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Takako Nishizaki

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Jian A Ke (1)
Anonymous (1)
Johann Sebastian Bach (23)
Thomas H Bayly (1)
Jean Becker (1)
Ludwig van Beethoven (29)
Charles-Auguste de Bériot (1)
Georges Bizet (2)
Luigi Boccherini (2)
Nikita Bogoslovsky (1)
Johannes Brahms (8)
Peter Breiner (1)
Max Bruch (3)
Chen Gang (7)
Liu Chunquan (1)
Arcangelo Corelli (1)
César Cui (1)
Claude Debussy (1)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1)
Du Ming-xin (4)
Antonín Dvorák (7)
Henry Eccles (1)
Sir Edward Elgar (3)
Zdenék Fibich (1)
Joseph-Hector Fiocco (1)
César Franck (2)
Geng Chen Fu (1)
Vincenzo Gambaro (1)
Christoph W. Gluck (3)
François Joseph Gossec (1)
Percy Aldridge Grainger (1)
Enrique Granados (2)
Edvard Grieg (4)
George Frideric Handel (5)
Sha Hankun (1)
He Zhan Hao (2)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1)
Li Huanzhi (1)
Sam Hui (1)
Hu Huiming (1)
Jie Jiao (1)
Zhang Jing-ping (1)
Joseph Joachim (1)
Lev Knipper (1)
Joseph Koo (1)
Joseph Martin Kraus (1)
Fritz Kreisler (2)
Michael Lai (1)
Chia-Chang Liu (1)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1)
Yao Xian Ma (1)
Giovanni Battist Martini (1)
Jules Massenet (3)
Felix Mendelssohn (7)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (28)
Niccolò Paganini (1)
Gaetano Pugnani (1)
Yong Cheng Qin (1)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (2)
Zhao Yuan Ren (1)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (3)
Anton Rubinstein (1)
Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1)
Franz Schubert (3)
Robert Schumann (2)
Friedrich Seitz (1)
Yang Shan-le (1)
Chow Shusan (1)
Bedrich Smetana (1)
Vasily Solov'yov-Sedoy (1)
Louis Spohr (3)
Louis Spohr (1)
Shinichi Suzuki (1)
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (10)
Ambroise Thomas (1)
Traditional (12)
Johann Baptist Vanhal (1)
Alexander E. Varlamov (1)
Francesco Maria Veracini (2)
Antonio Vivaldi (30)
Carl Maria von Weber (2)
Ching Hsi Weng (1)
Wong Wing Hee (1)
Xue Yan Liu (1)
Jin Yan-ping (2)
Yao Min (1)
Xiao Youmei (1)
Teng Yu Hsien (1)
Mao Yuan (1)
Du Zhaozhi (1)
Xia Zhi Qiu (1)
Lan Ping Zhou (1)
Xiaogu Zhu (1)
Huang Zi (3)

Biography

Born: April 14, 1944

Violinist Takako Nishizaki is perhaps the most frequently recorded concert violinist of the digital era. She was also the first violinist to learn by way of the Suzuki method; her father, Shinji Nishizaki, worked with Shinichi Suzuki in developing the method, and Takako Nishizaki took instruction from both teachers. She made her debut at the age of 9, and further studied with Broadus Erle, starting in Japan and later at Yale University. Nishizaki Read more finished her violin studies at Juilliard under Joseph Fuchs and in 1967 won second prize in the Leventritt International competition behind Pinchas Zukerman.

One would surmise that with her talent and beauty that American record companies would be getting in each other's way to obtain Nishizaki's recording contract. But they weren't, and by 1974 Nishizaki settled in Hong Kong, where she established a career as the pre-eminent violin virtuoso on the Chinese concert circuit. This was no small feat, as in China they take the violin seriously and its literature is central to the entire establishment of Chinese classical music. Along the way Nishizaki met and married German businessman Klaus Heymann, founder of HNH International, the corporate parent to the popular classical label Naxos. Heymann sponsored Nishizaki in an extensive series of recordings of Chinese classical music on his Marco Polo label. Some of these recordings sold into the millions of copies in China, providing the nest egg that launched the Naxos label in the late 1980s.

