Danish National Symphony Orchestra Season 2024-25

Season 2024 2025

The

Danish National Symphony Orchestra and The Danish National Concert Choir

Photo: Christian Larsen

Luisi & Prometheus, opening night August 2023

Photo: Christian Larsen, Sophia Germer, Bree Anne Clowdus

Luisi & Das Lied von der Erde

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIO LUISI conductor

JAMIE BARTON mezzo-soprano

JAMEZ MCCORKLE tenor

SCHUBERT

Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”

MAHLER

Das Lied von der Erde

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi open the new season with a concert in which life itself takes centre stage. In his powerful Das Lied von der Erde, Mahler’s ambition was nothing less than to touch the fullness our earthly existence offers. A combined symphony and song cycle, its texts are drawn from classical Chinese poetry, forming a sensuous, yearning and beautiful whole. The poems speak of the entire span of life, from its passages of flourishing beauty to its profound waning chapters. Both love and bitterness are given voice in this all-encompassing musical world.

To open the door to Mahler’s great work, we present Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony in all its vivid contrasts and plays of light and

shadow. Here, chamber music intimacy and full symphonic drama unite into a greater whole – a fitting prelude to Mahler’s bittersweet embrace of love, nature and life. The evening’s vocal soloists are Jamie Barton, one of today’s leading mezzo-sopranos, and rising young tenor Jamez McCorkle.

Thursday 29 August 2024 19.30

Friday 30 August 2024 19.30

T1 F2 600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Luisi & Hadelich

Thursday 5 September 2024

Friday 6 September 2024

19.30

19.30

T2 F1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Experience star soloist Augustin Hadelich with Fabio Luisi and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Brahms’ exquisitely beautiful violin concerto. After intermission comes Scriabin’s Symphony No. 3, The Divine Poem, with its soaring heights and overwhelming orchestral sound – music that rings with indescribable beauty.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIO LUISI conductor

AUGUSTIN HADELICH violin

BRAHMS

Violin concerto

SKRJABIN Symphony No. 3, The Divine Poem

”For me, the Brahms Violin Concerto is one of the most beautiful works ever written. I’m looking forward to playing it with Augustin Hadelich, who is a fantastic musician.”

ANNE MARIE KJÆRULFF violinist

Kochanovsky & Rachmaninoff

Thursday 12 September 2024

19.30

T3

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

A musical tour de force of colourful instrumentation, Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances show all sides of the orchestra. Drama and colour also rule in Leonard Bernstein’s great Serenade, a celebration of patience and love, shining all the brighter and more intensely in its demanding violin passages.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

STANISLAV KOCHANOVSKY conductor

CAROLIN WIDMANN violin

BERNSTEIN Serenade RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

“With bouncy, precise orchestral playing, Kochanovsky demonstrated his skills as a conductor.”

Augustin Hadelich

Stanislav Kochanovsky

Göteborg Symfoniorkester

Saturday 14 September 2024

14.00

L 600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

The outstanding Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and charismatic Chief Conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali present an exciting program. Young Swedish violinist Ava Bahari solos in Stravinsky’s dancing Violin Concerto, followed by Sibelius’ great Lemminkäinen Suite. Together, they’re an adventurous, majestic orchestral journey.

GOTHENBURG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI conductor

AVA BAHARI violin

MAX SAVIKANGAS War and peace (Danish premiere)

STRAVINSKIJ

Violin Concerto

SIBELIUS Lemminkäinen Suite (Four Legends from the Kalevala)

Saraste & Anne Sofie von Otter

Thursday 26 September 2024

Friday 27 September 2024

19.30

19.30

T2 F1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Bruckner inscribed his Symphony No. 3 to Richard Wagner – a fitting dedication for a symphony full of powerful brass and gorgeous strings. Conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste and The Danish National Symphony Orchestra join outstanding mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter in a song cycle by one of Sweden’s most versatile composers.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JUKKA-PEKKA SARASTE conductor

ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER mezzo-soprano

MIKAEL KARLSSON

So we will vanish (Danish premiere)

BRUCKNER

Symphony No. 3, Wagner Symphony

“Saraste led the music up to a stormy climax.”

