Akeo Watanabe was a Japanese symphonic conductor, known for his recordings of the works of what Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods?
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Akeo Watanabe Akeo Watanabe (渡邉 暁雄 , Watanabe Akeo , 1919–1990) was a Japanese symphonic conductor, known for his recordings of the works of Jean Sibelius.
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Jean Sibelius Jean Sibelius ( ;    ), born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 186520 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. He is widely recognized as his country's greatest composer and, through his music, is often credited with having helped Finland to develop a national identity during its struggle for independence from Russia.
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Finnish Music Information Center Finnish Music Information Centre (Fimic) is an organization dedicated to the promotion and archiving of Finnish music. A member of the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC), the International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) and the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), Fimic hosts a vast library of scores, parts, and recordings, and distributes unpublished sheet music. The organization covers nearly all genres of Finnish music, ranging from contemporary classical compositions to rock and folk music.
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Seiji Ozawa Seiji Ozawa (小澤 征爾 , Ozawa Seiji , born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor, known for his advocacy of modern composers and his work with the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. He is the recipient of numerous international awards.
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List of compositions by Gustav Mahler The musical compositions of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) are almost exclusively in the genres of song and symphony. In his juvenile years he attempted to write opera and instrumental works; all that survives musically from those times is a single movement from a Piano Quartet from around 1876–78. From 1880 onwards Mahler was a professional conductor whose composing activities had to be fitted around concert and theatrical engagements. Nevertheless, over the next 30 years he produced nine complete symphonies and sketches for a tenth, several orchestral song cycles and many other songs with piano or orchestral accompaniment. Mahler's symphonies are generally on an expansive scale, requiring large forces in performance, and are among the longest in the concert repertoire.
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Neo-romanticism The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as social movements, that exist after and incorporate elements from the era of Romanticism. It has been used with reference to late-19th-century composers such as Richard Wagner particularly by Carl Dahlhaus who describes his music as "a late flowering of romanticism in a positivist age". He regards it as synonymous with "the age of Wagner", from about 1850 until 1890—the start of the era of modernism, whose leading early representatives were Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler . It has been applied to writers, painters, and composers who rejected, abandoned, or opposed realism, naturalism, or avant-garde modernism at various points in time from about 1840 down to the present.
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Wilhelm von Lenz Wilhelm von Lenz (born 20 May 1809 in Riga - died 7 January 1883 in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German Russian official and writer. Wilhelm von Lenz was a friend of many mid-century Romantic composers, including Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and Hector Berlioz, Lenz's most important and influential work was an early biography of the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven, entitled "Beethoven et ses trois styles" (1855), written in response to the disparagement of Beethoven by Alexander Ulybyshev in his "Nouvelle biographie de Mozart" (1843). Lenz promoted the idea (already suggested by earlier figures such as François-Joseph Fétis) that Beethoven's musical style be divided into three characteristic periods. Lenz's periodisation, with minor changes, is still widely used today by musicologists in discussing Beethoven's compositions.
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Hirofumi Yoshida Hirofumi Yoshida (吉田 裕史 , Yoshida Hirofumi ) is a Japanese orchestral conductor. He resides in Italy, but grew up in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan.
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Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (] ; 7 July 1860, Kaliště, Bohemia, now Czech Republic – 18 May 1911, Vienna, Austria-Hungary) was an Austrian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation. As a composer he acted as a bridge between the 19th century Austro-German tradition and the modernism of the early 20th century. While in his lifetime his status as a conductor was established beyond question, his own music gained wide popularity only after periods of relative neglect which included a ban on its performance in much of Europe during the Nazi era. After 1945 his compositions were rediscovered and championed by a new generation of listeners; Mahler then became one of the most frequently performed and recorded of all composers, a position he has sustained into the 21st century.
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Kazuyoshi Akiyama Kazuyoshi Akiyama (秋山 和慶 , Akiyama Kazuyoshi , born January 2, 1941) is a Japanese conductor.
