| On Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK_Symphony_Orchestra |
| Alternative Spellings | NHK Kōkyō Gakudan |
| Creation | 1926 |
| Participants |
Hidemaro Konoe
- Conductor
from 1926
to 1935
Josef König - Conductor from 1927 to 1929 Nicolai Schifferblatt - Conductor from 1929 to 1936 Joseph Rosenstock - Conductor from 1936 to 1946 Hisatada Otaka - Conductor from 1942 to 1951 Kazuo Yamada - Conductor from 1942 to 1951 Shin'ichi Takata - Conductor from 1944 to 1951 Kurt Wöss - Conductor from 1951 to 1954 Niklaus Aeschbacher - Conductor from 1954 to 1956 Joseph Rosenstock - Conductor from 1956 to 1957 Wilhelm Loibner - Conductor from 1957 to 1959 Wilhelm Schüchter - Conductor from 1959 to 1962 Alexander Rumpf - Conductor from 1964 to 1965 Hiroyuki Iwaki - Conductor from 1969 to 2006 Tadashi Mori - Conductor from 1979 to 1987 Yuzo Toyama - Conductor from 1979 Hiroshi Wakasugi - Conductor from 1995 to 2009 Charles Dutoit - Conductor from 1996 to 1998 Vladimir Ashkenazy - Conductor from 2007 Tadaaki Otaka - Conductor from 2010 Paavo Järvi - Conductor from 2016 |
| City | Tokyo, Japan |
| Country | Japan |
The history of the NHK Symphony Orchestra dates back to October 5th, 1926 when a professional orchestra called the New Symphony Orchestra was formed. After being briefly called the Japan Symphony Orchestra, it was renamed the NHK Symphony Orchestra when it began to receive full financial support from Nippon Hoso Kyokai (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) in 1951. During those years, the orchestra invited German conductor Joseph Rosenstock as its Chief Conductor, under whose baton the orchestra established the foundation to become Japan’s leading orchestra. Thereafter, the orchestra continually invited many of the world’s most renowned conductors of the time, including Herbert von Karajan, Ernest Ansermet, Joseph Keilberth and Lovro von Matačić, to name but a few, and worked with some of the world’s most celebrated soloists to offer the public innumerable outstanding performances which have become entrenched as part of Japan’s history of classical music. The subscription concerts series, which is the core of its activities, started on February 20th, 1927, and has continued without interruption ever since, even during the Second World War.
In recent years, the orchestra has presented approximately 120 concerts nationwide annually, including 54 subscription concerts which have been relayed to every corner of the country on NHK television and through FM radio broadcasts. The concerts can also be heard in Europe, the United States and Asia through its international broadcast service. It has also won world-wide acclaim for its overseas tours, including its first appearance in the Salzburg Festival in August 2013.
Conductors who are closely associated with the NHK Symphony Orchestra include Paavo Järvi (Chief Conductor), Charles Dutoit (Music Director Emeritus), Vladimir Ashkenazy (Conductor Laureate), Herbert Blomstedt (Honorary Conductor), André Previn (Honorary Guest Conductor), Yuzo Toyama (Permanent Conductor) and Tadaaki Otaka (Permanent Conductor).
Official Website
Mahler : Symphony No. 4 in G major Eiko Kitazawa (Soprano) Hidemaro Konoye The New Symphony Orchestra of Tokio The world's first recording the Symphony No. 4 of Mahler: May 28, 1930 Viscount Hidemaro Konoye (近衛 秀麿 Konoe Hidemaro, 18 November 1898 -- 2 June 1973) was a conductor and composer of classical music in Shōwa period Japan. He was the younger brother of pre-war Japanese Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe. The orchestra began as the New Symphony Orchestra on October 5, 1926 and was the country's first professional symphony orchestra. Later, it changed its name to the Japan Symphony Orchestra. In 1951, after receiving financial support from NHK,the orchestra took its current name.