The performance of "Daiku", "The Ninth", Beethoven's 9th Symphony with 10000 (amateur) chorus singers is a Japanese highlight every year in the end of December. Here is the last movement, recorded at the 2011 concert in Osaka, this year dedicated especially to the memory of the victims of the desastrous tsunami in March.

Keiko Yokoyama, soprano Masako Teshima, mezzo-soprano Satoshi Nishimura, tenor Eijiro Kai, baritone Choir of the 10000 from Osaka and Sendai Suntory Orchestra of the 10000 Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra Yutaka Sado, conductor Recorded at Osaka-Jo Hall, Osaka / Miyagi Gauin Joshi Daigaku Hall, Sendai, 2011

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