Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa is Music Director of the Vienna State Opera since the 2002/2003 season and is an annual and favored guest of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to his Vienna State Opera appointment he served as Music Director of the Boston Symphony for 29 seasons (1973-2002), the longest serving music director in the orchestra’s history. Mo. Ozawa is also Artistic Director and Founder of the Saito Kinen Festival and Saito Kinen Orchestra (SKO), the pre-eminent music and opera festival of Japan and in June 2003 it was announced that he would be Music Director of a new festival of opera, symphony concerts and chamber music called “Tokyo no Mori” which has its first annual season in February 2005 in Tokyo. In 2000 he founded the Ozawa Ongaku Juku in Japan, an academy for aspiring young orchestral musicians in which they play side-by-side with pre-eminent professional players in both symphonic concerts and fully staged opera productions with international level casting. Its next performances (September 2005) will be on tour in China and Japan. In 2004, Maestro Ozawa founded the International Music Academy - Switzerland dedicated to training young musicians in chamber music and offering them performance opportunities in orchestras and as soloists. Its first season will be end of June/beginning of July 2005 starting with string quartets featuring day time classes with teachers, including Robert Mann (ex-first violin of Juilliard Quartet) and Sadao Harada (ex-cellist of Tokyo String Quartet) with evening sessions by Maestro Ozawa. The final concert will be for an invited audience. Since founding the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, and its subsequent evolution into the Saito Kinen Festival in 1991, Mo. Ozawa has devoted himself increasingly to the growth and development of a première orchestra in Japan. With extensive recording projects, annual and world-wide tours, and especially since the inception of the Saito Kinen Festival in the Japan Alps city of Matsumoto, he has built a world-class and world-renowned orchestra, dedicated in spirit, name and accomplishment to the memory of his teacher at Tokyo's Toho School of Music, Hideo Saito, a revered figure in the cultivation of Western music and musical technique in Japan. The 2004/2005 season starts in September with the Saito Kinen Festival (Matsumoto, Japan) with Wozzeck by Alban Berg and symphony concerts featuring Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Percussion, Celeste, and Strings. Maestro remains in Japan through mid-October as the Vienna State Opera tours there early in October with Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, returning to Vienna for opera performances there of Fidelio during October and November 2004. Later in the season he will conduct performances of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro in Vienna (January 2005); Elektra and Wozzeck in March and April; Der Fliegende Holländer (May); and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in June, with the War Requiem (Britten) in a Vienna State Opera concert on May 18, 2005. February will find Mo. Ozawa conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, and his appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic during the 2004/2005 season will be in June at the Musikverein and feature a performance of Don Quixote (Strauss) with his great friend, Mstislav Rostropovich and the world premiere of Penderecki’s Adagio for Cello. He will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra June 25 and 26, also with Mstislav Rostropovich as soloist. Mo. Ozawa returns to Japan early in July 2005 conducting the Mito Chamber Orchestra in performances at Mito Hall followed by concerts with the New Japan Philharmonic later in the month. Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, Seiji Ozawa studied music from an early age and later graduated with first prizes in both composition and conducting from Tokyo’s Toho School of Music. In 1959 he won first prize at the International Competition of Orchestra Conductors in Besançon, France, where he came to the attention of Charles Munch, then the Boston Symphony music director, who invited him to Tanglewood, where he won the Koussevitzky Prize as outstanding student conductor in 1960. While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who appointed him assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1961-62 season. He made his first professional concert appearance in North America in January 1962, with the San Francisco Symphony. He was music director of the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony (1964-69), music director of the Toronto Symphony (1965-1969) and music director of the San Francisco Symphony (1970-1976). He first conducted the Boston Symphony in 1964 at Tanglewood and made his first winter subscription appearance with them in 1968. He was named Artistic Director of Tanglewood in 1970, Music Director of the Boston Symphony in 1973, leaving