Just in: Paavo laughs all the way to Zurich bank
NewsThe Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi has been renewed for five more years at Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra, where he will now see out the decade.
The salary, never disclosed, is one of the world’s highest.
The agent is Jasper Parrott.
Paavo said: ‘I am honored and excited to continue my work with the wonderful musicians of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. I am very committed to the orchestra and its future, and feel privileged to work with such a great team, both on stage and behind the scenes.’
He deserves every Rappen!
What Paavo does cannot be achieved with money alone anyway.
There is an article in Handelszeitung from 2018 about Järvi’s appointment which says that the salary was rumoured to be about half a million CHF. That’s nowhere near the world’s highest.
I heard Bringuier a couple of weeks ago for the first time, in a French program, and came away positively impressed having been led to believe, partly from his Zurich debacle, that he was not much good. Paavo of course is the technician type, which must be what they like.
Just an f.y.i. that the team of P. Jarvi/Tonhalle Zurich has a new Bruckner 7 coming out on the Alpha label. It’s listed at Presto Classical.
Whatever he’s getting paid, it was mutual agreement. But they’re a terrific orchestra, at least based on the wonderful recordings I’ve heard with them under David Zinman (himself a vastly underappreciated conductor, IMHO).
Jasper was once a great Brummy comic. What’s he doing in laughless Zurich?
His resemblance to Jasper Carrott is quite remarkable!
Playing tennis with The Fed? We give up.
They now have time for a complete Raff cycle.
Raff’s symphonies could really do with a workover and a rediscovery.
I agree! It’s high time the 3rd and 5th are restored to concert life and maybe a Raff Festival should be encouraged. But recordings? We have a generally excellent complete set from Bamberg on Tudor. The Marco Polo was nearly complete – stupid cuts in the 3rd – and then CPO gave us the later symphonies and then there are various recordings of a few others here and there. We don’t need more Raff symphony recordings and if Paavo approached Raff anything like his father, forget it.
Life in Switzerland is almost unaffordable….