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Top, from left to right:
Takako in concert, 1953
Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing
for Isaac Stern; Takako second
from left, front row; 1954
Shinji Nishizaki and Shinichi
Suzuki at Takako’s first
homecoming concert, 1964
Shinichi Suzuki congratulating
Takako on stage after 1964
homecoming concert
Bottom, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing
for Joseph Szigeti, 1953
Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing
for Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1953
Takako’s father and mother in
Hong Kong, 1992
Shinji Nishizaki (left) with Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, 1953/54
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Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 13 (Friedrich Seitz)
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto moderato
Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 22 (Friedrich Seitz)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante cantabile
III. Rondo
Lullaby (Schubert)
Lullaby, D. 498 (Schubert)
Lullaby (Brahms)
Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4 (Brahms)
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi)
1st movement
1st movement (violin/orchestra)
3rd movement
3rd movement (violin/orchestra)
Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (J. S. Bach)
1st movement, Violin II
1st movement (violin/orchestra)
4:11
2:34
3:07
3:38
2:29
3:45
1:07
3:07
0:59
2:16
3:29
3:34
2:43
2:54
3:45
4:00
Takako Nishizaki, Violin, with Terence Dennis, Piano
Original works:
Takako Nishizaki, Violin
The Strings of the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand • Peter Walls (12, 14)
Additional recordings of original works:
Birgid Steinberger, Soprano • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano (8, from Naxos 8.557569)
Mitsuko Shirai, Soprano • Hartmut Hoell, Piano (10)
Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Violins • Capella Istropolitana • Oliver Dohnányi (16, from Naxos 8.550194)
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The German violinist Friedrich Seitz was born in
Günthersleben near Gotha in 1848 and died in Dessau in
1918. He served as a conductor in Sondershausen, where
he had studied, as concert-master in Magdeburg and from
1884 as Court Concert-Master in Dessau. He was
particularly active as a teacher, and is remembered for his
Schülerkonzerte, teaching concertos, which introduce
pupils to something of nineteenth-century concerto
technique and remain a part of teaching repertoire.
Franz Schubert wrote his Lullaby, D 498, in 1816,
setting words by an unknown writer, Schlafe, schlafe,
holder, süsser Knabe (Sleep, sleep, sweet boy, your
mother’s hand rocks you gently). The original song
introduces an air of sorrow, as the child is to sleep before
long in the grave. The Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4, by Johannes
Brahms is one of a set of five songs published in 1868.
Gently lilting, as a lullaby must, it sets the words Guten
Abend, gut Nacht (Good evening, good night), taken from
a folk-song.
Antonio Vivaldi was a native of Venice, the city where
he made his principal career. Ordained priest, he was
associated, intermittently at least, with a girls’ school
famous for its music, the Ospedale della Pietà, but busied
himself also in the opera house, while winning fame for his
performances as a violinist. In 1711 he published in
Amsterdam a set of twelve concertos under the title L’estro
armonico for various groupings of string instruments. The
sixth, the Concerto in A minor, RV 356 is for solo violin
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and strings. The first and third movements of the concerto
are included, first for violin and piano and then in the
original orchestral version. In both the solo violin remains
prominent.
Johann Sebastian Bach was strongly influenced by
Vivaldi, some of whose concertos he transcribed for
harpsichord. His own concertos largely follow the pattern
of the Vivaldi solo concerto. A number of these, written
during his years as Court Director of Music to Prince
Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, only survive in later
arrangements Bach made of them for use in Leipzig. Three
violin concertos, however, remain also in their original
form, one of them the Concerto in D minor for Two
Violins, BWV 1043. The two solo violin parts are equal in
importance and difficulty and Volume 5 of the Suzuki
Violin School offers the second violin part, which opens the
concerto, to be followed by the first violin. The close
interweaving and antiphonal use of the two violins is clear
in the original version for two solo violins, strings and
continuo. It will be noticed that the second and first violin
entries are doubled by the orchestra, so that it is only in bar
21 that the first solo violin is heard with a sparse
accompaniment, a passage that in the Suzuki second violin
part is replaced by piano chords. Four bars later the second
violin enters, echoing the first violin, a procedure followed
in the rest of the movement, as one players follows the
other.
