【Soon】Guimet Room Music Concert “Brahms’ Four Great Symphonies”

2025.08.05-
FIRST SIGHT

An improved version of the spiral speaker Trochus, which was shown during Christmas at the Guimet Room 2024 last year (2024) and received a favorable response, will be released this August. Designed by Dr. Hirohisa Mori and manufactured by Dr. Toshimasa Kikuchi, this back-loaded horn-type speaker has a tweeter built into the root of the horn, and is unique in that it adjusts the timbre with an inverse phase derived by an algorithm from the signal sound. The name “Trochus” is derived from the scientific name of the western scallop, Trochus maculatus, which is found in the seas around Japan. During the past six months since the first release of the speaker, we have pursued a better sound fidelity of the orchestra’s middle voice part, mainly by re-examining the tweeter mechanism.
For this new release, we are pleased to present four symphonies by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). In these works, the middle voice changes flexibly, sometimes lyrically, sometimes obsessively, and takes the listener into a world of fantasy. Can Trochus truly express this tone? Let’s start by listening to Seiji Ozawa and to Karl Böhm’s conductions of these works. In the upcoming future, we will compare the differences in sound between the performances of various conductors.

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.1 in C minor Op.68
Symphony No.2 in D major Op.73
Symphony No.3 in F major Op.90
Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98

Performance Schedule O:
Seiji Ozawa, Saito Kinen Orchestra
(Performance Time: Approx. 2 hour 30 minutes)

Performance Schedule B:
Karl Böhm, Wiener Philharmoniker/Berliner Philharmoniker
(Performance Time: Approx. 2 hour 50 minutes)


Mon., Wed., Fri., Sun
11:30 - Performance Schedule O
15:00 - Performance Schedule B (on days when the museum closes at 18:00)
17:00 - Performance Schedule B (on days when the museum closes at 20:00)
Tue., Thu., Sat.
11:30 - Performance Schedule B
15:00 - Performance Schedule O (on days when the museum closes at 18:00)
17:00 - Performance Schedule O (on days when the museum closes at 20:00)

Organizer: The University Museum, The University of Tokyo (UMUT)