Spring Fire 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 that moves from Swedish Walpurgis Night romance to a dramatic musical celebration. Helena Munktell’s *Valborgsmässoeld* opens the concert with sparkling choral and orchestral sounds, before Artist in Residence Malin Byström takes the stage for 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*—co-commissioned by the orchestra—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.