Photo: Suxiaoyang, Riccardo Musacchio, Ewa-Marie Rundquist, PR foto, Christian Larsen Santtu-Matias Rouvali Anne Sofie von Otter

Hasan & Mozart

Thursday 10 October 2024

T1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and conductor Kerem Hasan delve into a world of beauty, memory and love. Elgar paints musical miniatures of his friends in the mysterious Enigma Variations, while Britten’s all too rarely performed Sinfonia da Requiem shows his Catholic roots. Martin Helmchen is soloist in Mozart’s expressive Piano Concerto No. 24.

THE

DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

KEREM HASAN conductor

MARTIN HELMCHEN piano

BRITTEN

Sinfonia da Requiem

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24

ELGAR Enigma Variations

Luisi & Scriabin 2

Thursday 24 October 2024

Friday 25 October 2024

T3 F2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

This concert opens with the graceful elegance of Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik, followed by two of his most virtuosic and poignant arias. Then Scriabin’s memorable Symphony No. 2 takes over, its otherworldly ecstasy and colourful orchestration teeming with powerful highlights.

THE

DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIO LUISI conductor

MARIA SCHELLENBERG mezzo-soprano

MOZART

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

MOZART

Ombra Felice

MOZART

Parto inerme, e non pavento

SCRIABIN

Symphony No. 2

Fabio Luisi

Kerem Hasan

Photo: Marco Borggreve, Christian Larsen, Christoph Koestlin

Luisi & Tchaikovsky 6 THE

FABIO LUISI conductor

BRUCE LIU piano

SCRIABIN Piano concerto

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

Tchaikovsky’s 6th symphony ‘Pathétique’ is a gripping battle of destiny. Fabio Luisi is a masterful communicator of its raw emotion and existential drama. This evening, the symphony is paired with Scriabin’s virtuosic and expressive Piano Concerto, featuring rising star Bruce Liu as piano soloist. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 was to be his final work, and there is a sense of destiny about the whole piece. Emotions run high from the mysterious opening until the music retreats into the heartbreakingly beautiful darkness of the last movement. Tchaikovsky himself said that he put his whole soul into this symphony. It stands as one of his most personal and emotional works.

Chopinesque elegance, personal introspection and heartfelt beauty. Tonight’s soloist is Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 2021 International Chopin Competition. After his victory, he was hailed as one of the foremost Chopin pianists of our time – the perfect starting point for Scriabin’s elegant and charming masterpiece.

Only three years later, Alexander Scriabin wrote his only piano concerto which, like much of his early piano music, is imbued with Thursday

Peltokoski & Zarathustra

Thursday 14 November 2024

Friday 15 November 2024

T3 F1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Music grapples with life when young conducting comet Tarmo Peltokoski gives his debut concert in Denmark. Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra opens with its overwhelming sunrise fanfare and ends in metaphysical ecstasy and unfathomable questions about existence. In Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 14, life and death revolve in an ever stronger embrace.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

TARMO PELTOKOSKI conductor

MIINA-LIISA VÄRELÄ soprano

MIKA KARES bass

STRAUSS

Also sprach Zarathustra SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 14

Lausanne

Chamber Orchestra & Mozart

Saturday 16 November 2024

Renaud Capuçon

14.00

L

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

In the Danish press, French violinist Renaud Capuçon has been called a “miracle worker”. Now, he is back at DR Koncerthuset as both conductor and soloist, leading his own ensemble, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. On the program is Mozart’s triumphant Violin Concerto no. 5 and Beethoven’s bright and humorous Symphony no. 2.

