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Top, from left to right: Takako in concert, 1953 Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing for Isaac Stern; Takako second from left, front row; 1954 Shinji Nishizaki and Shinichi Suzuki at Takako’s first homecoming concert, 1964 Shinichi Suzuki congratulating Takako on stage after 1964 homecoming concert Bottom, from left to right: Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing for Joseph Szigeti, 1953 Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing for Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1953 Shinji Nishizaki (left) with Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, 1953/54 Takako’s father and mother in Hong Kong, 1992 All photos courtesy of Takako Nishizaki except where stated

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Top, from left to right: Takako in concert, 1953 Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing for Isaac Stern; Takako second from left, front row; 1954 Shinji Nishizaki and Shinichi Suzuki at Takako’s first homecoming concert, 1964 Shinichi Suzuki congratulating Takako on stage after 1964 homecoming concert Bottom, from left to right: Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing for Joseph Szigeti, 1953 Shinji Nishizaki’s students playing for Sir Malcolm Sargent, 1953 Shinji Nishizaki (left) with Shinichi Suzuki in Matsumoto, 1953/54 Takako’s father and mother in Hong Kong, 1992 All photos courtesy of Takako Nishizaki except where stated

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1 Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) 4:01 2 Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) from Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012 4:56 Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi) 3 Largo 3:07 4 Largo (violin/orchestra) 3:07 Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 12, No. 1, RV 317 (Vivaldi) 5 I. Allegro 4:42 6 II. Adagio 6:18 7 III. Allegro 3:46 8 I. Allegro (violin/orchestra) 4:47 9 II. Adagio (violin/orchestra) 6:43 0 III. Allegro (violin/orchestra) 3:47 ! Country Dance (Weber) 1:42 @ German Dance (Dittersdorf) 1:09 # Giga from Sonata in D minor, Op. 2, No. 7 (Veracini) 3:44 Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (J. S. Bach) $ 1st movement. Vivace, Violin I 3:45 % 1st movement. Vivace (violins/orchestra) 4:01

Takako Nishizaki, Violin, with Terence Dennis, Piano Original works: Takako Nishizaki, Violin The Strings of the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand • Peter Walls (4, 8–10) Additional recordings of original works: Maria Kliegel, Cello (2, from Naxos 8.557280–81) Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Violins • Capella Istropolitana • Oliver Dohnányi (15, from Naxos 8.550194)

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1 Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) 4:01 2 Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) from Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012 4:56 Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi) 3 Largo 3:07 4 Largo (violin/orchestra) 3:07 Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 12, No. 1, RV 317 (Vivaldi) 5 I. Allegro 4:42 6 II. Adagio 6:18 7 III. Allegro 3:46 8 I. Allegro (violin/orchestra) 4:47 9 II. Adagio (violin/orchestra) 6:43 0 III. Allegro (violin/orchestra) 3:47 ! Country Dance (Weber) 1:42 @ German Dance (Dittersdorf) 1:09 # Giga from Sonata in D minor, Op. 2, No. 7 (Veracini) 3:44 Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043 (J. S. Bach) $ 1st movement. Vivace, Violin I 3:45 % 1st movement. Vivace (violins/orchestra) 4:01

Takako Nishizaki, Violin, with Terence Dennis, Piano Original works: Takako Nishizaki, Violin The Strings of the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand • Peter Walls (4, 8–10) Additional recordings of original works: Maria Kliegel, Cello (2, from Naxos 8.557280–81) Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Violins • Capella Istropolitana • Oliver Dohnányi (15, from Naxos 8.550194)

