Music by Sæverud, Valen and Svendsen is on the programme, with conductor Ingar Bergby and soloist Elise Båtnes on the podium.

Get into the music - welcome to a free work orientation at 18:30.

Sæverud's Sixth Symphony was written during World War II and is a protest against the ravages of the occupying forces. Fartein Valen's Violin Concerto is a one-movement violin concerto written in 1940, in memory of his relative Arne Valen, who died of tuberculosis aged 20.

It was Johan Svendsen's first symphony that prompted Edvard Grieg to write the famous words ‘Never to be performed!’ on the score of his own C minor symphony. Svendsen was still a student in Leipzig when he wrote his masterful Symphony No. 1 in 1867.

PROGRAMME
Harald Sæverud: Symphony No. 6 Sinfonia Dolorosa
Fartein Valen: Concerto for violin and orchestra
Johan Svendsen: Symphony no. 1

PARTICIPANTS
Ingar Bergby, conductor
Elise Båtnes, violin

ORGANISER
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra