Our biggest get well wishes to Maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen at the news that the Finnish conductor has cancelled four Milan performances with Filarmonica della Scala in February for health reasons.
Marko Letonja (who excelled in Les contes d'Hoffmann that we wrote about here) jumps into Salonen's appointments from February 11-13 with Filarmonica in a concert of Bartók, Luca Lombardi (the world premiere of a new composition commissioned by La Scala to mark the 150 years of Italian Unification), Debussy and Skrjabin.
Daniel Harding will conduct the concert on February 6 with Filarmonica that substitutes violinist Leila Josefowicz with pianist Lars Vogt and a small change-up of the program (Brahms' Concerto no. 1).