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The fourth volume of the Suzuki Evergreens starts with the Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, a near contemporary of Haydn. a transcription for violin of the Gavottes from Bach’s Suite The piece offers no great difficulty, except perhaps in its No. 6 for unaccompanied cello. Bach wrote his six Suites key of E flat. at Cöthen, about the year 1720. The sixth of the suites, the Francesco Maria Veracini was born in Florence in 1690, Suite in D major, BWV 1012, was written for a five-string making him just five years younger than Handel, J.S.Bach instrument, with an additional top string tuned to E. It has and Domenico Scarlatti. He enjoyed an international career been suggested that he wrote this more difficult suite for the as a violinist, appearing at important events in Venice and viola pomposa, a five-string viola that found occasional in London before being engaged for some years at the court use from 1725 to about 1770. It seems more likely, in Dresden. In later years he appeared from time to time in however, that he actually designed this work for the London, where he also concerned himself with opera. His violoncello piccolo, a smaller form of cello, used for more final years were spent in Florence, where he died in 1768. elaborate solo work and one that he uses elsewhere. His twelve Sonate accademiche of 1744, dedicated to Antonio Vivaldi was a native of Venice, the city where August II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, make a he made his principal career. Ordained priest, he was significant and original contribution to violin repertoire, associated, intermittently at least, with a girls’ school intended, as the title suggests, rather for performers than for famous for its music, the Ospedale della Pietà, but busied amateurs. The Giga is the last movement of Veracini’s himself also in the opera house, while winning fame for Sonata accademica in D minor, Op. 2, No. 7. his phenomenal performances as a violinist. In 1711 he Johann Sebastian Bach was strongly influenced by published in Amsterdam a set of twelve concertos under the Vivaldi, some of whose concertos he transcribed for title L’estro armonico for various groups of string instru- harpsichord. His own concertos largely follow the pattern ments. The sixth, the Concerto in A minor, RV 356,is for of the Vivaldi solo concerto. A number of these, written solo violin and strings. The second of the three movements during his years as Court Director of Music to Prince of the concerto is in the form of an aria for the solo violin, Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, only survive in later arrange- accompanied only by the violins and viola of the orchestra. ments Bach made of them for use in Leipzig. Three violin The six concertos that make up Vivaldi’s Op. 12, were concertos, however, remain also in their original form, one published in Amsterdam in 1729. The first of the set is the of them the Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 12, No. 1, RV 317. In the 1043. The two solo violin parts are equal in importance Top, from left to right: version for violin and piano the former instrument seems and difficulty and Volume 5 of the Suzuki Violin School Shinji Nishizaki’s students in front of JOCK to have greater prominence, with the violin assuming sole also offers the first violin part, which follows the second in radio station in Nagoya; Takako second from responsibility for the passages shared with the orchestra in opening the concerto. The close interweaving and right, front row; her mother is at far left; 1950 the tutti passage of the ritornello in the outer movements. antiphonal use of the two violins is clear in the original The central slow movement has a relatively extended version for two solo violins, strings and continuo. It will be Shinji Nishizaki and Takako at the Suzuki orchestral introduction, arranged for the piano in the solo noticed that the second and first violin entries are doubled summer school in Matsumoto, 1952 violin and piano version. The soloist eventually enters with by the orchestra, so that it is only in bar 21 that the first solo Takako’s Graduation Certificate, 1953 the expected aria characteristic of many of the slow violin is heard with a sparse accompaniment. Four bars Bottom, from left to right: movements of Vivaldi’s solo concertos. The third later the second violin enters, echoing the first violin, a Shinji Nishizaki conducting annual Suzuki movement is in a rapid 3/8 metre. procedure followed in the rest of the movement, as one concert of Nagoya/Osaka area, c.1950 The Country Dance by Mozart’s wife’s cousin, Carl players follows the other. Maria von Weber, gives a chance for spiccato or detached Programme of Takako’s Graduation Concert, staccato playing. It is followed by a German Dance by Keith Anderson 1953 Takako’s Suzuki teaching certificate, 1953 8.572381 4 9 8.572381 572381bk Suzuki4:570034bk Hasse 9/2/10 4:08 PM Page 4