Keith Anderson
Top, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki’s students in front of JOCK
radio station in Nagoya; Takako second from
right, front row; her mother is at far left; 1950
Shinji Nishizaki and Takako at the Suzuki
summer school in Matsumoto, 1952
Takako’s Graduation Certificate, 1953
Bottom, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki conducting annual Suzuki
concert of Nagoya/Osaka area, c.1950
Programme of Takako’s Graduation Concert,
1953
Takako’s Suzuki teaching certificate, 1953
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Takako Nishizaki
As a child, Takako Nishizaki studied with her father, Shinji, and with Shinichi Suzuki
himself. Her father was active in the early stages of the development of the Suzuki Method
and for many years taught at the Matsumoto summer school and organised the Suzuki
activities in the Nagoya area after Shinichi Suzuki had moved to Matsumoto. Takako was
the first student to complete the now famous Suzuki course and was awarded a teacher’s
diploma at the tender age of nine. She started performing in public at age five and, before
she was ten, had already played for artists such as Isaac Stern and Sir Malcolm Sargent.
Subsequently, she studied with Broadus Erle and Hideo Saito at Toho Conservatory in
Tokyo. In 1962 she went to the United States and first studied with Erle at Yale and then
with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard. Other teachers at the time included Louis Persinger (sonata
classes) and Aldo Parisot (chamber music). While at Juilliard, Takako Nishizaki was
awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship, established by the great violinist himself. Takako
Nishizaki performed as a soloist with many international orchestras and in chamber music
ensembles with many of today’s best-known musicians, such as Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas
Zukerman. She has also served on the juries of major international competitions including
the Fritz Kreisler (Vienna) and Hannover International violin competitions. Takako
Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the all-time best-selling violinists in the world, having
recorded most standard violin concertos and violin sonatas but also numerous rare violin concertos and a large number
of albums of Chinese violin music, including a number of concertos written for her by leading Chinese composers. In
2003 Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Government of Hong Kong for her service to music.
In 2005, Newsweek (Japan) named her among the 100 Japanese the world most admires.
Terence Dennis
Terence Dennis was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and is a graduate of the
University of Otago, and of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, Germany
where he obtained his Konzertexamen with Distinction. He is currently Professor and
Head of Performance Studies at the University of Otago Department of Music in Dunedin,
New Zealand, the first performance staff member to be appointed to a Professorial Chair
in this nation. Terence Dennis has been acclaimed both overseas and in New Zealand for
his performances, teaching, masterclasses and presentations, regularly partnering leading
resident musicians and distinguished visiting artists in recital including Dame Kiri Te
Kanawa, Bryn Terfel, Sir Donald McIntyre, Sarah Walker and cellist Maria Kliegel. He
has been official pianist for seven international string competitions and guest adjudicator
for regional finals of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions Competition in the
United States. Terence Dennis was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004,
and in 2009 appointed a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities.
Photo: Lindsay MacLeod
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Top, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki with his nanny, aged 3
Shinji Nishizaki with his Trio, 1946/47
Shinji Nishizaki with students at the studio of
JOCK Radio in Nagoya; Takako far right, c.1949
Group lesson with Shinichi Suzuki; Takako far
right; c.1949
Bottom, from left to right:
Takako in concert, third from right, 1949
Shinji Nishizaki conducting a concert of his
students supported by members of the Nagoya
Symphony Orchestra, c.1949
Takako in concert, 1949
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Top, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki with his nanny, aged 3
Shinji Nishizaki with his Trio, 1946/47
Shinji Nishizaki with students at the studio of
JOCK Radio in Nagoya; Takako far right, c.1949
Group lesson with Shinichi Suzuki; Takako far
right; c.1949
Bottom, from left to right:
Takako in concert, third from right, 1949
Shinji Nishizaki conducting a concert of his
students supported by members of the Nagoya
Symphony Orchestra, c.1949
Takako in concert, 1949
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Takako Nishizaki
As a child, Takako Nishizaki studied with her father, Shinji, and with Shinichi Suzuki
himself. Her father was active in the early stages of the development of the Suzuki Method
and for many years taught at the Matsumoto summer school and organised the Suzuki
activities in the Nagoya area after Shinichi Suzuki had moved to Matsumoto. Takako was
the first student to complete the now famous Suzuki course and was awarded a teacher’s
diploma at the tender age of nine. She started performing in public at age five and, before
she was ten, had already played for artists such as Isaac Stern and Sir Malcolm Sargent.
