NOSPR symphonic concert for schools / In the glow of the South

School concert: The Carnival of the Animals

School concert: The Carnival of the Animals

School concert: The Carnival of the Animals

School concert: The Carnival of the Animals

MINI for kindergarten – The Fairy Tale Seed

For children 3–5 years old.Get close to the musicians in the Grünewald Hall – and discover the orchestra's brass instruments in a classical concert with listening games, together with a music teacher. After this approx. 30-minute concert, there is a chance to try out different instruments in the foyer.Sagofröet – The Fairy Tale Seed – is a musical adventure where Yria's world meets classical string instruments. After the concert, which lasts about 30 minutes, there is an opportunity to try out instruments in the foyer.Yria consists of musicians and educators who have toured the country with performances aimed at young children. Yria has also released several albums, and on the YouTube channel Yria's World, there are plenty of videos.

MINI for kindergarten – The Fairy Tale Seed

For children 3–5 years old.Get close to the musicians in the Grünewald Hall – and discover the orchestra's brass instruments in a classical concert with listening games, together with a music teacher. After this approx. 30-minute concert, there is a chance to try out different instruments in the foyer.Sagofröet – The Fairy Tale Seed – is a musical adventure where Yria's world meets classical string instruments. After the concert, which lasts about 30 minutes, there is an opportunity to try out instruments in the foyer.Yria consists of musicians and educators who have toured the country with performances aimed at young children. Yria has also released several albums, and on the YouTube channel Yria's World, there are plenty of videos.

NOSPR / Berglund / In the Hall of the Mountain King

With song, he delved into the abyss, To the bottom of the world’s beginning– Kalevala, ed. Elias Lönnrot Edvard Grieg and Jean Sibelius are not only prominent representatives of late Romanticism, but also captivating storytellers and guides among the myths and tales of the Northern nations. In their works, legends emerging from the darkness of the past are painted with vivid colours and become filled with a modern emotionality. Slightly older of the two, Edvard Grieg, born to a family of Scottish descent in the Norwegian town of Bergen, studied in Germany and maintained contacts with numerous Danish artists. His Suite in Olden Style “From Holberg’s Time” is also one of Danish origin – the piece was commissioned to celebrate Ludvig Holberg’s, a writer dubbed “Molier of the North”, birth anniversary. The work balances between free stylistic inspiration and a tribute to Baroque forms. Nevertheless, in music written to scenes from Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, the wigged key yields to distinct emotions enchanted in the music.The first of two suites contains some of the most suggestive themes in Romanticism, with which Grieg awakens mountain monsters, trolls and kobolds within the orchestra (In the Hall of the Mountain King) and evokes Arabic and African motives, very popular at the time. (Anitra’s Dance, Morning). The Lemminkäinen Suite is a piece inspired by the Kalevala, a Finnish epic built from a compilation of folk songs of the North. Thanks to Sibelius’ imagination, the fantastical, dense and gripping poetic narrative is transformed into a nearly impressionist fresco, the death of a mythical trifler becoming just as moving as the dramatic fates of characters in Thomas Mann’s novels.Krzysztof SiwońConcert duration: approximately 70 minutes

NOSPR / New Year's Eve concert in the rhythm of tango

NOSPR / Schumann / Zehetmair / A concert the netherworld called for

Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto was created in the ailing composer’s final years and was later considered lost for a long time. Written for the famous violinist Joseph Joachim, it seems permeated with inner struggle and a sense of resignation. The violinist never performed the piece publicly. After Schumann’s suicidal attempt and his confinement to an asylum, where he died after a short time, Joachim deemed the form of the piece to be an expression of its creator’s madness and put it in his drawer forever to remain there. Legend has it, but witnesses also confirm, that eighty years later Robert Schumann appeared to the participants of a seance held in London by Erik Kule Palmstierna, the Envoy of Sweden to the United Kingdom. The spirit ordered Joachim’s great-nieces, the violinists Jelly d’Arányi and Adila Fachiri, who were present at the table, to find and perform the lost piece. Although it was indeed recovered, the concerto was seized by the Nazis, who entrusted Georg Kulenkampff and the Berliner Philharmoniker with premiering it. The concert in Berlin took place in 1937, when Arnold Schönberg had already been forced to emigrate to the United States. His innovative creativity was not understood there, but the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra led by another emigrant, Otton Klemperer, gladly accepted his orchestral arrangement of an early piece by Johannes Brahms – the Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor,Op. 25. Schönberg justified his orchestration of the chamber piece as follows: „1. I like this piece, 2. It is rarely played, 3. It is always played really badly, because the better the pianist, the louder he plays, as a result of which the strings cannot be heard. I wanted to hear everything and I have achieved this.” Do we need a better recommendation?Adam SuprynowiczConcert duration (intermission included): approximately 110 minutes

The Silence of the Lambs – In Concert

The classic, multi-Oscar-winning film screened in synchronisation with Howard Shore's score for the first time, as part of the London Soundtrack Festival.