This concert has been canceled - The Swedish Radio Choir interprets Schumann

Schumann’s romantic sounds meet Toshio Hosokawa’s minimalism when the Radio Choir, led by Chief Conductor Kaspars Putniņš, invites you to a December concert in the Engelbrektskyrkan Church. Schumann’s choral piece Die Lotosblume, with lyrics by poet Heinrich Heine, has at times been interpreted as a reflection of Schumann’s secret love for his future wife Clara. In 2006, Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa wrote a modern-day paraphrase of Schumann’s piece, in which the music is permeated by Buddhism’s idea of the lotus flower as a symbol of transcendence.