The Cleveland music director, who has received successful cancer treatment over 15 months, is apparently not quite ready to return for this month’s limelight cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with Igor Levit.
The orchestra has yet to announce his withdrawal, or a replacement.
We wish Franz a full continued recovery.
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After a year’s probation, the Prague Philharmonia has apponted Pavla Tesařová as its new concertmaster. Pavla, 26, is founding leader of the Ševčík Quartet. The post New concertmaster in Prague appeared first on Slippedisc.
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Four months ago, I wrote about one of the least satisfying Shostakovich records I have ever heard, a performance where the conductor, a hyped young Finn, skied across […]
