Stråkkvartetter
Dahlkvistkvartetten
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The string quartet is perhaps the most beloved form of intimate chamber music – ever since the days of Joseph Haydn, often referred to as “the father of the string quartet.”
Each season, some of the world’s finest quartets come to Konserthuset. This time, we welcome Sweden’s Dahlkvist Quartet, Finland’s Meta4, the Czech Pavel Haas Quartet, the multinational Simply Quartet and France’s Quatuor Diotima. The season culminates with the brilliant Spanish ensemble Cuarteto Casals!
Concerts included in the subscription
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Genre: Chamber musicThe Dahlkvist Quartet
Intimate voices, a carrot revolution and a milestone from Gävle.
Saturday 11 October 2025 16.00Genre: Chamber musicThe Dahlkvist Quartet
Intimate voices, a carrot revolution and a milestone from Gävle.
Saturday 11 October 2025 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
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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 The Dahlkvist Quartet
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to The Dahlkvist QuartetThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/the-dahlkvist-quartet/20251011-1600/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.“One day a carrot freshly observed will start a revolution,” says the painter Cézanne in a novel by Émile Zola. This quote inspired American composer Gabriella Smith to write her Carrot Revolution – “a tribute to the ability to find new ways of approaching older artistic forms and expressions, such as the string quartet, a 250-year-old genre.”
Many associate Sibelius with epic symphonies and his grand violin concerto. But he also wrote a wealth of music in smaller forms, including a string quartet with the subtitle Voces intimae – “Intimate Voices.” It’s as if we are hearing his private reflections on the grandeur, mystery and joy of life.
Between these two works, the Dahlkvist Quartet performs a string quartet by the exceptionally gifted Swedish composer Bo Linde (1933–70) from Gävle. With his flowing, melodic language, Linde went his own way during a post-war period otherwise dominated by austerity and modernist ideals. His String Quartet Op. 9 is a milestone in his catalogue: at just 20 years old, he had already found a distinctive voice in impressive fashion.
The Dahlkvist Quartet consists of Kersti Gräntz and Gudrun Dahlkvist on violins, Jon Dahlkvist on viola, and Hanna Dahlkvist – also a member of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra – on cello.
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The music
Approximate times -
Gabriella Smith Carrot Revolution for string quartet11 min
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Bo Linde String Quartet24 min
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Intermission25 min
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Jean Sibelius String Quartet in d minor "Voces intimae"31 min
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Participants
- Dahlkvist Quartet
Saturday 11 October 2025 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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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
Meta4
The Finnish string quartet performs music of intensity and deep emotion.
Saturday 22 November 2025 16.00Photo: Tero Ahonen
Genre: Chamber musicMeta4
The Finnish string quartet performs music of intensity and deep emotion.
Saturday 22 November 2025 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
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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 Meta4
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Meta4The link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2025/meta4/20251122-1600/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.With bold musicality and technical brilliance, the Finnish ensemble Meta4 has captivated audiences around the world. The quartet has received numerous awards, including first prize at the International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. Now they return to Konserthuset Stockholm for a concert where intimacy and emotional depth take centre stage.
Almost a century has passed since Leoš Janáček wrote his String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters – a passionate musical love letter to Kamila Stösslová, the woman who became his lifelong muse. The work brims with emotion – from burning desire and longing to pain and hope – in music that is as spontaneous as it is profoundly moving.
Sally Beamish’s Nine Fragments (2018) is inspired by Robert Schumann’s first string quartet, as well as by the relationship between Robert and his wife Clara. The work consists of nine very short movements – each like a shattered mirror reflecting a particular moment in Schumann’s original, with glimpses of everything from melancholy to euphoria.
Robert Schumann was in a state of bliss when composing his first string quartet. It was during his intense “chamber music year”, and the music invites the listener on a romantic journey filled with lyrical melodies and emotional intensity – all shaped by the love he felt for Clara. Schumann himself organised the premiere of his Quartets Nos. 1–3 as a birthday gift to Clara on her 23rd birthday.
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The music
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Leos Janácek Stråkkvartett No. 2 "Intimate Letters"25 min
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Sally Beamish Nine Fragments - String Quartet No. 420 min
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Intermission25 min
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Robert Schumann String Quartet in a minor op 41:125 min
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Participants
- Meta4
Saturday 22 November 2025 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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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
Pavel Haas Quartet
Three Czech highlights with the renowned quartet.
Saturday 17 January 2026 16.00Photo: Petra Hajska
Genre: Chamber musicPavel Haas Quartet
Three Czech highlights with the renowned quartet.
Saturday 17 January 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
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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 Pavel Haas Quartet
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Pavel Haas QuartetThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/pavel-haas-quartet/20260117-1600/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The Pavel Haas Quartet from Prague is one of Europe’s leading string quartets, with a special focus on Czech and Slovak music. This concert begins with the powerful and deeply personal Fifth String Quartet by Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů.
In the score, Martinů included several private comments – among them reflections on his close relationship with his student, the highly gifted composer Vítězslava Kaprálová, who was 25 years his junior. Kaprálová was on the verge of becoming one of Europe’s most significant compositional voices when she tragically passed away at the age of just 25. She had only recently turned 20 when she composed the String Quartet No. 1 heard here – music filled with both optimism and a sense of longing.
Toward the end of his career, Antonín Dvořák was appointed professor of composition in New York. In 1895, shortly before returning to Europe and his beloved Bohemia, he began work on what would become his fourteenth and final string quartet. Here, he left all traces of America behind – geographically as well as musically. In this magnificent work, the light shines through the finely chiselled melodies, and the final movement is not only the crowning moment of the quartet, but one of the great highlights of his chamber music output.
