classical music: Sadao Harada

classical music: Sadao Harada

classical music:

Sadao Harada

Beethoven: The Early String Quartets Op. 18 Nos. 1-6; String Quintet Op. 29; Quartet Op. 14 No. 1

Sadao Harada, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

RCA, 1993

Brilliant technique and understanding of early Beethoven
When at their best, the technical wizardry of the Tokyo Quartet is matched by at most two other ensembles, the Alban Berg and (maybe) the Emerson. The Tokyo has been criticized, rightly I think, for glossing over the profoundly introspective and emotional sections of ...

Flute For Relaxation

Sadao Harada, Lili Boulanger, ...

RCA, 2000

Wonderful!
This is a great CD. If you're a James Galway fan, this is a must have. He is, after all, THE GREATEST flutist in the world today. The CD is filled with some of the most beautiful (and relaxing) music ever written. Buy it. You will love it.

Brahms, Weber : Clarinet Quintets

Sadao Harada, Richard Stoltzman, ...

RCA, 1995

Wonderful
I think that Stoltzman really delivers on this CD. The Brahms Quintet is a beautiful composition, and I think Stoltzman plays it perfectly. The performance is uniquely Stoltzman, but he holds back slightly from his usual flamboyance (he saves it for the Weber). ...

Takemitsu / Barber / Britten - A Way A Lone

Sadao Harada, Samuel Barber, ...

RCA, 1993

Wonderfully Emotional-- Why is this out of circulation??
I too bought this recording for the Barber. I have performed the Adagio many times but had never heard the outer movements from Barber's quartet. I was surprised that the first and third movements are so similar, the third being a short series of variations on the ...

Sixty Years 60 Flute Masterpieces (Highlights from the Collection)

Malcolm Arnold, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, ...

RCA, 1999

60 Years 60 Flute Masterpieces
Everything this man does is great, so putting many years together in one place could only be the same.

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto; Clarinet Quintet

Sadao Harada, Richard Stoltzman, ...

RCA, 1991

Not your standard K.622
Stoltzman takes a little getting used to. His tone is different, but it grows on one after a time. I find his flourishes a touch extravagant at times. This rendition is certainly not standard fare for clarinet concerto purists, but if you like K.622 you should own ...

String Quartets, Op. 76

Sadao Harada, Franz Joseph Haydn, ...

Sony, 1994

Sumptuous Music!
When I bought my first CD player a year ago I decided to build a classical CD collection. Although I've loved classical music all my life, I'm neither educated nor particularly knowledgeable on the subject. (I've always known what I liked even if I didn't know who ...

Barber's Adagio / Munch, Galway, Boston SO Strings

Sadao Harada, Dan Kelly, ...

RCA, 1997

I'll have a number 4 when you bury me, please!
LOVE this music. It moves me. Plucks strings I did not know ran through my soul. Makes me feel the sadness of loss but keeps alive the hope of new doors to be opened, more life to experience. We buried my Uncle, a fine kind-hearted man this Wednesday, they played the ...

Mozart: Four Quartets for Flute & Strings
Sadao Harada, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Vanguard Classics, 1999

Beethoven: The Late String Quartets Opp. 127, 130, 131, 133, 135

Sadao Harada, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

RCA, 1992

Simply perfect.
The Tokyo String Quartet is one of my favourites quartets of all time, together with the Alban Berg Quartett and the Arditti Quartet for the modern music. All this three quartets have something in common, a very perfect technical playing, together with a deep and well ...

Mozart: Masterpieces for Flute
Karl Hoffmann, Sadao Harada, ...

Vanguard Classics, 2004

Debussy/Ravel: String Quartets

Joseph Shuster [cello], Sadao Harada, ...

Sony, 1996

Great Performance, Great Value
The coupling of Debussy's and Ravel's string quartets is inevitable -- the two composers were contemporaries, they each composed only one string quartet, which happened to sound similar, and the length of the works perfectly accommodates the time limitations of both ...

Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Op. 81/String Quartet No. 12, Op. 96

Sadao Harada, Antonin Dvorak, ...

Sony, 1990

Outstanding!!!
Another outstanding versions from one of the leader chamber groups in the last decades, which is not in so good shape nowadays. I really don't know any other version for American Quartet so great like this. Technically is incredible and de way thay play together, ...

Beethoven: String Quartets, Op.18/4, 95, 135
Sadao Harada, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

RCA, 1994

Ludwig Van Beethoven: Middle Quartets, Op. 59, 74, 95

Sadao Harada, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

RCA, 1991

Unnerving restraint
This is perfection. The Tokyo quartet plays with very much sense of the architecture of the music. If you like your Beethoven played with restraint, refinement, sense of the interior drama of the music, this is it. The Tokyo quartet is never over-dramatizing, but let ...