Name: Also Sprach Zarathustra
Start: 2025-06-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-06-07T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall)

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Konserthuset Stockholm

Conductor

Ryan Bancroft

Orchestra

Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Piano

Also Sprach Zarathustra

Stockholm

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Konserthus

Stora salen

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Held By Threads

Piano Concerto in D-flat Major, op. 38

Thus spoke Zarathustra, op. 30

Sharan Allad

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Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall)

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The Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's music is familiar to many from the delightful Sabre Dance of the ballet Gayane, and the Adagio from the ballet Spartacus, from which the swooning theme music for the TV series The Onedin Line was borrowed. Khachaturian unquestionably wrote music that captivates listeners.

Unfortunately, his other works have rarely been performed at Konserthuset. Here, it is Jean-Yves Thibaudet who takes on the vibrant and powerful piano concerto, with a beautifully flowing and dreamlike middle movement where the strings are accompanied by a flexatone (imagine playing on a saw!). The distinguished French pianist Thibaudet has been a champion of Khachaturian's music for many years.

Chief Conductor Ryan Bancroft then leads the orchestra in the classic Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This tone poem, with its powerful – not to mention iconic – opening, is inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel. It is well known, of course, that Strauss's music was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, but Stanley Kubrick actually also placed music from Khachaturian's ballet Gayane in the same film.

The concert opens with the world premiere of a newly written work by the young Swedish composer Zacharias Wolfe (born 1996). Here begins a new collaboration with the Royal College of Music in Stockholm: each season a newly written work by a master's student will be performed. Wolfe's orchestral work Held by Threads is the first.

English

Den armeniske tonsättaren Aram Chatjaturjans musik känner många igen från den härliga Sabeldans ur baletten Gajane och från baletten Spartacus, varifrån den smäktande vinjettmusiken till tv-serien Onedinlinjen hämtades. Chatjaturjan skrev onekligen musik som fångar lyssnare. 

Hans övriga verk har dessvärre sällan framförts i Konserthuset. Här är det Jean-Yves Thibaudet som tar sig an den urhäftiga och kraftfulla pianokonserten, med en läckert flytande och drömlik mellansats där stråkarna får sällskap av en flexatone (tänk spel på såg!). Den framstående franske pianisten Thibaudet har i många år varit en förkämpe för Chatjaturjans musik.

Kungliga Filharmonikernas chefdirigent Ryan Bancroft leder sedan orkestern i klassikern Also sprach Zarathustra av Richard Strauss. Den här tondikten, med sin mäktiga – för att inte säga ikoniska – inledning är inspirerad av Friedrich Nietzsches filosofiska roman. Det är förstås välkänt att Strauss musik användes i filmen 2001 – ett rymdäventyr, men Stanley Kubrick placerade faktiskt även musik ur Chatjaturjans balett Gajane i samma film.

Konserten inleds med uruppförandet av ett nyskrivet verk av den unge svenske tonsättaren Zacharias Wolfe (född 1996). Här inleds ett nytt samarbete med Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm: varje säsong framförs ett nyskrivet verk av en masterstudent. Wolfes orkesterverk Held by Threads är först ut.

svenska

Also Sprach Zarathustra by Wolfe, Z., Khachaturian, A., Strauss, Thu 05 Jun 2025, From (2025/2025), Conductor Ryan Bancroft, Konserthuset (Stockholm Concert Hall), Stockholm, Sweden

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