Subsequently, she studied with Broadus Erle and Hideo Saito at Toho Conservatory in
Tokyo. In 1962 she went to the United States and first studied with Erle at Yale and then
with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard. Other teachers at the time included Louis Persinger (sonata
classes) and Aldo Parisot (chamber music). While at Juilliard, Takako Nishizaki was
awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship, established by the great violinist himself. Takako
Nishizaki performed as a soloist with many international orchestras and in chamber music
ensembles with many of today’s best-known musicians, such as Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas
Zukerman. She has also served on the juries of major international competitions including
the Fritz Kreisler (Vienna) and Hannover International violin competitions. Takako
Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the all-time best-selling violinists in the world, having
recorded most standard violin concertos and violin sonatas but also numerous rare violin concertos and a large number
of albums of Chinese violin music, including a number of concertos written for her by leading Chinese composers. In
2003 Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Government of Hong Kong for her service to music.
In 2005, Newsweek (Japan) named her among the 100 Japanese the world most admires.
Terence Dennis
Terence Dennis was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and is a graduate of the
University of Otago, and of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, Germany
where he obtained his Konzertexamen with Distinction. He is currently Professor and
Head of Performance Studies at the University of Otago Department of Music in Dunedin,
New Zealand, the first performance staff member to be appointed to a Professorial Chair
in this nation. Terence Dennis has been acclaimed both overseas and in New Zealand for
his performances, teaching, masterclasses and presentations, regularly partnering leading
resident musicians and distinguished visiting artists in recital including Dame Kiri Te
Kanawa, Bryn Terfel, Sir Donald McIntyre, Sarah Walker and cellist Maria Kliegel. He
has been official pianist for seven international string competitions and guest adjudicator
for regional finals of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions Competition in the
United States. Terence Dennis was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004,
and in 2009 appointed a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities.
Photo: Lindsay MacLeod
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The German violinist Friedrich Seitz was born in
Günthersleben near Gotha in 1848 and died in Dessau in
1918. He served as a conductor in Sondershausen, where
he had studied, as concert-master in Magdeburg and from
1884 as Court Concert-Master in Dessau. He was
particularly active as a teacher, and is remembered for his
Schülerkonzerte, teaching concertos, which introduce
pupils to something of nineteenth-century concerto
technique and remain a part of teaching repertoire.
Franz Schubert wrote his Lullaby, D 498, in 1816,
setting words by an unknown writer, Schlafe, schlafe,
holder, süsser Knabe (Sleep, sleep, sweet boy, your
mother’s hand rocks you gently). The original song
introduces an air of sorrow, as the child is to sleep before
long in the grave. The Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4, by Johannes
Brahms is one of a set of five songs published in 1868.
Gently lilting, as a lullaby must, it sets the words Guten
Abend, gut Nacht (Good evening, good night), taken from
a folk-song.
Antonio Vivaldi was a native of Venice, the city where
he made his principal career. Ordained priest, he was
associated, intermittently at least, with a girls’ school
famous for its music, the Ospedale della Pietà, but busied
himself also in the opera house, while winning fame for his
performances as a violinist. In 1711 he published in
Amsterdam a set of twelve concertos under the title L’estro
armonico for various groupings of string instruments. The
sixth, the Concerto in A minor, RV 356 is for solo violin
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and strings. The first and third movements of the concerto
are included, first for violin and piano and then in the
original orchestral version. In both the solo violin remains
prominent.
