Tadaaki Otaka
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Nelson Goerner (piano)
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
Goerner’s beauty of touch is manifest on the first page and, though he has the heft for the chunkier passages, the piano is never allowed to clang…There are, among listeners, otherwise dedicated... —
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Franck: Le Chasseur Maudit & Psyché
RecommendedBBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka
The BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales under Tadaaki Otaka clearly relish both the grotesquery of the former and the sensuality of the latter in these engaging performances. —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Otaka: Fantasy for Organ & Orchestra, etc.
Bryan Ashley (organ)
Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Tadaaki Otaka
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A String Around Autumn
Philip Dukes (viola), Sharon Bezaly (flute), Noriko Ogawa (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka
Since Takemitsu's evolution into selfconfessed Romantic, virtually every major label has released something by him, so Otaka has stiff competition, notably Patrick Gallois's fine reading of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2003, Editor's Choice
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The Classic 100 - Love
Teddy Tahu Rhodes (baritone, bass-baritone), David Hobson (tenor), Sally-Anne Russell (mezzo-soprano), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Nicole Car (soprano), Antoinette Halloran (soprano), Erin Wall (soprano), Victoria Lambourn (mezzo-soprano), Milica Ilic (soprano), Rosario La Spina (tenor), Barbara...
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Bekku: Violin Concerto, Takahashi: Contradiction, Irino: Wandlungen
Yuriko Kuronuma (violin), Nobuaki Tanaka (narrator), Shizuo Aoki (shakuhachi), Katsuya Yokoyama (shakuhachi)
NHK Symphony Orchestra, Hiroshi Wakasugi, Tadaaki Otaka
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Classic 100: The Music You Can't Live Without
Tamara-Anna Cislowska, Dimity Hall (violin), Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Paul Dyer, Michael Goldschlager, Craig Hill, Jayson Gillham (piano), Diana Doherty, Li-Wei Qin, Sally Maer, Sally Whitwell, Gerard Willems, Jane Sheldon (soprano), Mel Waters, Teddy Tahu Rhodes...
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Mozart & Beethoven Piano Concertos With Jazz Improvisations
Makoto Ozone (piano), Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Sinfonia Varsovia, Tadaaki Otaka
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Special offer. Brian Elias: 5 Ratushinskaya Songs
Mary King (mezzo), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins, Tadaaki Otaka
Shot through with furious dark passion —
