Rarely heard Ukrainian music can be heard in the Great Festival Hall and other concert venues.
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Conductor Alain Altinoglu and pianist Francesco Piemontesi play Schumann in Salzburg.
No, even a classical concert evening cannot go by without the dominant theme of these days. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony wanted to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine, explained conductor Alain Altinoglu at the end of the first of three guest performances in the Great Festival Hall. As an encore they therefore decided on a work by Valentin Silvestrov: “Hymn” for strings from 2001.
Born in Kyiv, the composer is one of the few Ukrainian composers who are also known in the West …
Accessed on March 3rd, 2022 at 8:08 a.m. at https://www.sn.at/kultur/musik/salzburger-kulturvereinigung-eine-hymne-aus-kiew-erreichen-salzburgs-herz-117907051