Johann Sebastian Bach was strongly influenced by
Vivaldi, some of whose concertos he transcribed for
harpsichord. His own concertos largely follow the pattern
of the Vivaldi solo concerto. A number of these, written
during his years as Court Director of Music to Prince
Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, only survive in later
arrangements Bach made of them for use in Leipzig. Three
violin concertos, however, remain also in their original
form, one of them the Concerto in D minor for Two
Violins, BWV 1043. The two solo violin parts are equal in
importance and difficulty and Volume 5 of the Suzuki
Violin School offers the second violin part, which opens the
concerto, to be followed by the first violin. The close
interweaving and antiphonal use of the two violins is clear
in the original version for two solo violins, strings and
continuo. It will be noticed that the second and first violin
entries are doubled by the orchestra, so that it is only in bar
21 that the first solo violin is heard with a sparse
accompaniment, a passage that in the Suzuki second violin
part is replaced by piano chords. Four bars later the second
violin enters, echoing the first violin, a procedure followed
in the rest of the movement, as one players follows the
other.
Keith Anderson
Top, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki’s students in front of JOCK
radio station in Nagoya; Takako second from
right, front row; her mother is at far left; 1950
Shinji Nishizaki and Takako at the Suzuki
summer school in Matsumoto, 1952
Takako’s Graduation Certificate, 1953
Bottom, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki conducting annual Suzuki
concert of Nagoya/Osaka area, c.1950
Programme of Takako’s Graduation Concert,
1953
Takako’s Suzuki teaching certificate, 1953
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Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 13 (Friedrich Seitz)
I. Allegro non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto moderato
Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 22 (Friedrich Seitz)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante cantabile
III. Rondo
Lullaby (Schubert)
Lullaby, D. 498 (Schubert)
Lullaby (Brahms)
Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4 (Brahms)
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi)
1st movement
1st movement (violin/orchestra)
3rd movement
3rd movement (violin/orchestra)
Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (J. S. Bach)
1st movement, Violin II
1st movement (violin/orchestra)
4:11
2:34
3:07
3:38
2:29
3:45
1:07
3:07
0:59
2:16
3:29
3:34
2:43
2:54
3:45
4:00
Takako Nishizaki, Violin, with Terence Dennis, Piano
Original works:
Takako Nishizaki, Violin
The Strings of the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand • Peter Walls (12, 14)
Additional recordings of original works:
Birgid Steinberger, Soprano • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano (8, from Naxos 8.557569)
Mitsuko Shirai, Soprano • Hartmut Hoell, Piano (10)
Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Violins • Capella Istropolitana • Oliver Dohnányi (16, from Naxos 8.550194)
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Top, from left to right:
Takako in concert, 1953
Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing
for Isaac Stern; Takako second
from left, front row; 1954
Shinji Nishizaki and Shinichi
Suzuki at Takako’s first
homecoming concert, 1964
Shinichi Suzuki congratulating
Takako on stage after 1964
homecoming concert
Bottom, from left to right:
Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing
for Joseph Szigeti, 1953
Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing
for Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1953
Takako’s father and mother in
Hong Kong, 1992
Shinji Nishizaki (left) with Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, 1953/54
All photos courtesy of Takako Nishizaki except where stated
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Also available in the Suzuki Evergreens series ...
Takako
Nishizaki plays
Suzuki Evergreens
Volume 3
8.572378
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Violin Concertos Nos. 2 and 5
(Friedrich Seitz)
Violin Concerto in A minor
(Vivaldi)
Lullaby (Schubert)
Lullaby (Brahms)
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Takako Nishizaki, Violin • Terence Dennis, Piano
Original works:
Takako Nishizaki, Violin • The Strings of the National Youth Orchestra of
New Zealand • Peter Walls (12, 14)
Additional recordings of original works:
Birgid Steinberger, Soprano • Ulrich Eisenlohr, Piano (8)
Mitsuko Shirai, Soprano • Hartmut Hoell, Piano (10)
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Violin Concerto in A minor,
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Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi)
3:07 ! 1st movement
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Concerto for Two Violins,
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Violin Concerto No. 2, Op. 13
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I. Allegro non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto moderato
Violin Concerto No. 5, Op. 22
(Friedrich Seitz)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante cantabile
III. Rondo
Lullaby (Schubert)
Lullaby, D. 498 (Schubert)
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