This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.

Conductor: Norichika Iimori
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Mezzo-soprano: Akiko Tomioka
Tenor: Satoshi Nishimura
Baritone: Takaoki Onishi
Chorus: Pacific Philharmonia Tokyo Choir

Haydn: Symphony No. 9 in C major Hob.I:9
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “With chorus”

Beethoven Symphony no.9
Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Mezzo-soprano: Yuki Sugiyama
Tenor: Naoki Miyasato
Baritone: Eijiro Kai
Chorus: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Chorus conductor: Hiroyuki Tsuji

Beethoven Symphony no.9
Conductor: Jonathan Nott
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Mezzo-soprano: Yuki Sugiyama
Tenor: Naoki Miyasato
Baritone: Eijiro Kai
Chorus: Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
Chorus conductor: Hiroyuki Tsuji

Cond. Sachio Fujioka
Soprano Miku Yasukawa
Choeur Memorial Faure

[Conductor] Norichika Iimori
[Soprano] Miku Yasukawa* [Baritone] Takaoki Onishi* and others
[Chorus] Gunma Symphony Orchestra Chorus (Chorus conductor/Jun Abe)
[Track list] Mozart's four minuet K.601
Beethoven/Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Orff/Carmina Burana*

Meet the Classic Vol.48
19:00 start (18:00) Doors open Sumitomo Life Insurance Izumi Hall
Conductor & Story: Yukio Fujioka
Soprano: Miku Yasukawa
Baritone: Takaoki Onishi
Chorus: Kansai Philharmonic Chorus

Opera aria etc.
Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (original version/Rutter version)

[Conductor] Masaaki Suzuki
[Soprano] Miku Yasukawa *[Baritone] Toru Kaku*
Brahms/Dance collection
Zemlinsky/Lyric Symphony (chamber orchestra version)*

Venue Kobe Shoin Women's University Chapel
The show starts at 15:00. There will be a pre-talk by Masaaki Suzuki from 14:45.

With organ prelude

J.S. Bach:

Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God BWV 651*
I sincerely desire BWV 727*
Cantata No. 20 “O Eternity, Thou Words of Thunder” BWV 20
Cantata No. 2 “O God, look from heaven” BWV 2
Cantata No. 7 ``Christ Our Lord Comes to the Jordan River'' BWV 7
Cantata No. 135 “O Lord, you poor sinner” BWV 135

Location Tokyo Opera City
The show starts at 15:00. There will be a pre-talk by Masaaki Suzuki from 14:45.

With organ prelude

J.S. Bach:

Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God BWV 651*
I sincerely desire BWV 727*
Cantata No. 20 “O Eternity, Thou Words of Thunder” BWV 20
Cantata No. 2 “O God, look from heaven” BWV 2
Cantata No. 7 ``Christ Our Lord Comes to the Jordan River'' BWV 7
Cantata No. 135 “O Lord, you poor sinner” BWV 135