Nobuko Gamo-Yamamoto

From the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s, Japanese soprano Nobuko Gamo-Yamamoto made a small number of recordings of ‘early’ music, mostly by J.S.Bach, working in Germany with well-known conductors such as Diethard Hellmann, Helmuth Rilling and Gustav Leonhardt. Her last discoverable recording was made in 1973. The Bach Cantata website gives her date of birth as 1934. There is little else known about her.

Discography 1962 - 1973

Beethoven, 9th Symphony

Japan Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Charles Munch

Tokyo,  27.12.62  (as Nobuko Gamou)

(CD) OTAKEN  TEC 349

J.S. Bach   

       Cantata BWV 39 ‘Brich den Hungrigen dein Brot’

Bachchor und Bachorchester Mainz

Dir. Diethard Hellmann  (as Nobuko Gamo-Yamamoto)

                (LP)  DDM SWF 37  (undated ?late 60’s)

    (approx. half way through cantata cycle begun in 1957)

BWV 43  ‘Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen’ &

BWV 177  ‘Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ’

            Heinz Zickler (?) - trompeten

Hellmann & Bachorchester Mainz  (date?)

DdM Records, Mitterteich

        ? available from Musik aus Mitterteich

(currently ‘wird überarbeitet’)(Oct 2019)

& BWV99   DdM 200002  (late 60’s)

       Cantata 151  ‘Süsser Trost, mein Jesu kömmt’

Bach-Ensemble  dir. Helmuth Rilling, Feb 1971

  (CD)  Hänssler 92.046  (Vol46)

Cantata 191  ‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’

Bach-Ensemble  dir. Helmuth Rilling

Feb - May 1971

  (CD) Hänssler  92.057  (Vol. 57)

Carl Heinrich Graun 

       ‘Der Tod Jesu’ (1755)

Heinrich Schütz Kantorei Freiburger

Martin Gotthard Schneider  dir.

Jan – Mar 1972

  (2CD)  Corona 31-009/10

John Blow

       Songs from ‘Amphion Anglicus’

    ‘Cloe found Amintas lying’

    ‘Shepherds, Deck your Crooks

    ‘Sing ye Muses’

Gustav Leonhardt, 1973

   (LP)  ABC Classics SEON  ABCL 67004