Christian Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden open their Brahms Cycle with a performance at the stunning NHK Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The program includes Brahms’ Symphonies No. 1 in C minor and No. 3 in F major.
Salzburg Festival 2013: NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo
The NHK Symphony Orchestra first performance at the Salzburg Festival. —– PROGRAM: Toru Takemitsu: November Steps for Biwa, Shakuhachi and Orchestra (Soloists: Kaoru Kakizakai, Shakuhachi; Kakujo Nakamura, Biwa) / Toshio Hosokawa: Lamentation for Soprano and Orchestra after poems by Georg Trakl (world premiere, work commissioned by the Salzburg Festival; Soloist: Anna Prohaska) / Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique op. 14