Göteborgs Konserthus Spring Concert with Heyward & Hardenberger

Jonathon Heyward, the young music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, takes us on a dramatic journey with spring right around the corner. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 is called the Leningrad Symphony, and it vibrates with the pain from the occupation during World War II. The symphony is a moving experience requiring the collected resources of the entire orchestra.

But before that we hear world star Håkan Hardenberger, called in the press an “undisputed master” of the trumpet, and mentioned in the same breath as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. Here he performs a rare trumpet concerto by Bernd Alois Zimmerman with influences from the big bands of the 1950s. The orchestra is also expanded with a jazz band and Hammond organ. 

Zimmerman worked his whole life to integrate free improvisation into orchestral music. The trumpet concerto Nobody knows de trouble I see from 1954 is a key work, and fundamentally a criticism of racial hatred and the mechanisms that were behind the Second World War. 

Conductor Jonathon Heyward is a star in the making. And he has an expressed mission: to play classical music that everyone can enjoy. He is the youngest music director of a large US symphony orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and a frequent guest conductor with Europe’s leading symphony orchestras.

Previously announced program has been altered. 

Come closer

Have a seat in the Great Hall an hour before the concert and let the introduction open the door to the stories behind the works, facts about the composers and personal reflections. The introduction is included in your ticket, lasts about 30 minutes and has free seating in the hall.