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3 listed episodes · First aired January 3, 2020
Season overview
The NHK Symphony Orchestra leads Japan's classical music world. It held its first concert in 1927 and has since performed regularly for over 90 years. It continues its excellent performance to this day. In August 2013, it performed at Austria's Salzburg Festival, the world's most prominent classical music festival. In the spring of 2017, the NHK Symphony Orchestra held a concert in 7 key European cities including Berlin and Vienna. It has received global acclaim for its activities. We bring you 3 masterpieces conducted by 3 leading maestros.
Episodes
In this episode, we bring you excerpts of a concert held by the NHK Symphony Orchestra where it gave a complete performance of the Nutcracker. Russian maestro Vladimir Fedoseyev took the baton. He has performed with the…
E2Paavo Järvi: Wagner, The Ring of the NibelungIn this episode, we bring you some of the orchestra music from Der Ring des Nibelungen by Wilhelm Richard Wagner, which is often performed independently. The NHK Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor Paavo Jarvi took the…
E3Herbert Blomstedt: Brahms, Symphony No. 1We've chosen Brahms' Symphony No. 1 for the last day of this season. His first symphony took Brahms over 20 years from sketches to finishing touches. The masterpiece is the result of serious deliberations he made as he …