Takako Nishizaki is one of the most frequently recorded and among the bestselling violinists of all time. Her recording of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was named the 8th best-selling classical CD of all time with sales exceeding 1,000,000 copies to-date. Her recordings of the Butterfly Lovers Concerto by He and Chen sold more than three million copies in the People’s Republic of China and throughout South-East Asia.
Including her recordings of Chinese music, Takako Nishizaki has recorded more than 100 CDs to date.
For RCA she recorded the complete sonatas of Grieg and a CD with short pieces by Fritz Kreisler and for Telefunken, Camerata and Marco Polo ten discs with works by Kreisler.
Also for Marco Polo, she recorded a large number of rare violin concertos, by Anton Rubinstein, Louis Spohr, César Cui, Charles de Bériot, Respighi and Joseph Joachim.
For Naxos, she has recorded Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, the complete works for violin and orchestra by Mozart (including the Haffner Serenade), Beethoven, Bach and Tchaikowsky as well as the concertos of Brahms, Bruch and Mendelssohn. The Vivaldi, Bach, Brahms/Bruch and Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn recordings were awarded platinum discs (for sales in excess of 100,000 copies each worldwide).
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