Våreld with Orozco-Estrada & Byström

Spring is kindled at Berwaldhallen as Chief Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir in a programme ranging from Swedish Walpurgis Night romance to a dramatic musical celebration. Helena Munktell’s Valborgsmässoeld opens the concert with a sparkling choral and orchestral sound, before Artist in Residence Malin Byström steps forward in the intense finale from Richard Strauss’s opera Capriccio. After the interval comes the Swedish premiere of a suite from Mark Anthony Turnage’s Festen—the orchestra’s co-commission—and, as the culmination, Mendelssohn’s Die Erste Walpurgisnacht, where myth, vocal power and the shadows of a spring night meet in a grand choral work.