Press & News

4/23/2010
SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES 15 YEARS WITH PERFORMANCES AT THE RHEINGAU...
ÖREBRO, 23 APRIL 2010 – Together with Music Director Thomas Dausgaard and soprano soloist Nina Stemme, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 15th anniversary with concerts at the Rheingau Music Festival (19 August), Örebro (21 August), the London Proms (23 August), Oslo (24 August), Karlstad, Sweden (26 August) and Salzburg (28 August). The Salzburg concert marks the occasion of the orchestra’s debut at the prestigious Salzburg International Festival. The programme for the summer tour includes Albert Schnelzer’s A freak in Burbank, both Schumann’s Zwickau Symphony and Symphony no. 2, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été and Beethoven Symphony no. 7 (programme per venue detailed below).

This month Thomas Dausgaard announced that he will extend his contract as Music Director to the Swedish Chamber Orchestra to the 2012 / 13 season. Having joined the ensemble in 1997 when the Swedish Chamber Orchestra was still a fledgling ensemble, Thomas Dausgaard has been key to the evolvement and success of the orchestra which, in a period of just a few years, has established itself on the international scene and gained accolade from the New York Times for its “surprising and fresh” sound.

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2/9/2010

SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES 15 YEARS WITH TWO EUROPEAN TOURS IN 2010

21 – 24 MARCH WITH H K GRUBER & LEILA JOSEFOWICZ
Vienna, Düsseldorf, Cologne

19 – 28 AUGUST WITH THOMAS DAUSGAARD & NINA STEMME
Summer Music Festivals including Salzburg International Festival debut

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11/25/2009
SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA / THOMAS DAUSGAARD
RELEASE LAST DISC IN SCHUMANN CYCLE...
Release: October 2008

SCHUMANN
Symphony No.3 in E flat major (‘Rhenish´), Op.97       
Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120 (final version, 1851)
Overture to ‘Manfred´, Op.115                                         
Hermann und Dorothea, Overture, Op.126
BIS-SACD-1619      

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11/25/2009

NEW RELEASE: PASTORAL SYMPHONY, SIDURI DANCES, WATER MUSIC AND CARLO

New release: Autumn 2009
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11/25/2009
NEW RELEASE: BEETHOVEN VOLUME 10, SYMPHONY NO.9, DIE WEIHE DES HAUSES, AND...
New Release Autumn 2009
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3/19/2009

ZNAIDER ANNOUNCED AS PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR

Commencing Spring 2009 internationally renowned violinist Nikolaj Znaider joins the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in a newly created post
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4/7/2008

SCHUMANN SYMPHONY NO.1 - THIRD CD ON BIS OPENING DOORS

This disc includes Schumann´s very first endeavours in the symphony genre, beginning with the Zwickau Symphony from 1832-33. Of the two completed movements, only the first was everper formed in the composer´s lifetime.
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12/20/2007
THE SWEDISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA RETURNS TO THE UNITED STATES WITH MUSIC DIRECTOR...
The six-city tour runs from March 30 to April 6, 2008, and commences in New York at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
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