Saito Kinen Orchestra

Big Boxes: A Very Happy 75th Anniversary to Seiji Ozawa

David Hurwitz

[This is a re-post in tribute to and remembrance of […]

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Takemitsu: November Steps, etc./Ozawa

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[This is a re-post in tribute to and remembrance of Seiji Ozawa, September 1, 1935-February 6, 2024.] There are fascinating differences between the 1969 recording

Filling In The Gaps: Ozawa’s Third Mahler First

David Hurwitz

Ozawa recorded three Mahler symphonies with the Saito Kinen Orchestra:

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Please God, Let This Be The Last Ozawa Box

David Hurwitz

First, there was the 11-disc Seiji Ozawa Anniversary Box, then

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Big Boxes: Seiji Ozawa, A Life For Music

David Hurwitz

Of the three random boxes of Ozawa stuff that Universal

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Big Boxes: The Mixed Up Art of Ozawa

David Hurwitz

I am sitting here trying to sort out three inanely

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7/Ozawa SACD

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Seiji Ozawa is often at his interpretive best when he records with the Saito Kinen Orchestra. But this festival ensemble normally stays together for less

Mahler: Symphony No. 2/Ozawa

David Hurwitz

Seiji Ozawa’s credentials as a Mahlerian have not received the recognition that they deserve (the same holds true of his Bruckner). His complete symphony cycle

Mahler 9 Ozawa C

David Hurwitz

One of the most perfect performances of anything that I ever heard live featured Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony in Mahler’s Ninth. His interpretation

Dvorák, Wolf, Bartók, Ozawa

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Seiji Ozawa takes a broadly conventional view of Dvorák’s string serenade in E Op. 22. The Larghetto fourth movement is nicely inflected, and those yearning