BORN TO BE BAD
It will be music from movies like The Silence of the Lambs, Die Hard, Star Wars V – The Empire Strikes Back, Harry Potter, The Usual Suspects, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Misery. On stage the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Charles Hazlewood with soprano soloist Sabina Zweiacker. The host, as usual, is Orvar Säfström. For the fifth year in a row, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra collaborates with Orvar Säfström and Underscore Productions.
Participants
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra is a multiple-award-winning ensemble renowned for its high artistic standard and stylistic breadth, as well as collaborations with the world’s finest composers, conductors, and soloists. It regularly tours all over Europe and the world and has an extensive and acclaimed recording catalogue.
Daniel Harding has been Music Director of the SRSO since 2007, and since 2019 also its Artistic Director. His tenure will last throughout the 2024/2025 season. Two of the orchestra’s former chief conductors, Herbert Blomstedt and Esa-Pekka Salonen, have since been named Conductors Laureate, and continue to perform regularly with the orchestra.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra performs at Berwaldhallen, concert hall of the Swedish Radio, and is a cornerstone of Swedish public service broadcasting. Its concerts are heard weekly on the Swedish classical radio P2 and regularly on national public television SVT. Several concerts are also streamed on-demand on Berwaldhallen Play and broadcast globally through the EBU.
Orvar Säfström var under flera år programledare för bland annat Filmkrönikan i SVT. Han har mottagit Svenska Videobranschens hederspris och dessutom utnämnts till Årets Spelare av SVEROK för sitt arbete med att uppmärksamma spelkulturen. Sedan 2006 producerar han bejublade och kritikerrosade konserter med musik ur film, tv-serier och datorspel i Sverige och Europa. Som författare och förläggare ligger han även bakom flera böcker om svensk spelhistoria och den rika svenska spelkulturen.
Approximate concert length: 2 hours (with intermission)
Programme:
Act 1
John Williams – Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back – Imperial March
Danny Elfman – Batman – Waltz to the Death
John Ottman – The Usual Suspects – Main Theme/I Work for Keyser Söze/The Greatest Trick
Christopher Young – Hellraiser – The Hellbound Heart/Re-resurrection
Howard Shore – The Silence of the Lambs – Main Theme/Lecter Escapes (inklusive del av Johann Sebastian Bach – Goldbergvariationerna)
Howard Shore – Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Gollum’s Song
Intermission
Act 2
Ramin Djawadi – Game of Thrones – Jenny of Oldstones/Winter is Here
John Carpenter – Halloween – Main Theme
Marc Shaiman – Misery – Number One Fan (inkl del av Ludwig van Beethoven Månskenssonaten)
Michael Kamen – Die Hard – The Nakatomi Plaza/Gruber’s Arrival/The Vault (inkl del av Ludwig van Beethoven – An die Freude)
Patrick Doyle – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – Voldemort
Wojciech Kilar – Bram Stoker’s Dracula – The Beginning/Vampire Hunters
Image used by kind permission of Warner Home Video.
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