Sylvain Cambreling bids farewell to the YNSO with a great concert

By Yawara Watanabe, 21 March 2019

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“they treated their sound with the greatest care, creating a really special sound world”

Reviewed at Kioi Hall, Tokyo on 19 March 2019

Varèse, Octandre

Messiaen, Sept Haikai

Scelsi, Quattro pezzi per orchestra

Grisey, Les espaces acoustiques

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

Sylvain Cambreling, Conductor

Rachmaninov, Beethoven from Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

Dominic Lowe, 24th October

A rewarding visit from this Japanese orchestra under principal conductor Sebastian Weigle featured a fine Rachmaninov Second Symphony and a vivid, gusty Beethoven Violin Concerto from soloist Christian Tetzlaff.

****1

Ravishing Tchaikovsky from Weigle and the Yomiuri Nippon SO

Nahoko Gotoh, 3rd October

The Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra under their Principal Conductor Sebastian Weigle show top-form in Tchaikovsky before their upcoming European tour.

****1

Kerem Hasan conducts an exhilarating Tchaikovsky Fifth in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 18th June

Exciting Tchaikovsky from the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, while Leeds winner Eric Lu is the sensitive soloist in Chopin's Second Concerto.

****1

Brahms to remember from Hisako Kawamura at Suntory Hall

David Karlin, 13th March

Hisako Kawamura shows excellence and stamina in tackling two huge concertos, while Kazuki Yamada and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony give compelling Brahms but are less convincing in Amy Beach.

****1

Exquisite playing from Naoko Yoshino in Boieldieu's Harp Concerto

Nahoko Gotoh, 11th January

Italian conductor Gaetano d’Espinosa is currently doing the rounds of Japanese orchestras, standing in for many of his colleagues who are unable to enter due to border closures.

***11

Heavenly Mussorgsky from Japan's Newspaper Orchestra

Robert Markow, 28th April

One of Japan’s leading orchestras, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, turned in performances of two warhorses as different as night and day. In between came a revelation in the form of a young cellist destined for greatness.

****1

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Yawara Watanabe

Yawara Watanabe is a Tokyo based music writer with a special interest in chamber music. He has visited major international chamber music competitions all over the world, especially string quartets, and is now a member of a brain trust for the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa. He has also toured a lot with chamber music groups in Asian countries. His another interest is modern opera and he has worked as one of the writers for “Operas after WW2” published by the New National Theater Japan, Tokyo.