The fourth volume of the Suzuki Evergreens starts with the Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, a near contemporary of Haydn. a transcription for violin of the Gavottes from Bach’s Suite The piece offers no great difficulty, except perhaps in its No. 6 for unaccompanied cello. Bach wrote his six Suites key of E flat. at Cöthen, about the year 1720. The sixth of the suites, the Francesco Maria Veracini was born in Florence in 1690, Suite in D major, BWV 1012, was written for a five-string making him just five years younger than Handel, J.S.Bach instrument, with an additional top string tuned to E. It has and Domenico Scarlatti. He enjoyed an international career been suggested that he wrote this more difficult suite for the as a violinist, appearing at important events in Venice and viola pomposa, a five-string viola that found occasional in London before being engaged for some years at the court use from 1725 to about 1770. It seems more likely, in Dresden. In later years he appeared from time to time in however, that he actually designed this work for the London, where he also concerned himself with opera. His violoncello piccolo, a smaller form of cello, used for more final years were spent in Florence, where he died in 1768. elaborate solo work and one that he uses elsewhere. His twelve Sonate accademiche of 1744, dedicated to Antonio Vivaldi was a native of Venice, the city where August II, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, make a he made his principal career. Ordained priest, he was significant and original contribution to violin repertoire, associated, intermittently at least, with a girls’ school intended, as the title suggests, rather for performers than for famous for its music, the Ospedale della Pietà, but busied amateurs. The Giga is the last movement of Veracini’s himself also in the opera house, while winning fame for Sonata accademica in D minor, Op. 2, No. 7. his phenomenal performances as a violinist. In 1711 he Johann Sebastian Bach was strongly influenced by published in Amsterdam a set of twelve concertos under the Vivaldi, some of whose concertos he transcribed for title L’estro armonico for various groups of string instru- harpsichord. His own concertos largely follow the pattern ments. The sixth, the Concerto in A minor, RV 356,is for of the Vivaldi solo concerto. A number of these, written solo violin and strings. The second of the three movements during his years as Court Director of Music to Prince of the concerto is in the form of an aria for the solo violin, Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen, only survive in later arrange- accompanied only by the violins and viola of the orchestra. ments Bach made of them for use in Leipzig. Three violin The six concertos that make up Vivaldi’s Op. 12, were concertos, however, remain also in their original form, one published in Amsterdam in 1729. The first of the set is the of them the Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, BWV Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 12, No. 1, RV 317. In the 1043. The two solo violin parts are equal in importance Top, from left to right: version for violin and piano the former instrument seems and difficulty and Volume 5 of the Suzuki Violin School Shinji Nishizaki’s students in front of JOCK to have greater prominence, with the violin assuming sole also offers the first violin part, which follows the second in radio station in Nagoya; Takako second from responsibility for the passages shared with the orchestra in opening the concerto. The close interweaving and right, front row; her mother is at far left; 1950 the tutti passage of the ritornello in the outer movements. antiphonal use of the two violins is clear in the original The central slow movement has a relatively extended version for two solo violins, strings and continuo. It will be Shinji Nishizaki and Takako at the Suzuki orchestral introduction, arranged for the piano in the solo noticed that the second and first violin entries are doubled summer school in Matsumoto, 1952 violin and piano version. The soloist eventually enters with by the orchestra, so that it is only in bar 21 that the first solo Takako’s Graduation Certificate, 1953 the expected aria characteristic of many of the slow violin is heard with a sparse accompaniment. Four bars Bottom, from left to right: movements of Vivaldi’s solo concertos. The third later the second violin enters, echoing the first violin, a Shinji Nishizaki conducting annual Suzuki movement is in a rapid 3/8 metre. procedure followed in the rest of the movement, as one concert of Nagoya/Osaka area, c.1950 The Country Dance by Mozart’s wife’s cousin, Carl players follows the other. Maria von Weber, gives a chance for spiccato or detached Programme of Takako’s Graduation Concert, staccato playing. It is followed by a German Dance by Keith Anderson 1953 Takako’s Suzuki teaching certificate, 1953 8.572381 4 9 8.572381 572381bk Suzuki4:570034bk Hasse 9/2/10 4:08 PM Page 8

