Fact file
| Year of birth | 1930 |
| Year of death | 1996 |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Period | 20th century |
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BrusselsTakemitsu, Debussy, Beethoven
Takemitsu, Debussy, Beethoven
Brussels Philharmonic; Jun Märkl; Flemish Radio Choir
KortrijkTakemitsu, Debussy, Beethoven
Takemitsu, Debussy, Beethoven
Brussels Philharmonic; Jun Märkl; Flemish Radio Choir
ParisZemlinsky / Chausson / Takemitsu
Takemitsu, Chausson, Zemlinsky
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France; Vasily Petrenko; Anna Caterina Antonacci; Michel Brousseau; Nicolas Tulliez
DubrovnikSchumann Quartet
Haydn, Takemitsu, Schubert
Schumann Quartett; Erik Schumann; Ken Schumann; Liisa Randalu
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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.
New sounds and soundscapes in Istanbul
The Istanbulite audience of symphonic music made a huge step forward in their sound worlds thanks to BIPO and the piano duo Ufuk & Bahar Dördüncü.