The NHK Sym­phony Or­ches­tra is mak­ing its de­but per­form­ance at the 2013 Salzburg Fest­iv­al:

Tōru Takemitsu
Novem­ber Steps for bi­wa, shak­uha­chi and or­ches­tra (1967)

Tosh­io Hosokawa
Lam­ent­a­tion for sop­rano and or­ches­tra after poems by Georg Trakl
World premiere (work com­mis­sioned by the Salzburg Fest­iv­al)

Hec­tor Ber­loiz
Sym­phony fant­astique, Op. 14 – Épis­ode de la vie d’un ar­tiste en cinq parties

Kak­ujo Na­kamura, bi­wa
Kaoru Kak­iza­kai, shak­uha­chi
Anna Pro­haska, Sop­rano

NHK Sym­phony Or­ches­tra, Tokyo
Charles Dutoit, con­duct­or