Filharmoniker i närbild
Marie Macleod and Martin Sturfält. Photo: Nadja Sjöström
About the series
På svenskaFive Sundays at 15.00
In this chamber music subscription, we meet our Philharmonic musicians in a more intimate setting – the beautiful Grünewald Hall. The programmes are full of curiosity and discovery, with music personally chosen by the orchestra members themselves. Expect a wealth of musical gems, both historical and contemporary.
Concerts included in the subscription
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Genre: Chamber musicHommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto
A tribute to a musician of international stature, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s horn section and special guests.
Sunday 5 October 2025 15.00Ib Lanzky-Otto. Photo: Jan-Olav Wedin
Genre: Chamber musicHommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto
A tribute to a musician of international stature, with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s horn section and special guests.
Sunday 5 October 2025 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Hommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Hommage à Ib Lanzky-OttoThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/hommage-a-ib-lanzky-otto/20251005-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In the season’s first Philharmonic Up Close concert, the orchestra’s acclaimed horn section pays tribute to a colleague. Some concertgoers may remember Ib Lanzky-Otto. Born in Denmark in 1940, he was a member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s horn section from 1961 to 2007 – serving as principal horn from 1967 until his retirement. Ib Lanzky-Otto passed away five years ago.
He also enjoyed an international career as a soloist across Europe and the United States – recognised as one of the world’s leading horn players. This tribute concert features music written specifically for him as well as works he often performed. The second half of the programme also highlights the humour and light-heartedness that were so much a part of Ib Lanzky-Otto’s personality.
Additional guest musicians will take part, invited by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s horn section. Hommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto is a vibrant celebration of a musician whose remarkable artistry and career can hardly be overstated.
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The music
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Hommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto
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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lars-Erik Larsson and Carin Malmlöf-Forssling
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Participants
- Horn section of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 5 October 2025 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Hommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Hommage à Ib Lanzky-Otto- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
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Genre: Chamber music
Romantic and Cinematic
Philharmonic musicians perform works by Schumann and two acclaimed Polish composers.
Sunday 2 November 2025 15.00Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicRomantic and Cinematic
Philharmonic musicians perform works by Schumann and two acclaimed Polish composers.
Sunday 2 November 2025 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Romantic and Cinematic
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Romantic and CinematicThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/romantic-and-cinematic/20251102-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet is one of the most romantic pieces ever composed. The elegant and virtuosic piano part was written for his wife, Clara, and the slow movement offers what may be one of the most beautiful melodies in all of musical Romanticism.
Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–69) was both celebrated and exceptionally successful as a female composer during her lifetime. She graduated in both violin and composition from the Warsaw Conservatory and was also a highly skilled pianist. Like her rhythmically charged piano concerto, her second Piano Quintet is expressive, powerful and virtuosic.
Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020), another of Poland’s most prominent composers, gained international fame outside classical circles after his music was featured in films such as The Exorcist, The Shining, Wild at Heart and Shutter Island. He was also the focus of Konserthuset’s Composer Festival in 1993.
Penderecki’s Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio was written as a response to Schubert’s String Quintet – though it perhaps bears more resemblance to the world of Shostakovich. The piece is dedicated to Åke Holmquist, who served as director of Konserthuset Stockholm from 1986 to 1999 and was the initiator of the Composer Festival, which has been held annually since 1986.
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The music
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Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Quintet No. 220 min
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Krzysztof Penderecki Clarinet Quartet15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Robert Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat major27 min
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Participants
- Emma Agnas de Frumerie violin
- Sergey Putnikov violin
- Vidar Andersson Meilink viola
- Kajsa William-Olsson cello
- Johan Fransén clarinet
- Simon Crawford-Phillips piano
Sunday 2 November 2025 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Romantic and Cinematic
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Romantic and Cinematic- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
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Genre: Chamber music
Salut d’amour
A greeting of love with English music for cello and piano.
Sunday 18 January 2026 15.00Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicSalut d’amour
A greeting of love with English music for cello and piano.
Sunday 18 January 2026 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Salut d’amour
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Salut d’amourThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/salut-damour/20260118-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.British cellist Marie Macleod has been a familiar presence in the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013, when she joined as principal cello. In this concert, she is joined by pianist Martin Sturfält to highlight music for cello by four English composers.
The youngest among them is Cheryl Frances-Hoad, born in 1980, who herself studied cello at the renowned Yehudi Menuhin School in England and has composed a number of works for the instrument – including a widely acclaimed cello concerto. Her music has been described as both sparkling and volcanically intense, and here, Marie Macleod performs a suite for solo cello.
It is framed by Frank Bridge’s expressive Sonata for Cello and Piano and Benjamin Britten’s sonata, written for Mstislav Rostropovich and brimming with inventive ideas, vibrant pizzicatos and lyrical intensity. The concert concludes with one of Edward Elgar’s most beloved and frequently performed works, Salut d’amour – originally written for violin and piano but perfectly suited to the cello.