LAUSANNE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

RENAUD CAPUÇON conductor and violin

MOZART

Overture to Cosi fan tutte

MOZART

Violin Concerto No. 5

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 2

“The Danish National Symphony Orchestra plays with a fabulous unanimity of attack and articulation (…) The character of the playing is consistently impressive.”

Tarmo Peltokoski

De Niese & Dido and Aeneas

T1 F2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

With rare artistic range and unique on-stage charisma, soprano Danielle de Niese performs for the first time with The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, appearing as two of the most remarkable female characters in the operatic literature. She is Dido in Purcell’s baroque tragedy and is sisters Anna and Anna in Weill’s sharp, cabaret-inspired satire, still so resonant in our own time. Both opera performances are presented in concert versions.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MALMÖ OPERA CHOIR

GEOFFREY PATERSON conductoro

DANIELLE DE NIESE sopran

JÓHANN KRISTINSSON baritone

JULIE ROSET soprano

JASMIN WHITE alto

PURCELL

Dido and Aeneas

WEILL

The Seven Deadly Sins

Brahms & Debussy

T2 F1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

The way to truly experience Brahms and Debussy is with full orchestra and chorus. As the dark glow of the alto blends with the men’s voices of the Danish National Concert Choir, the otherworldly beauty of Brahms’ Altrapsodi comes alive. In Debussy’s Nocturnes, the women’s voices embody the sirens of Greek mythology.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE DANISH NATIONAL CONCERT CHOIR

DANIELE RUSTIONI conductor

MARIE-NICOLE LEMIEUX alto

BRAHMS

Nänie and Alto rhapsody

DEBUSSY

Nocturnes and La mer

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Danielle de Niese

Photo: Peter Rigaud, Chris Dunlop, Genevieve Lesieur, PR foto

Honeck & Mozart Great Mass in C minor

Onsdag 18 December 2024 20.00

Thursday 19 December 2024 19.30

T2 600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

This year’s December concert with the Danish National Concert Choir and the Danish National Symphony Orchestra is Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor, a work with some of the most extraordinary arias and magnificent choral parts in musical history.

Mozart never completed his Great Mass, yet it stands as one of his most enchanting works. At the first performance, his wife Constanze was one of the soprano soloists, singing the divinely beautiful Et incarnatus est, an aria that makes time stand still. Our concert hall will feature American soprano Liv Redpath, who has previously impressed with her remarkably clear voice.

The conductor for the evening is our regular guest from Austria, the sought-after conductor Manfred Honeck.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE DANISH NATIONAL CONCERT CHOIR

MANFRED HONECK conductor LIV REDPATH soprano

CHRISTIANE KARG soprano

HAYDN Symphony No. 93

MOZART Great Mass in C minor

New Year’s Gala

Monday 30 December 2024 15.00

Monday 30 December 2024 18.30

Tuesday 31 December 2024 13.00

Tuesday 31 December 2024 16.15

1.150, 1.125, 1.050, 850, 675, 575 kr.

True to tradition, the DR Symphony Orchestra invites you to a New Year’s gala at Koncerthuset. Along with delicate canapés and bubbles, enjoy gourmet musical gems from the UK’s amazing Emma Smith. Her jazzy delights are guaranteed to melt any New Year’s heart. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra is in a festive mood and will, of course, perform classic New Year’s tunes – as tradition dictates.

Join us to ring in New Year’s Eve 2025!

THE

DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EMMA SMITH solist

Photo: Felix Broede, Christian Larsen

A Century of Symphonic Sound for All

When DR was founded in 1925, all Danes were given the opportunity to experience live classical music through the new medium of that time.

It began with a trio and a single radio channel. But over time, DR has evolved into a modern media organization with its own choirs and orchestras available to everyone in the best sound and image quality.

Since the beginning, The Danish National Symphony Orchestra has had an international reach and has brought Danish music to the world through international tours, broadcasts and releases.

