OSLO PHILHARMONIC ANNOUNCES 2023/24 SEASON

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.

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.

SEASON PROGRAMME AT THE OSLO KONSERTHUS

AUGUST 9
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Richard Wagner: Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7

Soloist: Johanna Wallroth

AUGUST 16
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

AUGUST 31
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Thomas Larcher: Symphony No. 2
Soloist: Johanna Wallroth

OCTOBER 12
Lars Petter Hagen: The Artist’s Despair Before the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concert
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Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Soloist: Janine Jansen

OCTOBER 13
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Soloist: Janine Jansen

NOVEMBER 30 & DECEMBER 1
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 «The Scottish»
Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy
Soloist: Antoine Tamestit

FEBRUARY 22 & 23
Franz Schubert / Gustav Mahler: Der Tod und das Mädchen
Béla Bartók: Duke Bluebeard’s Castle
Soloists: Jennifer Johnston (soprano), Gerald Finley (baritone)

APRIL 25 & 26
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 «Leningrad»

MAY 23
Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Oberon
Antonín Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Alexander von Zemlinsky: Die Seejungfrau
Soloist: Mischa Maisky

MAY 30 & 31
Johannes Brahms: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1
Soloists: Daniel Lozakovich (violin), Klaus Mäkelä (cello)