For two concerts in a row, the hr-Sinfonieorchester and its new principal conductor @alainaltinoglu can be experienced this weekend as part of our festival Musik im Umbruch 🎶 With works by #Rachmaninov • #Stravinsky • #Scriabin • #Prokofiev • #Shostakovich and a subsequent discussion round after the Sunday concert, we invite for intense reflection. The festival focus, planned long before the war in Ukraine, opens up a highly complex chapter of history and asks questions about it: How did war, revolution and the pressures of totalitarian systems affect musical creation? What paths did composers like Stravinsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich or Weinberg take under the constraints of circumstances? Was it possible to protect their work from ideological appropriation and political instrumentalisation? ________ 📸 Dieter Nagl #festival #musikvereinwien #wienermusikverein #alainaltinoglu #hrsinfonieorchester #konzert #concert #wien #musikverein