NHK Symphony Orchestra
The NHK Symphony Orchestra is one of Japan's leading symphonic ensembles. Although associated with the national NHK broadcaster, the group performs concerts in Japan and abroad as well as recording extensively.
The NHK Symphony Orchestra was founded as the New Symphony Orchestra in October of 1926, growing out of an earlier Japan Symphony Association whose membership included theater musicians as well as Russian players from the Asian mainland. The group was later called the Japan Symphony Orchestra for a short time and assumed its present name when the NHK broadcast network began to contribute financial support in 1951. The orchestra's first conductor was Hidemaro Konoye, who held the baton from 1926 to 1935, but foreign conductors were recruited relatively early. Joseph Rosenstock, a German Jew who had fled Berlin, conducted the orchestra from 1935 to 1946 despite protests from the German embassy in Tokyo; he returned for a second stint in 1956 and 1957, influencing many younger Japanese conductors and musicians. Later conductors included Wolfgang Sawallisch (1967-1994), Charles Dutoit (1996-2003), Vladimir Ashkenazy (2004-2007), André Previn (2012-2019), and Paavo Järvi (2016-). Conducting duties often rotate among a permanent conductor, a principal conductor, and a music director, with strong roles for honorary and emeritus conductors as well. In addition to broadcasts and performances in its own NHK Hall, the orchestra often performs at Suntory Hall and the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall. The group gives 120 concerts annually, including 54 subscription concerts broadcast on NHK radio and television.
The NHK Symphony has a substantial recording catalog. Sometimes the group has recorded Asian music, such as Bunya Koh's Sketches of the Old Capital (1995) and Shin-Ichiro Ikebe's orchestral music (2012), but most of the orchestra's output has been devoted to Western music. The group's recordings have appeared on Exton, Camerata, and as of 2017, RCA Red Seal, among other labels.
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Koh: Formosan Dance - Confucian Temple Rites
World music - Pubblicato da Sunrise Records il 19 giu 2009
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Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony) [Live]
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yuzo Toyama
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Japan il 30 ago 2012
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光る君へ メインテーマ Amethyst
Yumi Tono, Kyohei Sorita, Tomoyuki Asakawa, Junichi Hirokami, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Colonne sonore - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 8 gen 2024
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 8
Wolfgang Sawallisch, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 26 giu 2002
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Berg: Chamber Concerto (Live)
Yoshio Unno, Reiko Honsho, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Wilhelm Schüchter
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Naxos Japan il 27 lug 2012
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NHK Symphony Overseas Performance in the Soviet Union (Recorded Live 1960)
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Toyoaki Matsuura, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Yuzo Toyama
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Japan il 1 set 2014
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Nishimura: Karura
Thomas Indermühle, Matthias Bamert, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Camerata Tokyo il 14 set 2005
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Brahms:Symphony No.1 / R.Strauss:Tod Und Verklarung
Wolfgang Sawallisch, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 12 set 1987
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R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Don Juan
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 23 set 2015
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Mayuzumi: Nirvana Symphony
Tokyo Choraliers, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Japan il 24 apr 2012
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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 "Tragic"
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 6 feb 2019
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Tchaikovsky - Beethoven Piano Concertos
Emil Gilels, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da RC3 il 23 ott 2021
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André Kostelanetz Special Concert (Live)
NHK Symphony Orchestra, André Kostelanetz
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Japan il 30 ago 2012
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Essence
Shinobu Sato, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Yuzo Toyama
Classica - Pubblicato da Universal Music LLC il 29 set 1993
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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 "Tragic"
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 6 feb 2019
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Bartok Triptych
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 12 giu 2019
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition & A Night at Bald Mountain
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 22 ago 2018
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Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra | Metamorphosen
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 31 gen 2020
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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote |Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche | Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Paavo Järvi, NHK Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Sony Music Labels Inc. il 31 gen 2020
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Wut Man Chung: Festival Sketches
World music - Pubblicato da Sunrise Records il 21 giu 2009
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Op. 55 Eroica
Announcer, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Rosenstock
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Japan il 1 set 2014
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