Altinoglu, Hagen & hr-Sinfonieorchester translates to "Altinoglu, Hagen & hr-Symphony Orchestra" in English.

In their first concert at the Brucknerhaus in 15 years, the hr-Sinfonieorchester, led by chief conductor Alain Altinoglu and featuring cellist Julia Hagen, juxtaposes works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Igor Stravinsky, in which exuberant cheerfulness and bitter seriousness lie closely together: Shostakovich composed his 1st Cello Concerto in 1959 for his close friend, the "super virtuoso" Mstislav Rostropovich. Not only does a variant of the characteristic DSCH motif at the beginning of the piece make the composition a veritable musical calling card of Shostakovich, but the solo concerto is also marked by biting exuberance and deep emotionality. In contrast, Stravinsky's almost 50-year-old "colorful" music for Sergei Diaghilev's ballet Petrushka, which was inspired by folk puppet theater, unfolds a splendid and all-too-human drama of desire, seduction, and jealousy among three puppets of a juggler at a fair in St. Petersburg, where the stakes ultimately become life and death, while the boundaries between reality and fiction blur.