Vladimir Ashkenazy, now 62, launched his career in the mid-1950sas a pianist, but in the past 15 years he has become a most well-traveled conductor.
In 1992, Chicago audiences heard him with London's RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra, where he was music director from 1987 to1994. He was back in 1997 with the Deutsches Symphonie-OrchesterBerlin, an ensemble founded just after World War II, which he joinedin 1989.
Ashkenazy returned Friday night with his newest orchestra, thevenerable Czech Philharmonic, conducting a program of Janacek, Dvorakand Prokofiev. American violinist Kurt Nikkanen was soloist inDvorak's Violin Concerto.
Based in Prague, the Czech Philharmonic …
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