another "choreographic poem" with three measures - La Valse.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

French Marie Jacquot is chief conductor of the Royal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen since 2024. She is also principal guest conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra since 2023. In 2026-2027, she will take up the position of chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne. This season she made her debut at the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and at the Royal Opera House in London. She conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Filarmonica della Scala and the Tonhalle Orchestra Züric and returns to the Staatskapelle Dresden. Last season she guested with the Orchestre National de France, the Oslo Philharmonic, the Hamburg Philharmonic and the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and others. She also conducted the opera premiere of Guercœur at the Oper Frankfurt. Marie Jacquot was First Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf/Duisburg for three years, conducting performances such as La clemenza di Tito, Romeo and Juliet and The Nutcracker, as well as concerts with Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra and Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2016, she was assistant to Kirill Petrenko at the Bavarian State Opera in the world premiere of Miroslav Srnka's South Pole (directed by Hans Neuenfels), after which she was invited to conduct two world premieres at the Munich Opera Festival. She most recently guested with the Göteborg Symphony Orchestra in 2023.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

Edward Gardner is principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Norwegian Opera National Opera and Ballet since 2024. He was principal conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 2015-2024. In his first season, Gardner has led the Norwegian Opera in The Flying Dutchman, Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Verdi's La Traviata and Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen. With the London Philharmonic, he performs nine concerts at the Royal Festival Hall as well as a US tour culminating in Carnegie Hall and major European cities, including Vienna, Frankfurt and Hamburg. Debuts in recent seasons include the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, the San Francisco Symphony, the Staatskapelle Berlin Orchestra, the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, and the Wiener Symphoniker. In Great Britain, he has had long-term collaborations with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Gardner founded the Hallé Youth Orchestra in 2002 and regularly conducts the National Youth Orchestra in Great Britain. Born in Gloucester in 1974, he was educated at Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music. His many honors include an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera (2009) and an OBE for Services to Music (2012).

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

The Gothenburg Symphony was formed in 1905 and today consists of 109 musicians. The orchestra's base is Gothenburg Concert Hall at Götaplatsen that has gathered music lovers since 1935. Since the 2019-2020 season, Barbara Hannigan is Principal guest conductor. We are also a proud partner of Barbara Hannigan's Equilibrium mentoring program focusing on young singers at the start of their careers. The title Principal Guest Conductor is shared by Pekka Kuusisto from 2025. Wilhelm Stenhammar was the orchestra's chief conductor from 1907 to 1922. He gave the orchestra a strong Nordic profile and invited colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to the orchestra. Under the direction of conductor Neeme Järvi from 1982-2004, the orchestra made a series of international tours as well as a hundred disc recordings and established themselves among Europe's leading orchestras. In 1996, the Swedish Riksdag appointed the Gothenburg Symphony as Sweden's National Orchestra. In recent decades, the orchestra has had prominent chief conductors such as Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Mario Venzago and Gustavo Dudamel, following Kent Nagano as Principal Guest conductor. Anna-Karin Larsson is CEO and artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel honorary conductor and Neeme Järvi chief conductor emeritus. The orchestra's owner is the Västra Götaland Region. The Gothenburg Symphony works regularly with conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt, Joana Carneiro, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Christian Zacharias and Anja Bihlmaier.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.

Peter Jablonski has performed, collaborated and recorded with the world's leading orchestras and conductors. He is among the leading pianists of his generation and is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. He was signed to Decca record label when he was 17 years old. In 2026, he performs at the Seoul Arts Centre, at concert halls in Hamamatsu and Yokohama City in Japan, and with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. In recent seasons, he has guested with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Nicholas Collon, the Royal Swedish Philharmonic with Jukka-Pekka Saraste, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra with Jonathan Nott, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Gemma New, the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra with Lukasz Borowicz, and performed at Wigmore Hall in London. Peter Jablonski records exclusively for Ondine, and his recording of piano works by Ronald Stevenson was awarded a Swedish Grammis in 2025. Recent releases include music by Grazyna Bacewicz, the complete mazurkas by Frederic Chopin, and piano concertos by André Tchaikowsky. He most recently guested with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in 2023, playing the Bacewicz piano concerto.