The Vienna Philharmonic has replaced an unwell Franz Welser-Möst in four concerts next weekend with Ivan Fischer. The programme is unchanged: Haydn’s 52nd, followed by Das Lied von der Erde.
Minnesota Orchestra, too will have to do without Alice Sara Ott, who has acute tendonitis. She is substututed in the Beethoven G-major concerto by Conrad Tao
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