Family concert: Pictures at an Exhibition

Event has already taken place. Join the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Sara Edwardsson and Ylva Hällen on a pompous promenade and let art and music take you places you could only ever dream of. For children aged 5-8.

Concert length: 45 min Scene: Stora salen

215-255 SEK Children 107-127 SEK Student 107-127 SEK

Saturday 25 September 2021 15.00 — Event has already taken place

Programme & Participants

Event has already taken place

Due to current restrictions, we can only welcome a very limited audience for the concerts in September. This means that all subscription seats for this concert will be redeemed and the money will be refunded. We are sorry that this affects you and we do everything we can to get back to a normal situation as quickly as possible where you obviously have your booked chairs and can look forward to a safe experience in the Concert Hall. The single tickets for the limited salons will be released on the season’s big ticket release on August 28 at 11.00. As usual, you as a subscriber have 24 hours online priority via your web profile.

Join us for an art walk in the Great Hall! A musical painting of a composer’s experience when he saw a series of remarkable pictures at an exhibition in St. Petersburg in 1874.

Sara Edwardsson and Ylva Hällen guide us through art and music. But what did these paintings actually look like? In many cases, Ylva and the audience get to decide for themselves… Artworks take shape right in front of you during this concert while you listen to our lively orchestra.

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Programme

Musorgskij Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Goehr) 25 min

Participants

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

The Gothenburg Symphony, called "one of the world's most formidable orchestras" by the Guardian, has toured the USA, Europe, Japan and the Far East and performed at major music centres and festivals throughout the world. Chief conductor is Santtu-Matias Rouvali who started his tenure in 2017. Barbara Hannigan and Christoph Eschenbach are principal guest conductors since 2019. Already at the orchestra's very first years, the great Swedish composer Wilhelm Stenhammar was appointed principal conductor, contributing strongly to the Nordic profile of the orchestra by inviting his colleagues Carl Nielsen and Jean Sibelius to conduct their own works. Subsequent holders of the post include Sergiu Comissiona, Sixten Ehrling and Charles Dutoit. During Neeme Järvi's tenure (1982-2004), the orchestra became a major international force. In 1997 it was appointed the National Orchestra of Sweden. During his celebrated tenure as music director (2007-2012), Gustavo Dudamel took the Orchestra to major music centres and festivals in Europe, making acclaimed appearances at BBC Proms and Vienna Musikverein. The list of prominent guest conductors has included Wilhelm Furtwängler, Pierre Monteux, Herbert von Karajan, Myung-Whun Chung, Herbert Blomstedt and Sir Simon Rattle. The orchestra also runs extensive concert projects for children, and regularly releases digital live concerts free on gsoplay.se. The orchestra has been involved in many prestigious recording projects, the latest one the complete Sibelius Symphonies with Santtu-Matias Rouvali for Alpha Classics. Earlier, the orchestra has issued over 100 recordings on BIS, Deutsche Grammophon, Chandos, Farao Classics and several other labels. The Gothenburg Symphony is owned by the Region Västra Götaland.

Gudrun Dahlkvist conductor

Ylva Hällen presenter

Sara Edwardsson presenter