Takako Nishizaki As a child, Takako Nishizaki studied with her father, Shinji, and with Shinichi Suzuki himself. Her father was active in the early stages of the development of the Suzuki Method and for many years taught at the Matsumoto summer school and organised the Suzuki activities in the Nagoya area after Shinichi Suzuki had moved to Matsumoto. Takako was the first student to complete the now famous Suzuki course and was awarded a teacher’s diploma at the tender age of nine. She started performing in public at age five and, before she was ten, had already played for artists such as Isaac Stern and Sir Malcolm Sargent. Subsequently, she studied with Broadus Erle and Hideo Saito at Toho Conservatory in Tokyo. In 1962 she went to the United States and first studied with Erle at Yale and then with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard. Other teachers at the time included Louis Persinger (sonata classes) and Aldo Parisot (chamber music). While at Juilliard, Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship, established by the great violinist himself. Takako Nishizaki performed as a soloist with many international orchestras and in chamber music ensembles with many of today’s best-known musicians, such as Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. She has also served on the juries of major international competitions including the Fritz Kreisler (Vienna) and Hannover International violin competitions. Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the all-time best-selling violinists in the world, having recorded most standard violin concertos and violin sonatas but also numerous rare violin concertos and a large number of albums of Chinese violin music, including a number of concertos written for her by leading Chinese composers. In 2003 Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Government of Hong Kong for her service to music. In 2005, Newsweek (Japan) named her among the 100 Japanese the world most admires.

Terence Dennis Terence Dennis was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and is a graduate of the University of Otago, and of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, Germany where he obtained his Konzertexamen with Distinction. He is currently Professor and Head of Performance Studies at the University of Otago Department of Music in Dunedin, New Zealand, the first performance staff member to be appointed to a Professorial Chair in this nation. Terence Dennis has been acclaimed both overseas and in New Zealand for his performances, teaching, masterclasses and presentations, regularly partnering leading resident musicians and distinguished visiting artists in recital including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Bryn Terfel, Sir Donald McIntyre, Sarah Walker and cellist Maria Kliegel. He has been official pianist for seven international string competitions and guest adjudicator for regional finals of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions Competition in the United States. Terence Dennis was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, and in 2009 appointed a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities. Photo: Lindsay MacLeod

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Takako Nishizaki As a child, Takako Nishizaki studied with her father, Shinji, and with Shinichi Suzuki himself. Her father was active in the early stages of the development of the Suzuki Method and for many years taught at the Matsumoto summer school and organised the Suzuki activities in the Nagoya area after Shinichi Suzuki had moved to Matsumoto. Takako was the first student to complete the now famous Suzuki course and was awarded a teacher’s diploma at the tender age of nine. She started performing in public at age five and, before she was ten, had already played for artists such as Isaac Stern and Sir Malcolm Sargent. Subsequently, she studied with Broadus Erle and Hideo Saito at Toho Conservatory in Tokyo. In 1962 she went to the United States and first studied with Erle at Yale and then with Joseph Fuchs at Juilliard. Other teachers at the time included Louis Persinger (sonata classes) and Aldo Parisot (chamber music). While at Juilliard, Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Fritz Kreisler Scholarship, established by the great violinist himself. Takako Nishizaki performed as a soloist with many international orchestras and in chamber music ensembles with many of today’s best-known musicians, such as Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. She has also served on the juries of major international competitions including the Fritz Kreisler (Vienna) and Hannover International violin competitions. Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the all-time best-selling violinists in the world, having recorded most standard violin concertos and violin sonatas but also numerous rare violin concertos and a large number of albums of Chinese violin music, including a number of concertos written for her by leading Chinese composers. In 2003 Takako Nishizaki was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the Government of Hong Kong for her service to music. In 2005, Newsweek (Japan) named her among the 100 Japanese the world most admires.

Terence Dennis Terence Dennis was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and is a graduate of the University of Otago, and of the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Cologne, Germany where he obtained his Konzertexamen with Distinction. He is currently Professor and Head of Performance Studies at the University of Otago Department of Music in Dunedin, New Zealand, the first performance staff member to be appointed to a Professorial Chair in this nation. Terence Dennis has been acclaimed both overseas and in New Zealand for his performances, teaching, masterclasses and presentations, regularly partnering leading resident musicians and distinguished visiting artists in recital including Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Bryn Terfel, Sir Donald McIntyre, Sarah Walker and cellist Maria Kliegel. He has been official pianist for seven international string competitions and guest adjudicator for regional finals of the prestigious Metropolitan Opera Auditions Competition in the United States. Terence Dennis was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2004, and in 2009 appointed a Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities. Photo: Lindsay MacLeod

