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Originally Posted by JonesH  Yes, it's a relatively small hall. It sounds very nice for orchestral and chamber music though, and works well for amplified music as well. |
I would disagree, the hall is problematic for small symphonic orchestras to say the least. I have only performed tchaik 3 there and we were greatly reduced to fit the stage and the sound was quite hard in my recollection (I keep confusing the halls up north). There are a lot of theories about hall building floating around in swedish academic circles . They do not come from the real world. There has not been a good hall built in sweden by a swedish acoustician in ages.
A hall of 8000m3 cannot handle the sound of a full orchestra. As said a small symphonic hall is 22-25000m3 and we are talking 1200-1600 seats.
The three halls up north are all to small for a good symphonic sound and have unfortunately relied on local designers instead of the international professional cicuit i.e. Kirkegaard, Artec, Nagata, Arup and alike.