Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo: Bernstein / Maki Ishii / MahlerKiyotaka Teraoka (conductor)
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What concert hall better than the Isarphilharmonie for the sonic fireworks of the renowned Waseda Symphony Orchestra and Japanese taiko drummers on their European tour?
This event is in the past.
What concert hall better than the Isarphilharmonie for the sonic fireworks of the renowned Waseda Symphony Orchestra and Japanese taiko drummers on their European tour?
Designed together with fellow Japanese star acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota, the hall’s high-resolution clarity faithfully reproduces the orchestra’s every nuance and dynamic.
Following Leonard Bernstein’s Candide overture, Maki Ishii’s contrast-rich Mono-Prism also provides a visual spectacle: the ensemble’s rhythmic drumbeats, led by the leading Japanese taiko artist Eitetsu Hayashi, merge with the polychrome colour palette of a Western symphony orchestra, providing the audience with a riveting symbiosis of Eastern traditional and Western classical music. Conductor Kiyotaka Teraoka and the orchestra round off the American-Asian-European programme with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 1.
Programme
- Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
- Maki Ishii: Mono-Prism, Concerto for taiko drums and orchestra, Op 29
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No 1 in D major, Titan
