End of Mahler with Jaap van Zweden

HarrisonParrott are crowing that they have signed the huge-selling Japanese film composer Joe Hisaishi for global management. Hisaishi was previously with Lang Lang’s manager Jean-Jacques Cesbron. Quite a coup. The post Biz news: HP grabs […]

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: … The contrast flows back and forth, almost to the point of incoherence. It takes a truly great composer to throw up his hands and say, I don’t […]

The incoming New York Philharmonic conductor was invited to contribute a ‘Turning Points’ article to the local newspaper. Probably ghosted, and ever so slightly pretentious. He begins: Lately I have been thinking about the relationship […]