Performances of less recorded orchestral works by Igor Stravinsky, which show the versatility of the Russian composer, who was never a supporter of any kind of expression aesthetics. On the contrary, he saw composing as an intellectual game, an attempt to solve self-invented musical problems. His constructivism could be kindled by Italian Baroque music, but just as well by the polyphonous structures of the Renaissance, by jazz, or by Anton Webern’s serial tone complexes.

Whether as an opera conductor, orchestra director, festival director or book author: Ingo Metzmacher is consistently committed to music, especially that of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is a frequent guest conductor with major orchestras such as the Vienna Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Ensemble Modern, as well as with opera houses and festivals such as the Vienna State Opera, the Opéra National de Paris, Milan‘s Teatro alla Scala, the Salzburg Festival and the Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence.