Takako Nishizaki - Nishizaki Plays Suzuki Evergreens 4 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Naxos' Takako Nishizaki Plays Suzuki Evergreens albums feature acclaimed violinist Takako Nishizaki who, as a child, studied with her father, Shinji, and with Shinichi Suzuki himself. Album Tracks 1. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421 III. Menuetto (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 2. String Quartet No. 15 in D minor, K. 421 III. Menuetto 3. Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6, No. 9 III. Corrente (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 4. Concerto Grosso in F Major, Op. 6, No. 9 III. Corrente 5. I. Andante 6. II. Allegro 7. III. Adagio 8. IV. Allegro 9. I. Allegro Moderato 10. II. Andante 11. III. Allegro Assai 12. I. Allegro 13. II. Andante 14. III. Allegro Assai 15. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 VI. Gigue (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 16. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 VI. Gigue 17. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 III. Courante (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 18. Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 III. Courante 19. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 1 III. Allegro (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 20. Violin Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 1 III. Allegro

Naxos' Takako Nishizaki Plays Suzuki Evergreens albums feature acclaimed violinist Takako Nishizaki who, as a child, studied with her father, Shinji, and with Shinichi Suzuki himself. Album Tracks 1. Gavotte (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 2. Minuet in G Major-Minor, BWV Anh. 114-115 (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 3. Minuet in G Major, BWV Anh. 114 4. Minuet in G minor, BWV Anh. 115 5. Overture in G minor, BWV 822 III. Gavotte en Rondeau (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 6. Overture in G minor, BWV 822 III. Gavotte en Rondeau 7. 8 Humoresques, Op. 101 No. 7 (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 8. 8 Humoresques, Op. 101 No. 7 9. Gavotte 10. Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 III. Gavotte I and II (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 11. Overture (Suite) No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068 III. Gavotte I and II 12. Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009 V. Bourree I-II (Arr. for Violin and Piano) 13. Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009 V. Bourree I-II

Takako Nishizaki is one of Japan's finest violinists. After studying with her father, Shinji Nishizaki, she became the first student of Shinichi Suzuki, the creator of the famous Suzuki Method of teaching children to play the violin. Subsequently she went to Japan's famous Toho School of Music and to Juilliard in the United States, where she studied with Joseph Fuchs. The first concerto, Spring, opens with the cheerful song of the birds that welcomes the season, followed by the gentle murmur of streams fanned by the breeze there is thunder and lightning, and then the birds resume their song, represented by the solo violin assisted by two other solo violins. The second movement shows the goat-herd asleep, while the viola serves as a watch-dog, barking regularly in each bar against the murmur of the foliage. A pastoral dance brings more activity, to the sound of the bag-pipe, interrupted by a section for the solo violin that seems to breathe the sultry heat of coming summer. Autumn opens with the dance and song of the country-people, in work that has much of the artifice of the traditional pastoral convention. The last of the seasons, Winter, brings cold winds, the stamping of feet and chattering teeth. The slow movement shelters by the warmth of the fireside, while the rain falls outside, and the last movement of this eventful history shows people walking carefully on ice, slipping and falling and running in case the ice breaks. The winds are at war, but there is sport to be had. Album Tracks 1. Spring Allegro 2. Spring Largo E Pianissimo Sempre 3. Spring Danza Pastorale (Allegro) 4. Summer Allegro Non Molto 5. Summer Adagio - Presto 6. Summer Presto 7. Autumn Allegro 8. Autumn Adagio Molto 9. Autumn Allegro (2) 10. Winter Allegro Non Molto 11. Winter Largo 12. Winter Allegro 13. Concerto Alla Rustica in G, RV 151 Concerto Al