Oratorio by Handel
Berwaldhallen welcomes baroque specialist Emmanuelle Haïm, internationally known soloist and leader of the Le Concert d’Astrée ensemble, here with Handel’s the Triumph of Time and Truth.
Conductor and harpsichordist Emmanuelle Haïm has previously visited Drottningholm’s Castle Theatre, and worked with Swedish baroque stars. Early music and baroque are Haïm’s specialist areas, and when she makes her Berwaldhallen debut, she’s accompanied by an ensemble from the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and baroque soprano Sandrine Piau, one of Haïm’s recurring colleagues, among others. Handel’s very first oratorio, Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno or the Triumph of Time and Truth, is also known for the Lascia la Spina aria, which the composer reused several years later in an opera – then entitled Lascia ch’io Pianga.
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The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is known worldwide as one of Europe’s most versatile orchestras with an exciting and varied repertoire and a constant striving to break new ground. The orchestra’s high-quality music making as well as its collaborations with internationally renowned composers, conductors and soloists have been rewarded with numerous prizes and accolades.
Permanent home of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 1979 is Berwaldhallen, the Swedish Radio’s concert hall. In addition to the seated audience, the orchestra reaches millions of listeners on the radio and the web through Klassiska konserten i P2. Several concerts are also broadcast and streamed on Berwaldhallen Play and in Swedish Television, offering the audience more opportunities to come as close as possible to one of the world’s top orchestras.
“The orchestra has a unique combination of humility, sensibility and musical imagination”, says Daniel Harding, Music Director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra since 2007. “I have never had a concert with the orchestra where they haven’t played as though their lives depended on it!” The orchestra is also proud to have Klaus Mäkelä as its Principal Guest Conductor since 2018.
The first radio orchestra was founded in 1925, the same year that the Swedish Radio Service began its broadcasts. The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra received its current name in 1967. Through the years, the orchestra has had several distinguished Music Directors. Two of them, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been appointed Conductors Laureate, as well as Valery Gergiev, a regular guest conductor and co-founder of the Baltic Sea Festival.
