Over to Stockholm this week for one of the regular weekly concerts by the Swedish Radio Symphony, featuring Russian conductor Dima Slobodenjuk and Swedish pianist Peter Friis Johansson in a program of music by contemporary composer Mirjam Tally, Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Recorded by Sveriges Radio on March 18th.

Kind of a short concert this week (a little under an hour), so it all fits on one player. The program goes like this:

1. Mirjam Tally: Density
2. Liszt: Totentanz
3. Rachmaninoff: The Rock - symphonic Poem

Announcements are in Swedish and were a little long-winded, so they've been edited down.

For you note takers:

1. Mirjam Tally: Density, uruppförande av P2:s beställningsverk.
2. Franz Liszt: Totentanz.
3. Sergej Rachmaninov: Klippan, symfonisk dikt.
Solist: Peter Friis Johansson, piano.
Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester. Dirigent: Dima Slobodenjuk.
Konsert 18/3, Berwaldhallen.

The Tally is a bit intense but really good. Otherwise it's perfect Anti-Road Rage Wednesday music.

Pull over to the side of the road and breathe deeply.

(Alice Sara Ott offers some inspired Tchaikovsky and Chopin)

This week's live concert comes from Sveriges Radio in Stockholm and features the Swedish Radio Symphony conducted by Daniel Harding with pianist Alice Sara Ott in a program of Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Mahler. Ott joins in the Orchestra in the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Number 1 and then gives an encore of the Chopin Waltz Number 18. After the break, the orchestra plays Mahler's Symphony Number 6. A little something for everybody (well, mostly everybody). A little over 2 hours, the concert is broken up into two parts -Tchaikovsky and Chopin in the player above and the Mahler is on the player below. The announcements are in Swedish, but don't let that stop you - there aren't many of them.

For you purists:

Den tysk-japanska pianisten Alice Sara Ott är 21 år gammal och blev som trettonåring utsedd till mest lovande artist vid "Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition", och två år senare vann hon första pris i "Silvio Bengalli International Piano Competition" som den yngsta deltagaren.
Nu turnerar hon världen över och i april/maj följde hon med Sveriges Radios symfoniorkester och Daniel Harding på turné i Tyskland.
Program:
1. Peter Tjajkovskij: Pianokonsert nr 1 b-moll.
2. Frédéric Chopin: Vals nr 18 a-moll.
3. Gustav Mahler: Symfoni nr 6 a-moll.
Solist: Alice Sara Ott, piano. Dirigent: Daniel Harding. Konsert 28/4, Laeiszhallen, Hamburg. Från 9/7.

This week's concert comes from Stockholm and it features the Swedish Radio Symphony, conducted by Daniel Harding and featuring one of the legendary figures of the keyboard, Menahem Pressler playing the Mozart G Major Piano Concerto K. 453. After the break, the orchestra embarks on a seamless presentation of music by Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern and Alban Berg. The concert was recorded on February 10th by Sveriges Radio.

Since there was a rather lengthy intermission, I just decided to break the concert up between two players, with part one (the top player) featuring the Mozart along with a Chopin encore. And part two (the bottom player) featuring the Schoenberg, Webern and Berg.

Here are the Program notes from Sveriges Radio:

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Publiken var i extas" rapporterade en P2 Live klassiskt-medarbetare efter Menahem Presslers och Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkesters konsert i Berwaldhallen den 10 februari. Lyssna på detta ljuvliga framförande av Mozarts pianokonsert nr 17 och triptyken av Schönberg-Webern-Berg som har kallats för "Mahlers elfte symfoni".

21:30: Konsert med Sveriges Radios Symfoniorkester
Solist: Menahem Pressler, piano. Dirigent: Daniel Harding.

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Pianokonsert nr 17 G-dur.

2. Arnold Schönberg: Fem orkesterstycken.

3. Anton Webern: Sex orkesterstycken.

4. Alban Berg: Tre orkesterstycken.

Konsert 10/2, Berwaldhallen.

Announcements are in Swedish and I've kept them to a minimum.

A great concert featuring one of the founding members of the Beaux Arts Trio (Pressler) who is still actively touring and teaching and one of the truly bright lights of the music world.

Enjoy.