With Naxos, Nishizaki has recorded much of the standard Western violin literature, as well, but has made a special mission of recording key violin literature that is known in concert and in the classroom, but seldom represented on records. The most celebrated example of this tendency is her recordings of the concertos of Chevalier de St-Georges, but it also includes her interpretations of Charles August de Bériot, Louis Spohr, and Joseph Joachim. All of Nishizaki's recordings are notable for her generous, singing tone; flexible rhythmic sensibility; her sense of architectural symmetry in regard to whole movements; her ability to excite; and the sheer beauty of Nishizaki's sound. Read less

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Relaxation: Soothing Sounds of Classical Music

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8578341 Release Date: 09/09/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Franz Schubert, Edvard Grieg, Erik Satie, Georges Bizet ...
Performer: Nora Shulman, Judy Loman, Takako Nishizaki, Wolf Harden ...
Conductor: Peter Breiner, Jérôme Kaltenbach, Alfred Walter, Jorma Panula ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nancy Lyric Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Strauss Symphony Orchestra ...

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Purple Classics Presents: Quiet Time – The Music of Mozart

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8578322 Release Date: 06/17/2016 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Jenö Jandó, Takako Nishizaki, Patrick Gallois, Roderick Shaw ...
Conductor: András Ligeti, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Patrick Gallois, Mátyás Antal
Orchestra/Ensemble: Concentus Hungaricus, Capella Istropolitana, Swedish Chamber Orchestra ...

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Purple Classics Presents: The Baroque Collection

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8578320 Release Date: 06/17/2016 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Pachelbel ...
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Daniel Rothert, Ladislav Kyselak, Maria Kliegel ...
Conductor: Béla Bánfalvi, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Jaroslav Dvorák, Helmut Muller-Brühl ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Budapest Strings, Capella Istropolitana, Cologne Chamber Orchestra ...

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Chinese Melodies for Violin & Guitar / Nishizaki, Garcia

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225837 Release Date: 03/11/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Huang Zi, Lan Ping Zhou, Zhao Yuan Ren, Chow Shusan ...
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Gerald Garcia

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Hong Kong TV & Movie Classics / Nishizaki, Hong Kong Philharmonic

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225835 Release Date: 03/11/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Joseph Koo, Ching Hsi Weng, Michael Lai, Chia-Chang Liu ...
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Varujan Kojian, Kenneth Jean, Henry Shek
Orchestra/Ensemble: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

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Popular Chinese Violin Pieces / Takako Nishizaki

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225833 Release Date: 03/11/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: He Zhan Hao, Traditional, Yong Cheng Qin, Yao Xian Ma ...
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Yitkin Seow
Conductor: Lim Kek-Tjiang
Orchestra/Ensemble: Nagoya Philharmonic

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Du Mingxin: Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto "Spirit of Spring"

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225832 Release Date: 01/08/2016 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Du Ming-xin
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Jénö Jandó
Conductor: Kenneth Jean, Chen Zuohuang

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Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto / Nishizaki, Zhanhao, Gumma Symphony Orchestra

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225819 Release Date: 11/13/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: He Zhan Hao, Huang Zi, Traditional
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Henry Shek

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Popular Chinese Violin Pieces

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225818 Release Date: 11/13/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Li Huanzhi, Hu Huiming, Sha Hankun, Zhang Jing-ping ...
Performer: Chan Siufan, Koo Kwok Kuen, Takako Nishizaki

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Du Ming-xin: Ten Xinjang Dances

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225814 Release Date: 09/11/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Du Ming-xin
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Choo Hoey
Orchestra/Ensemble: Singapore Symphony Orchestra

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Du Ming-Xin: Violin Concerto; The Goddess of River Luo; Autumn Thoughts

Label: Marco Polo Catalog: 8225810 Release Date: 04/28/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Du Ming-xin
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Kenneth Jean
Orchestra/Ensemble: Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

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The Butterfly Lovers Concerto / Nishizaki [Vinyl]

Label: Naxos Catalog: SRM033LP Release Date: 03/10/2015 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Chen Gang
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Fan Chengwu
Orchestra/Ensemble: Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra

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Love And Passion In Music

Label: Naxos Catalog: 7828990 Release Date: 11/11/2014 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: George Frideric Handel, Léo Delibes, Claude Debussy, Alexander Glazunov ...
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Rivka Golani, János Selmeczy
Conductor: Peter Breiner, Andrew Mogrelia, Alexander Rahbari, Konstantin Krimetz ...

