TOKYO 〓 The New Japan Philharmonic announced the subscription concert lineup for its 2023/2024 season

2022/08/19

The New Japan Philharmonic announced the subscription concert lineup for its 2023/2024 season, which will begin in April 2023. The theme that will run through the subscription concerts of the new season is “Wien Line. Yutaka Sado, who began working as Music Advisor this season, will become the fifth Music Director in April, and the new season will be his first.

The opening performance will be on April 8, and will be conducted by Sado, of course. The program combines Richard Strauss’ “Alpine Symphony” and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Nobuyuki Tsujii on piano. Sado will conduct Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” in October and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in January 2023, combining Bruckner with Haydn’s Symphony No. 44 and Mahler with Toru Takemitsu’s “Family Tree “.

The guest conductors for the new season include Ryusuke Numajiri, Charles Dutoit, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Derrick Inouye, José Soares, Kanako Abe, Hidemi Suzuki, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, and former Music Director Toshiyuki Kamioka.

Dutoit conducted the 50th anniversary special concert this past June, and they will appear together again in June for the new season. The program is a combination of Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun,” Stravinsky’s ballet suite “The Firebird,” and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, a collection of works he is known for.

Also appearing in September and February 2024 is Joe Hisaishi, composer-in-residence and music partner since 2020. He will conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 in September as well as a new work.

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