Leonidas Kavakos will have to continue his wait to premiere
Osvaldo Golijov's Violin Concerto, after the composer said the work
would not be ready in time for performances with the Philadelphia
Orchestra in January. Kavakos will instead perform Szymanowski's
Violin Concerto no.2 at concerts in Philadelphia and New
York.
Golijov's concerto, a co-commission from the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic and London's Barbican Centre,
was meant to have had its world premiere in Los Angeles in May
2011. Subsequent premiere dates in Berlin and London also had to be
cancelled.
Golijov issued a statement this week in which he said: 'Some works
have a pleasant birth, while others a difficult one. The violin
concerto belongs to the second type, and I can only hope that when
it is ready to see the world, it will be worthy of the artistry of
Leonidas Kavakos, as well as that of the other artists and
presenters who entrusted me with its creation.'c
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