conductor Tadaaki Otaka Kyoko Takezawa (violin) live from the Symphony Hall, Osaka.
Philip Cashian Nightmaze (first performance)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op 35
11.50 After centuries of isolation the Meiji
Restoration opened Japan to western musical influences in 1868 - the year of the first performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger.
Roger Savage recently met musicologist
Yoshihiko Tokumaru in Tokyo and discussed the interrelationship of western and Japanese traditional music since that time.
12.05 Shostakovich Symphony No 5 in D minor, Op 47
(In association with Hitachi Ltd and Maxell Ltd)