A day before playing both Ravel concertos in one concert with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, Yuja Wang has pulled out on grounds of ill-health.
The concert, at Canada’s Festival de Lanaudière, had been billed as ‘Yannick and Yuja: Explosive!’
Marc-André Hamelin has agreed to jump in.
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