Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Santtu-Matias Rouvali 1 © Marco Borggreve
Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Santtu-Matias Rouvali

Conductor

The conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, who is often drawn to Strauss’s orchestral epics in concert, doubled down in this blast of a performance. What a sound he drew from the Philharmonia — the strings were a blaze of scorching sunlight, the woodwind and brass bold and gleaming.”

The Times, June 2023
Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Santtu-Matias Rouvali © Marco Borggreve

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Season Highlights

March 2025

Philharmonia Orchestra

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Repertoire:

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra

CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto for Piano No. 5 in F major, Op. 103

CESAR FRANCK: Symphony in D minor

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite (1945 version)

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 (Classical)

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Concerto for Violin No. 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (99)

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10]

GIOACHINO ROSSINI: Overture from Guillaume Tell (William Tell)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Concerto for Violin in E-Minor, Op. 64

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141

April 2025

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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Repertoire:

BEDRICH SMETANA: Hakon Jarl (Op. 16)

SERGEI RACHMANINOV: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C minor, Op.18

BÉLA BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra

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Christian Ihle Hadland

May 2025

Tonhalle Zurich

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Repertoire:

SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Concerto for Piano No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique)

May 2025

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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Repertoire:

FREDERIC CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11

PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 (Pathétique)

BÉLA BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra

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May 2025

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra

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Repertoire:

MIKHAIL GLINKA: Capriccio brillante on the "Jota aragonesa" (Spanish Overture No.1)

NIKOLAI KAPUSTIN: Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 72

ALEXANDER BORODIN: Symphony no. 2 in B minor

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34

June 2025

Philharmonia Orchestra

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Repertoire:

MAURICE RAVEL: Alborada del gracioso

SERGEI RACHMANINOV: Concerto for Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30

MAURICE RAVEL: La valse, poème chorégraphique pour orchestre

OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome)

Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Also sprach Zarathustra © Philharmonia
Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Francesca da Rimini © Philharmonia
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Santtu Matias Rouvali - Sibelius trailer © Gothenburg Symphony
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Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Strauss De Rosenkavalier Suite © Gothenburg Symphony
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Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Sibelius Valse Triste © Gothenburg Symphony
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Santtu-Matias Rouvali - Sibelius Symphony No.1 3rd movement © Gothenburg Symphony