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The music
Approximate times -
Vítezslava Kaprálová String Quartet No. 121 min
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Bohuslav Martinu String Quartet No. 527 min
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Intermission25 min
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Antonín Dvorák String Quartet No. 14 in A flat major30 min
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Participants
- Pavel Haas Quartet
Saturday 17 January 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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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
Simply Quartet
Heartfelt Brahms and Italian elegance.
Saturday 21 February 2026 16.00Photo: Grzesiek Mart
Genre: Chamber musicSimply Quartet
Heartfelt Brahms and Italian elegance.
Saturday 21 February 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
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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 Simply Quartet
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Simply QuartetThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/simply-quartet/20260221-1600/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The award-winning Simply Quartet made its debut at Konserthuset Stockholm in 2022 as one of the ECHO Rising Stars of the 2021/22 season. Founded in Shanghai in 2008, the quartet is now primarily based in Europe, with performances at venues such as Wigmore Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
They open this concert with Emilie Mayer’s String Quartet in G major – music by one of the most prominent women composers of the 19th century. Mayer was often referred to as “the female Beethoven,” and her music is marked by striking drama and melodic inventiveness. Hugo Wolf’s Italian Serenade is a short but exquisite piece in which lyricism and playfulness blend beautifully. Inspired by Italian folk music, it is a sparkling miniature filled with sunlit charm and elegance.
The concert concludes with Johannes Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2, where passionate melodies meet Hungarian dance rhythms. It is one of his most intimate chamber works – a contrast to the more overtly dramatic first quartet. Here, warmth and introspection take centre stage, and the music is imbued with subtle expressiveness and deep emotional power.
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The music
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Emilie Mayer String Quartet in G major21 min
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Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade for string quartet7 min
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Intermission25 min
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Johannes Brahms String Quartet No. 2 in a minor35 min
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Participants
- Simply Quartet
Saturday 21 February 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.
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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
Quatuor Diotima
Beethoven’s great leap forward and Schoenberg looking back.
Saturday 21 March 2026 16.00Photo: Michel Nguyen
Genre: Chamber musicQuatuor Diotima
Beethoven’s great leap forward and Schoenberg looking back.
Saturday 21 March 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
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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 Quatuor Diotima
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Quatuor DiotimaThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/quatuor-diotima/20260321-1600/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.Beethoven wrote sixteen string quartets, composed in three distinct phases over the course of his life. Each phase marked a remarkable leap forward in the art of the string quartet. One of the most celebrated of these is the multifaceted and profound Opus 130, from his late period – a work filled with beloved melodies, striking harmonies and passionate outbursts. It is performed here by the French ensemble Quatuor Diotima, who take on this truly grand and monumental quartet.
Arnold Schoenberg is often associated with twelve-tone music, but in his youth he was strongly influenced by Beethoven, Brahms – and particularly Mozart. “I owe a great deal to Mozart. If you listen to my string quartets, you can hear that I’ve borrowed much directly from him. And I’m proud of that,” he once said. Nowhere is this more evident than in the early quartet presented here.
Between Schoenberg and Beethoven, we hear music by Swedish composer Lisa Streich. She enjoys international success and was featured in Konserthuset Stockholm’s 2024 Composer Weekend. She has described her music as sculpting with an orchestra or ensemble – where sound generates a kind of choreography that invites not only the listener but also the viewer. Here, we hear her Sternestill, premiered in 2022 in Strasbourg by none other than Quatuor Diotima.
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The music
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Arnold Schoenberg String Quartet in D major (1897)27 min
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Lisa Streich Sternenstill for string quartet15 min
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Intermission25 min
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Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major op 130, revised version without Grosse Fuge40 min
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Participants
- Diotima Quartet
Saturday 21 March 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save 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 Quatuor Diotima
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- 370 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
Cuarteto Casals
Dizzingly beautiful and playful with a leading Spanish string quartet.
Saturday 18 April 2026 16.00Photo: Pablo Rodrigo
Genre: Chamber musicCuarteto Casals
Dizzingly beautiful and playful with a leading Spanish string quartet.
Saturday 18 April 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save in calendarThe event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.- Price:
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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 Cuarteto Casals
Presale for subscribers from 19 August 11.00 to Cuarteto CasalsThe link has been copied https://stko01mstr2eq3pinte.dxcloud.episerver.net/en/programme/calendar/concert/2026/cuarteto-casals/20260418-1600/The event has been downloaded Open the file saved on your device to add it to your digital calendar.The award-winning Cuarteto Casals is a cherished guest at Konserthuset Stockholm. During the Beethoven year in 2020, the quartet performed the composer’s complete string quartets over six concerts throughout the year. At their most recent visit in 2022, they presented Bach’s masterpiece Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue).
Now, Cuarteto Casals returns with late string quartets by Joseph Haydn and Franz Schubert, framing a 2024 work by Spanish-American composer Elisenda Fábregas. Her Fiery Earth draws on Spanish influences and is based on a very old liturgical melody.
Haydn’s masterful Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5, comes from his final set of string quartets, while Schubert’s Fifteenth Quartet was his last. In this music, it is as if Schubert seeks to encapsulate the full range of human emotion – with breathtaking melodies, playfulness, reflection, and passion.
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The music
Approximate times -
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D major op 76:520 min
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Elisenda Fábregas Fiery earth for string quartet
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Intermission25 min
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Franz Schubert String Quartet in G major op 16145 min
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Participants
- Casals Quartet
Saturday 18 April 2026 16.00
Approximately 18.00Save 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 Cuarteto Casals
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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.