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2019-08-19 00:24:25
Amid the Japanese embrace of Western classical music, certain composers seem to resonate particularly well with Japanese conductors and audiences: notably Beethoven, Bruckner, and Sibelius. This might be gleaned from the fact that Takashi Asahina alone recorded six Bruckner and seven Beethoven cycles while the Japanese-Finnish conductor Akeo Watanabe has two Sibelius cycles to his […]
2018-02-01 15:44:41
Amazing 1994 archival footage of the then 34 year old Taiwanese-American violin virtuoso Cho-Liang Lin performing the Beethoven Violin Concerto with conductor Takashi Asahina and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. Cho-Liang this week celebrated his 58th birthday! CHO-LIANG LIN | BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO | TAKASHI Asahina & NHK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 1994 The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
2015-02-17 21:23:00
What Simon Rattle could do for the nation
What's ahead for Simon Rattle ? When he steps down from he helm of the Berliner Philharmoniker, the most prestigious job in the whole business in 2018,, he'll be 63, much too young to retire, Besides, he's such a dynamo, it's hard to imagine him lazing about. Conductors don't usually stop unless they have to, either like the unimitable Carlos Kleiber or like Takashi Asahina who was conducting almost to the day he died, aged 93. So what's next for Simon Rattle ? here have been rumours for ages that he'll take over at the London Symphony Orchestra which isn't nearly in the same league as the Berlin Philharmonic, but the, nothing is. In any case, there'd be a gap in the succession, since Gergiev and Harding are due to step down at the end of 2015. At this level, interim arrangements are hard to arrange. Salonen's […]
2012-10-21 01:44:00
Divine Levine?
Provocative article in Evan Tucker's Epileptic Fits of Blogging on James Levine's return to conducting next May. Conductors seem to live forever, like Takashi Asahina who was on the podium til age 93, In comparison, Levine at 70 is a mere babe. But Levine's return raises many questions. He's an icon because he's been at the Met for more than 40 years. Powerful symbiosis between man and house. Levine's doctors say he's fine to work again so that's good news. Levine's raring to go. "It would be torture for him not to conduct", sources say. Good spirit! In an era where employers get away with treating employees like disposables, the way the Met has cared for Levine has been almost miraculous. When Levine returns after three years away the audience reaction will be astonishing. Massive sympathy, massive support. But it is necessarily healthy for music ? Perhaps […]
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