Seiji Ozawa - Retrospective

EuroArts Music International

£54.72

Format: 5DVD
Catalogue No.: 0880242553881
Release Date: 19th February 2021
Genre: Classical

“Ozawa has energy, fire, excitement, and if I dare bring up this controversial category: glamour.” - Michael Steinberg, The Boston Globe

Seiji Ozawa - the conductors series is continued with Japan’s most distinguished conductor

• A luxury edition for collectors with extraordinary packaging: elegant deluxe hardcover book

• Seiji Ozawa is not only Japan’s best-known conductor but also the founder of the Saito Kinen Festival in Matsumoto, which in 2015 was renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival.
"To reunite with this musicians every year in Matsumoto and create outstanding music is very precious to me. It is a great pleasure for me to share this music, which could only be created here in Matsumoto, with many people". (Seiji Ozawa)
• Special feature included in this edition: on the occasion of Maestro Ozawa’s 80th birthday, Martha Argerich and Matthias Goerne among others joined the orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy op. 80, plus a rendition of ‘Happy Birthday’ - a deeply emotional moment!

• Including the first ever recorded concert in Europe from 1989 with Maestro Ozawa and Kazuyoshi Akiyama conducting the Saito Kinen Orchestra at the Alter Oper Frankfurt.

• The 2003 Waldbühne concert of the Berliner Philharmoniker was dedicated to George Gershwin. Supported by the Marcus Roberts Trio, conductor Seiji Ozawa presented An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F, turning the Waldbühne inta a vast, swinging jazz club.

• The collaboration between Maestro Ozawa and Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, with the members of the Vienna Philharmonic gave a very refreshing and energetic lively and beautiful performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto - a fitting tribute to the late Maestro von Karajan

DVD 1 Seiji Ozawa conducts Brahms Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (107 mins)
Seiji Ozawa ∙ Kazuyoshi Akiyama ∙ Saito Kinen Orchestra
Including Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B major, D. 485, conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama
Recorded live at Alte Oper Frankfurt, 1989

DVD 2 A Russian Night – Waldbühne 1993 (98 mins)
Seiji Ozawa ∙ Berliner Philharmoniker
Recorded live at Waldbühne Berlin, 1993

DVD 3 A Gershwin Night – Waldbühne 2003 (111 mins)
Seiji Ozawa ∙ Berliner Philharmoniker ∙ Marcus Roberts Trio
Recorded live at Waldbühne Berlin, 2003

DVD 4 Karajan Memorial Concert 2008 (113 mins)
Seiji Ozawa ∙ Berliner Philharmoniker ∙ Anne-Sophie Mutter
Recorded live at The Golden Hall of Musikverein Vienna, 2008

DVD 5 Seiji Ozawa at the Matsumoto Festival (82 mins)
Seiji Ozawa ∙ Saito Kinen Orchestra ∙ Martha Argerich
Recorded live at The Golden Hall of Musikverein Vienna, 2008
Live from the Kissei Bunka Hall, Matsumoto, Japan, August 2015 and August 2016