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Animals In Music

Label: Naxos Catalog: 578281 Release Date: 04/29/2014 Number of Discs: 2
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Frideric Handel, Edvard Grieg, Modest Mussorgsky ...
Performer: John Artore, Balazs Szkolay, Giorgio Koukl, Takako Nishizaki ...
Conductor: Kees Bakels, Peter Breiner, Stephen Gunzenhauser, David Lloyd-Jones ...

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A Musical Journey: Austria - Hohenwerfen, Weissensee, Styria, Linz, Aggstein, Hallein, Baden

Label: Naxos Catalog: 2110335 Release Date: 05/28/2013 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Stephen Gunzenhauser
Orchestra/Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana

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Beethoven: The Complete Symphonies; Concertos; Overtures

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8501204 Release Date: 04/30/2013 Number of Discs: 12
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Ruxandra Donose, Hasmik Papian, Manfred Fink, Claudio Otelli ...
Conductor: Béla Drahos, Barry Wordsworth, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Kenneth Jean
Orchestra/Ensemble: Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia, Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

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Great Chamber Music

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8501064 Release Date: 04/30/2013 Number of Discs: 10
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn ...
Performer: Tamás Szabo, Gábor Fias, Attila Falvay, György Éder ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Kodály String Quartet, Auer String Quartet, Villa Musica Ensemble ...

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A Musical Journey - Italy: Lucca, Tivoli, Tuscany, Liguria

Label: Naxos Catalog: 2110327 Release Date: 03/26/2013 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Oliver Dohnányi
Orchestra/Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana

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A Musical Journey - France: Burgundy, Pays De La Loire, Franche-comte

Label: Naxos Catalog: 2110298 Release Date: 11/13/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Takako Nishizaki
Conductor: Michael Halász, Kenneth Jean
Orchestra/Ensemble: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

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A Musical Journey - Germany - Nuremberg

Label: Naxos Catalog: 2110307 Release Date: 06/26/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Wolf Harden

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Great Classical Masterpieces: Bestselling Recordings 1987-2012

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8578217 Release Date: 05/29/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Hildegard of Bingen, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninov, Carl Orff ...
Performer: Jénö Jandó, Norbert Kraft, Klára Körmendi, Takako Nishizaki ...
Conductor: Jeremy Summerly, István Bogár, György Lehel, Stephen Gunzenhauser ...

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Great Baroque Masterpieces

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8501061 Release Date: 04/24/2012 Number of Discs: 10
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Philipp Telemann ...
Performer: Nadja Schubert, Daniel Rothert, Corinne Chapelle, Karl Kaiser ...
Conductor: Helmut Müller-Brühl, Kevin Mallon, Bradley Creswick, Jozef Kopelman ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Aradia Ensemble, Northern Sinfonia ...
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Great Violin Concertos

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8501058 Release Date: 04/24/2012 Number of Discs: 10
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Louis Spohr ...
Performer: Takako Nishizaki, Simone Lamsma, Ilya Kaler, Misha Keylin ...
Conductor: Stephen Gunzenhauser, Oliver Dohnányi, Patrick Gallois, Kenneth Jean ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Capella Istropolitana, Sinfonia Finlandia, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra ...
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My First Tchaikovsky Album

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8578214 Release Date: 03/27/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performer: Oxana Yablonskaya, Maria Kliegel, Joseph Banowetz, Ilona Prunyi ...
Conductor: Michael Halász, Philippe Entremont, Gerhard Markson, Ondrej Lenárd ...

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My First Violin Album

Label: Naxos Catalog: 8578215 Release Date: 03/27/2012 Number of Discs: 1
Composer: Niccolò Paganini, Sir Edward Elgar, Jules Massenet, Felix Mendelssohn ...
Performer: Ilya Kaler, Jénö Jandó, Takako Nishizaki, Caspar Frantz ...
Conductor: Kenneth Jean, Carl Davis, Theodore Kuchar, Stephen Gunzenhauser ...
Orchestra/Ensemble: Ferenc Sánta & His Gypsy Band

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