Yutaka Sado
While he was still in school in Japan, Yutaka Sado acquired an assistantship with the Kansai Nikikai, a Japanese opera company, where he had the opportunity to work with the New Japan Philharmonic and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra while learning operatic repertory. In 1987 he traveled to the United States on a fellowship to the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he studied with Seiji Ozawa, and won the Davidoff Special Prize at a competition in Schleswig-Holstein. He returned to Japan as assistant to Ozawa, and made his debut with the New Japan Philharmonic; he then studied with Charles Dutoit, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and Leonard Bernstein. He served as Bernstein's assistant on a tour of Germany and the Soviet Union. In 1990 he became a regular participant in the Pacific Music Festival of Sapporo, Japan. His debut outside Japan was conducting at the 39th annual International Young Conductors' Competition in Besançon, France in 1989, where he took first prize.
In 1993 he worked with the Orchestra of Bordeaux-Aquitaine, where he drew the attention of members of the long-established Orchestra des Concerts Lamoureux of Paris, who extended an invitation to conduct. "At first the sound was horrible," he admitted in an interview, "but the musicians immediately responded to my instructions. We understood each other immediately. We did not know each other and yet it was like finding a very close friend again." The concert by the unknown and youthful Japanese conductor was an unexpected success. Parisian critics threw away all reserve, writing of his "charisma" and "authority" and referring to his "sunlike radiance" and the "magnificently controlled fury" of his performance. "The orchestra has found its energy again," one wrote. The orchestra had also found its next principal conductor, a post Sado assumed in 1993. Sado centers his repertory on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from the time of Strauss, Mahler and Franck to that of Ravel, but his total repertory is very wide, mingling all periods and styles. He has stressed the history of the Lamoureux Orchestra in building its programs, presenting famous works it premiered over its 12-decade life from the pens of such composers as Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Chabrier, Dukas, Debussy, Ravel, Roussel, Ibert, and others.
In June 1995 the Syndicate of Professional Drama and Music Critics of Paris awarded him the prize as "Musical Revelation of the Year." In the same year he won the First Prize in the Leonard Bernstein Competition of Jerusalem. This was shortly followed by his recording Bernstein's Third Symphony ("Kaddish") and Chichester Psalms.
He has conducted widely in France, including the French Radio Philharmonic, the National Orchestra of France, and the orchestras of Lyons, Monte Carlo, Marseille, Toulouse, Bordeux, and Lille. He has also conducted the principal orchestras of Stuttgart, Zürich, Jerusalem, Budapest, the Hague, Bratislava, and Prague. He led the Lamoureux's first recording of the digital age, a well-received all-Ibert disc for Naxos, and planned a series of "Lamoureux Premiere" recordings.
In 2011, he took his first turn conducting the Berlin Philharmonic with music from Takemitsu and Shostakovich. Later recordings include The Puccini Experience (2007), Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 (2010), and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 2 (2011).
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Discography
19 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 & Suite for Variety Orchestra
Tonkünstler Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 20 Apr 2018
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D Major "Titan"
Yutaka Sado, Tonkünstler-Orchester
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 6 Dec 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" (Live)
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 28 Oct 2016
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2, Op. 43 & Finlandia, Op. 26
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 3 Mar 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
String Serenade
Tonkünstler Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 2 Mar 2018
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ravel & Debussy: Works (Live)
Yutaka Sado, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Nobuyuki Tsujii, Neue Wiener Stimmen
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 14 Feb 2020
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (Live)
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 27 Jan 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, TrV 190 - Der Rosenkavalier Suite, Op. 59, TrV 227d
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Lieke Te Winkel, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 16 Mar 2016
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 in E Minor (Live)
Yutaka Sado, Tonkünstler-Orchester
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 1 Mar 2024
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Escales - Divertissement - Symphonie marine
Orchestre Lamoureux, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Naxos on 3 Jul 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Saxophone Concertos
Nobuya Sugawa, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Chandos on 1 May 2008
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G Major (Live)
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado, Adela Zaharia
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 16 Mar 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Berlioz: Huit Scènes de Faust
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 20 Sep 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Huckepack: Ouvertüre
Yutaka Sado, Tonkünstler-Orchester
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 13 Jan 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bernstein: Candide, On the Town, On the Waterfront & West Side Story (Highlights)
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on 1 Sep 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Messiaen : Turangalîla-symphonie, I/29 (Live)
Roger Muraro, Valerie Hartmann-Claverie, Tonkünstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Symphonies - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 28 Sep 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1890 Version) [Live]
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 1 Jan 2021
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor - Takemitsu: Ceremonial (An Autumn Ode) [Live]
Tonkünstler-Orchester, Mayumi Miyata, Yutaka Sado
Classical - Released by Tonkunstler Orchestra on 27 Oct 2017
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
French Spectacular
Classical - Released by Warner Classics International on 10 Jul 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo