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Kent Nagano - Verbier Festival 2013 - Wallcast Interview
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Filmtrailer "Der Traum des Kent Nagano"
1 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 1 Nanatsu no ko
2 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 2 Amefuri otsukisan
3 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 3 Soushunfu
4 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 4 No aoime Ningyou
5 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 5 Tsukimisoo no hana
6 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 6 Jyuugoya otsukisan
7 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 7 Hanakage
8 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 8 Yuuyake Koyake
9 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 9 Haruyo koi
10 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 10 Sumidagawa
11 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 11 Akatonbo
12 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 12 Akai kutsu
13 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 13 Oboro zukiyo
14 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 14 Natsuwa kinu
15 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 15 Ningyou hanayome
16 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 16 Chin chin chidori
17 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 17 Hamachidori
18 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 18 Dokokade haruga
19 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 19 Chin chin chidori
20 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 20 Suna yama
21 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 21 Sakura
22 Beintus: Japanese Songs for Children - 22 Ano-kono machi-machi
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One day, Kent Nagano was listening carefully as his wife was singing a children's song to their daughter.  The song told a chapter of Japanese history previously unknown to him: It told of emotion, tenderness, love – and bitterness. The song originated from a period when Japan had to open up to the West. At this time, Japan was suffering from overpopulation, starvation and poverty. In Japan, the songs that enchanted Nagano are commonly known as SHOKA, or school hymns. They are based on famous Japanese poetry, but are composed in the Western musical style.  The songs' haunting, mysterious beauty have continued to entice all generations since their creation making them actual and vividly relevant to our modern world.

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Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis, Cleveland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Denver, Detroit, Baltimore, Honolulu
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  • Kent Nagano awarded 'Grand Cross of Merit' of the Federal Republic of Germany / OPERAWIRE
    Posted At: February 21, 2024 12:00 AM
    Kent Nagano is considered one of today’s outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is committed as Artistic Director of the Ring project with Concerto Köln and the Dresden Festival Orchestra, and as patron of the Herren...
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  • Diana Damrau promises a goose bump evening for Hong Kong concertgoers / South China Morning Post
    Posted At: April 30, 2023 12:00 AM
    ‘Music, it’s nurturing for our souls’: When Diana Damrau first saw opera aged 12 she was hooked. But doctors who damaged her vocal cords nearly thwarted her ambitions to be a singer For her performance in Hong Kong with her French bass-baritone husband she promises ‘a bouquet of everything you can imagine’, from Donizetti to StraussSouth China Morning Post - Kylie Knott writes….Acclaimed soprano Diana Damra...
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  • Diana Damrau dedicates her Hong Kong debut to the celebration of love and romance / South China Morning Post
    Posted At: April 25, 2023 12:00 AM
    ?       The “Encore Series: An Evening with Diana Damrau” will mesmerise music lovers at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on May 10, 2023.?       Also featuring world-renowned bass Nicolas Testé, the “All for Love” recital will showcase lieder, French songs, operetta, and opera arias and duets.South China Morning Post writes…..In her illustrious professional career spanning more t...
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  • The process of enrichment. VAN interviews conductor Kent Nagano
    Posted At: April 20, 2023 12:00 AM
    Kent Nagano is considered one of the outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. He has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg since September 2015. In addition, he is very committed as Artistic Director of the Wagner Readings and as patron of the Herrenchiemsee Festival. In 2006 he was appointed...
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  • Diana Damrau set to make her Hong Kong debut / The Standard
    Posted At: April 12, 2023 12:00 AM
    Acclaimed as the "leading coloratura soprano in the world" (New York Sun), Diana Damrau continues to amaze audiences with her unique voice and arresting stage presence. A regular guest at the most renowned opera companies and concert halls, she was awarded the title Bayerische Kammersängerin in 2007 and named "Best Female Singer" at the 2014International Opera Awards.Damrau has been performing on ...
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  • The Metropolitan Opera is offering a fifth slate of it's 'Live in HD' series, for every night this week / Time Out
    Posted At: April 12, 2020 12:00 AM

    Although the Metropolitan Opera has canceled the rest of its 2019-2020 season, the great world opera house is offering a fifth slate of its its very popular Live in HD series of free streamed performances every night this week. The lineup for April 13 through April 19 includes classics by Puccini, Rossini, Dvořák, Mussorgsky, Cilea and Richard Strauss. The streams go live each night on the Me...
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  • CSO under Kent Nagano focuses on key symphonic works of Bernstein for Easter weekend / Chicago Tribune
    Posted At: March 31, 2018 12:00 AM

    Leonard Bernstein's arguably waning importance as a serious composer in the later stages of his unprecedented career will come in for renewed scrutiny as the Bernstein centennial juggernaut rolls on this year and into 2019 (and even beyond). The blast of Bernsteiniana that Ravinia has scheduled for the summer under conductor Marin Alsop's curatorship will rebut that assertion with, among other events, th...
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  • Kent Nagano Q&A with Global News
    Posted At: May 26, 2016 12:00 AM

    Maestro Kent Nagano is considered one of the most inspiring and exciting music conductors in the world – and you've got to have pretty good stamina to keep up with him. Nagano, who is currently the musical director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO), is performing his final concerts of the 2015-2016 season, but there won't be any down time for the musicians or the maestro. Upcoming, Nagano wi...
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  • Beethoven, Bach, Boulez and Bjork - Kent Nagano on music and musicians / theguardian
    Posted At: February 29, 2016 12:00 AM

    Kent Nagano is renowned for interpretations of clarity, elegance and intelligence. He is equally at home in music of the classical, romantic and contemporary eras, introducing concert and opera audiences throughout the world to new and rediscovered music and offering fresh insights into established repertoire.  Since September 2006 he has been Music Director of Orchestre symphonique de&nbs...
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  • Nagano lets loose in electric performances of Grieg, Mozart and Sibelius / Montreal Gazette
    Posted At: May 13, 2015 12:00 AM

    Sometimes they take place in a dressing room when a conductor's preconcert tea is replaced with a cocktail so powerful and illegal the bar goes quiet when you order it. And the pale bartender asks, are you sure? Perhaps it doesn't matter exactly how it happened, just that on Tuesday night Kent Nagano drove the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in electric performances of Grieg, M...
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  • Kent Nagano & Orchestra Symphonique de Montreal - Complete Beethoven Symphonies / CBC Music: First Play
    Posted At: October 28, 2014 12:00 AM

    The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal has a vast recorded legacy behind them. But, there's one badge of orchestral honour that the orchestra has never worn. They've never released a complete recording of Beethoven's nine symphonies. Until now. Under music director Kent Nagano, the OSM has been gradually rolling out Beethoven recordings over the past six years. Their project culminates on Nov. ...
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  • Kent Nagano | Diana Damrau - Shoka / KDFC 'Download Of the Week'
    Posted At: October 1, 2014 12:00 AM

    Each week KDFC - San Francisco members can download a free mp3 from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. As Kent Nagano watched his daughter sit at her mother's knee and listen to Japanese shoka melodies coming from a tiny tape player, an ambitious project was born. In the latest recording from the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, these captivating melodies have...
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  • Nagano leads OSM in stirring Resurrection at Lanaudi?re / Montreal Gazette review
    Posted At: August 11, 2014 12:00 AM

    As long as there are orchestras, choirs and ambitious festivals to hire them, there will be performances of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection"). On Saturday night, the Lanaudière Festival presented Kent Nagano and the OSM in the 90-minute blockbuster in front of the mandatory packed house and crowded lawn at the Fernand Lindsay Amphitheatre. READ THE FULL Montreal Gazette REVIEW...
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