Credits:

Asahina Takashi/New Japan Philharmonic,Takashi Asahina,New Japan Philharmonic,Ludwig Van Beethoven

Description:

Celebrating the 110th anniversary of Takashi Asahina's (1908-2001) birth and honoring his accomplishments with a CD of first-ever recordings, the "Complete Beethoven Symphonies" with the New Japan Philharmonic in 1997-8. The fourth volume of the series is "Nos. 5 & 8." Victory through Struggle" and "Radiant Joy" Although the two pieces are quite different in style, they share the same underlying spirit of spiritual freedom. Asahina's performance, in which every note is filled with human resonance, presents an unchanging image of Beethoven.