Today, The Danish National Symphony Orchestra belongs to all of Denmark, as well as being one of Europe’s leading orchestras, passionate about bringing music to life and sharing it with everyone who wants to experience the magic of great symphonic music.

We look forward to sharing music with you for many years to come.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra 100 years

Luisi & Mahler 1

Thursday 9 January 2025

19.30

T3

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Mahler’s music is at the heart of our repertoire. So as a prelude to our anniversary tour, we’ll play his mighty 1st Symphony. Paired with Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto, the stage is set for a dazzling evening of sparkling virtuosity, lyrical performances and great drama from both the orchestra and pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in “Rach 3”.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIO LUISI conductor

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano

BENT SØRENSEN Evening Land

RACHMANINOFF

Piano Concerto No. 3

MAHLER

Symphony No. 1, Titan

“There are some fantastic works we’ll be playing in January - both on tour and at DR Koncerthuset. Mahler is one of my favourite composers, and his 1st symphony is truly a star work.”

KATARZYNA BUGALA viola player

Luisi & Nielsen 4

Friday 10 January 2025

19.30

F1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra previews its anniversary tour, starting with Bent Sørensen’s tender, compact Evening Land tone paintings. These are followed by the explosive virtuosity of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Chief Conductor Fabio Luisi also tackles Nielsen’s ‘inextinguishable’ 4th Symphony with its overwhelming, raw musical vitality.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIO LUISI conductor

KHATIA BUNIATISHVILI piano

BENT SØRENSEN Evening Land

RACHMANINOFF

Piano concerto No. 3

NIELSEN

Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable

“Luisi built the music up to a level of cosmic transcendence.”

Khatia Buniatishvili Fabio Luisi

Fröst & The Swedish Chamber Orchestra Kochanovsky & Kavakos

2025

T2

Symphony No. 40 Thursday 23

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

After last season’s success, the phenomenal Martin Fröst and his Swedish Chamber Orchestra appear at Koncerthuset once again. They return with a charming Mozart program in which American Eric Lu is the soloist in the beloved Piano Concerto No. 21, “Elvira Madigan”. After the intermission, great drama awaits in Mozart’s intense Symphony No. 40.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

MARTIN FRÖST conductor

ERIC LU piano

MOZART

Overture to the Marriage of Figaro

MOZART

Piano Concerto No. 21, Elvira Madigan

MOZART

T1 F2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Shostakovich is a composer of great contrasts. In this concert, the beautiful, singing Violin Concerto No. 2 is set against his powerful, multifaceted Symphony No. 12, commemorating the Russian Revolution. This evening’s star violinist is Sonning Prize winner Leonidas Kavakos, one of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s regular guest soloists.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

STANISLAV KOCHANOVSKY conductor

LEONIDAS KAVAKOS violin

SHOSTAKOVICH

Violin Concerto No. 2

SHOSTAKOVICH

Symphony No. 12

“Shostakovich is beautiful, difficult and wonderful to play! It’s incredibly well suited to our orchestra, and when we have a conductor like Kochanovsky at the helm, it’s very special indeed.”

THOMAS RØISLAND principal tubist

“Fabio Luisi directs his troops with such confidence, the musicians perform luxuriously throughout.”

Martin Fröst Leonidas Kavakos

Photo: Ester Haase, Per Morten Abrahamsen, Mats Bäcker, Marco Borggreve, Christian Larsen

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE DANISH NATIONAL CONCERT CHOIR

THE COPENHAGEN BOYS’ CHOIR

MARTINA BATIČ conductor

HANNE KUHLMANN organ

DÉNISE BECK soprano

MORTEN GROVE FRANDSEN countertenor

JÓHANN KRISTINSSON baritone POULENC

Organ concerto ORFF

Carmina Burana

This will be a magnificent choral celebration, guaranteed to send shivers down your spine.

The Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir perform Carl Orff’s thrilling Carmina Burana under the direction of Martina Batič.

