Swedish Radio Choir: Sandström in Memoriam
Sven-David Sandström would have been eighty years old on 30 October 2022. In this tribute to the composer, the Swedish Radio Choir interprets his Sonnets of Darkness and Love – with texts borrowed from the Song of Songs, Shakespeare, Lorca and Nietzsche – together with the star trombonist and vocalist Nils Landgren. We will also be hearing the choir in a work by the winner of the Sven-David Sandström Choral Composition Awards, Matthew Peterson. Here performed for the first time. The concert is conducted by principal conductor Kaspar Putniņš.
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Berwaldhallen
1 h 30 min (no intermission)
This production is part of one or more concert series.
The concert will be broadcast on Sveriges Radio P2 and on Berwaldhallen Play November 11 at 7pm.
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