Paavo Järvi has cancelled next week’s concerts with the Berlin Staatskapelle due to illness.
Chief conductor Christian Thielemann will step in with a different programme. Instead of Sibelius, Korngold and Nielsen, it will be an all-Mendelssohn concert with Spanish violinist María Duenas ‘gladly’ changing her concerto.
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