a legacy of brilliant achievement evidenced through touring, award-winning recordings (more than 140 works of more than 50 composers on 10 labels), television productions (winning 2 Emmy awards), and commissioned works. Through his many recordings, television appearances, and worldwide touring, Mo. Ozawa is an internationally recognized celebrity. In recent years, the many honors and achievements bestowed upon Mr. Ozawa have underscored his esteemed standing in the international music scene. French President Jacques Chirac named him (2001) Chavalier de la Légion d’Honneur, the Sorbonne (2004) awarded him Doctorate Honoris Causa and he has been honored as "Musician of the Year" by Musical America. February 1998 saw him fulfilling a longtime ambition of joining musicians around the globe: he led the Opening Ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, conducting the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the SKO and six choruses located on five different continents – Japan, Australia, China, Germany, South Africa, and the United States – all linked by satellite. He received Japan’s first-ever Inouye Award (1994), named after Japan’s pre-eminent novelist, recognizing lifetime achievement in the arts. 1994 also saw the inauguration of the new and acclaimed Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. Mo. Ozawa also has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts, Wheaton College, and the New England Conservatory of Music. April 2005
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ALBUM
Una raccolta completa degli album di Seiji Ozawa, dalle prime produzioni ai successi più recenti.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14, H. 48
The Original Source Series - NEW
Seiji Ozawa, SKF Matsumoto Choir, SKF Matsumoto Children's Chorus
Britten: War Requiem, Op.66
Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: L'enfant Et Les Sortileges
Seiji Ozawa, Mito Chamber Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphonies No.2 & No.8
Live In Mito / 2015
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Brahms:Symphony No.1 In C Minor, Op.68
Seiji Ozawa, Jessye Norman, James Morris
Richard Strauss: Salome
Kiri Te Kanawa, Marilyn Horne, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No.2 "Resurrection"
Wiener Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa
New Year's Day Concert 2002
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Jessye Norman
Mahler: Symphony No.7/Kindertotenlieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: Symphony No. 1; Rückert-Lieder
Mstislav Rostropovich, Paul Sacher, Herbert von Karajan
Rostropovich - Chefs D'Oeuvres Pour Violoncelle
2 CDsBoston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Claudio Abbado
Ravel Weekend
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
Dolby Atmos
Momo Kodama, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Hosokawa / Mozart
Live
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Herbert von Karajan, James Levine
Mad About Sopranos
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3; Symphony No. 7
SD
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7; Leonore Overture No. 3
Seiji Ozawa, Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite
MfiT
Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2; Grieg: Holberg Suite
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
The Tokyo Gala Concert
International Version / Live
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa & Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op.20, TH.12
Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No.1; Piano Concerto No.1
Live In Ibaraki / 2017
Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C; Piano Concerto No.1 in C
Live In Ibaraki / 2017Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Takemitsu: November Steps; Viola Concerto; Eclipse
Seiji Ozawa, New Philharmonia Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No.9
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Chabrier: España - Rhapsody For Orchestra / Gounod: Faust, Ballet Music / Thomas: Overture From 'Mignon' / Offenbach: Gaîté parisienne
Christoph Eschenbach, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík
Beethoven: Symphony No.5 In C Minor, Op.67; Piano Concerto No.5 In E Flat Major Op.73 -"Emperor"
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35 / Bartók: Music For Strings, Percussion And Celesta, Sz. 106
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 In E Minor, Op.64, TH.29
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 73 / Rossini: Overture From "Semiramide" / Paganini: Moto perpetuo, Op.11
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Brahms: Symphony No.1 In C Minor, Op.68
Seiji Ozawa, Wiener Philharmoniker
Richard Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie; Wiener Philharmoniker Fanfare; Feierlicher Einzug
Galina Gorchakova, Neil Shicoff, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
The Puccini Album
