FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Through the 2021 Baltic Sea Festival, the theme of rebirth runs between the programme and connects music and talks. Welcome to Berwaldhallen or experience the festival via our livestream.
OPENING CONCERT 2021 / CARSTEN JENSEN
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 9 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
Tonight’s guests in the Baltic Sea Studio are Berwaldhallen´s General Manager Staffan Becker, Head of Artistic planning Christian Thompson, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, psychiatrist Ullakarin Nyberg and musicians. Today’s host is Erik Blix. The broadcast is in English and starts at 17.45 CET.
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CARSTEN JENSEN ABOUT EXERCISES IN GOODBYES
How can the aftermath of the pandemic contribute to increased awareness of how to secure a sustainable future for coming generations? Meet author Carsten Jensen in conversation with Berwaldhallen’s Josef Beltzikoff, broadcast from the National Library of Denmark, the Black Diamond, in Copenhagen.
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Opening concert
Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra offers a magnificent opening concert for the Baltic Sea Festival 2021.
19:00MALIN BROMAN & FRIENDS / NOBODY LEFT BEHIND
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 10 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
Tonight’s guests in the Baltic Sea studio are Berwaldhallen’s Head of Artistic planning Christian Thompson, Andreas Rosén from El Sistema, composer Britta Byström and Concert Master Malin Broman. Today’s host is Erik Blix. The broadcast is in English and starts at 17.45 CET.
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NOBODY LEFT BEHIND
How can we build a sustainable society with the help of culture, after the pandemic? Ahmed Abdirahman, founder of the Järva Week, meets Johanna Koljonen in a conversation from Kista Library – the Baltic Sea Festival’s new collaboration partner.
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MALIN BROMAN & FRIENDS
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster, Malin Broman, leads some of our time’s top instrumentalists in Mendelssohn’s String Octet – and two world premieres by Britta Byström.
19:00MÄKELÄ & MATTEI / ART AS RESISTANCE
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 11 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
Tonight’s guests in the Baltic Sea studio are Stefan Ingvarsson, journalist, Astrid Menasanch Tobiesen, director/playwright and musicians. Today’s host is Erik Blix. The broadcast is in English and starts at 17.45 CET.
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ART AS RESISTANCE
In today’s talk from Gdańsk, we meet authors Jacek Dehnel and Piotr Tarczyński in a conversation about artistic creation in a time and society that is pervaded by borders – brought about both by the pandemic and Poland’s political sanctions.
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MÄKELÄ & MATTEI
Principal Guest Conductor Klaus Mäkelä leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Choir, world-renowned baritone Peter Mattei, and legendary cellist Miklós Perényi in a concert in which Stravinsky meets Bach.
19:00A MUSICAL JOURNEY WITH NILS HOLGERSSON / YOUNG MUSIC & SUSTAINABILITY
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 12 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
The afternoon’s guests in the Baltic Sea studio are violinist Justina Auškelytė Rossi, Max Låke from Unga tankar om musik, Susanne Nyman, former chairman of the Selma Lagerlöf Society, Hugo Ticciati, Artistic Director of O/Modernt and Emma Nyberg, project manager of the Baltic Sea Festival. Today’s host is Estrid Holm. The broadcast is in English and starts at 13.45 CET.
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YOUNG MUSIC & SUSTAINABILITY
Today’s talk is broadcast from the Modern Art Museum in Vilnius, and focusses on young people’s thoughts on music and sustainability, with this year’s festival theme – rebirth – as the starting point. In the conversation, we meet Marta Finkelštein and Sandra Galdikaitė, who both work with issues concerning man’s relationship with music and nature.
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A musical journey with Nils Holgersson
The Baltic Sea Festival invites the whole family on a musical journey with Selma Lagerlöf’s fairy tale character Nils Holgersson, O/Modernt New Generation Orchestra, students from Lilla Akademien and conductor Hugo Ticciati.
15:00THE BALTIC SEASONS / NEW START FOR CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 16 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
Tonight’s guests in the Baltic Sea studio are America Vera-Zavala, playwright/director, Thomas Andrén, associate professor of marine Quaternary geology, Maria Wolrath-Söderberg, associate professor of rhetoric. Today’s host is Malin Jacobson-Båth. The broadcast is in English and starts at 17.45 CET.
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New start for cross-border cooperation
In today’s talk from Hanaholmen in Helsinki, the Swedish journalist Erik Blix talks to Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto upon the theme of rebirth.
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THE BALTIC SEASONS
Music Director Kaspars Putniņš leads The Swedish Radio Choir in a concert where the world premiere of a new choral piece by Jan Sandström is framed by Kaija Saariaho’s electro-poetic universe and Pēteris Vasks’ captivating tonal landscape.
19:00THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST / OUR JOINT RESPONSIBILITY
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 17 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
Tonight’s guests in the Baltic Sea studio are Awad Olwan, imam and initiator of God’s House, Fisksätra, Helene Egnell from Center for religious dialogue, playwright Magnus Lindman and musicians. Today’s host is Malin Jacobson-Båth. The broadcast is in English and starts at 17.45 CET.
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OUR JOINT RESPONSIBILITY
How do we take personal and collective responsibility for creating a society that we want? Swedish author and journalist Elisabeth Åsbrink meets Norwegian political scientist and author Jörgen Watne Frydnes in a conversation about responsibility. Both have experience of working with human rights issues. Åsbrink has written noted books such as Och i Wienerwald står träden kvar (And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain), 1947 and Ӧvergivenheten (Abandonment), and Watne Frydnes, recently in the news with his book Ingen mann er en øy (No Man Is an Island), has, over the past decade, worked with rebuilding Utøya after the terrorist attack in 2011. The talk is broadcast from Voksenåsen in Oslo, and moderated by Jenny Roosqvist, journalist at Swedish Radio.
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THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST
Joseph Haydn’s beautiful meditations on the seven words uttered by Jesus on the cross are performed by the multi-award-winning Stenhammar Quartet. The music is interwoven with observations mirroring different conceptions of life.
19:00HANDEL’S MESSIAH / THE BOOK OF THE SEA
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The Baltic Sea Festival’s closing fanfare
The Baltic Sea Festival’s closing fanfare on the roof of Berwaldhallen. Music: Chris Parkes.
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BALTIC SEA STUDIO SEP 18 - DIGITAL BROADCAST
Tonight’s guests in the Baltic Sea studio are Berwaldhallen´s General Manager Staffan Becker, Head of Artistic planning Christian Thompson, sound artist Åsa Stjerna and musicians. Today’s host is Malin Jacobson-Båth. The broadcast is in English and starts at 17.45 CET.
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THE BOOK OF THE SEA
Meet composer Raimonds Tiguls and author Nora Ikstena, two of Latvia’s most influential cultural figures, in conversation about oratorio The Book of the Sea. The moderator is Fredrik Wadström, correspondent for Swedish Radio. The talk is broadcast from Riga.
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The Baltic Sea Festival’s closing fanfare
The Baltic Sea Festival’s closing fanfare on the roof of Berwaldhallen. Music: Chris Parkes.
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MESSIAH
Conductor Reinhard Goebel leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Swedish Radio Choir, and soloists in Georg Friedrich Handel’s masterful oratorio Messiah – a magnificent finale of the Baltic Sea Festival 2021.
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