The goddess of fate, Fortuna, is both praised and condemned in the magnificent opening chorus, followed by rowdy songs, beautiful declarations of love and even a swan being burned alive!

Carmina Burana is a celebration of spring, encapsulating dancing and drunkenness, desire and rejection, devotion and love. The

work has no distinct plot, but the texts form a cross-section of lived experience, as rich and varied today as in the Middle Ages.

Orff’s music is full of colourful orchestration and pulsating rhythms, with orchestral and choral voices providing intimate, unspeakably beautiful moments that can bring both chills and tears.

Thursday 27 February 2025 19.30

Friday 28 February 2025 19.30

Saturday 1 March 2025 14.00

T3 L 600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

De la Parra & The Impossible Symphony

Thursday 13 March 2025

Saturday 15 March 2025

19.30

14.00

T1 L

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Renowned Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has built a close relationship with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Experience her infectious energy and captivating command of the colourful Sinfonía Imposible, featuring a number of the orchestra’s musicians as soloists. The concert opens with Gershwin’s jazzy piano concerto, featuring French pianist Thomas Enhco.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ALONDRA DE LA PARRA conductor

THOMAS ENHCO piano

GERSHWIN

Piano Concerto in F major ARTURO MÁRQUEZ Sinfonía Imposible

Luisi & Ein Heldenleben

Thursday 20 March 2025 19.30

Friday 21 March 2025 19.30

T2 F2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Richard Strauss’ unique tone poem Ein Heldenleben is the ultimate in musical autobiography. The composer himself is the hero, but not without a twinkle in his eye and some of his most delicious and sumptuous music. The evening begins with another musical memoir –Beethoven’s brilliant Piano Concerto No. 1. The young composer beautifully acknowledges his debt to Haydn and Mozart while introducing his own innovative ideas.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

FABIO LUISI conductor

PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI piano

BEETHOVEN

Piano concerto No. 1

STRAUSS

Ein Heldenleben

“Alondra de la Parra raised the roof at Koncerthuset.”

Alondra de la Parra

Heyward & The Planets

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

THE DANISH NATIONAL CONCERT CHOIR

JONATHON HEYWARD conductor

JESS GILLAM saxophone

JAMES LEE III

Sukkot Through Orion’s Nebula (Danish premiere)

ANNA CLYNE Glasslands (Danish premiere)

HOLST The Planets

Eight planets and two of our brightest young classical stars. In Holst’s The Planets, conductor Jonathon Heyward takes us through the solar system and the human mind. Before this, we hear the Danish premiere of one the most exciting new US composers, James Lee III, charting his own space odyssey.

“Gilliam strikes gold!” writes The Guardian about Jess Gilliam’s latest album, which went to number one in the classical charts. The dynamic UK saxophonist shakes the walls in her DR debut.

Thursday 27 March 2025 19.30

Friday 28 March 2025 19.30

T3 F1

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Tausk & Sibelius 1

Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 with its elongated melodies and explosive outbursts is the Finnish composer at his most romantic and yearning. Big emotions also await in the world premiere of Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen’s new violin concerto, written specifically for this evening’s expressive soloist Simone Lamsma.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

OTTO TAUSK conductor

SIMONE LAMSMA violin

AGERFELDT OLESEN

Violin concerto (World premiere)

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1

Popelka & Smetana

My Fatherland, Smetana’s national epic, is famous for its captivating melodies and sumptuous tone paintings. Here, Czech conductor Petr Popelka embarks on a tour of his homeland including an imposing castle, vast forests, dramatic battles and the mighty Moldau flowing through it all.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

PETR POPELKA conductor

SMETANA My Fatherland

“DR’s Thursday Concerts are now bigger, more ambitious and of a higher quality than ever. There is nothing in Denmark that comes close to the Thursday Concerts.