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings / Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Divertimento in D
Seiji Ozawa, Jessye Norman, Peter Schreier
Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; The Miraculous Mandarin
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Takemitsu: Requiem; Family Tree; My Way Of Life
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Ravel: L'enfant Et Les Sortileges
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht - Stravinsky: Apollon musagète
Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa
Prokofiev: 7 Symphonies; Lieutenant Kijé
4 CD'sJessye Norman, Mirella Freni, Neil Shicoff
Bizet: Carmen (Highlights)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: Orchestral Works Vol.2
Australian Eloquence Digital
Viktoria Mullova, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky & Sibelius Violin Concertos
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Jessye Norman, Neil Shicoff, Simon Estes
Bizet: Carmen
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: Orchestral Music Vol.3
Australian Eloquence Digital
Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Bruckner: Symphony No.7
Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra / Music for Strings, Percussion & Celeste
Simon Preston, Everett Firth, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Franck: Symphony In D minor / Poulenc: Concerto For Organ, Strings And Percussion In G Minor
Live At Symphony Hall, Boston / 1991
Nobuko Imai, Roger Woodward, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Toru Takemitsu: November Steps; Viola Concerto; Corona
Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa: German Masterworks
SETArthur Fiedler, Seiji Ozawa, Herbert von Karajan
Tchaikovsky: Overture "1812"; Romeo and Julia; Marche Slave Op.31; Capriccio italien Op.45
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges; Shéhérazade
Sylvia McNair, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Ravel: Shéhérazade/Britten: Les illuminations/Debussy: La damoiselle élue/
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos.4 & 8 etc
San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 - "Eroica"
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Holst: The Planets
Orchestre de Paris, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites - The Nutcracker; The Sleeping Beauty
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Takemitsu: Quatrain; A Flock descends
Gidon Kremer, Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No.2 / Schumann/Shostakovich: Violin Concerto in A minor
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Bartók: Violin Concerto No.2, Sz 112 / Moret: En rêve
Kiri Te Kanawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: Symphony No.4
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: Symphony No.5
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos, James McCracken
Schoenberg: Gurrelieder
2 CDsBoston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: The Symphonies/Kindertotenlieder (14 CDs)
14 CDs
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: The Symphonies/Kindertotenlieder
CD 14 of 14
Edita Gruberova, John Aler, Thomas Hampson
Orff: Carmina Burana
Dolby Atmos
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Strauss, R.: Elektra
2 CDs
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
Hildegard Behrens, Christa Ludwig, Nadine Secunde
Strauss, R.: Elektra
CD 2 of 2Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: Boléro; Pavane; La Valse
Seiji Ozawa, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Mahler: The Symphonies
Edita Gruberova, John Aler, Thomas Hampson
Orff: Carmina Burana
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Renée Fleming, Orchestre National De France, Alan Gilbert
Renée Fleming - Poèmes - Ravel, Messiaen, Dutilleux
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: Orchestral Works Vol.1
Australian Eloquence Digital
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ravel: Boléro; Rapsodie Espagnole
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C Minor, Op. 68
Limited Edition
San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa
Seiji Ozawa Anniversary
CD 11 of 11
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: Symphony No.1
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: Symphony No.9; Symphony No.10 (Adagio)
Benjamin Luxon, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Deborah Sasson, Faye Robinson, Florence Quivar, Gwynne Howell, Judith Blegen, Kenneth Riegel, Lorna Myers, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Mahler: Symphony No.8
Jessye Norman, American Boy Choir, Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Mahler: Symphonies Nos 3 & 6
3 CDs
Leonard Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Seiji Ozawa
Basic Opera
2 CD's
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Rafael Kubelík
Bartók: The Miraculous Mandarin; Concerto for Orchestra
Edith Mathis, Stuart Burrows, Donald McIntyre
Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust, Op. 24
