OSLO PHILHARMONIC ANNOUNCES 2022/23 SEASON

Klaus Mäkelä’s third season as Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic features 11 contrasting programmes, with repertoire ranging from Jean Baptiste Lully and Pietro Locatelli to Alban Berg and Icelandic composer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Highlights of the new season include a tour to the UK, Germany, Netherlands and Austria and a return to the studio for the next recording project for Decca Classics with a focus on the symphonies of Shostakovich.

AUGUST 10
Jean Sibelius: Tapiola
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Soloist: Yuja Wang

AUGUST 25
Johann Sebastian Bach / Luciano Berio: Contrapunctus XIX
Alban Berg:  Violin Concerto
Gustav Mahler:  Symphony No. 5
Soloist: Isabelle Faust

SEPTEMBER 15 & 16
Robert Schumann: Violin Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
Soloist: Patricia Kopatchinskaya

SEPTEMBER 29 & 30
Claude Debussy: Iberia
Jimmy López Bellido: Piano Concerto, Ephemerae
Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka
Manuel de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No. 2
Soloist: Javier Perianes

NOVEMBER 3
Igor Stravinsky: The Fairy’s Kiss: Divertimento
Béla Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Metacosmos
Maurice Ravel: La Valse
Soloist: Daniel Lozakovich

NOVEMBER 10
Julia Perry: Short Piece for Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
Soloist: Sol Gabetta

JANUARY 19
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Marche pour la Ceremonie des Turcs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
Louise Farrenc:  Overture No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Soloist: Isabelle Faust

FEBRUARY 23
Peter Maxwell Davies
: 8 Songs for a Mad King
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Soloist: Thomas Florio

MARCH 30 & 31
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis

APRIL 27 & 28
Igor Stravinsky: Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa ad CD annum
Carlo Gesualdo:  Four motets
Pietro Locatelli: Concerto No. 12, op. 3, “Il labirinto armonico”
Richard Strauss: Aus Italien
Soloists: Ilya Gringolts (violin) & The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir

MAY 25 & 26
Sergej Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Dmitrij Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Soloist: Leif Ove Andsnes

Affiliates

Chief Conductor & Artistic Advisor

   Music Director & Artistic Director

                  Artistic Partner
     Chief Conductor (from 2027/28)