The Wiener Symphoniker's anniversary season in particular shows that the numerous world premieres that the orchestra has always performed are now part of the permanent repertoire of our concert halls. New music can become the classical repertoire of the future. And so music from our time is always also the adventure of defining the sound of the present for the future. This is happening this season, among other things, with a commissioned work for the Vorarlberg composer Marcus Nigsch (Marque), whose music combines the popular with the artistic. Conductor Patrick Hahn and cellist Kian Soltani, also from Vorarlberg, will perform his concerto for orchestra and cello, which was commissioned by the Wiener Symphoniker and the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien.

The Wiener Symphoniker regularly demonstrate that new music is easy to understand in their family operas. This time, a classic is on the programme: The Little Prince by Pierangelo Valtinoni. Ingo Metzmacher will also confront the Italian neo-tonalist Luigi Nono with Anton Bruckner; Petr Popelka Richard Strauss with the fantastic worlds of Gottfried von Einem and the Latvian conductor Aivis Greters the composition Clouds by his compatriot Ēriks Ešenvalds with works by Richard Strauss and Jean Sibelius. Of course, the Wiener Symphoniker are also represented at "Wien Modern": Elena Schwarz presents two deeply sensual works by Peter Eötvös and Clara Iannotta.