Yundi Li, Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op.16, Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Joseph Silverstein
R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra/Ein Heldenleben
Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Bach, J.S.: Transcriptions by Stokowski/Schoenberg/Stravinsky/Webern
Orchestre de Paris, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 / The Sleeping Beauty Suite
Katia Labèque, Marielle Labèque, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Poulenc/Milhaud: Concerto in D minor for 2 Pianos/Scaramouche etc.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker / The Sleeping Beauty / Romeo and Juliet
Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester, Carlo Maria Giulini
Blue Classics - Music for Relaxation
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Ballet Suites
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Bruckner: Symphony No.7 in E flat
Barbara Bonney, Angelika Kirchschlager, John Mark Ainsley
Bach, J.S.: Mass in B minor, BWV232
2 CDsSan Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa, The Siegel-Schwall Band
Russo: Street Music; Three Pieces / Gershwin: An American in Paris
Berliner Philharmoniker, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 / Overture Solennelle »1812«
San Francisco Symphony, The Siegel-Schwall Band, Corky Siegel
Russo: Street Music; Three Pieces / Gershwin: An American in Paris
Dolby Atmos
Various Artists, Tokyo Opera Singers, Saito Kinen Orchestra
Poulenc: Les Mamelles de Tirésias/Le Bal Masqué
New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Music of The World - National Anthems
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, London Symphony Orchestra
de Falla: El Sombrero De Tres Picos; El Amor Brujo
Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, Boston Symphony Orchestra
G. Fauré: Requiem op.48 / Dolly Suite op.56 / Pavane op.50
Kathleen Battle, Trevor Pinnock, Simon Preston
Poulenc: Gloria For Soprano, Mixed Chorus And Orchestra; Concerto For Organ, Strings And Timpani In G Minor; Concert Champetre For Harpsichord And Orchestra
Karlheinz Zoeller, Harold Wright, Sherman Walt
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Flute Concerto; Bassoon Concerto in B
Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5; Romoe and Juliet
R.T.F. National Orchestre, Seiji Ozawa
Jacques Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Highlights)
Orchestre National de France, Seiji Ozawa
Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Ives: Symphony No.4; Central Park in the Dark; Three Places in New England
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances
Faye Robinson, Judith Blegen, Deborah Sasson
Mahler: Symphony No.8
SINGOLI
I singoli più rappresentativi di Seiji Ozawa, tra successi storici e nuove uscite.
Jessye Norman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Haydn: Scena di Berenice, Hob. XXIVa:10: Aria "Perché, se tanti siete"
I.G.3
Saito Kinen Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: III. Presto - Assai meno presto
IG1
Seiji Ozawa, Mito Chamber Orchestra
Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (Orch. Grieg): I. Praeludium. Allegro vivace
IG 2
Seiji Ozawa, Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19: III. Rondo. Molto allegro
IG 1
Seiji Ozawa, Tokyo Opera Singers, Mito Chamber Orchestra
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 - "Choral": Poco allegro, stringendo il tempo, sempre più allegro - Presto
Live in Ibaraki / 2017Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21: 3. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace)
Live In Ibaraki / 2017Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Symphony No.1 in C Major, Op.21: 3. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace)
I.G. / Live In Ibaraki / 2017Martha Argerich, Mito Chamber Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 in C Major, Op.15: 3. Rondo (Allegro scherzando)
I.G. / Live In Ibaraki / 2017BIOGRAFIA
Seiji Ozawa is Music Director of the Vienna State Opera since the 2002/2003 season and is an annual and favored guest of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Prior to his Vienna State Opera appointment he served as Music Director of the Boston Symphony for 29 seasons (1973-2002), the longest serving music director in the orchestra’s history.
Mo. Ozawa is also Artistic Director and Founder of the Saito Kinen Festival and Saito Kinen Orchestra (SKO), the pre-eminent music and opera festival of Japan and in June 2003 it was announced that he would be Music Director of a new festival of opera, symphony concerts and chamber music called “Tokyo no Mori” which has its first annual season in February 2005 in Tokyo. In 2000 he founded the Ozawa Ongaku Juku in Japan, an academy for aspiring young orchestral musicians in which they play side-by-side with pre-eminent professional players in both symphonic concerts and fully staged opera productions with international level casting. Its next performances (September 2005) will be on tour in China and Japan.