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Alvar Aalto Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (] ; 3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings, though he never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a "total work of art"; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. His furniture designs are considered Scandinavian Modern, in the sense of a concern for materials, especially wood, and simplification but also technical experimentation, which led to him receiving patents for various manufacturing processes, such as bent wood. The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.
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Ulf Söderblom Ulf Arne Söderblom (5 February 1930 – 4 February 2016) was a Finnish conductor and music professor. He was the Principal Conductor of the Finnish National Opera from 1973 to 1993 and was a key figure in the revival of the Savonlinna Opera Festival. A champion of Finnish music, he has conducted the world premieres of several works by Finnish composers including Kokkonen's "The Last Temptations" and Sallinen's "Kullervo" and "The Horseman".
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Violin Concerto (Sibelius) The Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, was written by Jean Sibelius in 1904, revised in 1905. It is his only concerto. It is symphonic in scope, with the solo violin and all sections of the orchestra being equal voices. An extended cadenza for the soloist takes on the role of the development section in the first movement.
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Ilya Musin (conductor) Ilya Aleksandrovich Musin (Russian: Илья́ Алекса́ндрович Му́син ; ] ; 6 January 1904 [O.S. 24 December 1903] – 6 June 1999) was a Russian conductor, a prominent teacher and a theorist of conducting.
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Jiang Wen-Ye Jiang Wen-Ye (, June 11, 1910 – October 24, 1983) was a Taiwanese composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China. While known in the West by his Chinese name, the three Chinese characters that form his name are pronounced "Kō Bunya" (こう ぶんや) in Japanese. In his compositions, which range from for piano to choral and orchestral works, he merged elements of traditional Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese music with modernist influences. Due to the political turmoil surrounding his life, he came to be largely forgotten during the latter part of his life. After his death, however, his work has started to gain new recognition in East Asia as well as in the West.
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Kazuhiro Koizumi Kazuhiro Koizumi (小泉 和裕 , Koizumi Kazuhiro , born 1949) is a Japanese conductor who has had an active international career since the 1970s. He has appeared as a guest conductor throughout Europe and the United States, appearing with such ensembles as the Berlin Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He is the current principal conductor of both the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, a post he has held since 2008, and the Century Orchestra Osaka (2003). Since 2006 he has been a current principal guest conductor with the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Andres Mustonen Andres Mustonen (born September 1, 1953) is an Estonian conductor and violinist.
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Al largo Al largo is a composition for orchestra by the Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. It was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic while Lindberg served as the orchestra's composer-in-residence. Its world premiere was given by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Alan Gilbert at Avery Fisher Hall on June 23, 2010.
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Joonas Kokkonen Joonas Kokkonen (   ) (November 13, 1921 – October 2, 1996) was a Finnish composer. He was one of the most internationally famous Finnish composers of the 20th century after Sibelius; his opera "The Last Temptations" has received over 500 performances worldwide, and is considered by many to be Finland's most distinguished national opera.
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Risto Lauriala Risto Vilho Johannes Lauriala (born 21 November 1949 in Oulu, Finland) is a Finnish classical pianist.
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Hans Stadlmair Hans Stadlmair (born 3 May 1929) is an Austrian conductor and composer. He conducted the Münchener Kammerorchester for almost four decades.
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Alexander Kantorov Alexander Kantorov (born 1947) is a Russian conductor who was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) and was a graduate of both Moscow and Saint Petersburg Conservatories. He used to take violin lessons under guidance from Mikhail Vaiman and then completed postgraduate education under guidance from Yuri Temirkanov. He began his conducting career at the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra and then became both a fonder and head conductor of both Sverdlovsk and Saint Petersburg Symphony Orchestras. Currently he conducts numerous works by such famous Russian composers as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alexander Taneyev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as well as German composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Julian Cochran from Australia and Gustav Mahler with Anton Bruckner from Austria. Besides those, he also conducted works of Hector Berlioz and Antonín Dvořák.