Herbert Blomstedt hyllar Ingvar Lidholm
137 min - tor 20 jan kl 19.03
"We can easily state that a number of new sound possibilities are ready to be used by composers - and we must try them without prejudice."
Ingvar Lidholm
“Everything you do for the first time is etudes. And for me, everything becomes etudes because I write everything for the first time - or the last. ”
Ingvar Lidholm
In 2021, the Swedish composer Ingvar Lidholm would have turned 100 years old. Known as a member of the radical composers ' collective Måndagsgruppen , he turned out to be something of a chameleon. He dared to try everything from romance, neoclassicism and expressionism to twelve-tone technique, and his work was already played diligently outside Sweden during his lifetime.
The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra shows Lidholm's incredible range in works such as Kontakion - sometimes called Mass of Death, Poetry - where he sets the individual voices of a piano soloist, percussion and a solo double bass against the orchestra collective - and Toccata e Canto, which became the 24-year-old composer's breakthrough in 1945.
The Radio Symphony Orchestra is led by the legendary conductor Herbert Blomstedt, who had a close collaboration with Ingvar Lidholm and who, among other things, conducted the premiere of Poesis with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in January 1964. Blomstedt will comment on this live concert, which will also be recorded by SVT.
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Soloist: Johan Ullén, piano. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
Music by Ingvar Lidholm (1921–2017).
1. Toccata e canto
2. Ritornell
Musical intermezzo and interviews with Herbert Blomstedt and Johan Ullén
3. Poetry
4. Kontakion, hymn for orchestra.
Live broadcast from Berwaldhallen in Stockholm.
Extra music during the break:
Hilding Rosenberg: The girl's dance from "Orpheus in the city
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Marie Rosenmir
Host: Eva Maria Hux
Producer: Jan B Larsson