In 2004, Maestro Ozawa founded the International Music Academy - Switzerland dedicated to training young musicians in chamber music and offering them performance opportunities in orchestras and as soloists. Its first season will be end of June/beginning of July 2005 starting with string quartets featuring day time classes with teachers, including Robert Mann (ex-first violin of Juilliard Quartet) and Sadao Harada (ex-cellist of Tokyo String Quartet) with evening sessions by Maestro Ozawa. The final concert will be for an invited audience.
Since founding the Saito Kinen Orchestra in 1984, and its subsequent evolution into the Saito Kinen Festival in 1991, Mo. Ozawa has devoted himself increasingly to the growth and development of a première orchestra in Japan. With extensive recording projects, annual and world-wide tours, and especially since the inception of the Saito Kinen Festival in the Japan Alps city of Matsumoto, he has built a world-class and world-renowned orchestra, dedicated in spirit, name and accomplishment to the memory of his teacher at Tokyo's Toho School of Music, Hideo Saito, a revered figure in the cultivation of Western music and musical technique in Japan. The 2004/2005 season starts in September with the Saito Kinen Festival (Matsumoto, Japan) with Wozzeck by Alban Berg and symphony concerts featuring Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Percussion, Celeste, and Strings.
Maestro remains in Japan through mid-October as the Vienna State Opera tours there early in October with Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, returning to Vienna for opera performances there of Fidelio during October and November 2004. Later in the season he will conduct performances of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro in Vienna (January 2005); Elektra and Wozzeck in March and April; Der Fliegende Holländer (May); and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut in June, with the War Requiem (Britten) in a Vienna State Opera concert on May 18, 2005.
February will find Mo. Ozawa conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, and his appearances with the Vienna Philharmonic during the 2004/2005 season will be in June at the Musikverein and feature a performance of Don Quixote (Strauss) with his great friend, Mstislav Rostropovich and the world premiere of Penderecki’s Adagio for Cello. He will conduct the London Symphony Orchestra June 25 and 26, also with Mstislav Rostropovich as soloist. Mo. Ozawa returns to Japan early in July 2005 conducting the Mito Chamber Orchestra in performances at Mito Hall followed by concerts with the New Japan Philharmonic later in the month.
Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, Seiji Ozawa studied music from an early age and later graduated with first prizes in both composition and conducting from Tokyo’s Toho School of Music. In 1959 he won first prize at the International Competition of Orchestra Conductors in Besançon, France, where he came to the attention of Charles Munch, then the Boston Symphony music director, who invited him to Tanglewood, where he won the Koussevitzky Prize as outstanding student conductor in 1960. While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Mr. Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who appointed him assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1961-62 season. He made his first professional concert appearance in North America in January 1962, with the San Francisco Symphony. He was music director of the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony (1964-69), music director of the Toronto Symphony (1965-1969) and music director of the San Francisco Symphony (1970-1976). He first conducted the Boston Symphony in 1964 at Tanglewood and made his first winter subscription appearance with them in 1968. He was named Artistic Director of Tanglewood in 1970, Music Director of the Boston Symphony in 1973, leaving a legacy of brilliant achievement evidenced through touring, award-winning recordings (more than 140 works of more than 50 composers on 10 labels), television productions (winning 2 Emmy awards), and commissioned works.
Through his many recordings, television appearances, and worldwide touring, Mo. Ozawa is an internationally recognized celebrity. In recent years, the many honors and achievements bestowed upon Mr. Ozawa have underscored his esteemed standing in the international music scene. French President Jacques Chirac named him (2001) Chavalier de la Légion d’Honneur, the Sorbonne (2004) awarded him Doctorate Honoris Causa and he has been honored as "Musician of the Year" by Musical America. February 1998 saw him fulfilling a longtime ambition of joining musicians around the globe: he led the Opening Ceremonies at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, conducting the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the SKO and six choruses located on five different continents – Japan, Australia, China, Germany, South Africa, and the United States – all linked by satellite. He received Japan’s first-ever Inouye Award (1994), named after Japan’s pre-eminent novelist, recognizing lifetime achievement in the arts. 1994 also saw the inauguration of the new and acclaimed Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood. Mo. Ozawa also has been awarded honorary degrees from Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts, Wheaton College, and the New England Conservatory of Music.
