Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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(Click CC for English subtitles) The Sweden Rock Symphony Orchestra is a grand symphony orchestra with 48 musicians and a choir who, together with a band and six invited guest star vocalists, namely Dan McCafferty (ex-Nazareth), Tarja Turunen (Tarja, ex-Nightwish), Joacim Cans (Hammerfall), John Lawton (ex-Uriah Heep), Peter Tägtgren (Pain, Hypocrisy) and Joe Lynn Turner (ex-Rainbow, Yngwie Malmsteen). They performed newly arranged, well known hard rock and metal classics including Love hurts, hearts on fire and Thunderstruck!

The orchestra usually goes by the slightly shorter name Sweden Symphony Orchestra and is one of the premier orchestras in Sweden. Founded by conductor Ulf Wadenbrandt, they have played all the major concert houses in Sweden, such as Berwaldhallen and Göteborgs Konserthus, as well as performing on national TV station TV4's new year's special, on the 25th anniversary tour of the immensely popular Rhapsody In Rock show among many other things.

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