Simone Lamsma Petr Popelka

Photo: Cicero Rodrigues, Chris Christodoulou, Otto van den Toorn, Vojtech Brtnicky

Blomstedt & Beethoven 7

Thursday 8 May 2025 19.30

Friday 9 May 2025 19.30

T3 F2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

The legendary Herbert Blomstedt returns. As Honorary Conductor, his interpretations let the music speak from the heart, revealing deeply personal beauty. Now he’s back with Beethoven’s divinely dancing Symphony No. 7. After Blomstedt’s last visit, one of our musicians said, “It’s as if your heart has grown a little bigger.”

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

HERBERT BLOMSTEDT conductor

MOZART Symphony No. 38, Prague

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

“Working with Herbert Blomstedt is so life affirming. His energy and joy in music are infectious, and at the same time we always learn something new about the works he conducts.”

SVEN BULLER oboist

Kuusisto & Ravel

Thursday 15 May 2025 19.30

Friday 16 May 2025 19.30

Colourful music and fairy-tale beauty await when conductor Pekka Kuusisto presents a concert of stories, new and old. Ravel famously reimagines Mother Goose in Ma mère l’Oye, while in Andrea Tarrodi’s Camelopardalis, it’s the giraffe whose beautiful, melancholic song is heard. Then in Register, listen for the hidden nugget of an early pavane, recast in the many timbres of American composer Nico Muhly’s organ concerto.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

PEKKA KUUSISTO conductor

JAMES MCVINNIE organ

ANDREA TARRODI

Camelopardalis (Danish premiere)

NICO MUHLEY Register (Danish premiere)

RAVEL

Ma mère l’Oye

“This orchestra lives its heritage.”

Pekka Kuusisto

Herbert Blomstedt

Ollikainen & Sibelius 2

T2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

Finnish Conductor Eva Ollikainen unleashes powerful musical forces in her debut concert with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 reaches for light and freedom, while Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s Catamorphosis describes, with both tenderness and ferocity, nature gripped by the climate crisis.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EVA OLLIKAINEN conductor

JAMES EHNES violin

THORVALDSDÓTTIR

Catamorphosis (Danish premiere)

BARBER

Violin concerto

SIBELIUS Symphony No. 2

Hannigan & Girl Crazy

T3 F2

600, 560, 510, 410, 300, 190 kr.

The exceptional Barbara Hannigan is both conductor and vocal soloist in a program that crosses genre boundaries and musical eras. The concert opens with a new work by Iranian Golfram Khayam, in which improvisation and reflection take centre stage. It concludes with Gershwin’s joyous music from the musical Girl Crazy.

THE DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

BARBARA HANNIGAN

soprano and conductor

GOLFAM KHAYAM

Je ne suis pas une fable à conter

RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER

Andante for strings

CHARLES IVES

Three Places in New England

AARON COPLAND

Dance Symphony

GERSHWIN

Girl Crazy suite

“Barbara Hannigan always opens the door to a new world. She makes us musicians curious and playful, and her programs are very well thought through. It’s a total experience!”

SOO-KYUNG HONG principal cellist

Eva Ollikainen Barbara Hannigan

Photo: PR foto, Kaapo Kamu, Nikolaj Lund, Marco Borggreve, Christian Larsen, Kim Matthai Leland

The concert activities of the Danish National Symphony Orchestras are made possible via support from, among others A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond Til Almene Formaal, Fondation Caris, Carl Nielsen og

Anne Marie

Carl-Nielsens Legat, Aage og Johanne

Louis-Hansens Fond, Augustinus Fonden, Beckett-Fonden, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Léonie Sonnings Musikfond.

FABIO LUISI Chief Conductor

KIM BOHR Head of DR Koncerthuset, Living Music and P2

TATJANA KANDEL Head of Artistic Planning

JAKOB HOLTZE Head of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra’s development and operating

CECILIE ROSENMEIER Editor

LEA STRÖMGREN Editor

JESS JENSEN & CARINA SCHWAKE

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