Lucia Concert 2017

As part of the Ukrainian Spring Festival, an evening of Finnish and Ukrainian music and poetry unfolds under Lesya Ukrainka’s words Spera spem spero (“Without hope, I hope”). Musicians from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Sibelius’s Voces Intimae and Lyatoshynsky’s String Quartet no 4.

The Classical Artist of the Year on P2 is trumpeter Elinor Bengtson, and in this concert, she will perform Alexander Arutiunian's Trumpet...

In the fifth part of Esa-Pekka Salonen's residency, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra's principal guest conductor Maxim Emelyanychev takes the podium and leads the orchestra initially in Salonen's symphonic poem and more Nyx.

Step into the meditative sound world of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, celebrating his 500th anniversary, presented here in a fusion with works...