RIP Conductor Seiji Ozawa

[humprof]

Led the Boston Symphony for three decades--and, early in his tenure there, participated in several excellent (and unusually discrete, for classical) quad recordings engineered by @Thomas Mowrey for Deutsche Grammophon, reissued on SACD in the PentaTone Remastered Classics series.

New York Times obituary ("gift" version):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html

 

[barfle]

I have at least two laserdiscs of Ozawa conducting, and they are both excellent performances. I also have the DGG recording of Russo and Gershwin. I haven’t been able to play anynof those for some time due to hardware failures, but as I recall, they sing and they dance.

He’s been out of circulation for a while, but he’ll be missed.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Ah, I actually know who this is! He was a student of Herbert von Karajan! And his nephew was in a band together with Cornelius!
How the multichannel tables turn...we have some Karajan records in multichannel, some Ozawa records in multichannel, and some Cornelius records in multichannel.

 

[jefe1]

I did not know he was a student of Karajan. I have some of the pentatones with him. Trying to remember if I ever went to a performance with him. My brother certainly did in Boston.
I hope his last years were not difficult for him.

 

[ssully]

One of his more famous recordings , done in 1969, was of the Firebird Suite -- the finale of which became Yes's concert opening music in 1971 and for years after.

It was also, apparently, released in quad, though I've never seen it in any trading circles.

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...c-general-discussion-thread.25804/post-706367

 

[4-earredwonder]

Truly one of the titans of the classical repertoire who was suffering from Alzheimer's for the past few years.

A comprehensive listing from hraudio.net of his many hi res stereo/multichannel recordings for various classical labels:

https://www.hraudio.net/search.php?format=0&keywords=seiji+ozawa

 

[jefe1]

Great hair too.

 

[Old Quad Guy]

Seifi Ozawa (center), a top U.S. classical conductor, meets with Japanese critics.

From this post:

Billboard February 17, 1973:

Post in thread 'Exploring Billboard for Quadraphonic Information'
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...or-quadraphonic-information.34508/post-722217

 

[quadaholic]

Led the Boston Symphony for three decades--and, early in his tenure there, participated in several excellent (and unusually discrete, for classical) quad recordings engineered by @Thomas Mowrey for Deutsche Grammophon, reissued on SACD in the PentaTone Remastered Classics series.

New York Times obituary ("gift" version):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html

Humprof, I have a quad 8 transfer of Ozawa/BSO from around 1970 doing Petroushka and Firebird. It has some issues, but it's a still a pretty great listen.

 

[ssully]

Humprof, I have a quad 8 transfer of Ozawa/BSO from around 1970 doing Petroushka and Firebird. It has some issues, but it's a still a pretty great listen.

that would be this, which was also released as a CD-4 LP shown in my post above

https://www.discogs.com/release/287...eiji-Ozawa-Suite-From-The-Firebird-Petrouchka

 

[JediJoker]

I grew up with his interpretation of The Planets, and it's still my go-to recording:

https://www.discogs.com/master/490490-Holst-Boston-Symphony-Orchestra-Seiji-Ozawa-The-Planets

 

[quadaholic]

One of his more famous recordings , done in 1969, was of the Firebird Suite -- the finale of which became Yes's concert opening music in 1971 and for years after.

It was also, apparently, released in quad, though I've never seen it in any trading circles.

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...c-general-discussion-thread.25804/post-706367

 

[quadaholic]

Ssully,

Thanks for posting this. This is the 8 track cartridge I had. I don't have it anymore, as sadly the Captain passed on while he was working on it. I have two different transfers of the cartridge and one way or another we'll get them cleaned up and shared.