Kategori: Past events

  • 25 February 18.00: String orchestra and piano

    25 February 18.00: String orchestra and piano

    The string orchestra SoFo Chamber Orchestra, led by Staffan Mårtensson, and the pianist Bengt Forsberg play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414, Gerald Finzi’s Eclogue and Josef Suk’s Serenade for Strings in E flat major, Op. 6 The concert is sponsored by Region Stockholm

  • 18 February at 18.00: Vera Talerko and Matti Hirvonen – soprano and piano

    18 February at 18.00: Vera Talerko and Matti Hirvonen – soprano and piano

    Matti is one of Sweden’s foremost ”collaborating pianists”, known for enjoying collaborations with singers and other instrumentalists. In Oslo, he also has a professorship with that focus. He has performed in Allhelgonakyrkan many times and proposed this year’s winner of the Stenhammer competition in Norrköping as a guest soloist. She comes from Latvia but was […]

  • 21 January 18.00 Cello and piano in Swedish

    21 January 18.00 Cello and piano in Swedish

    The violoncello is often called the instrument that most resembles the human voice. If that is true, we now get the chance to hear a cello speak Swedish during an entire concert! Chrichan Larsson searched inspiration early on from masters like Rostropovich and from contemporary composers in Sweden and abroad – he himself also writes music. […]

  • 30 December 18.00: Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus

    30 December 18.00: Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus

    Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) wrote his great suite for solo piano Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus in 1944 while Paris was liberated from the Germans. The title can be translated Twenty Views of the Child Jesus but literally means Twenty Looks at the Child Jesus, and most of the twenty movements are called something with Regard: […]

  • 10 December 18.00: César Franck bicentennial

    10 December 18.00: César Franck bicentennial

    On the actual birthday we celebrate César Franck, Belgium’s greatest composer, sometimes also counted as French because he lived in Paris for more than fifty years. Tale Olsson, violin, Erik Wahlgren, cello and Bengt Forsberg, piano, play his opus 1, a piano trio, but we also hear them two at a time and Bengt as […]

  • 3 December at 18.00: Christmas concert 2022

    3 December at 18.00: Christmas concert 2022

    Known and unknown Christmas songs are interspersed with music by, among others, Bach, Reger and Kurt Noack, as well as the beloved Koppången. The performers are the soprano Sofie Asplund, the baritone Jeremy Carpenter, the pianist Bengt Forsberg and the organist Mats G. Eriksson on the organ of Allhelgonakyrkan. As in previous years, our host […]

  • 20221008 Duo Julia & Theo

    20221008 Duo Julia & Theo

    Julia Isaksson and Theo Hillborg won the The Chamber Music Association’s Young & Promising 2021 competition and our concert is part of their Sweden tour. The jury’s reasoning was: ”With a natural artistry that arouses curiosity and broadens the listeners’ horizons, Duo Julia & Theo offers music that moves seamlessly between genres. The performance is […]

  • 29 October at 18.00: Romantic clarinet and soprano

    29 October at 18.00: Romantic clarinet and soprano

    Are we in a Stockholm drawing-room in 1830? The solo clarinetist in the Royal Swedish Orchestra, Staffan Mårtensson, and the soprano Jessica Elevant are guests of pianist Bengt Forsberg, and there is even a string quartet here! Bernhard Crusell’s aria with obligate clarinet from his opera ”Den lilla slavinnan”, Carl Maria von Weber’s clarinet quintet, […]