April 2005
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SI E' SPENTO IL GRANDE DIRETTORE D'ORCHESTRA GIAPPONESE SEIJI OZAWA
Seiji Ozawa, direttore d'orchestra giapponese di fama mondiale, si è spento all’età di 88 anni nella sua casa di Tokyo. Nel corso della sua straordinaria carriera, Ozawa ha lavorato con le più importanti orchestre e solisti mondiali ma è con la Boston Symphony Orchestra che ebbe un legame particolare ricoprendo la carica di direttore musicale per 29 anni (dal 1973 al 2002) con il mandato più lungo nella storia dell'orchestra. Risalgono a questo periodo esecuzioni e registrazioni leggendarie, in particolare quelle dedicate a Tchaikovsky, Mahler e Ravel. Successivamente è stato direttore ospite di orchestre europee come i Berliner Philaharmoniker e i Wiener Philharmoniker. Dal 2002 al 2010 è stato direttore musicale della Wiener Staatsoper. Nel 1992 Ozawa ha lanciato il Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, un evento annuale che prevede concerti orchestrali e opere liriche e che mette in mostra i giovani musicisti della Seiji Ozawa Music Academy insieme ai musicisti affermati della Saito Kinen Orchestra. Vero e proprio ambasciatore dello scambio culturale, Ozawa ha svolto un ruolo fondamentale nel favorire i legami tra le nazioni attraverso la musica. Nel corso della sua carriera, Ozawa ha ricevuto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti, tra cui un Grammy Award per la migliore registrazione d'opera e 14 nomination, dottorati ad honorem e il premio Praemium Imperiale del Giappone per la carriera artistica. Nel 2008, Ozawa ha ricevuto il prestigioso Ordine della Cultura, conferito dall'imperatore. L'eredità di Ozawa rimarrà viva attraverso i ponti culturali che ha costruito e la sua arte documentata da numerose registrazioni come l’ultima realizzata per Decca Classics con la Sinfonia n. 7 di Beethoven.
01.09.2015
Buon compleanno a Seiji Ozawa!
Compie oggi gli anni il grande direttore giapponese Seiji Ozawa. Per festeggiare ed omaggiare la sua splendida carriera esce proprio in questi giorni per Decca un nuovo box dedicato a lui e alle sue incisioni del repertorio tedesco registrate alla guida della Saito Kinen Orchestra. Il box contiene quindi opere di Bach, Beethoven (tutte e nove le sinfonie), Brahms, Bruckner. Il cofanetto è già acquistabile su Amazon, cliccando sull'immagine sottostante!
20.08.2015
Ozawa compie gli anni: il nuovo cofanetto
Un nuovo box dedicato al grande direttore giapponese realizzato per festeggiare il suo 80° compleanno (1 settembre 2015) che raccoglie le incisione dedicate ai capolavori del repertorio tedesco registrate alla guida della Saito Kinen Orchestra. Clicca sull'immagine per prenotarlo su Amazon!
09.10.2014
Seiji Ozawa da 5 stelle su Amadeus
Cinque stelle su Amadeus di Ottobre per il cofanetto di 23 CD che ripercorre la straordinaria carriera del grande direttore giapponese Ozawa. Un repertorio che spazia da Bach a Takemitsu alla guida delle più celebri orchestre con la collaborazione di solisti quali Kremer, Mullova, Norman, Battle, Perlman e molti altri. Clicca sull'immagine per acquistarlo!
29.04.2014
"A Life For Music" di Seiji Ozawa da oggi disponibile nei negozi
E' finalmente disponibile da oggi il box dedicato allo straordinario direttore d'orchestra giapponese Seiji Ozawa, "A Life For Music". Un repertorio che spazia da Bach a Takemitsu alla guida delle più celebri orchestre con la collaborazione di solisti quali Kremer, Mullova, Norman, Battle, Perlman e molti altri. clicca sull'immagine per acquistarlo subito!
27.04.2014
