| The Oslo Philharmonic and Chief Conductor Klaus Mäkelä celebrate their fourth season together with seventeen concerts at home and twenty-five on tour, making 2023 / 24 the orchestra’s most ambitious season with Mäkelä to date. |
| The season opening in August is augmented by residencies at the Edinburgh and Lucerne Festivals, featuring distinctively curated programmes typical of Klaus Mäkelä’s partnership with the Oslo musicians. Rolf Gupta’s Song of the Earth opens the first of a series of festival concerts that juxtapose works by Sibelius, Mahler, Wagner, Ravel, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Scriabin. |
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| Further highlights of the season programme include Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle with Jennifer Johnston and Gerald Finley, Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 and Brahms’ Double Concerto, in which Mäkelä conducts and plays cello alongside violinist Daniel Lozakovich. |
| In October Klaus Mäkelä and the Oslo Philharmonic embark on a three week tour of Asia, performing throughout Japan, South Korea and Taiwan with soloists Janine Jansen (Sibelius violin concerto) and Nobuyuki Tsujii (Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2). |
| In January 2024 they return to the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie for two concerts featuring works by Dutilleux and Thomas Larcher and close the season with a focus on Brahms and Zemlinsky with performances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Paris Philharmonie and Vienna Konzerthaus. |
| OSLO KONSERTHUS 2023/24 SEASON |
| 9 August 2023 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Richard Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 Soloist: Johanna Wallroth |
| 16 August 2023 Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Tempest Maurice Ravel: Piano concerto for the left hand Maurice Ravel: Piano concerto in G Major Alexander Scriabin: Poème de l’extase Soloist: Yuja Wang |
| 31 August 2023 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Thomas Larcher: Symphony No. 2 Soloist: Johanna Wallroth |
| 12 October 2023 Lars Petter Hagen: The Artist’s Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins Jean Sibelius: Violin Concert o Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Soloist: Janine Jansen |
| 13 October 2023 Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Soloist: Janine Jansen |
| 30 November & 1 December 2023 Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 «The Scottish» Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy Soloist: Antoine Tamestit |
| 22 & 23 February 2024 Franz Schubert / Gustav Mahler: Der Tod und das Mädchen Béla Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle Soloists: Jennifer Johnston (soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone) |
| 25 & 26 April 2024 Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 «Leningrad» |
| 23 May 2024 Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Oberon Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto Alexander von Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau Soloist: Mischa Maisky |
| 30 & 31 May 2024 Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 Soloists: Daniel Lozakovich (violin), Klaus Mäkelä (cello) |
| 2023 SUMMER FESTIVAL TOUR |
| 19 August – Rheingau Music Festival – Kloster Eberbach Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde“ Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Soloist: Johanna Wallroth |
| 21 August – Edinburgh International Festival – Usher Hall Rolf Gupta: Epilogue from Earth’s Song Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 7 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 4 Soloist: Johanna Wallroth |
| 22 August – Edinburgh International Festival – Usher Hall Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 Soloist: Yuja Wang |
| 24 August – Lucerne Festival – KKL Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Richard Wagner: Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde“ Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 Soloist: Johanna Wallroth |
| 25 August – Lucerne Festival – KKL Pyotr Tchaikovsky: The Tempest Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major Alexander Scriabin: Le Poème de l’Extase Soloist: Yuja Wang |
| Oslo Philharmonic – The Season 2023/24 |
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OSLO PHILHARMONIC and KLAUS MÄKELÄ – 2023 / 24 season programme.