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Top, from left to right: Shinji Nishizaki with his nanny, aged 3 Shinji Nishizaki with his Trio, 1946/47 Shinji Nishizaki with students at the studio of JOCK Radio in Nagoya; Takako far right, c.1949 Group lesson with Shinichi Suzuki; Takako far right; c.1949 Bottom, from left to right: Takako in concert, third from right, 1949 Shinji Nishizaki conducting a concert of his students supported by members of the Nagoya Symphony Orchestra, c.1949 Takako in concert, 1949 8.572381 6 7 8.572381 572381bk Suzuki4:570034bk Hasse 9/2/10 4:08 PM Page 6

Top, from left to right: Shinji Nishizaki with his nanny, aged 3 Shinji Nishizaki with his Trio, 1946/47 Shinji Nishizaki with students at the studio of JOCK Radio in Nagoya; Takako far right, c.1949 Group lesson with Shinichi Suzuki; Takako far right; c.1949 Bottom, from left to right: Takako in concert, third from right, 1949 Shinji Nishizaki conducting a concert of his students supported by members of the Nagoya Symphony Orchestra, c.1949 Takako in concert, 1949 8.572381 6 7 8.572381 572381bk Suzuki4:570034bk Hasse 9/2/10 4:08 PM Page 12

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Violin Concerto in G minor (Vivaldi) Concerto for Two Violins (J. S. Bach) C Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) M 8.572382 8.572383 8.572494 Y K 8.572381 12 NAXOS NAXOS Takako Nishizaki plays 8.572381 Takako Nishizaki Takako Nishizaki Suzuki Evergreens DDD Volume 4 Playing Time 1 Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) 4:01 8 I. Allegro (violin/orchestra) 4:47 60:13 2 Gavottes I and II (J. S. Bach) from 9 II. Adagio (violin/orchestra) 6:43 Cello Suite No. 6, BWV 1012 4:56 0 III. Allegro (violin/orchestra) 3:47 Violin Concerto in A minor, ! Country Dance (Weber) 1:42 Op. 3, No. 6, RV 356 (Vivaldi) @ German Dance (Dittersdorf) 1:09 3 Largo 3:07 plays Suzuki Evergreens • 4 # Giga from Sonata in D minor, plays Suzuki Evergreens • 4 4 Largo (violin/orchestra) 3:07 Op. 2, No. 7 (Veracini) 3:44 Violin Concerto in G minor, Concerto for Two Violins, Op. 12, No. 1, RV 317 (Vivaldi) BWV 1043 (J. S. Bach) 5 I. Allegro 4:42 $ 1st movement. Vivace, Violin I 3:45 www.naxos.com Made in Germany Booklet notes in English 6 II. Adagio 6:18 % 1st movement. Vivace Ltd. Naxos Rights International

7 III. Allegro 3:46 (violins/orchestra) 4:01 1990, 2005, 2010 & Takako Nishizaki, Violin • Terence Dennis, Piano Original works: Takako Nishizaki, Violin • The Strings of the National Youth Orchestra of New Zealand • Peter Walls (4, 8–10) Additional recordings of original works:

Maria Kliegel, Cello (2) 2010 C Takako Nishizaki, Alexander Jablokov, Violins • Capella Istropolitana • Oliver Dohnányi (15) M Recorded at WEL Academy, Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand, 23–27 April 2008, 8.572381 except tracks 4 & 8–10 at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, New Zealand, 4–5 May 2008 8.572381 Producer: Wayne Laird • Engineer: Paul McGlashan • Booklet notes: Keith Anderson Y by International Suzuki Association. All Rights Reserved • Summy-Birchard, Inc. Exclusive print rights administered by Alfred Music Publishing Co., Inc. • Cover: Photo & background courtesy Takako Nishizaki; K violin body © Gustavo Alfredo Schaufelberger Pirron / Dreamstime.com • Booklet design: Ron Hoares