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The music
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Frank Bridge Sonata for cello and piano23 min
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad Suite for solo cello14 min
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Intermission25 min
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Benjamin Britten Sonata in C major for cello and piano23 min
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Edward Elgar Salut d’amour, version for cello and piano4 min
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Participants
- Marie Macleod cello
- Martin Sturfält piano
Sunday 18 January 2026 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Salut d’amour
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Salut d’amour- Price:
- 230 SEK
- Place:
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
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Genre: Chamber music
Late Beethoven
When the experience defies words – the Maier Quartet in timeless music.
Sunday 15 February 2026 15.00Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicLate Beethoven
When the experience defies words – the Maier Quartet in timeless music.
Sunday 15 February 2026 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Late Beethoven
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Late BeethovenThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/late-beethoven/20260215-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 131, the music seems to be searching for freedom – of thought, of the soul. Perhaps that is why it speaks so powerfully to us, with its warmth, imagination and intensity. One of the works from Beethoven’s late period, the quartet spans seven movements and covers an extraordinary emotional range. Franz Schubert heard the piece and is said to have wondered what was left to write after music of such magnitude – a greatness that could not be put into words.
Composer Ethel Smyth stood out in Victorian England, and like Beethoven, she was a strong and uncompromising personality. Openly lesbian, she was a leading figure in the women’s suffrage movement. In 1922, she became the first female composer to be knighted. Her music is often warmly passionate, as in this slow movement for string quartet.
Between Smyth and Beethoven, we hear a quartet by Julius Röntgen – a German-Dutch composer and pianist who was married to Swedish composer and violinist Amanda Maier-Röntgen, known especially for her outstanding violin concerto. Röntgen’s quartet in A minor is a romantic and at times idyllic work.
The music is performed by the Maier Quartet, comprising members of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The quartet is named after Amanda Maier-Röntgen, and its members are violinists Johannes Lörstad and Patrik Swedrup, violist Arne Stenlund and cellist Klas Gagge.
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The music
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Ethel Smyth Andante ”Hymn” for string quartet
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Julius Röntgen String Quartet in a minor23 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in c sharp minor38 min
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Participants
- Johannes Lörstad violin
- Patrik Swedrup violin
- Arne Stenlund viola
- Klas Gagge cello
Sunday 15 February 2026 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Late Beethoven
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Late Beethoven- Price:
- 230 SEK
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
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Genre: Chamber music
Elegance and an Awkward Waltz
Philharmonic musicians perform music by Mel Bonis, Bo Linde and Schnittke.
Sunday 19 April 2026 15.00Photo: Nadja Sjöström
Genre: Chamber musicElegance and an Awkward Waltz
Philharmonic musicians perform music by Mel Bonis, Bo Linde and Schnittke.
Sunday 19 April 2026 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
- 230 kr
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The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Elegance and an Awkward Waltz
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Elegance and an Awkward WaltzThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/elegance-and-an-awkward-waltz/20260419-1500/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.In this chamber music series, we meet our Philharmonic musicians in a more intimate format. It’s a space where members of the orchestra come together to perform their own favourite programmes – shaped by curiosity and filled with musical discoveries from both past and present.
Here, they highlight composer Bo Linde from Gävle, whose lyrical and spirited music gained wide attention during the 1950s and 60s. His Violin Concerto is perhaps his most well-known work, combining a dreamlike atmosphere with outward energy and drama – qualities also found in his Divertimento for flute, cello and piano. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic’s principal flutist Andreas Alin is joined by cellist Josef Alin and pianist Peter Friis Johansson, who in 2024 released an album featuring the music of Linde.
The concert opens with the Sonata for Flute and Piano by French composer Mel Bonis, written in the early 1900s – a work of poetic feeling and late-Romantic colour. The same could be said of Alfred Schnittke’s stylistically multifaceted music. In this masterful piano quintet, shifting moods flow seamlessly from darkness to light, and at times a touch of wry humour appears in the form of an awkward waltz.
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The music
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Mel Bonis Sonata for flute and piano17 min
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Bo Linde Divertimento for flute, cello and piano25 min
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Intermission25 min
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Alfred Schnittke Piano Quintet26 min
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Participants
- Jonna Simonsson violin
- Daniela Bonfiglioli violin
- Vidar Andersson Meilink viola
- Josef Alin cello
- Andreas Alin flute
- Peter Friis Johansson piano
Sunday 19 April 2026 15.00
Approximately 17.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
Tickets go on sale 21 August 11.00 to Elegance and an Awkward Waltz
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Elegance and an Awkward Waltz- Price:
- 230 kr
- Place:
The Grünewald Hall has capacity for up to 460 people, spread across the stalls and gallery. Both floors can be accessed by lift and the stairs. The hall has two wheelchair places.