Fact file
| Year of birth | 1930 |
| Year of death | 1996 |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Period | 20th century |
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LondonLunchtime Recital - Lucy Humphris (trumpet) and Harry Rylance (piano)
Purcell, Takemitsu, Rachmaninov, Janáček, Piazzolla, James
Lucy Humphris; Unknown
DubrovnikSchumann Quartet
Haydn, Takemitsu, Schubert
Schumann Quartet; Erik Schumann; Ken Schumann; Liisa Randalu
HerefordJoby Burgess: Pioneers of Percussion
Takemitsu, Dale, Buckley, Xenakis, Lizée
Joby Burgess, Percussion
StockholmNature
Storm, Tanaka, Takemitsu, Bang, Hosokawa, Lindgren, Werle
Fredrik Malmberg; Swedish Radio Choir; Mika Takehara
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The Earth and other planets from the Belgrade Philharmonic
A fine Planets from Eiji Oue and the Belgrade Philharmonic crowned a splendid concert despite a flawed “Neptune” after Simone Rubino had explored the music of the Earth.
NHK Symphony Orchestra's magnificent Mahler Six
Is the very, very good the enemy of the great? It is hard to fault a performance as fine as this – except perhaps against a benchmark no longer recognised.
Three decades celebrated of Suntory Hall
World-class artists collaborate to celebrate Suntory Hall's 30th anniversary.
Music as “garden” and “theatre”
Tan Dun, Keiko Mitsuhashi, and the Tokyo Philharmonic deliver an homage concert to Toru Takemitsu, utilizing orchestral music as a “garden” and a “theatre."
Boylan sings luminous Shéhérazade and Luonnotar
Irish soprano Orla Boylan offers an engaging performance of Ravel's Shéhérazade and Sibelius' Luonnotar while the NSO under the baton of Brönnimann deliver a commendable Sibelius 5.